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Originally from Southern California, Evan is a curator, arts writer, and instructor currently living and working in North Carolina. Specializing in modern and contemporary art, she is a freelance writer and lecturer, previously working as an Adjunct Instructor at Laguna College of Art & Design and California State University, Fullerton, teaching gender studies and art history, and as Director/Curator for Golden West College Art Gallery in Huntington Beach.

 

Evan served as a juror for the Festival of Arts (2019) and as the guest juror for the 2020 Made in California exhibition at Brea Art Gallery as well as the guest juror for the LMU 2020 annual student art show at the Laband Gallery.

 

She is former Editor-In-Chief of Inland Empire Weekly and Culture Magazine, a former Assistant Editor for YAY! LA Magazine, and is founder of the once independent art journal, Rogue Arts. She has contributed as an arts writer for Art and Cake, KCET Artbound, Orange County Register, Artillery, Artvoices, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Art Ltd. Magazine, E-VOLVED, Local Arts, Juxtapoz, Laika, Beauty & Wellness CA, ArtScene and the OC Art Blog, and has a Masters Degree in Art History from California State University, Fullerton.

 

 

A few of my favorite things

Poetry, music, vegan cooking, cats, astronomy, entomology, taxidermy, street art, gluten-free anything, beards, magazines, vintage clothing, antique furniture, the ocean.

Proficiencies

Graphic design, critical writing, poetry, investigative journalism, all Adobe programs, typography, painting, drawing, yoga, massage therapy, bartending and more.

2010 - present

Work Experience

  • Guest Juror, "Made in California," Brea Art Gallery, 2020

  • Guest Juror, Annual Student Art Exhibition, Loyola Marymount University Laband Gallery

  • Laguna Beach Festival of Arts Juror, Summer 2019

  • Curator, Golden West College Art Gallery, 2018 - 2021.

  • Media & Communications Director for Laguna Creative Ventures, April 2018 - February 2019.

  • Instructor, ART 413: History of Contemporary Art, California State University, Fullerton, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020.

  • Instructor, AH 320: Modern & Contemporary Art History, LA 238: The Voyeuristic Gaze, AH 210: Western Art I; Laguna College of Art & Design, Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020.

  • Copywriter, Stanbridge University, 07/2017-02/2018.

  • Editor-In-Chief for Culture Magazine, 07/2013-04/2017.

  • Assistant Editor for YAY! LA Magazine, 12/2014-12/2016.

  • Project Manager for Life of An Artist, 12/2013-01/2016.

  • Editor-In-Chief for Inland Empire Weekly, 07/2013-12/2015.

  • Arts & Culture Editor for Inland Empire Weekly, 02/2013-07/2013.

  • Arts & Entertainment Editor for Culture Magazine, 02/2013-07/2013.

  • Production Designer, Publisher’s Assistant, Artillery Magazine, Los Angeles, CA. 12/2011-12/2012.

  • Advertising & Sales, Artillery Magazine. Los Angeles, CA. April 2012-July 2012.

  • Marketing Coordinator and Press Package Designer for Mao’s Kitchen, Fall 2011.

  • Hired writer for Gilbert “Magu” Lujan’s post-mortem Artist Bio/Obituary, and Coordinator for Post-Mortem Benefit Art Exhibition, 2011.

  • Marketing Assistant, Office of Graduate Studies. CSUF, Fullerton, CA. 2011. Editor for Graduate Studies Matters, CSUF Office of Graduate Studies Quarterly Newsletter, 2011.

  • Owner, Co-founder, Editor, Designer, Rogue Arts, Santa Ana, CA. 2009-2015.

  • Freelance Artists’ Management and Consulting, Santa Ana, CA. 2011.

  • Figure Drawing Instructor, Marketing Design and Coordinator, Animagination Festival and Camp, Los Angeles, CA. 2007-2012 [annual events].

  • Art Instructor, STAR Education; Los Angeles, CA. 2006-2007.

  • Production Designer, Packaging Dept, Jakks Pacific Inc. 2006.

  • Gallery Assistant, The Project / MC; Los Angeles, CA. 2005-2006.

2010 - present

Education
  • M.A., Art History: Contemporary Art Emphasis, CSUF, Fullerton, California. 2011.

  • B.A., Studio Arts: Fine Arts Emphasis, Minor in Art History. Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California. 2006.

Related Professional Experience

  • Co-Curator, "Fleshed Out", a group exhibition at Q Art Salon, Santa Ana, CA, December 2015-February 2016. 

  • Panelist on OutsideIN Panel, along with Robbie Conal, Mat Gleason, David Flores, Kenny Scharf, Shelby Moser; Art Center, October 22, 2015.

  • Curator, "Figurative Perplexities," a group exhibition at Q Art Salon, Santa Ana, CA, March-April 2015. 

  • Guest Speaker for Media and Journalism, for the W.I.A. at the Garfield Community Center, Santa Ana, 1/2015.

  • Curator, "CATASTROPHE," a cat-themed group exhibition at F+ Gallery, Santa Ana, CA, August 2014.

  • Curator, "reconFIGURED," a group exhibition at The Egan Gallery, Fullerton, CA, May 2014.

  • Guest Lecturer at Azusa Pacific University, Professor Jim Daichendt, Spring 2014.

  • Guest Lecturer at LMU, LA Now ARHS class, Professor Damon Willick, Spring 2013.

  • ​Guest Speaker at Salt Fine Art, on the art of Victor Hugo Zayas, April 2013.

  • SSCA Conference Panelist, PERVASIVE NATURE OF VOODOO IN ART AND CULTURE. “The Nature and Origin of the Zombie in Art and Culture: Vodou and Voodoo.” April 2012.

  • M.A. Thesis, CSUF: The Cement Sanctuary: Contemporary Street Art in Los Angeles, by Evan A. Senn, 2011. Published and available on www.lulu.com.

  • Co-Curator "B-GRADE CELEBRITY", a photography exhibition featuring collaborative work by S.A. Hawkins and Evan Senn, East Gallery, CSU Fullerton, 2011. 

  • Speaker on Panel at SSCA Conference, March 2011. FOOD TRADITIONS REVAMPED AND RENOVATED: FINDING CONTEMPORARY AESTHETIC REPRESENTATIONS OF FOOD TRADITIONS IN TECHNOLOGY, RITUAL, AND RHETORICAL DISCOURSE -SPONSOR: AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC (ASHR). “Food Representations in Art: The Ever Changing Form.”

  • On-call intern at ANPQuarterly Magazine, RVCA, Costa Mesa, CA. 2010-2011.

  • Guest Lecturer at LMU, Drawing IV class, Professor Jane Brucker, Spring 2008

  • Graphic Design advertisement for Mao’s Kitchen, Venice, CA. Debut in LA Weekly, January 2008

  • Commissioned Painting featured in Honor Student Film, “Weenie”, Debut in February 2007

  • Curator in LMU Curatorial Group -  "Deceptacon" at Otis, featuring 6 Otis Senior students Fall 2005

  • President of the Art and Art History Society, LMU, 2003-2005

  • Study Abroad Immersion, Paris, France; French Language and Art History, via Loyola Marymount University, Summer 2005.

 

Fine Art Exhibitions

  • "Districtly Speaking," Coastline Community College Art Gallery, October - November 2019.

  • $50 Art Dash Fundrasiser \ Mystery Art Sale, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, November 5, 2015.

  • "(en)Gendered (in)Equity: The Gallery Tally Poster Project," curated by Micol Hebron, For Your Art, Los Angeles, 2014.

  • "Life of An Artist," A collaborative documentary web series, Santa Ana, 2014.

  • “CSUF Student Exhibition 2011” Juried by Sixpack Projects, West Gallery, CSU Fullerton, April 2011.

  • "B-GRADE CELEBRITY:" A Collaborative Project with S.A. Hawkins and Evan Senn, East Gallery at CSU Fullerton, Fullerton, 2011.

  • "...Of night and light and the half light:" Artworks by Evan A. Senn and Tiffany Ma, Cacao, Los Angeles, 2010.

  • “Roost,” Grand Central Art Center Sales Gallery, Santa Ana, CA, October 2010.

  • "Bravo 17," a group exhibition at the Von der Ahe Library, Loyola Marymount University, April 2006.

  • “Footnotes”, a group exhibition, Alex Haleigh Gallery, April 2006.

  • "Contemporary Drawing Exhibition", Loyola Marymount University, April 2006.

  • "22nd Annual Student Art Exhibition", Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, April 2006.

  • "Figure Painting Student Exhibition," Loyola Marymount University, December 2005.

  • "4 Degrees of Consciousness," a group exhibition, Loyola Marymount University, December 2005.

  • "20th Annual Student Art Exhibition," Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, April 2004.

  • "Studio 156", a group exhibition, Loyola Marymount University, December 2004.

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