Los Angeles, CA 90027

            Email: donna.v.letterese@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY, BA, May 2006

Concentrations: Art, Playwriting/Psychology. GPA: 3.8

Goldsmith’s College University of London: Semester Abroad, January-June 2005

Concentrations: Comic writing/illustration and Dramaturgy.

SPECIAL SKILLS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Member of SILA, The Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles.  Computer Proficiency. Microsoft Word.  Microsoft Excel.  Basic Photoshop.  Editorial Indesign. My Art Collection Cataloguing Software. Act! Software. Internet Research Facility.  Facility with Myspace and Facebook.  Facility with Pen and Ink, Pencil, Illustration and Cartooning.  Typing: 85 WPM.

SELECT JURIED AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Being Gay.  Second City Coucil Art Gallery and Performance Space, Long Beach, California. 

Curated by David Burns, Artist, Austin Young, Artist, and Matias Viegener, Artist/MFA Writing Professor at Cal Arts. Upcoming March 2009.

Fashionistas!  Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art (OCCCA), Santa Ana, California. 

Curated by Claudia Grau, Designer.  Upcoming March 2009.

The Frida and Diego Show.  Abuelita’s Mexican Resturaunt, Topanga, California. 

Curated by Robin Feeley, Artist. January 2009.

Holiday Show.  Ghettogloss Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

Curated by Fiora Boes, Director of the Gallery. December 2008.

Urban Canvas.  The Mountain Bar, Los Angeles, California.

One night art shows held monthly, curated by Elle Seven, Artist.  December 2008-Present.

Top of the Dome.  Crewest, Los Angeles, California. 

Annual show curated by Man One, Artist and Director of the Gallery.  October 2007 and October 2008.

Los Angeles Juried Exhibition.  L.A. Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

Juried by Tyler Stallings, Director of the UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Lisa Melandri, Deputy Director of the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and Carl Berg, Director of the Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles.  August 2008.

Cannibal Flower. Various venues throughout Los Angeles, California. 

One night art shows held monthly, curated by L. Croskey, Artist and Curator of Thinkspace Gallery.  May 2008-Present.

Barnsdall Art Park Student Show.  Barnsdall Municipal Arts Center, Los Angeles, California.

Open show for all students at the center.  March 2008.

The Feminine Oddities. Various venues throughout Los Angeles and Long Beach, California.

One night art shows and performances held semi-monthly and curated by Debra Hayden, Artist and Founder of The Feminine Oddities LLC. February 2008-present.

The LOVE/HATE Exhibition.  Picture This Gallery/Framing, Long Beach, California.

Juried by Mattie Gomez, Artist and Director of the gallery.  Long Beach. February 2008.

Art Noir.  NoHo Gallery L.A., North Hollywood, California.

Juried by Daniel DeBevoise, Artist and Director of the gallery.  North Hollywood.  October 2008.

Canceptual. Crewest, Los Angeles, California. 

Curated by Man One, Artist and Director of the Gallery.  February, 2007.

Sarah Lawrence College Student Summer Show. Barbara Walters Art Gallery, Bronxville, New York. Juried and curated by Christine Y. Kim of the Studio Museum of Harlem. May 2006.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Heracles, Los Angeles, CA September 2008-November 2008

Artist-Assigned to draw the initial six pages for a graphic novel written by the client, writer Adam Rose.

Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York, NY September 2005-June 2006

Intern- Assisted in the running of a non-profit educational/art gallery. Researched the history of American women cartoonists for the “She Draws Comics” show, May 2006, helped with writing the story document for the show, contacted artists, measured/catalogued artwork, and assisted in the curatorial aspects/design of the hanging plan for the show.