Tom Relth
1005 Main Street - Studio 11, Vancouver WA 98660
Cell: 360.561.4245 [email protected]
Website: www.relth.org
Professional Experience - Artist:
Practicing Artist: Painter, Designer, Curator
Art, Design, Exhibitions and Curation: Casablanca Morocco and Vancouver Washington
1. Practicing Studio Artist - Thirty new large format works for solo exhibition.
2. Practicing freelance designer and artist.
3. Eight exhibitions in four years. Solo, Group and Curation. Curated, marketed and installed two exhibitions,
featuring leading professional Moroccan Artists. Designed and print-managed show catalogues.
Artist / Artiste Plasticien / Painter, Los Angeles California and Casablanca Morocco
1. Maintain active painting studio; significant body of larger artworks. Recent work is painting. Past work
includes 3-D Structural, Installations, Site-specific works, Gallery design/installation, furniture making,
tooling and carton design.
2. Established collaboration with practicing artists in Morocco and USA.
3. Comprehensive understanding of broad spectrum of media, materials, methods, machinery and tools.
Art Exhibition and Curator Experience:
• 2014 Tom Relth - Light and Pigment, Recent Paintings WSU Vancouver, Washington, Solo Exhibition
• 2013 Ten Year Celebration, North Bank Artist Gallery, Vancouver, Washington, Group Show
• 2013 Tom Relth - Recent Work, Drew-Jones Gallery, Vancouver, Washington, Solo Exhibition
• 2012 Reg’Art, Mine d’Art, Art Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco, Nuit des Galeries, Group Show
• 2012 Heaven and Earth, Passion and Penchant, Les Ateliers Libres, Casablanca, Morocco, Solo Exhibition
• 2011 Precious Waters, Troubled Waters, GWA Casablanca, Morocco, Group Show, Director-Curator
• 2010 Arkane, Forum de la Culture (Ex Cathédrale du Sacré-Coeur), Casablanca, Morocco, Group Show
• 2010 Keep Morocco Beautiful II, L’Ancien Abattoir, Casablanca, Group Show
• 2010 Keep Morocco Beautiful, GWA, Casablanca, Morocco, Group Show, Director-Curator
• 2006 Seeds Exhibition, St. Johns Lutheran, Orange, California, USA, Group Show
• 2005 Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, California, USA, Group Show
• 2003 Biola University, Los Angeles, California, USA, Solo Exhibition
• 1974 LACMA, Basement Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA, Group Show
• 1973 Orlando Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA, Group Show
• 1972 58-F Plaza Gallery, Orange, California, USA, Solo Show
Notable Collections:
• Consul General Mr. and Mrs. Brian Shuken, Churchill Home, Casablanca, Morocco
• Allan and Deborah MacArthur, Global Lights, Casablanca, Morocco
• David and Daniel Bult, Green Sahara, Casablanca, Morocco
• Jon and Cheryl Lundstrom, Irvine, California
Tom Relth
1005 Main Street - Studio 11, Vancouver WA 98660
Cell: 360.561.4245 [email protected]
Website: www.relth.org
Professional Experience - Education:
2013 to
Present:
English, Art and History Tutor - Freelance, Vancouver, Washington
English (ESL) and History Tutor
University and Community College level: Individual and small group study: review homework and assign
alternate projects. Directed off-campus day-trips to open opportunities for authentic and practical conversation.
Art Tutor
Community College level: Tutored students in Adobe InDesign and Photoshop to produce assignments for
Interior Design Degree requirements. Students produced original interior design presentations.
2008 to
2013:
Professor of Art - George Washington Academy, Casablanca, Morocco
Visual Art /Fine Art classes at the largest American International school in North Africa
1. Established new classes and curriculums: Within first year built-up the non-existent Visual Arts Department,
prospered it into flourishing Fine Arts and Digital Graphic Arts departments including new class offerings.
2. Advanced art class offerings to international and or collegiate levels. Built a full curriculum and structure for
all new classes: Established and taught solid curriculum for semester-long classes in:
• 3-D Architecture & Sculpture
• Visual Communications/Business Art
• 2-D Drawing and Painting
• Digital Photography / Digital Media
• Fundamentals of Art - Design
• Yearbook Publications / Journalism
All-Campus Related Project Experience
1. Envisioned and implemented an on-campus exhibitions schedule; curated and designed major professional
themed art exhibitions. Marketed the events, designed and published catalogues for the exhibitions.
2. Established student-led programs, designs and events, including student design/lead project based classes.
3. Directed student-designed hardbound yearbooks (3 years) with Adobe CS5.5. The students built 180-page
hardbound yearbook project was completed without use of traditional yearbook publishing companies i.e.
Jostens or Herff Jones. The publication was printed offset, locally in Casablanca.
Administrative and Extra Curricular Related Experience
1. Established Standards & Benchmarks in the accreditation by Middle State Accreditation in 2009-10.
2. Designed Furniture and art lab fixtures: Designed and implemented a flexible gallery system for professional
and student art exhibits. Designed the modified two room remodel and split of the computer classrooms.
3. Initiated a visiting artist program, inviting young European artists to produce mural-scale works on campus.
4. Solicited funds to support the arts. Received full support from school parent association for regular visual
arts events. Responsible for Art Department third party supply contracts with publication printers and art
materials suppliers.
2003 to
2004:
Instructor Professor of Art - Biola University, Los Angeles, California
Art History Instructor
Senior level: Global Art Paradigms - Non-Western Art exploration of cross-cultural influences. Students
produced thesis plus website, film, or power point programs to illustrate a specific “discovered” art influences.
Printmaking Instructor
2
Senior level: Independent Study: focus on intaglio and letterpress methods. All instruction was project based.
Tom Relth
1005 Main Street - Studio 11, Vancouver WA 98660
Cell: 360.561.4245 [email protected]
Website: www.relth.org
Related Experience Industry:
2001 to Steel Rule Die Manufacturing for Paperboard Packaging, Los Angeles, California
2008: Manager - Business Development and Training Instructor
• Accomplished designer of all pressure-method of print finishing: Letterpress, Engraving, Hot Foil Stamping,
Embossing and various processes of die cutting paper and paperboard
• Extensively Trained personnel toward increased proficiency, quality and throughput of printed product
1992 to
2001:
Blue Line Machinery Company, Inc.
Entrepreneur and Business Owner
President - Paperboard Finishing Machinery Developer and Importer
• Development and distribution of European-built and Asian-Built print-finishing machinery for packaging to
meet US market and safety requirements
• Directed and managed participation in nationally focused machinery trade exhibitions.
1977 to Thomas Relth & Company Advertising, Inc.
1991:
Creative Director/ President - Advertising Design Group
Education:
• Creative Director - Owner of print and digital media design group. Projects included over 300 award winning
package designs, collateral and ad campaigns.
• Managed client services strategies for National and International producers of consumer & industrial
products, production, trade and consumer targeted print advertising and P.R., with budgets to 1 million
1972
1971
Masters of Arts, Fine Art: California State University - Fullerton, CA
Bachelors of Arts, Fine Art: California State University - Fullerton, CA
2008 to
present
Continuing education:
Software:
• MAIS - Mediterranean Association of International Schools, Florence, Italy
• Attended 54th La Biennale di Venezia, Venice Italy
• Intensive educational visits to museums and galleries in Morocco; Fez, Rabat and Marrakesh, Morocco,
Paris, Nice, Marseilles and Aix-en-Provence France, Florence and Venice, Italy, Málaga, Granada and
Madrid, Spain and Faro, Portugal, London, U.K., Seoul, Korea, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, Hong Kong,
Shanghai and Xi’an China
Imac and PC Proficient
Graphics Software:
Adobe CS5
InDesign
Illustrator
Photoshop
Bridge
3
Word, Excel, Power-point, Pages, Numbers, Keynote
CPM, PERT General Project Scheduling
Misc. Software: Sketchup, Cimex and CAD
Various Publishing and Social Media i.e.: Weebly,
Wix, Wordpress, Blogger and other social media
Moodle, Blackboard, Gradequick