J e w e l   C a s t r o

jcastro@ucsd.edu
(619) 388-2767 ext. 5480

E D U C A T I O N:

M.F.A., Visual Arts, UC San Diego, 1998.

B.A., Painting & Drawing, San Diego State University, 1995.

T E A C H I N G:

SPRING 2006 & 2002-2005:  BEG. DRAWING, LIFE DRAWING & FIGURE PAINTING, MiraCosta
                        College, Oceanside, CA.

2004-2005, and 1999-2001:  ART ORIENTATION, BEG. & ADV. DRAWING, Mesa College,
                        San Diego, CA.

2003:  DRAWING:  COLOR PENCIL AND PASTELS,  UC San Diego Extensions, La Jolla, CA..

1999-2002:  2-D DESIGN and COLOR, DRAWING AND COMP., San Diego State University,
                        San Diego, CA.

2001:  DRAWING: REPRESENTATION, Winter-Fall Quarters, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

1999-2000:  FIGURE DRAWING, STORY PAINTING, PAINTING FROM NATURE, and
                        PORTRAITURE, Museum Art School, San Diego Museum of Art.

1997-1998:  BEG.-INT. PAINTING & BEG. DRAWING,  TA to Professor Faith Ringgold,
                        UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

1998:  Visiting Artist, one day lecture, UC Davis.

E X H I B I T I O N S:

(*denotes solo exhibition)
Feb. 2006:  TURNING TIDES: Gender in Oceania Art, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

Oct. 2005:  15th Annual Women's Studies Conference at Southern Connecticut State University,
                        "Asian & Pacific Women: Indigenous and Diasporic," 
                        http://www.southernct.edu/departments/womensstudies/conference/index.htm.

July 2005:  (R)settled/(Re)viewed: Recent Expressions of Pacific Identity, Peabody Essex Museum,
                        Salem, MA..

February-March 2004:  FIGURE THAT, Escondido Municipal Gallery, Escondido, CA.

*March-April 2003: ASSIMILATION LOVE NOTES, UC Irvine, CA.

Dec. 2002-Jan. 2003:  William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA,.

Sept. 2001-Jan. 2002: COMING OF AGE IN AMELIKA, Pacific Islands/Atlantic Worlds Symposium,
                        NYU, N.Y., NY.

*Mar.-Apr. 2001:  RED HOUSE/THE DAUGHTERS OF SALAMASINA, UC Irvine, CA.

*Feb. 2000:RED HOUSE/THE DAUGHTERS OF SALAMASINA, UC Santa Cruz, CA.

Sept. 1999: INDEPENDENCIA, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA.

Feb. 1999: Sushi Performance & Visual Art 13th Annual Benefit Auction/Exhibition, San Diego, CA.

*May 1998: RED HOUSE/THE DAUGHTERS OF SALAMASINA, UC San Diego, CA. 

Nov.-Dec. 1997: SHOEMANIA, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA.

Oct. 1997:  Mandeville Center for the Arts, Recital Hall, UC San Diego, CA.

Oct. 1997: WOMEN’S CAUCUS FOR ART 5th ANNUAL MEMBERS’ SHOW, San Diego, CA.

May 1997:  TALALELAGI, SAMOA/Story of the Skies, Samoa, UC San Diego, CA.

Oct. 1996:  UCSD Women’s Center First Annual Exhibition, UC San Diego.

Oct. 1996: WOMEN’S CAUCUS FOR ART 4th ANNUAL MEMBERS’ SHOW, San Diego, CA.

*Nov. 1994: BINGO BABIES 93 94, Flor Y Canto Gallery, San Diego State University, CA.

Sept.-Oct. 1994: ESL-tongue tied lenguatrabada -inSITE 94, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA.

C U R A T O R:

Feb. 2006:  TURNING TIDES: Gender in Oceania Art, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

C O N F E R E N C E S:

Feb. 2006: Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania meeting session co-organizer, “Gender
                        in Contemporary Oceania Art,” San Diego.

Oct. 2005:  15th Annual Women's Studies Conference at Southern Connecticut State        
                        University,Asian & Pacific Women: Indigenous and Diasporic,
                        "http://www.southernct.edu/departments/womensstudies/conference/index.htm.

July 2005: Pacific Arts Association VIII International Symposium, Peabody Essex Museum,
                        Salem, MA.

Feb. 2004: CAA Conference, Seattle, on panel, BODILY (RE)PRESENTATIONS IN OCEANIA.

Oct. 2001: Pacific Islands/Atlantic Worlds symposium, NYU.

Mar. 2001: Communicating Tradition-Gender in Samoan American Art, UC Irvine.

Mar. 1999:  After Oceania: Teaching& Exhibiting Pacific Indigenous and Migrant Cultures,
                        UC Davis, Davis, CA.

Feb. 1999: CAA Conference, Los Angeles, on  panel, Fifty Years After South Pacific: Identity
                        by Fractions.

Apr. 1998: U. of the Pacific, Pacific Centuries conference, on panel, Migration & Memory in
                        the Visual Arts. 

Feb. 1998: UCLA Center for the Study of Women Thinking Gender conference.

Oct. 1997: ICA Conference, UC Santa Barbara.

Feb. 1997: UCLA Center for the Study of Women Thinking Gender conference.

P U B L I C A T I O N S:

Mar. 2006: "Communicating Tradition in Samoan American Art: An Artist's Reflection," in Journal
                        of Pacific Studies, Special Edition: Women Writing Oceania, edited by Dr. Caroline
                        Sinavaiana Gabbard and  Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui.

2005: Flavell, Kay.  Moon Over the Pacific, Steele Roberts LTD, Aotearoa New Zealand, p. 12.

2003: Mallon, Sean.  Samoan Arts and Artists O Measina a Samoa, .U of Hawai’I Press.  p. 100.

R E F E R E N C E S:

Upon request.