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| Resume for J R Compton |
| Employment History | Artist's Statement |
| Education | Exhibitions |
| References | Published Photos |
| Current Projects | Exhibitions Produced |
| Logo Designs | Community Service |
| Press Mentions |
Editor & Publisher of DallasArtsRevue.com, whose purpose is "to celebrate and promote Dallas visual art and artists." DARts now has more than 1,000 web pages of information for and about Dallas artists, including often-updated calendars, artists' opportunities, art news, views, reviews and links - organizing, writing news, calendar info, critiques and feature stories, design, photograph and Webmaster local visual arts E-zine, in ink on paper since December 1979 and online since April 2000
Photodocumenting birds and their behaviors in The Amateur Birder's Journal of and about birds in the inner-city White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas.
Freelance Photographer for a variety of clients since 1972, digital since 2000
Employment History
Web Developer and photographer for The Dahlia Woods Gallery, 2005 - May 2007
Designer and producer for Coach4Lawyers since June 2006
Web Developer for Jacques Lamy Gallery, 2005
Web Developer for AnnHuey.com, since 2004
Designer and producer for psychotherapist, actor, poet and swimmer Jim Dolan's LotusEaters.Net web site, various other publications, 1999 - present
Web Developer for The Texas Sculpture Association, while they reorganized in February 2003 - March 2004
Web Developer for Art House on Routh, February and March, 2003.
Web Developer for the Creative Arts Center, September 2002 - October 2003
Web Developer for Dallas' The Dance Council site, spring 2001 - April 2003.
Macintosh Computer Tutor — teaching clients, many of whom are artists, to use their Macintosh computers, Photoshop and other software, and troubleshooting hardware and software problems. 1986 to 2003.
Tibetan Drum for Joel
Cooners Gallery
Digital Photographer and Webguy for Joel Cooners Gallery, a gallery of tribal antiquities from around the world, since 1999
J R Compton Type + Design - writing, editing, designing and typesetting newsletters, brochures, flyers, invitations, etc. fourteen years' Macintosh experience — using Photoshop and PageMaker software. 1989 to present.
Freelance Typesetter/Desktop Publisher for clients including: Lyric Studios (Wishbone and Barney), D Magazine, MarketPlace Publications, The Austin Sun, The Dallas Observer, National Chemsearch, Price-Waterhouse, The Dallas Opera; MacTemps, The Art Squad and ProStaff agencies.
In the 70s and 80s I used CompuGraphic typesetters and IBM Selectric Electronic Composers. Since then I've used only Macintoshes. 1972 - present
Designer / Ad-Builder, writer and editor for Gordon Publications, designing Yellow Pages ads, information and filler pages for telephone books in Plano, Frisco, Collin County and Lake Ray Hubbard 1994 - 1996
Instructor of Desktop Publishing at Richland College, teaching honors credit courses on Macintosh. The class published Parallax, the college literary and art journal, 1992 - 95, and Instructor of Communications Design at Navarro College in Corsicana, TX Fall 1994
Typesetter / Production Assistant for Neil Tarasoff Advertising, teaching Mr. Tarasoff The Macintosh Way and typeset, design and laying out editorial matter and ads for Neil Sperry's Yard & Garden tabloid in the Dallas Morning News 1991- 1996
Art Critic for Atlanta's Art Papers, 1988 - 89; Dallas Editor for Houston's ArtScene Magazine and Dallas Art Critic for Chicago's New Arts Examiner, 1986 - 1989
Instructor of Photography at El Centro College, Dallas. 1980 - 1981
Typesetter, Photographer, Writer, Art Director, Arts Editor and, eventually, Co-Publisher of Dallas Jazz News, which became Texas Jazz, 1977 - 1979
Publisher / Designer of armadilla, an independent, soft-back book all about armadillos, 1974
Production Worker for Texas' first underground newspaper, The Austin Rag, 1975
Production Assistant, writer, arts editor, typesetter and photographer for Austin's largest alternative newspaper, The Austin Sun, 1975 - 1976
Catalog Designer and Photographer for El Centro College, 1974 - 1978
Night Watchman at a Massage Parlor - for the Imperial House of Massage in Irving, Texas, 1973
Editor / Publisher of Dallas NOTES and later HOOKA (The Humanitarian Order of Kosmic Awareness) underground newspapers in Dallas, Texas 1971 - 1974
Staff Photographer for The Dallas Times Herald 1970 - 1971
Automatic Processing Machine Operator and Photographic Instructor at Forbes Air Base near Topeka, Kansas and Secret Film Courier in Vietnam for the US Air Force. 1966 - 1968
Sports Editor/Photographer for The Edinburg Daily Review, Edinburg, Texas 1966
Milkman for Metzger's Dairy, 1966
Beer-pourer for Shakey's Pizza, 1966
Photojournalist and Production Assistant for The Texas Catholic, 1965
Editor of the University of Dallas Shield, student magazine and Public Relations and Yearbook Photographer for the University of Dallas, 1963 - 1966
Community Service
Publisher of Dallas Arts Revue.com, April 2000 to present
Designer / Editor for The Writer's Garret — I completely redesigned and updated The Writer's Garret website. 1999 to 2000
Webmaster for WordSpace the Dallas poetry, writers and songwriters group, 1999
Webmaster of Fontaholics Anonymous, which, when I finally retired it in 2000, included more than eleven hundred, often-updated links to font and font-related sites on the Web. I stopped FA when it achieved 200,000 hits, so I could devote full-time to Dallas Arts Revue.
Webmaster for EGAD (Electronic Graphic Artists of Dallas, a Macintosh users group)'s Web site — coordinating and updating a suite of Macintosh-related pages 1995 - early 1998
Member of the Board of Directors for EGAD November 1996 – 1997
Editor / Publisher of Dallas Arts Revue, a subscription-only, desktop-published magazine of visual and experimental art news, views, reviews and interviews. June 1979 – 1995
EGAD Disk of the Month (DOM) Guy - producing floppy disks of Shareware files, fonts, information, applications and utilities. I also wrote simplified instructions explaining use of included software. 1992 – 95.
Founding Board-member, Board Secretary, PR Director, Designer and Newsletter board member for DARE (Dallas Artists Research & Exhibitions) nonprofit artists organization that unfortunately metamorphed into The McKinney Avenue Contemporary - planning and helping create an artists' space. Designed, wrote and produced organizational brochure and other publications and designed editions of their newsletter. I also wrote and distributed press releases and other publicity and designed logos. 1989 – 92
Board Member for Allen Street Gallery nonprofit photo gallery, 1988 – 1990. I was Art Director and Assistant Editor of the quarterly ContactSheet newsletter, 1986 through 1991. Vice President, 1989. As Program Committee Chair 1988 - 1989, I developed procedures for and produced events and exhibitions. 1988 – 1990
PageMaker Phone Help Desk Volunteer for The MacPack users Group. I answered questions and solved problems with PageMaker, QuarkXPress, Microsoft Word and Macintosh system software and hardware. 1988 – 1991
Contributing Producer for Art Stuff weekly Arts variety show on Public Access Cable TV channel 25, 1989 – 1990
Director of Publicity for the Allen Street Gallery Benefit Auction October 22, 1989 at the Plaza of the Americas. Prepared pre-event documents and wrote and distributed all press releases and other materials to the media. The event grossed $22,000.
Director of Publicity for The John F. Kennedy Performance Benefit at the Texas Theater, Nov. 22, 1988. Wrote PR, designed and typeset the program and ads. The event included an art show and performances by local artists.
Designer/Typesetter for Amnesty International brochures, playbills, catalogs, T-shirts and newsletters, 1987 –- 1988
Associate Producer for ARTS EYE weekly arts show on Cable Access TV, later on KERA-TV Channel 13. 1984 – 1986
Producer of Dallas Arts Kazoo, a twice-weekly, five-minute radio show of "Visual and Experimental Arts News, Views & Reviews" on KNON, 90.9 FM Dallas. 1984 – 1985
Typesetter for KNON and designer of the logo still used by the nonprofit, community FM radio station. 1984
Education
B.A. English Literature from the University of Dallas, 1966
Photojournalism studies at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, 1967
95th percentile, U.S. Air Force Photography and Journalism Proficiency, 1966 – 1968
Art studies at El Centro College, 1971 – 1973
Completed work toward an A.A. in Graphic Arts at Eastfield College, Dallas, 1973 – 1974
Work toward M.A. in Photography at East Texas State University, 1974 – 1976
Multimedia studies — credit classes in Photoshop and Premier Video Editing at Richland College, 1996 – 1998
Class in Dreamweaver web page development software at El Centro College, 2003
Press Mentions
His Own Flight Plan, a feature story by Steve Blow in the Dallas Morning News, about my blog, The Amateur Birder's Journal with four of my photographs of birds, and briefly, DallasArtsRevue, Thursday July 12, 2007
Quoted in the first and last paragraphs of the magazine article about White Rock Lake, The State of Lakes by John Osdick in Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine , July 2007
D-Magazine named me Dallas' Best Local Arts Promoter in their August, 2004, Best of Big D issue.
Dallas Arts Revue having online rebirth, a story about me and Dallas Arts Revue in Tom Sime's Arts Out There column in The Dallas Morning News, Thursday July 27, 2000
Radio interview by Quin Mathews on Art Matters, WRR-FM's show, Sunday April 19, 2002, repeated Thursday evening, April 23.
And there was a photograph of me moo-ing at a showing of cow art on the inside-back facing-page of the November 1992 edition of D-Magazine. Tom Landry and Trammell Crow are playing monopoly in an adjacent photograph, also by Andy Hanson.