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ZELDA LEAH GATUSKIN

dba Studio Z

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Albuquerque, NM 87107

505-***-**** *****@***********.*******://www.cinderzelda.com

Zelda Leah Gatuskin explores self and society through her work as a multi-media artist.

She has experience in editing, publishing, illustrating, graphic design, web site design,

teaching, public speaking and business management. Zelda's "Studio Z" has been a

registered New Mexico business since 1988. After ten years in the Plaza Escalante near

downtown Albuquerque, Zelda moved Studio Z activities to her North Valley home-office-

studio in 1998. Studio Z also represents Zelda's husband, musician Frank George Johnson.

BOOKS/LITERARY

* Published *

WHERE THE SKY USED TO BE, a novel, author

BUT WHO'S COUNTING, poetry [Worldwind Books, 2010; New Mexico Book Award winner], author

TIME AND TEMPERATURE, thoughts about consciousness [Studioz/Amador Publishers 2003, 2nd

Ed. 2009. Amador), author and illustrator.

CASTLE LARK AND THE TALE THAT STOPPED TIME, (Amador Publishers 2001), author.

ANCESTRAL NOTES, A FAMILY DREAM JOURNAL, (Amador Publishers 1994), author and

illustrator.

THE TIME DANCER, A NOVEL OF GYPSY MAGIC, (Amador Publishers, 1991), author.

ZELDA'S COSMIC COLORING BOOK, (Amador Publishers, 1996), author and illustrator.

* Editorial *

FROM FEAR TO LOVE: My Journey Beyond Christianity by Harry Willson (Amador Publishers

2012), editor.

FEELING THE UNTHINKABLE: Essays on Social Justice by Donald Gutierrez (Amador Publishers

2012), editor.

CHRISTMAS BLUES, BEHIND THE HOLIDAY MASK: AN ANTHOLOGY, (Amador Publishers, 1995), co-

editor with Michelle Miller and Harry Willson, and cover artist.

READINGS/PRESENTATIONS6/8/2012, Presenter, AHA National Conference, New Orleans, LA

4/16/2012, Speaker, Friendly Philosophers Club, Albuquerque, NM

10/2/2011, Speaker, 2011 New Mexico Women Authors Book Festival, Museum of New Mexico

Foundation, Santa Fe, NM

10/3/2010, Speaker, 2010 New Mexico Women Authors Book Festival, Museum of New Mexico

Foundation, Santa Fe, NM

6/5/2010, Speaker ("Art & Religion & Science & Reason"), American Humanist Association

69th Annual Conference, San Jose, CA

1/27/2010, Radio Interview & Reading (air date, show was pre-taped) with Connie Gotsch

for Write On 4 Corners on KSJE Farmington, NM and on-line

9/26/2009, Speaker, 2009 New Mexico Women Authors Book Festival, Museum of New Mexico

Foundation, Santa Fe, NM

8/22/2009, Speaker ("Art & Religion: The Challenge to Secular Humanists"), Humanist

Society of New Mexico, Albuqerque, NM

5/28/2009, Speaker ("The Art of Writing, The Business of Publishing"), Rio Rancho Public

Library, Rio Rancho, NM

5/17/2009, Reading from TIME AND TEMPERATURE, thoughts about consciousness at Acequia

Booksellers, Albuqerque, NM

12/24/2008, Radio Interview and Reading from the CHRISTMAS BLUES anthology (air date,

show was pre-taped); KUNM-FM Albuquerque, NM (produced by Rachel Kaub and hosted by Scott

MacNicholl) 5/11/2008, Featured author and co-emcee for Amador Publishers Mother's Day

Book Bash, Albuquerque, NM

12/1/2007,

Featured author and co-emcee for Amador Publishers Literary Bash, Albuquerque,

NM

6/23/2007, Featured author and co-emcee, "In Our Own Words: Books by Women," Amador

Publishers Literary Bash, Albuquerque, NM

12/10/2006, Featured author and co-emcee for Amador Publishers 20th Anniversary

Celebration, Albuquerque, NM

11/6/2004, Panelist, "A Desert of One's Own: Women Writing in New Mexico" forum sponsored

by New Mexico WOMAN magazine, Barnes & Noble bookstore, Alb., NM

6/13/2004, Speaker, Small Press Week 2004, Albuquerque, NM

May 2000, Participating author for library workshop, "Author! Author!" Rio Rancho, NM

3/2/2001, Guest speaker at monthly meeting of the Alpha Centura Science Fiction Club,

Alb., NM

12/2/2000, Featured author and co-emcee for Amador Publishers Literary Bash, Albuquerque,

NM

11/16/2000, Featured poet and emcee for Poetry Night at El Rincon Bookstore, Albuquerque,

NM

2/17/2000 Readings from ANCESTRAL NOTES and Works In Progress, El Rincon Bookstore, Alb.

1/13/98 Speaker, American Association of University Women Study Group, Albuquerque, NM

11/12/96 Speaker, 1996 National NAPPA Conference (National Association of Prevention

Professionals and Advocates), Albuquerque, NM ["Healing through Family History

1/8/96 Speaker for Sisterhood Luncheon, Congregation Albert, Albuquerque, NM

11/12/95 Speaker for Amador Publishers Speakers Program, "Making Peace - A Creative

Process: The Arts and Activism" in conjunction with the International Anne Frank Exhibit

in Albuquerque, NM

10/27/95 Emcee for Amador Publishers Speakers Program, "Ethnic and Cultural Mixing in New

Mexico" in conjunction with the International Anne Frank Exhibit in Albuquerque, NM

4/29/95 Interview with Chris Martin and readings from ANCESTRAL NOTES on KUNM radio's

Women's Focus

COMMUNITY SERVICE

* Arts *

April 2011, Art Contest Judge, Youth for Human Rights Art Competition, sponsored by Youth

for Human Rights New Mexico

(a state-wide art competition in which young artists were asked express one or more of

the human rights as laid out in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

April 2010, Essay Contest Judge, "Stereotyping: From Anne Frank to the Present," NM

Foundation for Human Rights Projects

(a statewide essay competition grades 6-12 with separate judging for middle and high

school students)

2007 Fall, 2009 Spring, Fundraising Volunteer for KUNM community radio, Albuquerque, NM

2004-Present, Member NM Book Co-op

2004-2005, Contributor to (art), is... magazine, published by Art for the People, Alb.,

NM

2002, Volunteer Reviewer for SMALL PRESS REVIEW, published by Dust Books, Paradise, CA

2001, Speaker, New Mexico High School Journalism Summer Workshop, University of NM, Alb.

2001, Mentor, Sandia Preparatory School's "Senior Experience" program, Albuquerque, NM

1999, Art Instructor for Communtiy Outreach Program funded by the South Broadway Cultural

Center; collage activities provided for Carrie Tingley Hospital, Share Your Care and

Cornucopia, Inc., Alb.

1997, Emcee (with Harry Willson) for monthly "Open Word" open reading at Mary Moon's,

Alb.

1996, Instructor, Albuquerque Public Schools After School Program, Chapparal Elementary

1995, Speakers Bureau Volunteer, International Anne Frank Exhibit/Albuquerque Public

Schools

1994, Juror, Festival de Otono High School Writing Contest, South Valley of Albuq., NM

1993, Writing mentor, Del Norte High School Gifted Students Mentor Program, Albuquerque,

NM

1988-1994, Host for monthly Women's Figure Drawing Group, Studio Z, Albuquerque, NM

* Activism *

June 2012, Appointed to Co-Chair American Humanist Association (AHA) Feminist Caucus

October 2010, Elected to 2-year term as President of the Humanist Society of New

Mexico(HSNM)

2009-Present, Member HSNM (Humanist Society of New Mexico) and AHA (American Humanist

Association)

2008, Absentee Ballot Election Protection volunteer, Bernalillo and Sandoval County

2003, Recipient of a La Montanita Co-op member appreciation award for work on privacy

policies

2002, Participant in founding summit for the Action Coalition for Media Literacy (ACME)

1996-2004, Co-Founder of No-Cards Shoppers; "Web Master" of No Cards! web site (A

grassroots, national consumer movement in protest of retail "loyalty" programs which

require ID cards and impose discriminatory two-tiered pricing schemes.)

GRAPHIC ART & COLLAGE

* Exhibitions *

1999; "Discovering Who We Are Through Collage" in 3 sessions; South Broadway Cultural

Center, Intergenerational Workshops Series

1996; Guest Instructor, "Art in Judaism" 6-week session for teens, Congregation Albert

Synagogue, Albuquerque, NM

1994-1995; Collage Classes at Studio Z, Albuquerque; "Wet" & "Dry" Techniques in 6

sessions

* Commissioned Works *

List of commissioned works and client references available upon request.

EMPLOYMENT

2009-Presentowner and editor in chief, Amador Publishers, LLC, Albuquerque, NM

2006-2009co-owner and managing editor, Amador Publishers, LLC, Albuquerque, NM

1988-Present Studio Z, multi-media arts, Albuquerque, NM [client references available

upon request]

1985-1994Campbell Okuma Perkins Associates, Landscape Architects, Albuquerque, NM;

clerical, secretarial, office administration, business management

1983-1985Pennysmith's Paper Store, Albuquerque, NM; retail sales, manager, buyer

1981-1982The Open Door, Boston, MA; retail art and office supply sales and framing

services

1981 The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA

; consignments and sales

1980-1982Freelance Graphic Artist, Boston, MA

1978-1980Emerson College Alumni Office, Boston, MA; Alumni Records Clerk,

Alumni Records

Secretary1976-1978The Open Door, Boston, MA; retail art and office supply sales and framing

services

EDUCATION

Emerson College, Boston, MA; Bachelor of Science in Visual Communications, Magna Cum

Laude, 1979

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA; evening courses, 1976 (Anatomy for Artists)

Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA; evening courses, 1976 (Painting, Color Theory,

Illustration)

Brandywine High School, Wilmington, DE, 1975

WHAT'S IN A NAME

Zelda Leah Gatuskin is the pseudonym for Zelda L. Gordon; it is reclaimed from the family

tree. This is the name Zelda would have been given at birth had not the surname been

changed several generations back. Her paternal great-grandfather came to this country from

Vitebsk, Russia as Bereh Gatuskin. Around 1915 he received his citizenship and with it a

new name - Barnet Gordon - because the presiding judge was of the opinion that "Americans"

should have "American" names. The name Gatuskin was about to vanish into history until

Zelda reclaimed it for her pen name upon publication of her first book. For her political

work, Zelda generally goes by her legal name, Gordon, as this is more acceptable to

newspaper editors and government representatives.

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