Barbara Pollak-Lewis
ART EDUCATOR/ PAINTER /CURATOR
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2022 M.A. Arts Education Boston University
1989 B.F.A. Film/Animation/Video Rhode Island School of Design
TEACHING: 2018-Present
Rhode Island School of Design (virtual)
★ Online Instructor Continuing Ed. (Teen) Start Drawing!
Used the CANVAS platform to build interactive curriculum, conducted interactive live classrooms, wrote student assessments and feedback
California College of the Arts, San Francisco (in-person)
★ Extension and Atelier Faculty Pre-College Illustration/Drawing, YASP (Middle
School), High School Figure Drawing, Portfolio Prep Atelier
Designed curriculum, assigned grades, facilitated local field trips and guest speakers, managed studio assistants
Boston University College of Fine Art (virtual and in-person)
★ Guest Lecturer, StopMotion Animation Workshop (Graduate level)
★ Guest Professor, Contemporary Issues in Art Ed. (Graduate level)
Harvey Milk Photo Center, San Francisco (virtual and in-person)
★ Instructor, Beginning Photoshop, Photoshop Collage
San Francisco Rec and Park
★ Instructor, Portfolio Development for Teens
★Teaching Artist ASEP (after school program) age 8-14
Youth Art Exchange (YAX): Summer Bridge (in-Person)
★ Teaching artist, Stop Motion Animation
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Adobe Suite CC: Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, StopMotion Pro, Dragonframe, PowerPoint, CANVAS, Drawing, Painting, Design, Editing, Animation, Illustration
STAFF POSITIONS
2010 Hard Boiled Industries, LLC, Creative Director/ Co-Founder
★ Designed art UI, assets, backgrounds, characters, animation.
★ Products: casual games, e-books and Apps for all mobile platforms
2008-9 SCORE! Educational Centers, Associate Art Director
2007-8 Pixverse Lead Art Director
CURATORIAL
2026:
"Detour" and "Roadmap" Gallery Shows, Arc Gallery, SF
2024:
"Observations at the Water's Edge" Harvey Milk Photo Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"The Music of Art" Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023:
"Through The Looking Glass" Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022:
"Who Do You Think You Are: The Art of the Self Portrait", Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
EXHIBITIONS (HIGHLIGHTS) 2020-2026
"10 x TEN Women" Faultline Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Irrepressible Women” SFWA Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Food for Thought: Small Choices Big Changes” Randall Museum, San Francisco, CA
“What’s Cookin’ “ Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
"The Wild Side: California Women Celebrate Untamed” NCWCA, San Francisco, CA
“Women Rising: 2022, 2023, 2024” The Drawing Room, San Francisco, CA
“Off-Kilter” Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Dollhouse: Art as Serious Play" Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Black and White and Shades of Grey" Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
“Tableau” Gallery-O-Rama, San Francisco, CA
“WTF?!?” Uma Gallery, Oakland, CA
“The Creative Revel” Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Women Artists Making their Mark” O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Future Tense” The Drawing Room Annex, San Francisco, CA
“Tiny” Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Refusés by the Bay” Metalhaus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Free to Be" San Francisco Women's Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Me to Myself" Self Portrait Show, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
"The Ground Upon Which We Stand" Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA
"Twenty-Twenty: Visions of the Future" Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“My Body, My Voice” Open Ground Studio, Seaside, Ca
"50/50: 50 Artworks in 50 Days" Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
"Reflectivity: Artists on Climate Change" Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA
"Imagining: Responding to our Cultural Climate" 3 Person show, Partners Gallery, Ft. Bragg, CA
"Wild Things" Jen Tough Gallery, San Francisco, CA
CLIENTS (Illustration work)
Gap Inc, Penguin Putnam, Harcourt Brace, Random House, Seventeen Magazine, The Washington Post,, Business Law Today, Continental, Clear Channel/Bill Graham Productions, Simon and Schuster, Utne, TIME for Kids, Little Passports, Newsday
PRESS
Artists Closeup Interview
Salann Magazine Premiere Issue
Murze Magazine: Issue 5 Climate Change
REFERENCES: Available Upon request