Appraiser, Appraisalink, 807 “W” Ave, Anacortes, WA 98221. A personal property appraiser specializing in the appraising of residential contents with an emphasis on Fine Art.

CERTIFICATES - 

USPAP Certificate (2008), Successfully completed a 15-hour course and examination on the Uniform

            Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), the Congressionally-recognized set

            of appraisal standards promulgated by The Appraisal Foundation.  Completed through the

            Appraisers Association of America in June 2008, effective through June 2013. Seattle, WA.
USPAP Certificate (2005), Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, Appraisers

            Association of America. New York, NY. Tested and Passed. 

Appraisal Studies in Fine & Decorative Arts. New York University (2000), NY, NY. 

            Appraising Fine Art
            Appraising 18th and 19th Century Furniture
            Identifying and Appraising American Silver: 1800 – 1940
            Appraising Estate Jewelry
            Principles of Practice and Code of Ethics
            IRS Legal Guidelines in Valuation of Fine and Decorative Arts
            Research Methods for Appraisers
            Appraisal Writing Workshop
USPAP Certificate (2000), Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, The American 

            Society of Appraisers. Austin, Tx. Tested and Passed.

CONTINUING EDUCATION – MOST RECENT SEMINARS/LECTURES/CONFERENCES/CLASSES:

2008 “A Celebration in Clothing: One Woman’s Journey.” Northwest textile artist Anita Mayer

        discusses her struggle to understand the creative process, identify inspiration and how she   

        learned to translate those concepts into her life and her clothing. La Conner Quilt & Textile

        Museum, La Conner, WA

2008 “The Sculptor and the Philosopher’s Stone: Georges Vantongerloo’s Cosmic Vision of Art”

        Wieczoreck (Associate Professor of Modern Art at UW) convincingly proved how Vontongerloo

        used non-Euclidean geometry to transform realism into abstract sculpture. This principle

        visualizes that geometry is expansive instead of restrictive. Vantongerloo was a founding member

        of the De Stijl group that included Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931), painters Piet Mondrian (1872-

        1944), Vilmos Huszàr (1884-1960), and Bart van der Leck (1876-1958), and the architects Gerrit

        Rietveld (1888-1964), Robert Van ‘t Hoff (1887-1979), and J.J.P. Oud (1890-1963). Henry Art  

        Museum, Seattle, WA

2008 Chuck Close in conversation with poet Bob Holman. A discussion and dialog between Close and

        Holman regarding their new project “A Couple of Ways of Doing Something: Photographs by 

        Chuck Close, Poems by Bob Holman”, showcasing the new medium (daguerreotypes) chosen by

        Chuck Close due to his physical condition. Behind the scenes anecdotes involving his New York

        artist friends, many of whom have appeared in his paintings: Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Cindy

        Sherman. Presented by the Tacoma Art Museum. Tacoma, WA

2008 Highly Opinionated Hot Picks in Contemporary African Art – What African artist to buy with

        $100,000?; Which art would go into a Global African Show and which would you pick for an  

        exclusive African Art show? In 1992 African art was still considered unknown to the American

        market and survey shows were useful but today there maybe enough artists that it is time to

        leave the survey behind. Shows discussed included the Snap Judgements: “New Positions in 

        Contemporary African art Photography” (2006) and the (2004) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

        show “Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti”, a group exhibition exploring

        the cultural impact of the famous Nigerian musician and activist who died in 1997. Artist included

        were Radcliffe Bailey, Brett Cook-Dizney, Satch Hoyt, Barkley Hendricks, Moshekwa Langa,

        Yinka Shonibare, and Wangechi Mutu. Presented by New York curator, critic and visiting

        Assistant Professor of Art at Vasser College Isolde Brielmaier and Trevor Schoonmaker, curator

        of contemporary art at Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. SAM, Seattle, WA

2008 Paul Horiuchi: Finding Nature A discussion of the life and work of prominent northwest artist Paul

        (Chikamasa) Horiuchi (1906-1999): How the artist developed his signature style in collage, his

        continued work in watercolor and how nature, the weather, and his heritage all mingled together

        and were a dominate force in his art. At his first one-man show in May 1957 at Seattle's Zoe

        Dusanne Gallery, 22 of his 24 casein and tempera paintings on rice paper were snapped up by

        collectors, by 1959 Time Magazine was calling him “a major new artistic talent” and how still in

        1983 his show at Woodside / Braseth Gallery sold out before it opened. Presented by guest

        curator Barbara Johns, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA

2008 “The Crossing of St. Peter’s and the End of the Renaissance” How the creation of the four marble

        sculptures found in St. Peter’s in the Vatican City, Rome: Saint Helena, 1629-39 by Andrea Bolgi

        (1605-56), St. Veronica 1629-39 by Francesco Mochi (1580-1654), Saint Andrew, 1629-33 by

        François Duquesnoy (1597-1643), and Saint Longinus, 1629-38 by the mastermind of the design

        Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), have come to be recognized as a pivotal moment in art history

        when the Renaissance ends and the Baroque begins. Presented by Estelle Lingo, Henry Art

        Gallery, Seattle, WA

2008 “Zacherias and Chicago Settee: Connecting the Masterpiece to the Master” How the names of

        seventeen Haida artist from the village of Skidigate, British Columbia were recorded by James

        Deans in the records for a set of 29 northwest coast Indian model houses that were

        commissioned for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and how Bill Holm’s work

        “Will the Real Charles Edenshaw Please Stand Up?” helped to connect the identity of some of

        the artists like John Cross, John Robson and Zacherias based on their own unique formline

        design. Presented by Robin K. Wright, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

2008 The Jacob Lawrence exhibit - The Legend of John Brown a lecture by Susan Noyes Platt, Ph.D.,

        Art Historian and Critic. Also, a panel discussion - Jacob Lawrence: Patriot or Terrorist by Dr.  

        David Muga, Dr. Ernest Tutt, Ted Maloney, Amy Frank, Kurt Dunbar, and Dr. Susan Platt. Skagit

        Valley College Art Library, Mount Vernon, WA
2008 "Changing Market for Painters" A panel discussion including speakers: Jody Bento, SAM Rental

        Sales Gallery, Patricia Rovzar, Patricia Rozar Gallery, Irene Mahler, Mahler Fine Arts Consulting

        presented by the Women Painters of Washington, Seattle Art Museum.
2007 Crosscurrents: Contemporary Art of the Inland Northwest. Inland Northwest artists including
        Megan Murphy, Lanny Devono, Scott Kolbo and Sandra Dal Poggetto live and work in a vast and
        geographically diverse territory than the coastal Northwest artists. Presented by Ben Mitchell,
        Curator of Art, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane. Museum of Northwest Art,
        LaConner, WA
2007 The Art Around Us: Northwest Coast Indian Art. Art appreciation of the wide variety in style,
        subject matter and culture of Tlingit, Tsmishian, Haida, N. Wakashan, Makah, Salish, Nuu-
        chah-nulth and Kwakuitl tribes. Presented by Alica Leppanen, Skagit Valley College,

        Mount Vernon, WA
2007 Northwest Coast Clan Pole Raising. Pole was carved by Wayne F. Hewson, Tsimshian, and
        painted by Toni Hewson, Blackfeet/Choctaw, and David R. Boxley, Tsimshian. Burke Museum,
        Seattle WA
2007 German art and culture - The Loss of the Berlin Salon Culture. Professor Richard Block,   

        University of Washington Department of Germanics. Related Exhibition: Spectatorship and 

        Desire: Loss Frye Museum, Seattle, WA
2006 Art History with Rebeca Albiani, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA
        Dirty Dishes: Renaissance Maiolica from Urbino;

        William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement
        A City of Marble – Augustan Rome; The Dark World of Goya’s Caprichos
2006 Mona’s Collection at 25, Presented by Susan Parke, MoNA curator, La Conner, WA
2005 National Conference – Beyond the Essentials, Appraisers Association of America. New York, NY
        Bonham’s Auction Preview – American and European Paintings; Fakes, Frauds, and Fake   

        Fakers; Beyond Comparables; Damage and Loss; Outsider Art; What’s Hot in Canada, Classic  

        and Contemporary Favorites in Today’s Market; Swann Galleries Auction Preview – Contemporary

        Art; Accessing Market Data; Fakes and Forgeries; Damage & Loss: The Case Studies; 

        Evaluating the 20th Century: Insights into the Current and Ever Changing Market of 20th Century

        Decorative Art; Working With Science; Due Diligence; Appraising Autographs and Manuscripts;

        African American Art
2005 Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages – A slide show overview of the exhibit presented by

        Seattle Art Museum. Valley View Library, Seattle, WA
2005 Artist Tool Kit Series - “Grants, Residencies & Awards”; “Contracts and Copyright Law”. Seattle

        Academy of Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2005 Survey of Western Art III ACO504, Instructor, Su Job, Seattle Academy of Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2005 “Return to Glory” – A lecture and slide presentation of the restoration of the Sistine Chapel by Dr.

        Joanne Snow-Smith, Univ. of Washington. St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Medina, WA
2005 Women Artists: Looking Forward / Looking Back, a panel discussion. Professor Barbara Miller,

        moderator, panelists/artists: Sheila Klein, Mary Randlett, Susan Rodo. MONA, La Conner, WA
2004 Artist Tool Kit Series - “Working Artist”: What does it mean?; Artist’s Statements & Résumés;

        Studio Documentation. Seattle Academy of Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2004 Painting the Wilderness: Abby Williams Hill, 1861 – 1943. Lecture by art historian Ron Fields.

        Museum of Northwest Art. La Conner, WA
2004 Preserving Heirlooms – A panel discussion. Anacortes Museum, Anacortes, WA
2004 Artifact ID Day – Observer. Burke Museum, Seattle, WA
2003 Pathways to Heaven – Journeys of the Soul in Northwest Coast Native Culture, Lecture by Dr.

        George MacDonald, Burke Museum, Seattle, WA
2003 Northwest Women Artists: 1880-1950, Lecture by David Martin, Martin-Zambito Gallery, MoNA,

        La Conner, WA
2003 State of Contemporary Art a lecture by Peter Schjeldahl, art critic for The New Yorker, Bellevue

        Art Museum and University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2003 Mexican and Chicano Art of the Northwest, Deborah Caplow, MoNA, LaConner, WA
2003 Contemporary Issues in Northwest Coast Native American Art - Museums and Native Artists: A

        Vision for the Future, Dr. MacDonald, Burke Museum, Seattle, WA
2003 “Life Vessels” – Artist Allen Moe discusses his primitively fired clay pots, MoNA, LaConner, WA
2003 Contemporary Issues in Northwest Coast Native American Art – A Panel Discussion: The Indian

        Arts and Crafts Law, Burke Museum, Seattle, WA
2003 “Waterston: The History of Paint”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2003 “In Line With Al Hirschfeld”, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA
2003 Contemporary Issues in Northwest Coast Native American Art – “The Exploration of Northwest

        Coast Indian Art 1774 – 2003”. Burke Museum, Seattle, WA
2002 Icons of Mexican Art, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism: The Jacques and
        Natasha Gelman Collection”, Seattle Art Museum, Bellevue Library, Bellevue, WA
2002 Myth, Nature, and Art, A lecture by William Morris. Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2002 Corot to Picasso: European Masterworks from the Smith College Museum, Bellevue Library, 

        Bellevue, WA
2002 A Victorian Clock Shop: The Junghans a chronology of a Clock Making Empire.
        Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
2002 The Glory of the Renaissance, part 2, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2002 A Sense of Place: Artists of the Northwest, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2002 Telling Tales, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2002 Skagit Topics: The war years in Washington State, Skagit Co. Historical Museum,
        La Conner, WA
2002 The Glory of the Renaissance, part 1, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2002 The Figure is Dead, the Figure is Alive, MoNA, La Conner, WA
2002 Art in the Northwest: 1900 – 2001, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2002 Asian American Artists of the Puget Sound Region, MoNA, La Conner, WA
2002 Skagit Topics: Historical Documentary Photography, Then and Now, Skagit County Historical
        Museum, La Conner, WA
2002 Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art, MoNA, La Conner, WA
2001 Industrial Artist – Ries Niemi, Sculptor, Museum of Northwest Art (MoNA), La Conner, WA
2001 American Constructivist: A Conversation with Mary Henry, MoNA, La Conner, WA
2001 Twenty Years of Contemporary Art at the Sacred Circle Gallery, MoNA, La Conner, WA
2001 How Pottery is Made, KWGS, San Antonio, TX
2001 Candlewick , KWGS, San Antonio, TX
2001 Share the Vision – The Morgan town Etching Plates, KWGS, San Antonio, TX
2001 Texas Furniture Traditions in the 19th & early 20th c., Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center,  

        Austin, TX
2000 The Battle between the Spirit and the Flesh: 60’s Art from Minimalism to Body
        Art, John Clarke, University of Texas. Austin, TX
2000 Pieter Brugel the Elder and His Works on Paper, Dr. Orenstein, Metropolitan Museum of Art,  

        NY, hosted by the University of Texas. Austin, TX
2000 Paden City Glass 1916-1951 - Seminar, Kent Washburn’s Glass Show (KWGS), San Antonio, TX
2000 Navarre Glass - Seminar - (KWGS), San Antonio, TX
2000 Sterling Silver Pitchers from Different American Periods – Seminar (KWGS), San Antonio, TX
2000 Images and Influences of China: From English Garden to American
        Decorative Arts and Architecture - Lecture - Festival Institute, Round Top, TX
2000 American Art History - Informal Class - University of Texas, Austin, TX
2000 Celebrating Sacred Art -Seminar- Austin Diocese Fine Arts Council, Austin, TX
2000 Double Takes - Austin Evolving (Photography) Seminar, Austin History Center
2000 Problems in Maintaining an Appraisal Practice: New Legal Liability Issues. A 1- Day Seminar.  

        Appraisers Association of America and NYU Appraisal Studies, New York, NY

PARTICIPANT:
2008 6/07/08 12:00 – 4:00. Antiques Show ‘N Tell, Lynden Community Center, Lynden,WA.       

2007 6/16/07 12:00 – 4:00. Antiques Show ‘N Tell, Lynden Community Center, Lynden,WA.

        Appraiser – Fine Art. A fund raising event with all proceeds benefiting the Whatcom County

        Library Foundation.

SPEAKER:

2008 8/1/08 "Only to Vanish from View..." Presented to the North Coast Painters, Anacortes, WA.

2008 3/12/08 “Only to Vanish From View...” The steps that can be taken by any artist to avoid
        vanishing from view. Visibility Metrics, Value Metrics and Momentum Metrics will define a
        strategy of viral marketing necessary to accompany the artist’s work in the current market.
        Presented to the Women Painters of Washington, Seattle Art Museum.
2008 2/5/08 Northwest Corner Woodworking Association, Mount Vernon, WA.
        Topic: Identifying antique furniture, Highlights of a Duncan Phyfe Table Appraisal
2004 3/14/04 What’s Art Worth? An Art Appraisal Forum, Insights Gallery, Anacortes, WA.
        A two part lecture. Topic: Not Every One Needs An Appraisal.
        Topic: What made Mark Tobey become Internationally Recognized while Jacob Elshin
        remains a regional Artist.

JUROR:

2008  “Serendipity” the Annual Member Exhibition of the Women Painters of Washington.

         Kaewyn Gallery, Bothell, WA. May 23 – June 24, 2008

MEMBERSHIPS:
2003 – Founding Member – Bill Holm Research Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art
2002 – 2005 Member International Ivory Society (IIS)
2001 – Present Member Museum of Northwest Art (MoNA)


ADDITIONAL WORK RELATED EXPERIENCE:

1998 Gallery Assistant Austin Galleries 1219 W 6th Austin, TX 78703, Consignment and Auction 

        Inventory cataloging.

1982 - 1995 Studio Director/Owner Black and White Color Connection 904 B West 12th St,

        Austin, TX 78703 – An Archival Photography Restoration Studio and Gallery. Damage Claims

        Appraiser, restoration quotes, rare photograph archivist.

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