Resume
Education
2015 MFA, Printmaking, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2013 MA, Printmaking, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2011 BA, Philosophy of Religious Studies, California State University of Fresno, Fresno, CA
Experience
August 2016 - Present Studio Art Teacher, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate Studio Arts
Woodrow Wilson High School, Dallas Independent School District, Dallas, Texas
September 2020 - Present Curriculum writer for Studio art 2, Drawing 2
Dallas Independent School District, Dallas, Texas
March 2016 - August 2016 Visual Merchandiser Anthropologie, Dallas, Texas
September 2014- July 2016 Adjunct Faculty, Art, Tarrant County Community College, Fort Worth, Texas
January 2014 – May 2015 Graduate Assistant in Art History, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Hope For The Morning, Tarrant County Community College, Fort Worth, TX
2015 Fact, Fiction, Whimsy, Focus Gallery, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX
2013 Intangibilities, Gorman Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving TX
Selected Exhibitions
2020 HYPERLOCAL, The MAC, Dallas, TX
2019 Cedars Studio Tours, Dallas, TX
2018 A Group Show, Selected works, at Kettle Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2017 Truth In Comedy, Full City Rooster, Dallas TX
2015 Art Conspiracy 11, Dallas, TX
2015 Skewed: Art Conspiracy Seed event, invited artist, Mokah Art gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 Rising Eyes of Texas 2015, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX (Juror:
Shea Little)
2015 Open Studios Exhibition, upper gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2015 Currency, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2015 Art Con Select presented by Kettle, Kettle Art gallery, Dallas, TX
2014 Taste of The Arts, Print Exhibition, Arts Visalia, Visalia, CA
2014 New Texas Talent, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX ( Juror: Andrea Karnes)
2014 North American Print and Drawing Exhibition, Arts Visalia, Visalia, CA (Juror:
Roxanne Sexauer)
2014 The Deans Gallery, California State University of Fresno, Fresno, CA
2014 The Bureaucracy of Banality, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
(Juror: Nancy Whitenack)
2014 Expo, Gallery 500X, Dallas, TX (Juror: Gabriel Ritter)
2013 A Night of Performance Art, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving TX
2013 Framed, Mokah Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 Art Con: Mounted, Mokah Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 8, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving TX (Juror: Erin Cluley)
2013 Previously Untitled, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2012 Framed, Mokah Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2012 Dia De los Muertos, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas TX
2012 North Texas Print Guild Association Show, Irving, TX
2012 Art Con 8, Dallas Texas
2012 Don’t Blame the Printer, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2012 New Crop: 500x College expo (Juror: Barry Whistler and Allison V.
Smith)
2011 Senior Art exhibition, Conley Gallery, CSU Fresno, Juried
Workshops, Awards, Curator & other
2021 Workshop Presenter, Texas Art Education Association, Austin, TX
Creativity in the Classroom: teacher ler workshop on independent research on best practices for
growing and increasing creativity in your students
2021 Workshop Presenter, Texas Art Education Association, Austin, TX
Building an engaging student website, presentation on building classroom webpages
2019 Grant Recipient, Innovation Engine, Dallas Independent School District, Dallas, TX
Co-Author of a $50,000 grant to receive funding for innovative teaching strategies, peer to peer
development, and professional development support.
2019 Grant Recipient, Printmaking Wildcats, Junior League of Dallas, TX
Sole grant recipient of funding for a project to help give students an education in printmaking tools
and the opportunity to practice entrepreneurship in the arts.
2019 Workshop presentations, Radical Rubrics, Dallas ISD, Dallas, TX
Presentation to educators on how to use, and enhance the use of rubrics in the classroom.
Introducing teachers to inclusive teaching through projects, and the use of self assessment through
teacher created and student influenced rubrics both tangible and digital
2018 Walk up workshop presenter, The Art of Inference, Texas Art Educators Association, Galveston, TX
Influenced by our school’s librarian to encourage better reading skills, the presentation included the
the benefit of bringing in books as an influence for source projects, and how art can help develop
reading skills
2017 Educational partner, Perkins and Will Architectural programming for youth, Dallas ISD, Dallas, TX
2016 Junior Visual and Scholastic Event of Texas, Students participation: four gold medals awarded to
three students, Dallas, TX
2016 Member Texas Art Educators Association, conference participant
2015 Artists select recipient, Art Conspiracy , Dallas, TX
http://artconspiracy.org/art-conspiracy-artist-story-jessie-martinez/
2015 Paradigm Shift, curator of prints by Juergen Strunck, Upper Gallery, University
of Dallas, Irving, TX
2015 Matrix work shop, assistant under Juergen Strunck, University of Dallas
2014 Honorable Mention, North American Print and Drawing Exhibition, Arts Visalia,
Visalia, CA
2014 Curator, Assistant Director, for Framed, Mokah Gallery, Dallas, TX
2014 Full Scholarship Award, University of Dallas for Fall 2014
2014 Matrix work shop, under Kathryn Polk, University of Dallas
2014 Full Scholarship Award, University of Dallas for Spring 2014
2013 Southern Graphics Council, MKE, Milwaukee, WI
2013 Gallery assistant, Curating assistant, Framed, Mokah Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 University of Dallas Prospect Day, silk screen workshop, Irving TX
2013 Matrix work shop assistant, under Keiji Shinohara, University of Dallas
2013 Full Scholarship Award, University of Dallas for Spring 2013
2012 Matrix work shop, under Mario Kiran, University of Dallas
2012 Full Scholarship Award, University of Dallas for Fall 2012
2012 Frogmans workshop, Michael Barnes: Lithography
2011 Printocalypse, a marathon of editioning of intaglio, lithography, relief, and silk
screen workshop for artist. California State University Fresno
2011 Youth For Christ summer intern, art instructor, Fresno, CA
2011 Arêtes Americana, relief demonstrations, Fresno, CA
2011 Taste of the Arts, relief demonstration, Visalia, CA
2011 East of Fresno, relief demonstration, The Hatchery, Auburn, CA
Print Exchanges
2015 "For the love of Wes [Anderson]" hosted by Blue Cat Press
2014 “Currency” hosted by the University of North Texas and the University of Dallas
2014 “Give a Slap, Take a slap” Hosted by Weston Beeler, Northern Illinois University
2013 “Get your ass to mars” hosted by the Printmaking Association Print & Glory, at
California State University of Fresno
2013 Printmakers MKE, Southern Graphics print exchange participant
2011 “The Artful Dodger: Volume 1” ‘zine’ exchange hosted by Darren Jones
Publications
2013 North American Print and Drawing Exhibition
Accompanying Catalog
2012 Ramify, Journal of The Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts
“Helping Hand of God” Relief, 2011 accompanying a written essay
Collections
The University of Dallas, Print Archive, Irving, TX
The University of North Texas, Printmaking Archive, Denton, TX
California State University of Fresno, Printmaking Archive, Fresno, CA
Stonehouse Residency Archive, Miramonte, CA
Boise State University, Wingtip Press Archives, Boise, ID