charlene faris

* Seek print or digital outlet for my column, "Reflections of Art. Was published 2005-2008, DAILY SUN, Boone County, Zionsville, (Indianapolis area) Indiana. Will write hotel/motel/resort reviews * art gallery openings * special events * features/events * cover plays, theatre, Broadway shows * dream homes * galas * city spotlights * City Tastes, artists, entertainers, animal shelters, and animal welfare. Wish to continue types of stories written for Jim Fordyce, owner, The Coachella Valley Online News Network, who passed away October 27, 2015. Wrote 90+ stories in Coachella Valley Fun, Coachella Valley News, and Coachella Valley Business over thirty seven months. Published many photographs to accompany the stories about Palm Springs' activities and events.

Owner, director, art and photography exhibit group based and registered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Last exhibition held at the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, summer 2010, coordinated this show from my residence in San Clemente, California.

Provide photographs or oil and acrylic paintings, or collages, to art galleries, shows, exhibitions; provide stock photography to various media companies.

Write features or columns about hotels, art gallery openings, special events, festivals, and a variety of travel related items. Degreed with honors in Public Relations, have worked as a public relations specialist (independently) for several firms and organizations. Photographer, professional, since 1980; widely published in U.S. major publications; 1994 Pulitzer Prize Nominee. Artist: Have dozens of paintings in oils, acrylics and collage, for sale, and for use in hotel, home, or business decor. Also for fabrics.

Wrote 90+ stories over thirty seven months touting Palm Springs and its area's art galleries, museums, people, events, Palm Springs Animal Shelter and its volunteers and staff, Palm Canyon Theatre, Palm Springs International Film Festival and ShortFest, restaurants, tourism, etc. and an innumerable number of photographs to accompany these articles in now the late Jim Fordyce's (passed away October 27, 2015) Coachella Valley Online News Network publications: Coachella Valley News, Coachella Valley Fun, and Coachella Valley Business, along with one interview on Coachella Valley Radio. Lived in the Uptown Design District of Palm Springs forty four months, October 1, 2012 until third week of May, 2012. Lives in Palm Springs, California (fifty one months).

Taught a variety of classes including Creative Writing, Photo to Sell (copyright 1988), Vegetarian Cooking (copyright 1991), to name a few. All of my pertinent files and papers have been deposited into Special Collections at The Indiana Historial Society, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Taught mass media....writing for publication.....news......

Taught mass media introduction, advertising, and writing.

Editor of J. Patrick Rooney's corporate magazine, one of longest running editors; also was an agent in his and Frank Ladner's agency. Mr. Rooney was the "father of medical savings" accounts and ran for Governor of the State of Indiana (R) in the 1990s.

Marilyn Weaver taught a Feature Writing class when I was enrolled at Ball State University. She was a fabulous professor and later was department of journalism chair. Also, the student of the late Dr. Earl Conn, Public Relations; the late Dr. Louis Engelhardt, Dr. Frank Walsh, J.D., and the late Ken Atwell in the Journalism/Public Relations Departments.

Graphic artist for nearly eight total years from the 1960s to the 1970s; skilled craftsman in the graphics, the old fashioned way.