Jim Jordan
Poet, event creator

Rainshine

Websites:

• http://www.rainshine.org

Connect with me on:

• AIM: skype: jim-is-now

I create art, and I teach English.

Large sculptures have been a long-term mainstay of my last decade.

In the last two years, I have enjoyed being a teacher of my native language in Korea, where I have become a student of Hangul, and an appreciator of the people and history, and foods, and culture of the Korean peninsula.

I have found that there are some tremendous possibilities for bridging the great divide of geography in arts, through well-laid plans.

We will see...

To hear from people who are into promotions about 'what it is' to get on a book tour.

A.A. Baking and Pastry Arts, Pennsylvania Culinary, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

B.A. Large Art Installation, event production, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, USA

TESOL Certificate (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Asean EFL Journal, Busan, Korea

• 2009: Teacher of English Language, Yeosu, Korea

• 2008: DPW, Critical Mass:ive; Artist, American Scream (art installation), Burning Man.

• 2007: Teacher of English Language, Gwangju, Korea;

M&SSII (Level 2 Supervisor of Materials and Stores) San Quentin State Prison, special focus - redesign storage for long-term viability in the framework of the Receivership.

• 2006: M&SSII, San Quentin State Prison (straight from Burning Man!)

Aid Worker with Burners Without Borders (http://www.burnerswithoutborders.org);

Temple Crew, Burning Man

• 2005: Machine Crew, Burning Man (large art installation) *received B.A. degree around this project's facets.

• 2004: Nova System Project, Burning Man (large art installation) *earned credit towards degree around this project;

Baker, Grateful Bread, small bakery, lovely place in Wedgwood, Seattle.

• 2003: AIRID, Burning Man (large art installation);

Baker, Essential Baking, an exciting, organic bread company in Freemont, Seattle.

• 2002: AIR, Burning Man, (large art installation);

Counter assistant, Borracchini's Bakery.

• 2001: Pastry Chef/ Baker, Rio Hotel Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

• 2000: Received A.A. in Baking and Pastry Arts.

*Previous to this, almost nothing happened - unless you count the thousand copies of my first book "Mind Thoughts" sold out of hand at shows, and a few hundred of the next one "Bolt" which had comments from some wonderful elders of literature's academy.

• oh, and I was a performance poet between 1993 until Halloween 1998 when an accident ended that career. Previous to that, I was on stage with some fabulous kids. I still love a good show... hence the large art.