Professional BIO

Alex's background comes from his early experience of drawing superheroes as a child. In high school he was one of the top students of his sketching class. It wasn't until he started working in New York that he started doing layouts and design on the computer. Beginning with just a three-day lesson in basics of Quark Xpress, he found a new way to express his need to create. Learning to design art with words and pictures, he has spent the last 9 years honing his own technique.

Alex has designed many ads, programs, flyers, and invites for non-profit organizations within the greater New York City area. His first design work was for the American Indian Community House, Inc. where he got most of his experience. He is the first staff member of the Performing Arts Department to layout and design flyers and programs for their annual "Indian Summer" and "Native American Actor's Showcase". He designed ads for both showcases that were printed in the New York Press and Backstage. On several occasions he has also been asked to design flyers for the AICH Gallery artist talks.

In 1999, he was hired to work for American Indian Community House HIV/AIDS Department in New York. There he designed for a time the "Native American Leadership Commission on Health and AIDS" (NALCHA) newsletter and then their "Information for..." brochures in both English and Spanish which are still being used today. He enrolled for two semesters at Katherine Gibbs School where he gained experience working with mediums like charcoal, oil, lead and marker as well as printmaking. This training helped him fine tune his graphic design work.

In 2000, he had the honor of being asked to design the American Indian Artists, Inc. (AMERINDA) Native Arts Quarterly TALKING STICK, joining the array of Native American artists who have lent their talent to AMERINDA in the seven years Talking Stick has been published.

In addition to working with Native American organizations, he has done work with non-Native related organizations. Alex worked in retail for Manét on Eighth, the New York Studio School art supply store where he designed many of the store signage, advertisements and the first "Manét on Eighth" bookmarker. He designed the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) brochures and continues to design the invitations for the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade annual anniversaries. He has worked for the last five years with both organizations who continue to allow him to do what he enjoys.