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Cliff Rusch
P.O. Box 365
Angwin, CA 94508
707.965.7403 [w]; 707.965.3943 [h]
crusch@puc.edu

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Experience:

August 1987 - present:

Pacific Union College, Angwin, California

College Relations [half time]: 1993 - present, associate director of college relations; 1990 - 1993, assistant director; 1987 - 1990 , designer

• Responsible for design, presentation and production of college publications, including: advertising, brochures, posters, mailers, alumni magazine, recruitment materials and various publications.
  
  
• Responsible for corporate identity and consistency, print production, coordination and quality control in printed material. Extensive Macintosh experience in PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, and in preparing files for output.
  
  
• Selected, coordinated and hosted judges for CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) annual competition for Visual Design in Print category (1994).

Art Department [half time]: 1990 - present, assistant professor; 1987 - 1990, instructor; Classes: Graphic Design I, II, III, IV; Typography I, II; Packaging Design; Pre-Print Production I; Printmaking: Silkscreen; Professional Practices (co-taught); Degree Project coordination

• Photographic assistant, Advanced Techniques: Exploring the Black and White Print; John Sexton, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado, August, 1995 [two weeks]
  
• Photographic assistant, Advanced Techniques: Exploring the Black and White Print; John Sexton, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado, September, 2001 [two weeks]

Freelance graphic design:

St. Helena Hospital & Health Center; Napa Valley Symphony; John Sexton, local clients.

Exhibitions:

Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific Union College
Recent Works, Art Department Faculty Exhibition, exhibition of master's thesis project progress, February, 2001.

Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific Union College
Recent Works, Art Department Faculty Exhibition, exhibition of eight black and white photographs, December, 1999.

Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific Union College
Recent Works, Art Department Faculty Exhibition, exhibition of six black and white photographs, October, 1997.

Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific Union College
Recent Works, Art Department Faculty Exhibition, exhibition of nine black and white photographs, January, 1997.

Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific Union College
Art Department Faculty Exhibition, exhibition of four black and white photographs, October, 1995.

Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific Union College
Art Department Faculty Exhibition, exhibition of 12 black and white photographs, October, 1994.

Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific Union College
Angwin, local photographs, solo exhibition of 30 black and white photographs, April, 1994.

Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific Union College
First Light, solo exhibition of 21 black and white photographs, January, 1990.

January, 1982 - July, 1987

Lauren Smith Design, Mountain View, California

Senior designer: Responsible for design, art direction, presentation and production of printed materials. Clients included: Verbatim Corp.; Sun Microsystems; Hewlett Packard; Monolithic Memories; Sunset magazine; ADRA International and various local companies, advertising agencies and public relations firms.

July, 1980 - January, 1982

Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, California

Staff designer: Designed and art directed a monthly health magazine [Listen], designed various book covers and formats.

June - September, 1978 & 1979

Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, California

Student designer: Designed and art directed various periodicals, advertisements, book covers.

September, 1976 - June, 1980

Pacific Union College, Angwin, California

Student Association: designer, Campus Chronicle, 1977-78; designer, Funnybook, 1977-'78; '78-'79; '79-'80; assistant editor, Diogenes Lantern, 1978-'79; designer, Diogenes Lantern, 1979-'80; freelance design for various student publications and materials.

Education:

• Currently attending graduate school, Academy of Art, San Francisco

Classes:
Book Arts, Chris Rolik
Design: Annual Reports, Ted Bluey
Design: Identity, Vassoula Vasiliou
Design: Offline, Jon Taylor
Design: Online, Ryan Medeiros
Design: Package, Margie Drechsel
Design: Publication, Susan Verba
Directed Study #I, Pamela Geismar
Directed Study #2, Pamela Geismar
Directed Study #3, Pamela Geismar
Graduate Seminar, Don Davidson
Intercultural Design, John Dobsen
Popular Culture, Don Davidson
Typography, Linda Hinrichs

• B.S. degree in Commercial Art, 1980, Pacific Union College
  

Workshops/classes:

The Gift of the Commonplace; Ruth Bernhard & John Sexton, Carmel Valley, CA, February, 1995

Advanced Techniques: Exploring the Black and White Print; John Sexton, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado, August, 1994 [two weeks]

Advanced Techniques: Exploring the Black and White Print; John Sexton, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado, September, 1990 [one week]

The Coast in Winter; Marion Patterson, Foothill College, Los Altos, California, January, 1985

Recognition:

Admissions Marketing Report
Art Direction magazine
CASE
Communication Arts magazine
Graphic Design: USA
New York Art Directors Club
Print magazine
San Jose Ad Club
Western Art Directors Club

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