Ceramics Career

Kurt Ross Ceramics, LLC

Full-time since the summer of 2021

 Clay Creation

Kiln Master, 2009 - 2011

Santa Cruz, CA

 Galleries and Exhibitions

Odyssey Gallery of Ceramic Arts

Starting August 01, 2024

238 Clingman Ave Ext., Asheville, NC

https://odysseygalleryofceramicarts.com

Artsville Virtual Gallery of Artists (VGA)

Spring Cohort - March 01 to May 31, 2024

http://www.artsvilleusa.com/

Marquee

May 2023 - August 2023

36 Foundry Street, Asheville, NC

Bliss - Biltmore Lake Imaginative Studio Stroll

May 06, 2023

Wedge Studios

July 2022

Elise Okrend Studio & Gallery

111-129 Roberts Street

First Floor

Asheville, NC

Brown Bear Studios

November 2018

1660 East New Ave.

New York, New York

Gilroy Center for the Arts

June 2011

7341 Monterey Rd

Gilroy, CA

Education

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Bachelor of Architecture, 1984

University of California, Berkeley, CA

Bachelor of Arts, 1975

Pasadena Community College, Pasadena, CA

Associate Arts, 1972

Honors:

Cornell University

Dean’s List

Cornell University

Certificate of Merit for Scholarship

Design Competition, Third Place

DC Gazette Competition to redesign Western Plaza, District of Columbia

UC Berkeley, Men’s Gymnastics Team

Coaches, Dr. Harold Fry and Masayuki Watanabe

Architecture Career

Studio-Three Design, Los Gatos CA

December 2014 - July 2021

Project Designer: Duties included design of new single-family homes.  Addition and remodeling of existing homes. Municipal and state code review for Type V construction, planning and execution of construction documents, responsible all planning and building permit submittals, measurement and drawing of existing structures.

Matson Britton Architects, Santa Cruz CA

2010 - 2014

Project Manager: Duties included municipal and state code review for Type V construction, planning and execution of construction documents, responsible all planning and building permit submittals, measurement and drawing of existing structures.

Independent Contracts

2008 - 2010

House addition for Lydia Ganes, Oakland CA

House addition for Janet O’Conner, Berkeley, Ca

Mark Primack Architect, Santa Cruz, CA

2007 - 2008

Construction documents, LEED Neighbor Pilot Project

Reid Lerner Architect, Gilroy, CA

2005 - 2007

Design, project management, construction documents 

Perkins and Will, London

1989-1992

Canary Wharf Development - construction documents

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Washington DC

1984-1989

Urban Design – Northeast Transportation Corridor, US Air Force Academy

Commercial Design – Evening Star, Square 405, misc. spec office buildings

Construction Documents

Presentation graphics, modeling making

Cornell University, Department of Facilities Engineering, Ithaca NY

Summer 1984

Updating campus building drawings and records

Interiors Inc., - Washington DC

Summer 1983

Systems furniture layout, construction documents, Space Allocation Standards for the US Secrete Service

Leonard Mankowski, AIA, Ithaca NY

1981-1983

Competitions, design of passive solar residence, compact space studies

E. M. Kado & Associates, Sacramento, CA

1977-1978

Corrections to drawings, model building

Carpentry/Construction, California, and New York

1978-1981

Residential, civil

Marketing and Internet Career:

Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome, New York, NY

2002-2003

Designed and programed Website

Virtu Integrated Design, New York, NY

2000-2001 

Created a series of Java-Server pages templates to be used on an apartment/coop 

Modem Media, New York, NY

2000-2001 

Senior Project Manager: Delta Airlines Website

J. Walter Thompson, New York, NY

1999-2000 

Project Manager: Elizabeth Arden Website

Ogilvy Interactive, New York, NY

1997-1999 

Senior Project Manager: Ford, IBM, Perrier, GTE Websites

Media Circus/Illusion Fusion, New York, NY

1996-1997 

Project Manager: MTV, Click3x, Florida Power and Light, GT Interactive, Den-Line Websites