Jason VanDeusen
Artist
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Education
Grand Valley State University-NASAD accredited department of Art and Design; 1 Campus Dr. Allendale, MI 49401.Currently working towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration. Anticipated graduation summer 2008.
Baker College of Muskegon; 1903 Marquette Avenue; Muskegon, MI 49442. Completed an Associate Degree in
Business with a major in Graphic Communications in August of 2001.
Newaygo County Career Tech Center; Fremont, MI. Completed a two-year Commercial Art course in 1999.
Skills
• Illustration: Experience with traditional process from thumbnail to final image.
• Photography: Traditional and Digital.
• Digital Illustration: Hardware: 7 years exp with Macintosh platform, this includes scanners, tablets,
printers, and peripherals. Software: Illustrator, Photoshop, PageMaker, Painter, Quark, and Internet navi
gation.
• Printmaking: Methods; monotype, dry point, etching, aquatint, relief; Editioning and Curating prints;
Special knowledge of relief printmaking; specialization of technique and overall process, prep of
materials, hand printing using a Baren.
• Drawing: Solid foundation in the principles and materials of drawing: advanced theory and practice: life
drawing.
• Painting: Knowledge of materials and basic process; figure painting.
Exhibitions and Competitions
Newaygo County Council for the Arts, “Scratching the Surface”, Fremont, MI September 27-October 31, 2007. 2 Woodblock Prints.
Muskegon Museum of Art, 79th Regional Exhibition, Muskegon, MI June 7-Aug. 22, 2007.Woodblock Print. Winner of the “Friends of Art” Award.
Society of Illustrators, Student Scholarship Competition and Exhibition, New York, May 2-18, 2007. Woodblock Print.
Creative Quarterly Magazine ,New York. 5th annual student competition, fall 2006.
2 Woodblock prints published in vol. 2 Issue 5.
1st annual Newaygo “Painting of the Fish” competition, Newaygo, MI August 2006.
Commissioned to paint 4 trout on an archway in downtown Newaygo.
Nuveen Community Center for the Arts, “Mark of the Maker”, August 31-September 30, 2006. Woodblock Print
Muskegon Museum of Art, 78th Regional Exhibition, Muskegon, June 2-July 26, 2006.Woodblock Print.
GVSU PAC Gallery, GVSU Student Work Exhibition, Allendale, summer 2005. Mixed media illustration.