Ashley Wilkes

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Contact Information

contact name: Ashley Wilkes
email: wilke001@umn.edu

location address:
271 19th Ave S
430 Heller
Minneapolis MN 55455

open to public: yes
hours: yes, prearranged by appointment

mailing address:
P.O.Box 492
Sunrise MN 55056

Related Organizations:
http://www.digitalimagecafe.com/member_profile.asp?member=Ash_Wilkes
http://www.art2bank.com/art-gallery/digital/ashley-wilkes-cutting-edge-dit.php
http://www.digitalimagecafe.com/member_potd.aspx?member=Ash_

Experience

Education/work experience

**BA from Macalester College - emphasis in painting, drawing, etching, lithography -graduated 1968
**Graduate study at the Brooklyn Museum Art School - 1969-1970
**Conscientios Objector during Viet Nam War (see next paragraph)
**Did alternative service as a conscientious objector with the San Francisco agency that pioneered the mainstreaming programs that forever changed the social perception of the developmentally disabled from pariah to self sufficient, loving and lovable human beings. My 2 years of service was spent filming, in the 16mm sound format, these programs. Some of the footage was used in a KQED-TV production on this innovative approach to improving the lives of the developmentally disabled 1970-1972.
**One of the original core group of artists invovled in the development of San Francisco's (and America's largest) artist loft warehouse conversion project which included about 100 artist living/work spaces, the Southern Exposure Art Gallery, the Artaud Dance Studio, and the Theater Artaud performance hall (see: www.artaud.org)- 1970-1972.
**Taught animation and filmmaking for Project Artaud's Cinema Workshop which was one of many of the project's community outreach programs.
**Television news photographer/cameraperson and photo lab manager - 5 years for CBS-Hawaii 1972-1978.
**Commercial photographer - 5 years for Hawaii Production Center - 1972-1978
**Taught photography, videomaking, animation & darkroom technique
classes at Open U - 1985-1987.
**25 years as an empoyee of the University of Minnesota working in the areas of photography, A/V management, darkroom techniques, videography, non-linear video editing, digital imaging including digital image editing, processing, archiving and database - 1982 to present.
**11 years observing, photographing, and filming the Monarch butterfly through its legendary stages of transformation. At some point in the near future the imagery will be made into what I call an "artumentary" and released on DVD.

Awards

**Grant from Natural Area Council to produce a film on the impact of human "progress" on the environment. Using these funds I produced an experimental short following this theme. The movie was titled "The Egg"- 1969.
**Max Beckmann scholarship award for graduate studies at Brooklyn Museum Art School - 1969-1970.
**Recipient of Artspace Reuse Project grant to convert warehouse space into work/living space in the Minneaplis warehouse district. 1982.
**Winner in the Minnesota Independent Film and Video Festival 2 consecutive years
in the experimental short categories 1981 and 1982.
**Winning festival enries were aired on Minnesota educational Channel 2.
**Chosen by Darkroom and Creative Camera Techniques magazine in their "Serious Photographers Who Subscribe" promotion to its advertisers.

Exhibitions/Performance History

Painting, etching and lithographs exhibited at the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Macalester College - Janet Wallace Fine Art Center Gallery - 1968

Painting, photography exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum Art School student work exhibition - 1969.

Painting, etching exhibited at the Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco - 1972

16 mm film, "Stick and Stones", screened at the Landmark Center, St. Paul, MN - 1980.

Photographs exhibited at Film In The Cities Gallery - 1981.

Digital Art Exhibition "Channels" at IFP Minnesota Center for Media Arts - Oct thru
November - 2006.

Benefit digital art Exhibition for Perpich Center for Arts Education (PCAE) - all art sales funds donated to PCAE - May 3rd thru May 31st, 2007

Golden Valley Days Arts and Music Festival Digital Art Exhibition. All funds from
art sales donated to PCAE - May 19th, 2007.

Macalester alumni Art Show - Exhibited several pieces of my best work at Macalester's Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center. May 31st thr June 3rd, 2007.

Collections

Macalester College Janet Wallace Fine Arts Collection (etching and sculpture)

Brooklyn Museum Art School Student Work Acquisitions (painting)

Minnesota Independent Film and Video Contest Winning Entries Collection

Digital Image Cafe Winning Photos Collection

art2bank.com - chose me to be included in its "cutting edge emerging digital artists"
category