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Kevin Blythe SampsonNewark, NJ 07105

973-986-7944 [email protected] Instructor Lecturer

ObjectiveTo obtain a position that utilizes my diverse background, knowledge and skills as a working artist, an art instructor, a Police Composite Artist and retired Police Officer. I am interested in a full time position that combines my training and expertise in security, policing, extraordinary people skills, teaching, adult education and artistic talents.

Special Skills Skilled instructor and enthusiastic lecturer, who combines art with

history, culture to stimulate the imaginations of both youth and adult students with little exposure to art and creative techniques.

Dynamic lecturer who engages students from grammar school to graduate school in discussions on a variety of topics including outsider art, African American Art..

Security professional with extraordinary people skills including interviewing, crowd control.

Employment

Art Teacher, Art Moves; Rutgers University (Newark, NJ)June 2012-Present

Art Instructor in the Art Moves educational outreach program designed to bring arts, arts education, and arts therapy to communities and audiences not having ready access to the arts. Conduct

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Art Teacher; Ironbound Community Center Summer 2013

Conducted a summer program at Riverfront Park for Newark students

Art Teacher; Institute of Music for ChildrenSummer 2013

Conducted weekly art course for elementary students. Combined history and literature with art to instruct student in the development of mixed media art projects.

Muralist; (Newark NJ) April 2012 - August 2013Lead a team of 10 artists in the development of a 50 foot mural in The New River Front Park... Designed mural. Created plan, identified supplies, out up scaffolding, and hired artist.

Lead Art Teacher; Ironbound Community Center (Newark NJ)April 2004- August 2011

Planned and conducted after school classes in art technique combined with art history and cultural history. Developed teaching plans for all classes. Worked with low income students at varied locations throughout the city of Newark. Functioned as lead teacher responsible for providing technical support to 3 teachers. Implemented projects included developing cartoons, illustrating historical stories and learning graffiti technique. Led this past year’s students in creating community mural.

Art Instructor , Youth Division Elizabeth Day Program, New Jersey State Probation Dept (Elizabeth NJ) 2000 to 2004

Worked with teenagers released from the juvenile justice system in a job preparation program. Developed teaching plans for the classes and sessions to introduce participants to art, art history and artistic techniques. Utilized art as an instrument to introduce creative thought to problem solving. Led discussions with the participants about life and choices. Used art as a mechanism for expression and discussions on feelings and thoughts about life situations, current events and history. Interacted with 50 – 75 students each week.

Prior to 2000

Sales and Operations (3 Years); Littman’s Jewelry CompanyJersey City, NJ

Sold high-end jewelry to clients. Assisted in the daily operations of jewelry store including design and maintenance of store displays and showcases. Provided excellent customer service, maintained inventory,

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maintained customer records.

Detective/Police Officer; Police, Scotch Plains Police Department Scotch Plains, NJ

Promoted to Police Detective responsible for investigations including homicide and fatal accidents. Special responsibilities as crime scene photograph and maintenance of the township darkroom and camera equipment. Special training and assignment as one of ten Composite Sketch Artist in the entire country. Worked with crime victims to develop drawings of suspects. Worked with the FBI and other police agencies to assist in the apprehension of criminals throughout the tri-state area. Trained by the New Jersey State Police.

Art Instructor (15 years) Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art (Newark Board of Education) Newark, NJ

Instructor of air brush techniques, sculpture, and three-dimensional design. Developed art curriculum and teaching plans.Worked with students on development of portfolios to use to acquire professional jobs in the arts.

EducationPolice Composite Art Training Course

Graduated Union County Police Academy,Attended Lincoln University, PA; completed over 50 credits toward Bachelors of Arts in African American historyNewark School Of Fine and Industrial Art (Graduated; Pictorial Illustration)Parson School Of Design (2 Years Advanced Airbrushing Techs)

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Specialized Police Related TrainingSpecialized interview

tech’s of rape victims

Evidence Collection

Arson Investigation, Advanced fingerprinting,

Bomb investigation Advanced report writing.

Chop shop investigation Advanced Fingerprinting Techniques

Homicide investigation

FBI Advanced Photography Courses

Advanced Interview and Interrogation

Crime Scene Photography

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Art ResumeGalleriesKevin Sampson is a working artist in the field (painting and sculpture) is represented by Cavin-Morris Gallery 210 11th Ave,, New York New York, 212-226-3768 as he has been since 1992. He is a trained illustrator and photographer. Painter

One Person Exhibitions20132013

2001

Installation “an Ill wind A blowing” City Without walls Newark, NJInstallation the INTUIT - The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago “An Ill wind a blowingBlue and Black: New Sculpture by Kevin Sampson, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1999 Fruit of the Poison Tree, Rutgers University, Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ

1997 Fruit of the Poison Tree, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Beyond the Canon: Spirit Catchers, Cathedral of St. John the Divine,

1991 One-Man Exhibit for Black History Month, Elizabeth Public Library, NJ

1989: Kevin Sampson, Ra-Jon Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ.

Select Shows

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“Maverick” Cavin-Morris Gallery, NYOutsider Art Fair New YorkRhizome: New Growth at Cavin-Morris GalleryAnthems for the Mother Earth Goddess, Andrew Edlin Gallery, NY, NYIn Dream begin Responsibilities: 30 Years at Cavin Morris GalleryVodoun,Vodou, Conjure: The Animistic Arts of the African DiasporaOutsider Art Fair, NY, NYTHIS MUST BE THE PLACE, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center: Sheboygan, Wis.The Roots of the Spirit: Lonnie Holley, Mr. Imagination, Charlie Lucas and Kevin Sampson, at the Wiegand Gallery in Belmont, CaDetour: Self Taught Artists Noyes Museum of Art - Oceanville, New JerseyAljira at 30, Dream and Reality” The New Jersey State Museum.All That Glitters, Solo House Project, Newark New JerseyOutsider Art Fair, Paris France

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An Ill Wind Blowing Intuit, the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago Ill.Right Here, Right Now Rutgers Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark

2013 Restless, Cavin-Morris Gallery2013 Dai Costruttori di Babele alla Black Folk Art, Rizomi Art

Brut, Torino, Italy2013 Outsider Art Fair, NY2013 Metro Show NY2013 Metro Show New York, Cavin Morris Gallery2013 Outsider Art Fair

2011 Exhibited During the Venice Biennale 2011 “The Roots of the Spirit:” Kevin Blythe Sampson Lonnie Holley, Mr. Imagination and Charlie Lucas. L'Espace Re-Evolution49 Dorsoduro Venice, Italy, Vision and Vernacular: Eight African-American Artists in Venice. Cancelled at last minute by United colors of Benetton.

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2011 25 Years of Collecting Self taught Artist, Cavin Morris Gallery

2011 “Architecture of Hope – the Treasures of Intuit, The Intuit the Center for Intuitive

2010 Newark Museum, Newark NJ 2010 New Jersey Craft Arts Annual, Make Me Something Beautiful.

2010 Curators choice featuring Japanese art brut, Cavin Morris gallery

2010 Outsider art fair 2010, Cavin Morris gallery, Booth2010 Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness. American

Visionary Museum, Baltimore Maryland 2009-2010Ancestry and Innovation (American Museum of Folk Art Traveling Exhibition. at Gibbs Museum, Charleston, South CarolinaAncestry and Innovation (American Museum of Folk Art the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery Alabama

2009 Group show American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Center Square, NY.NYGroup show “Sticks” Intuit the Center for intuitive and Outsider ArtOutsider Art Fair, New YorkCavin Morris Gallery, New York (group show gallery artist

2008 (Curatorial) Close the Edge, Corridor Gallery Brooklyn New York“Boson Exotic, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Newark New Jersey

2008 “Close to the Edge,” a multi-site exhibition and symposium organized by Kevin Blythe Sampson and Reynolds, City with Out Walls Newark New JerseyReynolda House Museum of American Art, North CarolinaAncestry and innovation (Originated at the American Folk Art Museum) Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis Tenn. Ancestry and innovation (Originated at the American Folk Art Museum)Chthonic Youth, Cavin-Morris gallery NY, NYGroup Show Cavin-Morris Gallery, NY, NYOutsider art Fair, Puck Building, NY, NY

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2007 Reynolda House Museum of Art, Winston Salem North CarolinaThe Newark Council of the art “the Red Badge of courage” 744 Broad St, Newark NJ The Modified History of Downtown Newark”, an art exhibition at New Jersey’s School of Architecture, Newark New JerseyNoah’s arc last exit east of Eden: The Shore Institute of The Contemporary Arts 20 Third Avenue, Long Branch

2007 Lincoln Park Music 6 Crawford St Newark NJ Festival (live painting)Newark Now 89 James St, Newark NJ Group ShowOmega Institute, NY, NY Fear is a Four-letter Word,(An On-Site Art Exhibit at Omega Institute's Spring Conference Being Fearless

2006 Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C, Traveling Exhibition, Ancestry and InnovationCavin Morris Gallery, Hating 4 Never, NY, NYOutsider art fair, Puck Building, NY, NYGroup Exhibition Drawings; London BiennaleLondon England Jill Rock GalleryGroup Exhibition Gigantic Art Space 59 Franklin St., New York, New York

2005 Internal Guidance Systems USA Art Tour Mark Woolly Gallery Seattle Washington

2005 American Museum of Folk Art (New York) Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the Collection

2005 Group Exhibition Cavin-Morris Gallery2004 Group Exhibition Cavin-Morris 2003 Group exhibition Cavin-Morris Gallery (Gallery 2002

American Visionary Museum. Baltimore Maryland (group show)

2002 Artist to Artist-161 Artist with the Marie Walsh Foundation Space program. Ace Gallery Hudson St New York May June 2002

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2002 Cavin Morris Group show Between the Nameless and The Art of vernacularGroup show, The Jamaica Center for the Arts Jamaica NY.Art in the Atrium. Morris County Court House Morris Town New JerseyKeith Goodhart and Kevin Sampson, (working title) Menello Museum, Florida

2001 Keeping the Faith: Works by Self-Taught Artists, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

Transcendentally Material, Mystically Objective, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

2000 Ignoring Borders: New Artists, New Works, Cavin- Morris Gallery, New York

Manifest: Visions of Masculinity by Self-Taught Men, Cavin- Morris Gallery, New York 20th Anniversary Exhibition featuring Self-Taught Artists for the 21st Century Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York International Juried Show 2000, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

1999 By Any Means Necessary: Sculpture by African- American Self-Taught Artists, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1998 From the Heart to the Hand: New Ancient Ideas by Self-Taught Artists, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1998 New Discoveries, New Acquisitions, New Work, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NYDiaspora: Seven African-American Artists, Freddie Brice, Robert St. Brice,Odilon Pierre, Ras Dizzy, Leonard Daley, Thornton Dial, Kevin Sampson, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1997 Summer Group Show, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY Assemblage: More Than Meets The Eye, Organized by D. Dominick Lombardi, Pace University Gallery, Choate House, Pleasantville NY

1996 The Widening Gyre, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY Obsession with Line, Archer Locke Gallery, Atlanta, GAArt: New Jersey, Ben Shahn Galleries, West Paterson College, Paterson, New Jersey

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Aljira Auction, Newark, New Jersey1996 Labor of Love, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New

York, NY,Organized by Marcia Tucker, with catalogArt and Soul, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1995 The Real Surreal, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NYOutside the Canon, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NYImportant Works by Self-Taught Artists, Cavin- Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Third International Outsider Art Fair, New York, NYHotel Triton Contemporary Art Fair, San Francisco, CA

1994 Grouped Show, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY1992 Kwanzaa Exhibit, Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ

African-American Arts Festival, G.S.A.C., Newark, NJ1992 2 Person show, Olaf Clasen Gallery, New York, NY

Traveling ExhibitionsSmithsonian Institute, Washington D.C, Traveling Exhibition, Ancestry and innovation Internal guidance system 2006-2008 USA VISIONARY ART TOUR, (Venues)Track 16 Galleries, April, 2008 Michigan Avenue, Bldg C-1 Santa Monica, CA 90404Tag Gallery, Nashville, TN, February, 2007 North Nashville, TN 37219Gallery Gachet, February-March, 2008 Vancouver, BC, V6A1K2, CanadaMark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR 97209 The Outsider Art Center, Oct/Nov, 2006 Minneapolis, MN 55404Barristers Art Gallery of New Orleans, October, 2009 New Orleans, LA 70117

Residencies Joan Mitchell Foundation NOLA Artist Residency, winter 2016

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John Michael Kohler Arts Center 9/14 ExAIR artistNotre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, Ca 9/14An Ill Wind Blowing Intuit, the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago Ill. 1/13Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation (Residency) New York, NY 6/94 - 6/95,

Awards and FellowshipsThe Joan Mitchell foundation Grant, 2001"Best in Show" award for the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts 1999International Juried Show 2001, Summit, NJMarie Walsh Sharpe Foundation (Residency) New York, NY 6/94 - 6/95,

Public Art work

2013 Mural City Murals “The song of the Passaic, Mural for the New Riverbank Park2010 Mural City Murals “The Cut” Hawkins and Rome street Underpass (40’ by 70’), Newark N.J2008 Mural Hawkins Street School (total area of school auditorium), Newark New Jersey2009 Mural City Murals Donald Tucker Center Elizabeth Ave (60’ by 60’), Newark New Jersey

Public CollectionsThe Center for Intuitive and Outsider art ,Chicago IllMuseum of American Folk Art, New York, NYMenello Museum of American Folk Art, Orlando, FloridaMontgomery Museum Of Art, Montgomery Alabama

Publications and Online Articles20112011

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2011

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Folk art magazine 2005 Folk Art Magazine, (July)2005 Folk Art Magazine (May June), NY2005 House and Garden Magazine (April issue) American Scene 2005 Celia McGee DAILY NEWS New York Folk Museum exhibit

has a two-way message2002 Patterson, Tom Street Savvy: The Urban Street Art of Curtis

Cuffe, Kevin Sampson and Anthony Dominguez,2002 Folk Art magazine, Fall 20022003

2003

Roberta Smith: Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program, The New York Times, Art in review New Jersey Star ledger Trailblazers series. Urban League of Union County, Elizabeth, NJ

Curatorial 2008 Close to the Edge,” a multi-site exhibition and symposium

organized by Kevin Blythe Sampson and Reynolds,, City Without Walls, Newark NJ

2008 Close to the Edge,” a multi-site exhibition and symposium organized by Kevin Blythe Sampson and Reynolds,, City without Walls, Newark NJ, Rush Art Corridor Gallery Brooklyn NY

Lectures2007 College Art Association, 95 Annual conference, New York New

York2007 Contemporary Postures to Meaning, Reception, and Integration

of Outsider Art, American Museum of Folk Art

2007 Lecture and Panel discussion at Reynolda House Gallery and Gardens, NC

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Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis Tenn.Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

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2008 Columbia University Teachers College, NY NY (Masters degree program) Diversity Class (race, politics and art making) Brook Anderson (instructor)

2008 American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square New York

2010

2010

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Board of Director’s Former Member City without Walls Gallery, 6 Crawford St, Newark New Jersey

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