Sassafrass Winter Solstice

Current

• Owner & Relief Print Artist at SassafrassWinter : art independent : linoleum printmaking (Sole Proprietorship)

Education

• ITT Technical Institute
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Milwaukee High School of the Arts

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Industry

Fine Art

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• Donating to Charities

Sassafrass Winter Solstice’s Experience

• Owner & Relief Print Artist

  SassafrassWinter : art independent : linoleum printmaking (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Fine Art industry)

  2005 — Present (3 years)

  independent relief print artist
  
  SassafrassWinter offers [limited edition – handmade fine art] that supports worthwhile charities. We offer: handmade relief prints, photography, paintings, unique T-shirts and a wide variety of other miscellaneous creations.
  
  http://SassafrassWinter.com

Sassafrass Winter Solstice’s Education

• ITT Technical Institute

  Associate of Applied Science Degree, IT-CNS: Information Technology - Computer Network Systems, 2003 — 2005

  The Information Technology-Computer Network Systems program can help graduates prepare to perform tasks associated with installing, upgrading and maintaining computer network systems in typical LAN/WAN environments. This program explores a number of networking and internetworking technologies. Additional curriculum topics, investigated through classroom and laboratory experiences, include introductory computer programming, survey of operating systems, network design and implementation, network systems management and other related technical subjects. Information Technology - Computer Network Systems consists of a foundation core of computing and general education courses, followed by studies in computer network systems applications.

  Activities and Societies:

  Major:
  IT-CNS [Information Technology - Computer Network Systems] Computer Programming [self taught]
  
  Clubs:
  + 4.0 GPA reflecting excellent attendance
  + School Improvement Team – IT-CNS Representative
  
  Honors:
  + Inducted into National Vocational Technical Honor Society
  + Inducted into National Alpha Beta Kappa Honor Society
  + Graduate with maximum of all 3 highest honor cords

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  Double Major: Avant Garde/Experimental Film & Information Sciences 1998 — 2000

  Activities and Societies:

  Major: Double Major: Experimental/Avant Garde Film --&-- Information Sciences
  Minor: Women Studies
  
  Clubs:
  + Phi Eta Sigma [highest honors]
  + Film & Video club
  + gallery shows at the Women's Resource Center
  + perpetual member of the Arts & Craft Center
  + various social clubs and activist related activities
  
  Greek:
  Phi Eta Sigma

• Milwaukee High School of the Arts

  Diploma, Music: Instrumental, 1990 — 1994

  Milwaukee High School of the Arts offers students who have a strong interest in the arts an opportunity to spend a minimum of two class hours per day in their selected art majors. Students commit to one area of the arts for all four years. Besides the concentration in the arts, MHSA provides an academically challenging educational program, including Advanced Placement (AP) and honors courses.
  
  In 1990 students were admitted into the high school only after completion of a successful audition.

  Activities and Societies:

  + W.S.M.A
  + large ensemble
  + solo and ensemble
  + debate
  + forensics
  + peer mediator
  + math team
  + student council rep.
  + orchestra
  + jazz
  + advanced band [4 years]
  etc.
  
  Awards:
  + Rexnord
  + honor roll
  + 2nd place at all city badminton tournament
  + W.S.M.A. state first medal for brass ensemble
  + minor in debate
  + major music letter
  + chevrons [3]
  + major letter in varsity cross country
  + minor in track

Additional Information

Sassafrass Winter Solstice’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• Donating to Charities

Sassafrass Winter Solstice’s Interests:

1920's bungalows, antiques, architectural reclamation, atari 2600, beauty in everything, carmina burana, cello, cemeteries, compost heaps, craftman homes, d.i.y. culture, fantasy art, film-making, folk art, framed artwork, framed photography, graveyards, greek mythology, green tea, handmade beads, handmade paper, heifer foundation, how-to-books, indie films, installation art, junk yards, katamari games, language, learning, lino prints, linocut, linoleum blocks, linoleum prints, meditation, mohican nation, mundane beauty, native american, old doors, old sheet music, original artwork, petroglyphs, printmaking, recycle art materials, recycled paper, relief prints, run lola run, rusted objects, sears kit homes, secret doors, secret hideaways, secret rooms, silent hill games, skeleton keys, solar power, spirituality, stockbridge munsee, sun ovens international, super 8, the hunger site, thrift stores, vinyl, visual arts, wood carving, zines.

Sassafrass Winter Solstice’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
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