- Curriculum Vitae of Janet Ashford
- 10377 Nichols Lane
- Mendocino, CA 95460
- 707.937.4555
- jashford@jashford.com www.jashford.com
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- CURRENT POSITIONS
Free-lance writer, graphic designer, illustrator, musician (violin performance and composition)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Monthly Graphics How-To column, MacUser magazine
Contributing Editor, Step-By-Step Electronic Design newsletter
Regular contributor, Step-By-Step Graphics magazine, Print magazine, MacWorld and Dynamic Graphics
EDUCATION
University of California at Los Angeles, B.A. in psychology, 1974
University of Southern Calif, School of Music, major in violin and composition, 1967-70
PUBLICATIONS
Computer Graphics
The Arts and Crafts Computer: Using Your Computer as an Artist's Tool, Peachpit Press, 2002.
Start with a Scan, 2nd Edition: A Guide to Transforming Scanned Photos and Objects into High-Quality Art (with John Odam), Peachpit Press, 2000 (editions published in Spanish and Swedish).
Getting Started with 3D: A Designer's Guide to 3D Graphics and Illustration (with John Odam), Peachpit, 1998 (Edition also published in Spanish).
Start with a Scan: A Guide to Transforming Scanned Photos and Objects into High-Quality Art (with John Odam), Peachpit Press, 1996.
Adobe Illustrator: A Visual Guide for the Mac (with Linnea Dayton), Graphic-sha/Addison-Wesley, 1995 (editions published in English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Spanish).
Aldus PageMaker: A Visual Guide for the Mac (with Linnea Dayton), Graphic-sha/Addison-Wesley, 1994 (editions published in English, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish).
The Verbum Book of PostScript Illustration (with Michael Gosney and Linnea Dayton), M&T Books, 1990
History of Childbirth
The Timeless Way: A History of Birth from Ancient to Modern Times, a 20-minute video documentary, InJoy Videos, Boulder, CO, 1998
Mothers and Midwives: A History of Traditional Childbirth, a 45-slide set and 20 page illustrated booklet, self-published, 1988, 1995
Midwives, a 4-page pamphlet, self-published 1988, 1995
George Engelmann and "Primitive" Birth, illustrated booklet, self-published, 1988
Natural Love: A Parody, illustrated short fiction, self-published, 1988, also published in Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots, edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd and Joseph Dumit, Routledge, 1998.
Birth History Notecards, sets of captioned birth history illustrations formatted as postcards, art prints, and notecards, self-published, 1987, 2005
Birth Stories: The Experience Remembered, Crossing Press, 1984
The Whole Birth Catalog: A Sourcebook for Choices in Childbirth, Crossing Press, 1983
Childbirth Alternatives Quarterly, editor and publisher 1979 to 1988
Articles:
"The History of Midwifery in the United States," Mothering Magazine, Winter, 1990
"Don't Take Your Birth Position Lying Down," Medical Self-Care, Jan-Feb 1987
"A History of 'Accouchement Force' from 1550 to 1985," BIRTH, Winter 1986-87
"Sitting, Standing, and Squatting in Childbirth," Mothering Magazine, Fall 1986
MUSICAL RECORDINGS
Flowers of Our Lost Romance by Los Californios, a 60-minute album of the music of early California, released December 1998.
Historians Differ by Lime in the Harp, a 60-minute album of Celtic and American folk music, including an original Ashford composition, "The Upstairs Bedroom Waltz", released March 1995.
MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS
Theme and incidental music for the interactive CD disk accompanying The Official Photo CD Handbook, published by Peachpit Press, 1995
Waltzes, reels, jigs, and songs in the folk music genre, written, performed, and published from 1989 to the present
Nouveau Audio, composition for string orchestra, performed by the Compton Youth Orchestra, 1964
ART EXHIBITS
April 2006, Fort Bragg, California
- Photography in the invitational Friends Exhibit at the North Coast Artists' Cooperative
- January 2006, Mendocino, California
- Photography accepted in a Juried Members Exhibit, Mendocino Art Center
- September 2005, Boonville, California
- Five ribbons awarded for photography at the Mendocino County Fair
- September 2005, Fort Bragg, California
- Headlands Coffeehouse, group show with the Lost Coast Photographers
- December 2001, Mendocino, California
Peace posters, Mendocino Art Center exhibit
September 2000, Mendocino, California
Mandala prints in the Instructor's Exhibit, Main Gallery, Mendocino Art Center
June 1998, Del Mar, California
Mandala and ink drawing accepted in the Juried Exhibit of art at the Del Mar Fair
June 1991, Del Mar, California
Painting accepted in the Juried Exhibit of art at the Del Mar Fair
1980, Stony Brook, New York
Silk-screened posters accepted in a Juried Exhibit of serigraphs held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook
Summer 1975, Geneva, Illinois
Paintings accepted in a Juried Exhibit of art from Kane County, Illinois
LECTURES ON MUSIC
April 22, 1995, La Jolla, California; "Fiddle Harmony for Slow Tunes" with Chris Davis for the San Diego Folk Heritage Folk Festival.
LECTURES and CLASSES ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS
March 18-19, 2006, "Using Photoshop to Create Art," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California.
- September 17-18, 2005, "The Basics of Photoshop Elements," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California.
- August 8-12, 2005, "Photocrafts with Photoshop Elements," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California.
- July 18-22, 2005, "Fun with Adobe Illustrator: Making Mandalas and Geometrical Designs," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California.
- May 7-8, 2005, "Fun with Photoshop Elements," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California.
- November 13-14, 2004, "Fun with Adobe Illustrator: Making Mandalas and Geometrical Designs," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California.
- October 23-24, 2004, "From Photo to Art: Combining Photoshop with Hand-Tracing Techniques," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California.
- August 9-13, 2004, "Creating Computer Crafts," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California.
- June 14-18, 2004, "Learning Photoshop Elements," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California.
- March 27-28, 2004, "Fun with Photoshop Elements," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California.
- June 9-13, 2003, "Fun with Photoshop Elements," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California.
- November 16-17, 2002, "The Arts and Crafts Computer," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California
- November 21, 2002, Book-signing and computer crafts presentation, Macintosh Chico User's Group, Chico, California
- November 16-17,2002, "Photocrafts with Photoshop Elements," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California
- September 27, 2002, "Computer Crafts for the Holidays," Mendocino Study Club, Mendocino, California
- July 29-August 2, 2002, “The Arts and Crafts Computer,” 5-day workshop, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California
- June 1–2, 8–9, 15–16, 2002, Teen Collaboration with Technology Artist, Series of 6 morning workshops for 16 teens in Photoshop image-editing and computer crafts, Zeum, San Francisco, CA
- March 9-10, 2002, “Arts and Crafts for the Computer,” Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California
- November 17-18, 2001, "Fun with Illustrator," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California
October 6–7, 2001, "Start with a Scan: Using a scanner and photoshop to create original art," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California
March 24-25, 2001, "Illustrator - Color, Shape and Pattern," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California
October 21-22, 2000, "Your Name Goes Here: Designing Business Stationary on the Computer," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California
September 30-October 1, "Start with a Scan: Using a Scanner and Photoshop to Create Original Art," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California
April 1-2, 2000, "Your Name Goes Here: Designing Business Stationary on the Computer," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California
February 26-27, 2000, "Start with a Scan: Using a Scanner and Photoshop to Create Original Art," Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, California
October 4, 1997, "How to Turn a Scan into an Illustration," Graphic Design Book Faire, San Diego Technical Books (with John Odam)
July 1997, "Creative Digital Imaging," one-week Instructor in Residence, Kent/Blossom Summer Workshops, Kent State University, Ohio.
September 21, 1992, Seattle, Washington; "Computer Illustration: The Artists and Their Techniques," for the annual conference of the University and College Designers Association
April 12-15, 1992, Camden, Maine; "Art Imitates Art: Advanced Imaging," week-long seminar for the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging
January 23, 1992, San Diego, California; "Hotshot Artwork for Peanuts," for Powerhouse Graphics seminar presented by In House Graphics
LECTURES ON BIRTH HISTORY
October 10, 1992, Pomona, California; "Archetypes of Alternative Birth" lecture for the 1992 Conference of the California Association of Midwives
May 7, 1992, Solana Beach, California; "Mothers and Midwives" lecture for the San Dieguito Adult School
December 9, 1987, San Diego, California; "Mothers and Midwives" lecture for monthly meeting of the San Diego Birth Educators Forum
November 7, 1987 Marin, California; "Mother and Midwives" public lecture sponsored by the Dick-Read Natural Childbirth Foundation
October 27-28, 1987 London, England; "Mothers and Midwives" presented as part of a week of workshops following the First International Conference on Home Birth, sponsored by the Active Birth Movement, the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services, and the Independent Midwives Association
October 9, 1987, La Jolla, California; "Mothers and Midwives" lecture for a Midwifery Skills Training Seminar offered by Gentle Birth Associates at the University of California at San Diego
May 15, 1987, Los Angeles, California; "Mothers and Midwives" lecture for a conference sponsored by the Los Angeles chapter of the American Society for Psychoprophylaxis in Obstetrics (ASPO/Lamaze)
April 24, 1987, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California; "Mothers and Midwives" lecture at private party to raise funds for the California Association of Midwives
April 1, 1987, Anaheim, California; "History of Childbirth" lecture for the annual conference of the National Association of Childbearing Centers
February 4, 1987, La Jolla, California; "History of Childbirth" lecture sponsored by the UCSD Women's Resource Center and the California Association of Midwives, University of California at San Diego
January 12, 1987, Los Angeles, California; "History of Childbirth" guest lecture for a graduate seminar in perinatal health care, School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles, Gary Richwald, M.D., instructor
December 11, 1986, Concord, California; "History of Midwifery" slide lecture presented as expert testimony for the defense in a jury trial for lay midwife Susan Coppa, Mount Diablo Municipal Court
October 29, 1986, Concord, California; "History of Childbirth" slide lecture presented as expert testimony for the defense in a diversion hearing for lay midwife Susan Coppa, Mount Diablo Municipal Court
October 18, 1986, San Francisco, California; "The Classic Birthing Pose," slide lecture for a meeting of the California Association of Free-Standing Birth Centers
June 6, 1986, Berkeley, California; "Mothers and Midwives," for a benefit for the Coalition for the Medical Rights of Women
January 9, 1986, Mountain View, California; "The History of Posture in Childbirth," slide lecture at El Camino Community Hospital for the Santa Clara County chapter of ASPO/Lamaze
May 23, 1986, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; "Mothers and Midwives," slide lecture for a regional conference of the International Confederation of Midwives, sponsored by the Midwives Association of British Columbia
May 9, 1986, Stanford University, California; "Mothers and Midwives" slide lecture presented as part of the Women and Health lecture series sponsored by the Stanford University School of Medicine
May 3, 1986, San Francisco, California; "Mothers and Midwives" slide lecture presented as a benefit for the Susanna Napierala (lay midwife) Defense Fund
March 22, 1986, San Francisco, California; "Mothers and Midwives," slide lecture at the Whole Life Exp, sponsored by Whole Life Times and the International Health Alliance
October 18, 1985, San Francisco, California; "Mothers and Midwives" slide lecture for the 3rd Annual National Conference of the Midwives' Alliance of North America
October 5, 1985, Seattle, Washington; "Mothers and Midwives," slide presentation for the Midwives Association of Washington State annual meeting
September 28, 1985, Marin, California; "Mothers and Midwives" slide lecture sponsored by the Read Natural Childbirth Foundation
August 31, 1985, Santa Cruz, California; "Mothers and Midwives" slide lecture at the Maternity, Birth and Baby Fair
June 2, 1985, Seattle Washington; "Mothers and Midwives," slide presentation at the northwest regional conference of the International Childbirth Education Association
May 8, 1985, Big Sur, California; "Mothers and Midwives," slide lecture at the Esalen Institute
April 11, 1985, Atlanta, Georgia; "Mothers and Midwives," slide lecture at the southern regional conference of the International Childbirth Education Association
March 25, 1985, San Francisco, California; "Mothers and Midwives" slide lecture to a class in women's studies at San Francisco City College; open to the campus, Robin Roth, instructor
March 1, 1985, Santa Cruz, California; "Mothers and Midwives" slide lecture for a class in medical anthropology, De Anza College, Phyllis Mattson, instructor
February 23, 1985, Sebastopol, California; "Mothers and Midwives," public slide lecture sponsored by Nan Koehler and the Sonoma County Childbirth Educators
January 13, 1985, Berkeley, California; "Mothers and Midwives," slide lecture, part of an all-day workshop with Sheila Kitzinger, sponsored by Birthways of Oakland, CA
November 28, 1984, San Francisco, California; "Mothers and Midwives," public lecture sponsored by Modern Times Bookstore
November 18, 1984, Palo Alto, California; "Mothers and Midwives," public lecture sponsored by Bay Area Birth Information
July 15, 1984, Lake Arrowhead, California; "Viewing Childbirth Through Art," at Childbirth in Motion conference sponsored by the National Association of Childbirth Educators
June 16, 1984, Monterey, California; "Viewing Childbirth Alternatives Through Art," at Issues in Maternal Child Health conference, sponsored by Monterey Peninsula College and Childbirth Education League
MEDIA APPEARANCES
March 24, 2002
- Segment on "Computer Crafts for Easter" on the ABC Sunday Morning News, KGO-TV, San Francisco, California
- November, 2001
- Guest on "Point and Click" computer show hosted by Bob Laughton, during Pledge Drive week on KZYX and KZYZ, community radio for Mendocino County, California.
- October 24, 2001
Telephone interview on KUAC radio, Alaska, talking about The Arts and Crafts Computer
October 10, 2001
World Without Borders on-line chat discussing The Arts and Crafts Computer
October 4, 2001
Personal appearance on TechTV cable channel show "Call for Help," demonstrating projects made with The Arts and Crafts Computer
September 2, 1998, San Francisco, CA
Personal appearance, with co-author John Odam, on Getting Started with 3D on ZiffDavisTV show "Screen Savers"
June 4, 1986, Berkeley, California
KPFA-FM radio, live interview on Kris Welch's morning show, discussing legislation to legalize lay midwives in California
April 1986, Ashland, Wisconsin; "Feeling Good" radio program, telephone interview on childbirth alternatives
September 1984, Cincinnati; WCKY-AM radio, interview on "call-in" talk show, discussing Birth Stories
January 1984, Oakland; KTVU-TV, appearance on "On the Square," discussing alternative childbirth
August 1983, San Francisco; KYA-AM, radio interview on alternative childbirth
May 1983, San Francisco; KGO-AM radio, one hour interview on "call-in" talk show, discussing alternative childbirth
March 1982, New York City; WABC-TV, interview on home birth as part of a week-long Eyewitness News series on alternatives in childbirth
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