2012-2013 Creative Director for micro publishing company Heart and Mind Press
2008-2011 Created a public art commission for the City of Phoenix and Sky Harbor Airport. A Terrazzo floor design for Terminal 3 Baggage Claim area. 25000 sq. ft area. Design and mitigation began 2008, construction began April 2010, completion January, 2011.
Selected Exhibitions
2013 (February 21 – March 22) Shemer Art Center, Scottsdale, AZ Group show “Figurative Art Now”
2006 (December – February 2007) Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa AZ
2003 (July- Aug. ) Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003 (January-March) Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ Group show
2002 (December) Marshall Arts Galery, Scottsdale, AZ “Sueños” solo exhibition
2001-2002 Touring Exhibition in México, curated by Museo de la Ciudad, Santiago de Querétaro,MX
Museo de la Ciudad, Santiago de Querétaro, Qro., MX, solo exhibition
Belles Artes San Miguel de Allende, GTO., MX, solo exhibition and FAI Save The Children MX fundraiser
Casa de la Cultura de Celaya, Celaya, GTO, MX, solo exhibition
2001 Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Az
“The 2001 Arizona Biennial”
Awards
2009 Communication Arts Magazine Design Annual -Loteria Greeting Cards
2002 Artist Professional Development Grant, The Arizona Commission for the Arts
2001 NEA and The Arizona Commission for the Arts, Artist Projects Grant
Publications Include
2013 Forthcoming “100 Artists of the Southwest” by Ashley Rooney Schiffer Publishing
2006 Sioux City Iowa, Art Center Museum Catalog “La Lotería Una Ventana en la Cultura e Historia de México”
2006 book “100 Artist of the Southwest” by Douglas Bullings
2005 Contributing author of “Encyclopedia Latina” Scholastic Library Publishing Co.
2003 book, “Loteria!” Author Ilan Stavans, Artwork by Teresa Villegas, U of A Press
2001 The Wall Street Journal, Review of The Arizona Biennial
2001 The Arizona Republic, Review of the Arizona Biennial
1998, ’97 Arizona Illustrated, KUAT Television, Featured Artist Interview
Related Experience
1998-99 University of Arizona, Tucson, Adjunct Instructor, Art Dept.
1995 University of Arizona, Tucson, Adjunct Instructor Art Dept.
1990-1995 The Arizona Daily Star Newspaper, Staff Artist/Illustrator/Graphic Designer
1989-90 Harbinger House Book Publishers, Art Director and Graphic Designer
Education
1989 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Arizona, Tucson
Collections
Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, permanent collection. Mesa, AZ
Frost Library, special collections, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
