Credentials

Freelance Professional Profile

Multi-disciplinary visual artist applies graphic design, business sensibilities, and millinery skills to a wide variety of projects and clients, with a proven record of on-time, on-budget deliverables. These projects range from creating an entertainment series using millinery content and designing the collateral to support it, to freelance graphic design projects for film festivals, the National Park Service, and various businesses.

• Graphic Design/Original Art
• 35 mm and Digital Photography
• Millinery
• Storytelling/Theater Production
• Self-promotion/Marketing

 

Technical Skills:
HTML
Dreamweaver 8
Adobe Creative Suite 2
Indesign CS2
Photoshop CS2
Illustrator CS2
Acrobat 7.0
Quark 6.5
Microsoft Office Professional Suite
Mac OS 10.4
Windows XP

 

Selected Freelance Graphic Design

The Food Allergery & Anaphylaxis Network
Freelance graphic design and production for a nonprofit advocacy group in Virginia. Projects include cookbook design, newsletter and booklet production, and posters.

National Park Service (NPS)

Technical production and design of PowerPoint presentations. Scan, than color correct and electronically repair photographs, slides and other support material for electronic slide presentations. This work is for the Rivers and Trails division of the NPS.

2002–Community Tool Kit
Design and technical production of a PowerPoint presentation focusing on an existing NPS program, The Community Tool Kit (The Kit). The Kit encourages communities to develop and use natural resources to enhance the quality of life. The Kit contains 48 separate programs with tools for the community to create  and market their own development plan.

2001–Beyond Signs, Creating Spirit in the Landscape
Design and technical production of a NPS pilot program that encourages an innovative approach to signs. This program encourages incorporating art into the landscape using
indigenous materials and artists, as opposed to putting up a standard sign. The target audience is the NPS and communities that the NPS works with.

2000 Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Program guide cover design
Marketing postcards
Business cards

Visionaries
Created the visual brand for an organizational development consulting company. This included a logo, business stationery, and a brochure template.

Millinery Credits

Millinery Man Storytelling Series© (The Series)
A series of educational programs and activity kits for children. Hats are made, worn, and serve as interactive visual symbols, encouraging creative thinking and fun.

Theatrical Performances related to the series
12.01 – A Garden of Hats
The Shubin Theater
Philadelphia, PA

9.97, 11.97 – Three Shows, Two Woman and a Duck, Quack!
Philadelphia Fringe Festival (9.97)
Philadelphia, PA
The show was brought back in 11.97 due to a sold out first run

Theatrical Specific Millinery
1.07– 2.07
Gypsy
The Broadway Theater
Pitman, NJ
Premier performance introducing a complete renovation of a 1920's era theater.

Millinery Publishing Credit
8.99 -Sewing a Travel Wardrobe, published by Lark Books, the Pack Flat Hat, an original millinery design, along with the instructions on how to create it is a project included in the hardback book.

Education
The Richard Stockton College
of New Jersey
Pomona, New Jersey
BA in Fine Arts,
with a concentration in Photography