Music

Flutist

Listen: What Child Is This? (4.1 MB mp3)
Flute/guitar duo AEOLUS, with classical guitarist/composer Jerry Dadap, Jr.

Recording: Joyance (1989)
Christmas carols arranged for flute and guitar, performed by AEOLUS
(Victoria Beatty, flute, and Jerry Dadap, Jr., classical guitar)

Artistic director of the performance ensemble SPRINGKEEPER (Austin, Texas, 1993-2000)

Performance with Celtic flute/harp duo (Victoria Beatty, flute, and Linda Kennedy, harp) in Albuquerque, New Mexico (2009-present)

Performance with storyteller Allison Cox (Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, 2000-2003)

Performance with various Austin, Texas, musical ensembles, including SPRINGKEEPER, the Orchestra of St. David's, the Austin Handel/Haydn Society, the Barton Strings, AEOLUS, the Austin Civic Orchestra, Kaleidasound, and the Austin Symphonic Band (1984-2000)

Storyteller

Creator of "Page (the Bookworm) Presents: Learn with Stories, Music, and Art," a weekly storytime class at the Juan Tabo Library in Albuquerque, NM, for children ages 2-5 and their parents.

The weekly class features storytelling, puppetry, participatory drama, music and movement, and developmentally appropriate crafts to engage multiple intelligences (2009-present).

Creator, with Linda Kennedy, of a quarterly series of family music and storytelling concerts at the Juan Tabo Library in Albuquerque, NM (2009-present).

Performance with storyteller Allison Cox (Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, 2000-2003).

Organizing storytelling events

Winter Solstice: Music and Stories of the Season (December 19, 2009)

Celtic Spring: Music and Stories of the Season (March 20, 2010)

Tellabration

• Diné College Tellabration 2007
  
  
• Diné College Tellabration 2006
  
  
• Diné College Tellabration 2005
  

Winter Storytelling

• Friday Nights @ the Library 2007
  
  
• Friday Nights @ the Library 2006

Graphic Design

Botanical and natural history illustration

• Dragonfly
  
  
• Beetle
  
  
• Turk's Cap

Promotional items

Library mugs

• Friday Nights @ the Library mug
  
  
• Go to the library ONLINE mug

Web Design


Selected recent projects

• Hidden, Silenced, Banned, Burned...and Beautiful (Diné College Libraries exhibit)
  
  
• Library 21: The Library of the Future! (web exhibit)

Notable early projects

• Origami: A Universe in a Single Sheet of Paper (Univ. of Texas Libraries exhibit)
  
  
• The Garden of Origami (website)

 

Designer

Designs include commissioned works, wearable art, and costumes for the innovative performance ensemble SPRINGKEEPER.

Commissioned works

• Oak Tree Storyteller, for Peter "Treeman" Jenkins
  
  
• Alexander Frederick Claire (Alec), mascot for the Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
  

• Blue Heron jacket
  
  
• Dancing Cranes jacket

• Oak Tree (with Stuart Heady)
  
  
• Pine Tree
  
  
• Monarch Butterflies
  
  
• Fish
  
  
• Orca
  
  
• The Elements (EARTH): Green Man (with Stuart Heady)
  
  
• The Elements (AIR): Aery Sprite
  
  
• The Elements (FIRE): Fire Goddess
  
  
• The Elements (WATER): Water Goddess