Based in Los Angeles County, California

kim.elaine.gomez@gmail.com

Education

A.A. in Studio Art (in progress),

College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA.

Certificate in Project Management,

eCornell, Cornell University.                                                             

M.L.I.S (Masters of Art and Information Science),

University of California, Los Angeles.         

Recipient of the Seymour Lubetsky Fellowship; Dean’s Scholar

B.A. in Linguistics,

University of California, Los Angeles.

Selected Workshops

Creative Fuel. Wednesday sessions (open topics in art). Instructor Anna Brones.  (Student - 2023)

DIVE writing group. Facilitated by Kerri Anne Stebbins.  (Student - 2023)

Collage Lab: Spring Fling.  (Student - 2022)

Once Upon a Fairy Tale (fiction writing). Instructor Anca L. Szilagyi.  (Student - 2022)

Fabric Sculpture: Investigating Nick Cave’s Sound Suits. Remainders Pasadena. (Student - 2020)

20th Century Women Artists: Wangechi Mutu collage studies. Remainders Pasadena. (Student - 2019)

FE-mail Art. Women’s Center for Creative Work & The Situation Room. L.A. (Facilitator, organizer –  2014)

Exhibitions

Student work exhibition + auction (unjuried) Remainders Creative Reuse, Pasadena, CA. (2021)  

VISION 20-20 Mail Art Show. (unjuried) Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, CA. (2020)

Reinvention: A Mail Art Project. (unjuried). Six gallery travelling exhibition in Nashville, TN (2014)

Physics in Comics. (curator, exhibit designer). Niels Bohr Library. College Park, MD. (2013)

Collections

Jason Brown Collection, MSS.0833. Vanderbilt University Special Collections.

Press

KCHUNG radio. WCCW Membership drive: interviewed about the FE-mail art workshop. 

(2014)

Memberships

Feminist Center for Creative Work (FCCW) [formerly the WCCW]

Employment

Self-employed Personal Organizer

2019-2022

Freelance, self-employed. Los Angeles, CA

Collections Management Librarian               

2015-2018

ArtCenter College of Design, James Lemont Fogg Memorial Library. Pasadena, CA.

Systems Librarian/Support Consultant (two limited-term contract positions)  

2013; 2014

Innovative Interfaces, Inc., Consortia Services Department. Emeryville, CA.

Additional Work History: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khukill/

Relevant Skills

Collage. Embroidery. Linocut printmaking. Storytelling. Art descriptive cataloging. Working in education environments. Collaborative exchange. Facilitation. Project management. Space planning. Organization.

Technical Skills

MS Office (Word, Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint), XML (basic), UNIX (basic), WordPress, various Integrated Library System (ILS) software (Voyager, Millennium, Sierra, Horizon), Adobe Photoshop (basic), Adobe Reader, various social media tools (Facebook, Flickr, HootSuite, Instagram, Goodreads, Twitter), wiki software, video conferencing/desktop sharing tools (WebEx, Zoom, Skype), project management tools (Asana, Bootcamp, Google Docs), basic audio conversion and editing skills. Experience using Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu operating systems.