Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
BA 2005, Visual Arts and Art History major, Dean’s List: Sarah & James Bowdoin Scholar, 2005.
Temple University, Rome Rome, Italy
Renaissance and Baroque Art Hist, Italian Language, Print-Making, September-December 2003.
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Graphic Design, Summer 2003.
The Brearley School, New York, NY
High school diploma received, June 2001.
Creative and Communications Experience:
VICE/addVice Marketing, Creative Director.
-Virgin Mobile Music Festival: Wrote proposal, designed set, environment and promotion materials for print and web.
-Apple nano marketing proposal: created concept for nano trading cards featuring bands, designed card examples, wrote distribution and web content proposal.
-Featured Artist html email: designed, wrote and coded for web, sent out to 10,000 addresses weekly.
-Set up concert ticket giveaways, designed flyers and invitations, compiled marketing reports
Brooklyn, New York, September 2005 to June 2006.
Graphic Design USA magazine, Assistant to the Creative Director. Edit and reformat images for publication, photograph objects, create illustrations, organize and document graphic designer submission archive. New York, October 2005 to present.
MTV News, Intern. New York, NY. Worked with the online production staff and writing staff, contributing writing to online daily news column, edited the daily on-air news segments to be viewed online and published online, edited video segments and extracted still images using Final Cut Pro, edited audio bites for online articles, edited images using Photoshop, transcribed interviews, organized digital photo archive, and attended daily news meetings. Summer 2004.
Camera 5 Productions, Production Assistant and Still Photographer. Worked on short film Bug Boy from pre-production through post-production. Shot production stills, applied for permits, organized cast and crew lists, wrote release forms and helped scout locations. Directed by Tara Anderson, Produced by Ken Regan. New York, NY, 2005.
The Bowdoin Orient Newspaper, Art Critic/Columnist. Reviewed art shows in the Maine area to promote awareness of the local art scene and inspire interest in going to galleries. 2004-2005.
WBOR, Music Director, Brunswick, ME. Contacted record labels and promotions companies to receive music, reviewed and charted music, reported to College Media Journal, maintained music library, hired DJs. 2004-2005.
WBOR, Concert and Promotional Director and DJ, Brunswick, ME. Booked concerts to play at Bowdoin College, as well as organized concert ticket giveaways with local venues, coordinated interviews with bands on tour, advertised for the radio station, created program directory and hosted a radio show. 2002-2005.
Bowdoin College, Art Gallery Director. Brunswick, ME. Ran a student gallery at Bowdoin College, sought out artists, promote and organize art shows, maintain gallery space. 2004-2005.
Gen Art, Intern. New York, NY. Researched and contacted Manhattan galleries for collaboration on events to promote emerging artists, organized guest lists for promotional parties, and updated contact database. Summer 2002.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Intern. New York, NY. Catalogued art, entered information into computer database, and measured prints for framing and cataloguing. Spring 2001
Bowdoin College Visual Arts Program, Student Representative. Brunswick, ME. Drawing & Painting Faculty Search Committee. Spring 2005.
Awards and Distinctions:
Bowdoin College Film Festival, Winner: Best Director, for a bowling murder-mystery themed music video. 2005
Wavelength Magazine, Featured Photographer. Selected by the editors of the Bowdoin College photography magazine to be the semester’s profiled student photographer by creating an online photo gallery to showcase my work. Fall 2004.
Bowdoin College Art Department, Guest Artist/Speaker, for Professor Mark Wethli’s Painting I class. 2005.
The Brearley School, Ursula Loengard Berens Art Prize. Awarded for dedication and excellence in the study of art. New York, NY, 2001.
Computer Skills:
Proficiency with both Macs and PCs, as well as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Final Cut Pro, Go Live web design and Peak audio editing.