Max-Karl Winkler

10309 Drumm Avenue
Kensington, Maryland 20895
Telephone 301:949.8612
E-mail mewinkler@earthlink.net
Web www.max-karl.com

EMPLOYMENT

2004 - Present Self:Employed: Illustrator, Printmaker, and Graphic Designer
Washington DC Metropolitan Area

Since June of 2004 I have worked as a full-time illustrator and printmaker,
and as a part-time teacher (in the Smithsonian Associates Program of the
Smithsonian Institution). My woodcuts have been accepted in ten national
and regional juried exhibitions during 2004; I am active in the Washington
Print Club and am the vice president (and former president) of the
Washington Printmakers Gallery.

1988 - 2004 National Science Resources Center
Smithsonian Institution/National Academy of Sciences
I worked for fifteen years as the in-house illustrator and designer in the
Publications Divison of the NSRC, principally on the Science and Technology
for Children (STC) curriculum project. This was a full 24-unit elementary
science curriculum, and it was followed in 1994 by a middle school project,
Science and Technology Concepts for Middle Schools (STC/MS), a sequence
of eight modules complemented by a Probeware Guide. In addition to
illustrating two of the eight STC/MS modules, my responsibilities
included supervising and coordinating the work of three
free-lance illustrators. During this period I designed and illustrated
a number of other publications for the NSRC, and was responsible for
the design and production of displays, brochures, and other visual aspects
of the outreach effort. In 2002 I was a recipient of the NSRC Distinguished
Service Award, in the first year that those awards were made. During this
period I also taught drawing and relief printmaking in the Smithsonian
Associates studio arts program.

1984 - 1988 Self-Employed: Illustrator and Graphic Designer
Washington DC Metropolitan Area
I worked during this time in planning and production of camera-ready art
for reproduction. Most of my clients were publishers of books, magazines,
newspapers, and trade- and professional-association journals. The work
ranged from one-color to six-color, and included design,illustration,type
specification, typography, lettering and calligraphy, mechanical production,
and color specification. I also worked briefly at writing and editing during
this period.

EDUCATION

1968 Master of Fine Arts (Major, Drawing and Printmaking; Minor, Art History)
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

1963 - 1964 Study and Travel in Mexico under a Farmer International Fellowship
administered by the Institute of Latin American Studies of The University of
Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

1963 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Major, Studio Art; Minor, Art History)
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

1959 Bachelor of Arts (Major, English; Minor, Spanish)
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

OTHER

2003 President, Board of Directors
Washington Printmakers Gallery
As President of the Gallery, I was instrumental in securing an
invitational exhibition for the late Naúl Ojeda, a Washington artist of
international reputation. While curating that exhibition, which opened on
30 December 2003, I participated in the selection of Clare Romano as
the honoree of the 2005 Invitational.

2005 Member, Board of Directors
The Washington Print Foundation
I was one of a team of members of the Washington Printmakers Gallery who
established the Washington Print Foundation, a tax-exempt organization
devoted to promotion of the art of printmaking.

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