Experience

Beck Center for the Arts

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Director of Visual Arts Education

  • May 2014 - Present

  Visual art department management: program planning, catalog writing, hiring faculty, payroll, main gallery scheduling and curation, gallery installations, gallery reception planning and promotion, departmental fundraising, special event planning, staff development, coordinating departmental efforts with other departments at The Beck Center

• Teaching Artist

  • Sep 2007 - Present

  My role as a teaching artist includes my primary ongoing class offerings: Kids-n-Art for ages 3-5 with a parent or caregiver, Art Discovery Studio: on-going mixed media projects for ages 6-14, Explore Mixed Media for adults, and team leader for the annual Parade The Circle workshops. Special projects include teaching teens for the special Art As Peaceful Solutions program, ongoing Beck Center outreach projects, and Creative Art Therapy projects



Wild Flour Bakery

• Rocky River, Ohio

• Occasion Cake Decorator

  • May 2011 - Present

  My role at Wild Flour includes creating original cake designs and hand replicating customer designs and specifications. This includes hand drawing and color matching as well as integrating messages and other design elements such as cake toppers. My role at Wild Flour includes creating original cake designs and hand replicating customer designs and specifications. This includes hand drawing and color matching as well as integrating messages and other design elements such as cake toppers.



Transformer Station Museum

• Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Art Educator

  • Jan 2015 - Nov 2015

  With the support of grant funding, this one year project was intended to be experimental. The goal of the experiment was to attempt to engage teens and youth in the concept of Visual Literacy using digital photography as method of engagement. I created the SnapLab program including curriculum, produced registration materials, marketing content, project reports and I facilitated a series of workshops, both in the museum and on site at a local high school over the course of the year. With the support of grant funding, this one year project was intended to be experimental. The goal of the experiment was to attempt to engage teens and youth in the concept of Visual Literacy using digital photography as method of engagement. I created the SnapLab program including curriculum, produced registration materials, marketing content, project reports and I facilitated a series of workshops, both in the museum and on site at a local high school over the course of the year.