Education:

  • MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 1984
  • BA, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 1975

Grants/Fellowships:

  • Illinois Arts Council, Individual Artist Support Grant 2018-2019
  • City of Chicago, DCASE Individual Artist Grant 2018
  • City of Chicago, DCASE Individual Artist Grant 2016
  • NEA Regional Media Fellowship, 1994
  • Illinois Arts Council, Special Assistance Grant 1994 and 1986
  • City of Chicago, NAP Grant 1995, 1994 and 1993
  • Center for New Television, New TV Award 1994 and 1990
  • City of Chicago, CAAP Grant 1994, 1988, 1986
  • John Quincy Adams Travelling Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984

Videography:

  • Lee Godie: Chicago French Impressionist: 2021, co-produced, directed and edit
  • Carlos Cortez Poems: 2015/2002, camera and edit
  • Un Retrato de Josefina: 2006/1994, camera and edit
  • Maxwell Street: A Portrait of its Vendors, 1996, produced, directed and edited
  • Mexico se Escribe con “M” de Muerte: 1996, camera and edit
  • Humboldt Park Oral History Project: 1996, produced
  • What We See: 1994, produced and directed
  • Real Democracy PSA: 1992, (Spanish and English versions) produced, directed and edited
  • Full Suit: 1991, produced, directed and edited
  • Blu Bak I: 1991, produced, directed and edited
  • Die Spuren: 1991, produced, directed and edited
  • War and Peace: A Tale of Two Cities: 1991, produced, directed and edited
  • Palimpsest: 1986, produced directed and edited
  • First Kiss: 1986, produced directed and edited

Video/Performances:

  • Consumer’s Digest, Vol. 1: 1989, co-produced, co-directed and edited
  • Mothertongue: 1988, produced directed, performed and edited
  • Barbaranana: 1988, produced directed, performed and edited
  • Corpora Callosa: 1986, produced, directed, performed and edited
  • Domestic Voyeur: 1985, produced, directed, performed and edited
  • The Twins (fairy tale): 1984, performance/workshop with Linda Montano

Filmography:

  • Diana and Acteon: 1984, produced, directed, camera and edit
  • Slumber Party: 1984, produced, directed, camera and edit
  • Mother Hula: 1983, produced, directed, camera and edit

Solo Exhibitions:

  • Intuit Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, Illinois 2022
  • Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, Illinois 2021
  • DOCUMENTS, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, Illinois 1991
  • MOTHERTONGUE, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1986

Employment: 

  • Freelance video editor, Pandora Lobo Estepario Productions, Chicago, IL 2003-present
  • Freelance video editor, Pandora Productions, Chicago, IL 1991-2003
  • Videographer/Instructor, Chicago Children’s Museum Poetry in the Schools project, 2002-2004
  • Videographer, Museums in the Park, Park Kids Project, 2001
  • Film Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1994
  • Freelance video editor/instructor, Center for New Television, Chicago, IL 1991-1995
  • Registrar/Bursar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,  Chicago, IL 1980-1991