Thomas Powers

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Visual Artist @ Carlsbad, CA, US
Carlsbad, CA, US
Thomas Powers's Location
Carlsbad, California, United States, United States
About Thomas Powers

Experienced President/Executive Director with a demonstrated history of working in Arts Education/Fine Art/Distance Learning industry. Skilled in Studio Art, Murals, Public Speaking and Curriculum/Grant Writing. Strong business development professional with a Master of Fine Arts - MFA focused in Painting from Laguna College of Art and Design. Please go to my "Powershaus" YouTube channel to see videos pertaining to my Black Mountain Productions OPEN EYES Project. Also Google: "powershaus.2019/PubHTML5" to peruse my $13 million 1999 TICG Flip-book.***After a series of serendipitous "Encounters" an "Happenings" in December of '93, my Black Mountain/OPEN EYES Consortium was born in a stable (garage) in Charlotte, NC, it actually could be described as an alignment of planets ("Christmas Star"). The Black Mountain Consortium can truly claim the distinction of being the "first" viable distance learning platform in the U.S. It was an amazing consortium of artists, educators and technologists all coming together to make the North Carolina Information Highway a reality. Our consortium members worked pro-bono an all our Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation grant funding ($100,000) was directed towards developing the OPEN EYES Education Technology platform and its InterChange Server System. Then in the Winter of '97 our "Constellation" (Consortium) hit a Black Hole, when the Clinton Administration and the Chicago Outfit/Jewish Mafia wanted to smuggle our InterChange Servers into China (It is now Huawei). Out of this Black Hole came the Globalists. This treasonous act became known as "Chinagate". My father was a career Marine and it was not in my DNA to betray my Country, so I tried to stop them through Sen. Jesse Helms (NC) and the Jewish Mafia destroyed my career. I have lived in their doghouse ever since, but that has not stopped me from evolving both personally and professionally. In that time, I received my MFA, continued to work in Arts Education and created the American Civics Project with Obey Giant artist Shepard Fairey (OPEN EYES: The Source). Recruiters have often asked me about this career "Gap" and I couldn't answer without using the "J" word, so I am afraid it has cast a pall over my CV, just like my father when he broke the anti-Semitic Covenant in La Jolla in 1964. After the COVID pandemic when all the California schools had to teach exclusively online (train-wreck), I believe OPEN EYES is even more viable as we venture deeper into the 21st Century AI abyss. I have turned OPEN EYES into a drop-in-place solution, It is ready to go!

Thomas Powers's Current Company Details
Powershaus/Black Mountain Productions

Powershaus/Black Mountain Productions

Visual Artist
Carlsbad, CA, US
Thomas Powers Work Experience Details
  • Powershaus/Black Mountain Productions
    Visual Artist
    Powershaus/Black Mountain Productions
    Carlsbad, Ca, Us
  • Black Mountain Productions/Arts Education Consortium
    Visual Artist/Creator Of Open Eyes: The Source
    Black Mountain Productions/Arts Education Consortium Sep 1994 - Present
    Southern California
    Thomas Mark Powers Portfolio
  • Black Mountain Productions
    Curriculum Developer
    Black Mountain Productions 1994 - Present
    Southern California
    Creator of the OPEN EYES/American Civics Project: In 1994 with the support of Dr. Howard Gardner and his Project Zero Staff (Bruce Torff, Seymour Simmons and Donna Plasket), I created the OPEN EYES Project. It provides a curricular approach which integrates important new ideas about how individuals learn with equally powerful ideas about how to educate. The OPEN EYES/American Civics Project seeks to use advances in technology to join the educational community both horizontally and vertically in shared research, preparation, practice, evaluation and sustained dialogue. It is visionary in its understanding that education is a continuous and fluid process and practical in its efforts to include the larger community in creating new paradigms. With the ever expanding role of technology in the classroom, the opportunity to replace expensive, outmoded textbooks with lucid, interactive curriculum holds tremendous potential for affording every child in our Country with a quality education.
  • Black Mountain Productions
    Executive Director
    Black Mountain Productions Sep 1994 - Present
    Charlotte, Nc
  • Powershaus
    President
    Powershaus Sep 2017 - Dec 2023
    San Diego, California, United States
    Creating "Statewide" Distance Learning Networks that are connected to every school and college in the State.
  • Creator "American Civics" Project 2008-2018
    "Powershaus" Jan 2016 - Sep 2018
    Carlsbad, California, United States
    In 2008 I was an Art Professor at Palomar College in San Marcos, CA. In my "Art Appreciation" course I would assign the students art projects that used photographs, newspapers, collage and stencils (Bauhaus/Rauschenberg). I had originally created this lesson plan in 1993 when I was the art teacher at Rock Hill High School in South Carolina. My OPEN EYES rubric was based on the Matiere lesson plan developed at the German Bauhaus by Josef Albers in 1926. In 2016 the Santa Ana Unified School District asked me to create an American Civic's rubric at the same time my attorney brother was looking for a vehicle to promote the Jim Marshall Photographic Archive (1 million photographs of Monterey Pop, Woodstock, Jimi Hendrick, Johnny Cash, John Coltrane and Miles Davis) who he represented. Also at that time Shepard Fairey was getting sued and threatened with jail time for lifting UPI photographs off the Internet for his Obama "Hope" Poster. In 2008, I created an Obama "Hope" collage to provide my students with an irreverent perspective of his messianic persona (Black Jesus). In 2016, through a mutual friend, I connected with Shepard and pitch him my American Civic's concept using the hook of free access to the Marshall Archives. Thus "American Civics" was born. Shepard then use my rubric to create his "Damaged Show" format in 2017. Just like many of my concepts, I got the shaft and Shepard's "Obey gangstas" got the gold. l never received any credit or monetary compensation; OPEN EYES/Chinagate deja-vu all over again! (smile)
  • Merrium Apartments
    Mayor Of The Merrium
    Merrium Apartments Mar 1986 - Jun 1988
    Sacramento, California, United States
    In 1986, I became the Manager of the Merrium Apartments located on 14th and K Street in Sacramento CA. The Merrium was built in 1912 and designed by a colleague of California architect Julia Morgan. When I took over the Merrium it was a "flophouse", within two years I turned it into the icon for Historical Preservation in Sacramento. This was the first time I, personally, went Mano a Mano with the Chicago Outfit (The Pritzker Family/Hyatt Hotels). I won, but had to leave Sacramento. Now I am up against the same goodfellas in my hometown of Carlsbad, CA (La Costa Nostra), but this time it is for keeps. I am willing to die on this hill. Read "Supermob" by Gus Russo. Since Oct. 2023, over 200,000 Israelis, with dual US citizenship, have been displaced from Israel's Northern Region by Hezbollah, where will the Israeli oligarchs seek refuge, Iowa? No, they will resettle in Carlsbad (North County San Diego) where they own the power (NRG) and water (Poseidon) grids, the universities, tech industries and the politicians. Just like the Kibbutzes (Settler Colonialism), they will displace the indigenous communities (Generational Californians) one way or another (Nakba).

Thomas Powers Skills

Teaching Writing Murals Curriculum University Teaching Public Speaking Community Outreach Portrait Painting Drawing Studio Art

Frequently Asked Questions about Thomas Powers

What company does Thomas Powers work for?

Thomas Powers works for Powershaus/black Mountain Productions

What is Thomas Powers's role at the current company?

Thomas Powers's current role is Visual Artist.

What schools did Thomas Powers attend?

Thomas Powers attended The Maryland Institute College Of Art, Laguna College Of Art And Design, University Of North Carolina School Of The Arts, Uc Davis Continuing And Professional Education, Professional Development - Harvard Division Of Continuing Education.

What skills is Thomas Powers known for?

Thomas Powers has skills like Teaching, Writing, Murals, Curriculum, University Teaching, Public Speaking, Community Outreach, Portrait Painting, Drawing, Studio Art.

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