Experience

Arts & Minds

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Educator

  • Sep 2022 - Present



SUGAR HILL CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF ART & STORYTELLING

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Director of School Partnerships, Tours & Community Engagement

  • Nov 2015 - Jun 2020

  Furloughed, June 2020 due to the pandemic. Played an integral part in shaping the direction of museum education, overseeing in-school DOE residencies, museum tours and workshops, as well as special programming. ~ Implemented and managed the museum’s Creative Youth Development Program: teen programs and internships. ~ Designed, supervised and collaborated on original content for visual arts, movement and storytelling education programming thematically connected to gallery installations and special programs. ~ Created, developed and managed every aspect of the museum’s public art mural program. ~ Cultivated an extensive network of outdoor community event partnerships with organizations such as New York City Parks Dept., Columbia University, Urban Health Plan, El Museo del Barrio and the NYC Department of Education. ~ Developed and supported programs and resources for multigenerational audiences and people with disabilities. ~ Regularly led programs for children of all ages, families, visitors with disabilities, and adults. ~ Managed and cultivated grant-funded and independently-financed public and private school partnerships. ~ Worked with staff across museum departments, as well as the broader museum and education communities to grow audiences for programs through outreach to family, community and school networks, and align programs with best practices in the field. ~ Managed the logistics and scheduling of school tours in partnership with the museum’s Visitor Services Manager. ~ Oversaw day-to-day facility set-up of public spaces within the museum in collaboration with museum team. ~ Management and recruitment of volunteers. ~ Partnered with Visitor Services Manager in the administration of school recess and summer camps. ~ Conducted professional development workshops for museum teaching artists. ~ Responsible for bi-weekly teaching artist payroll and working within program budgets.



Creative Art Works

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Director

  • May 2013 - Oct 2015

  CAW is a 35-year-old creative youth development nonprofit that improves the lives of thousands of NYC youth each year, particularly in underserved neighborhoods of Upper Manhattan, through in-school and out-of-school-time classes, community art-making events, and youth employment creating large-scale public art and multimedia projects.Creative Art Works' Program Director is responsible for the day-to-day oversight, administration and development of all of CAW's programming and related program personnel (a Program Coordinator and a Program Development Manager and all supporting teaching artists). Supervises 20+ arts programs in schools and community centers across Northern Manhattan, including El Barrio, West Harlem, Hamilton Heights, Washington Heights, and Inwood. CAW emphasizes a progressive, community-based approach to arts education guided by a strong philosophy in youth empowerment, social justice education, and professional quality art making.Three core programs consist of free After-School ArtWorks (full or partial semester-long apprenticeships for school age children in a variety of media), Saturday ArtWorks (themed arts workshops for children 4-14 years of age, often including pairing with adult volunteers), and Summer ArtWorks (a full-time summer art jobs program for at-risk young people, ages 14-24, who work in groups with teaching artists to create large-scale community art). Other expanding programs include in-classroom integrative learning, after-school art jobs and large-scale community events.



New Rochelle School District/Daniel Webster Elementary School

• Studio Arts Teacher/Special Projects

  • 2005 - 2013

  1st through 5th grades 1st through 5th grades



Drawing Lessons from the Renaissance Masters

• Life Drawing Teacher

  • 1985 - 2013

  Taught classical life drawing - intermittently in various venues - including Riverstone Center, NYC and Wooster Community Art Center, Danbury CT. Taught classical life drawing - intermittently in various venues - including Riverstone Center, NYC and Wooster Community Art Center, Danbury CT.



Commercial Artist

• Germany
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Editorial Illustrator and Muralist

  • 1985 - 2013

  Clients Include:The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Nation, The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Wardour Publishing, Hiscox International (Lloyds of London) Bermuda, Columbia University School of Journalism, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, New York Presbyterian Hospital - Behavioral Health Unit, Broadway Cares - Equity Fights Aids, Delphi Theatre - NYC, Pied Piper Children's Theatre - NYC, Joe Boxer Sports Wear, Changes T-Shirts - NYC, Ferraro & Associates PLLC, Grandma's Kitchen - NYC



Wooster Community Arts Center

• Art Teacher

  • 2004 - 2007

  Summer Arts Program, Teen Classes: Drawing the Narrative and Life Drawing, and general arts and crafts and painting for 9-12 year olds.Adult Life Drawing Workshops: Lessons From the Great Renaissance Draftsmen Summer Arts Program, Teen Classes: Drawing the Narrative and Life Drawing, and general arts and crafts and painting for 9-12 year olds.Adult Life Drawing Workshops: Lessons From the Great Renaissance Draftsmen