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Alan Leon - Artist
2283  International Blvd.,
Oakland,
CA 94606
(510) 532 2933

www.alanleon.org
alangoat2002@yahoo.com

AWARDS

* Finalist, Communication Workers of America Mural Competition,Oakland , 1997

* Finalist, Eastlake Street Banners Competition, Oakland, 1997 *Finalist, L'Arte della Strada (Pastelon sidewalk mural), San Francisco, 1997 *Spertus Judaica Prize, 3rd Prize, African Yam Boat Seder Plate, Spertus Museum, Chicago, 1996 * Oakland Festival at the Lake, Best of Show, Mezuzot, 2nd Prize, 1994

* Mama's Royal Cafe Napkin Art Contest, Oakland, 1994, 1995, 1996

* San Francisco Bay Guardian Cartoon Contest, San Francisco, 1991

* Fulbright Scholar Award, Philippines, 1982-1983

* Finalist, American Artist Magazine Painting Award, 1980

* Skowhegan Scholarship Award (by Coopers & Lybrand), Maine, 1980

* Finalist, NYC Subways Improvement Competition at the Cooper Union, NYC, 1979

* Special Merit Award, 7th Annual New Orleans International Art Show, 1977 * NYC Town Hall Young Artist Award, 1962

RESIDENCIES

* Omega Institute, Artist-in-Residence, Rhinebeck, NY, 1997, 1998

* Camp Tawonga, Resident Artist, Groveland, CA, 1993, 1994, 1998

* Kalani Hanoua, Arts and Culture Center, Puna, Hawaii, 1996

* Camp Newman, Art Director, Santa Rosa, CA, 1997

* Camp Swig, Art Director, Saratoga, CA, 1993-1996

* American Academy in Rome, Italy, 1992

* MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1981 R'Madewood Plantation & St. Philomena School, Artist-in-Residence, Bayou LaFouche, Lousiana, 1978

PUBLICATIONS

* Realm Between Realms, Histories Between History, B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington DC, 1997

* The Seder Plate, Spertus Press, Chicago, 1996

* Light Interpretations, a Hanukah Menorah Invitational, The Jewish Museum of San Francisco, 1995 *International Federation of Landscape Architects Congress Proceedings, Apprehending Your World Through Edges, Boston, MA, 1988

* Quonset Huts on the River Styx, Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility sponsored Bombshelter Design Book, North Atlantic Books, NY, 1987

* American Artist Magazine, Travel Tips from the Pros, March, 1985

* Landscape Spaces: A Guide to Reading the Landscape, self-published, 1984

EDUCATION

* San Francisco City College, 1993

* Urban Permaculture Design Intensive, NY, 1985

* Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine, 1980

* Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, NY, 1979-1980

* Pratt Institute, study with Roman Vishniac, NY, 1979

* Drawing and Painting Research, Tobago, West Indies, 1976

* College of Environmental Science & Forestry, BLA, Syracuse NY, 1976

* City College of NY, 1971-1973

* Bronx High School of Science, NY, 1968-1971

TEACHING

* George Maynes Elementary School, Alviso CA, 1998

* Eastlake Banner Design Workshop, Teenagers, Oakland, 1998

* Peralta Street Community Garden Mural Workshop, Berkeley, 1998

* Museum of Children's Art, Oakland, 1997

* Studio One Art Center, Creativity Explosion, Oakland, 1997

* Bay Area Discovery Museum, Skyframes Installation, Sausalito CA, 1992

* Goddard Riverside Environmental Education Program, Rifton NY, 1990

* Institute for Social Ecology, NY, 1986 •The Hudson School, Hoboken NJ, 1985

* The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx NY, 1985

* Rutgers University, Cook College, School of Landscape Architecture, NJ, 1981 and 1985

PERFORMANCE

* Producer, The Hungry Hobo (one man show about the young Jack London ), Oakland Museum, 1998

* Street Percussion Workshop, CELL (Collective Exploration Learning Laboratories), SF, 1998

* Gamelan Sekar Jaya Workshop (Indonesian Orchestra), El Cerrito CA, 1996-1997 •Foga na Roupa (Clothes on Fire), Brazilian Dance Bloco, SF Carnival & Oakland Carijama, 1995

* "Articulate Architecture, Space & Behavior," participant (with Fiona Templeton), Capp Street Project, SF, 1992

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

* Syracuse Structures, watercolors, Lincoln Bank, Syracuse,N.Y., 1975

* The Phenomenen of Place, Festival of Places, 200 drawings of Tobago, 1976

* "Highland, Lowland: A Watercolor Journal of the Philippine Landscape, International Center, Manilla, Philippines, 1983

  • Hunter's Point Shipyard, Open Studio, San Francisco, 1993-1996
  • Drawings for Murals, Just Desserts, Oakland, 1996
  • Yoga Paintings, Ink on Paper, Piedmont Yoga Studio, 1997
  • Rivulets and Flowing Bodies, watercolor and mixed media, Omega Institute
    New York , 1997 and 1998
  • The Animal Kingdom- Mythological Grip on the Imagination, watercolors
    and acrylics, Just Desserts- Oakland and Palo Alto, 1998
  • The Mezuzah, Jack London Squre Windows Project, Oakland, 1999
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