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Who is Mike Bocianowski?!

 

This is me with my buddy, "Mo".

Mo is a baby dragon rescued

from a puppy mill.

 

Michael Bocianowski
email: artistmb @ earthlink.net



Employment History:

--9/98-5/03 Edinboro University: Full-time instructor in animation: duties include advising The Alternative Film Festival,
Web Design Committee, The Imagination Station-Animation Club, E.S.C.A.-Edinboro Students Creating Anime' Club
coordinating The Edinboro Student Film Festival

--1/98-4/98 Edinboro University: Part-time instructor in animation

--9/93-5/97 Edinboro University Print room: Duties include conception, design, and printing of posters, mailers, newspaper ads, and buttons for Edinboro University activities. Computer experience includes Pagemaker, Corel Draw, Word Perfect, and Photoshop.

--7/87-5/93 Photolith Studio: Duties include negative stripping and composition, photostat camera operation, platemaking, art direction, cartooning, design, and production.


5/83-present Various Projects:
--Caricature artist (Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh PA) 1984, 1985
--Key animator (Editech, March 1995; Kensington Falls Animation Studio,
November-December 1985)
--Major contributing artist to clip-art CD-ROM, "So Much Publishing" (Spyr Inc.)
--Teacher (Kids Academy at Porreco) 1998
--Lecture (Erie Art Museum- "It's about Time, Animation and Comic Books", September 1999)
--Teacher (Erie Art Museum- "Video Lunchbox Workshop", October 1999)
--Tour Guide (Erie Art Museum- "Art of the Animated Film")
--Featured artist on PBS show, "Egg" July 2001
--One man show, "Chuck the ugly american" Glass Growers Gallery, June-July 2001
--Artists' Invitational "A Day of Sail Aboard the Brig Niagara" , May 2002
--Participated in "Contact" Art Faculty Exchange Exhibition, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lubin, Poland, March-May 2003
--Participated in "War" exhibit in Urarro Gallery, Erie Pennsylvania, April 2003
 



Published works:
"Chuck the ugly american Meets Mr. Beat", (Mr. Beat Superstar) December 1998
"Chuck the ugly american, to Hate or not to Hate", (Mr. Beat Supercool) April 1999
"Chuck the ugly american, Chuck's Ugly Christmas", (Moordam Comics Christmas Book) November 1999
"Chuck the ugly american", Moordam Comics, November 1999
"Chuck the ugly american, The Midnight Snack", (Burger Bomb Issue #2) October 2000
"Chuck the ugly american: Book One", Comic Library International, November 2000
"Chuck the ugly american, The Fly", (Comic Library International Volume: 3) Comic Library International, November 2000
"Chuck the ugly american, The Incredible Shrinking Ugly American",
(Giant Sized Itsy-Bitsy comics) Comic Library International, November 2000
"Chuck the ugly american, Rest Area", (Big Space comics) Comic Library International, April 2001
"Chuck the ugly american, Z!", (Monsters on Parade) Comic Library International, November 2001
"Chuck the ugly american: Book Two", Comic Library International, November 2001
"Chuck the ugly american: Book Zero The Big Fat Zero", Comic Library International,
April 2002
"Yets!", Comic Library International, September 2002
"Chuck the ugly american: Book Three ", Comic Library International, November 2002



Education History:
9/93-5/97 Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Bachelors in Fine Arts
Magna Cum Laude
Alternative Film Club President 5/95-5/97
Animation Club Vice President 5/95-5/97
Non-Traditional Student Organization Vice President 1/94-5/97

9/83-12/86 Art Institute of Pittsburgh Associates in Specialized Technology Degree
Deans List Perfect Attendance 

  

   

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