Experience

CalArts Center For Life and Work

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

• Director

  • May 2022 - Present

  As the Director of the Center for Life & Work at CalArts, I strive to move beyond traditional career services to create innovative programming, resources, and services to prepare student-artists to sustain themselves as creative leaders in the world. I provide leadership, strategic planning, and management of the Center overseeing an Assistant Director, Career Advisor, and student workers, and work closely with institute faculty, deans, and staff to integrate professional-practice learning opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students. I oversee our internship program and assist with recruiting events and mentorship initiatives to forge pathways between our student body and the creative economy in the Los Angeles region and beyond.

• Interim Director

  • Nov 2021 - May 2022



Studio Associate

• United States
• Artists and Writers

• Owner

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  Studio Associate is an art advisory, agency, and resource network for artists, art professionals, and art enthusiasts. We work closely with a curated group of 20+ contemporary artists to promote and sell their work, and to secure commissions, grants, and residencies. We provide a digital platform for the art world to share relevant available career positions, studios, apartments, and opportunities. We also provide one-on-one professional development consultations with artists looking to improve and polish the digital presentation of their work, their social media and networking strategies, applications, and supplemental documentation.



California Institute of the Arts

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Interim Director

  • Nov 2021 - May 2022

  As the Interim Director of the Center for Life & Work, I oversee operations, strategic planning, professional development programming, interdepartmental and interschool collaboration, and reporting of the the department's impact on career readiness of CalArts students and alumnx. I maintain and steer the vision of the department towards an optimal success-rate of preparing students for the working world as creatives by means of internships, freelance, part- and full-time work, and entrepreneurship.

• Employer Relations and Events Manager at the Patty Disney Center for Life and Work

  • Aug 2021 - Nov 2021

  As the Employer Relations and Events Manager at the Patty Disney Center for Life and Work, CalArts, I cultivate relationships with creative employers in and beyond the greater Los Angeles region to encourage professional connections with CalArts students and alumnx.



Century Pictures/Leo Koenig, Inc.

• 1329 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237

• Gallery Manager

  • Apr 2018 - May 2020

  Supported the owner and director in the oversight of arts administration, research, exhibition management, and operations for the gallery. I also assisted in logistics with regard to acquiring and selling artwork and inventory management for the owner on behalf of various private collections. Supported the owner and director in the oversight of arts administration, research, exhibition management, and operations for the gallery. I also assisted in logistics with regard to acquiring and selling artwork and inventory management for the owner on behalf of various private collections.



Transmitter

• 1329 Willoughby Avenue, #2B, Brooklyn, NY 11237

• Co-Director

  • Sep 2015 - Jan 2020

  Transmitter is a collaboratively-run gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn. All co-directors of Transmitter mount one exhibition per year, and between two and four exhibitions are co-curated by all six members annually. During my co-directorship at Transmitter, my administrative duties included website and newsletter management, accounting, sales, client relations, and exhibition design and installation. Transmitter is a collaboratively-run gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn. All co-directors of Transmitter mount one exhibition per year, and between two and four exhibitions are co-curated by all six members annually. During my co-directorship at Transmitter, my administrative duties included website and newsletter management, accounting, sales, client relations, and exhibition design and installation.



MV Studio LLC

• Long Island City, NY

• Studio Manager

  • Oct 2016 - Aug 2017

  Managing day-to-day aspects of a contemporary artist's studio, including scheduling freelancers, liaising with fabricators, coordinating shipping and handling of artwork, managing inventory, scheduling studio visits and international trips for the artist and studio staff, and managing all studio expenses. Managing day-to-day aspects of a contemporary artist's studio, including scheduling freelancers, liaising with fabricators, coordinating shipping and handling of artwork, managing inventory, scheduling studio visits and international trips for the artist and studio staff, and managing all studio expenses.



Pierogi

• 155 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002

• Gallery Manager

  • Apr 2012 - Oct 2016

  As gallery manager of the pioneering Brooklyn gallery Pierogi, which relocated to the lower east side of Manhattan in 2016, I oversaw all aspects of gallery operations from hiring interns to answering visitor inquiries and facilitating sales. My primary duties include but are not limited to liaising with clients, curators, and artists, facilitating and overseeing artwork loans and both international and domestic shipments, cataloguing and archiving works on paper by over 1,000 artists, digital image archiving, transcription of interviews, proofreading catalogue and press release texts, managing existing and implementing new social media presence, press outreach, managing all aspects of preparation for exhibitions and art fairs, facilitating artwork sales, invoicing clients, generating commission contracts, managing artist commission schedules, website management, photographing artwork, editing digital images, hiring and managing interns, and art handling.



Associated

• 566 Johnson Avenue, #27, The Active Space, Brooklyn, NY 11237

• Gallery Director

  • Mar 2013 - Jun 2014

  WEEKNIGHTS gallery became Associated in March of 2013 and was co-directed by Theresa Daddezio, Julian Jimarez-Howard, and myself. Our curatorial mission was to mount challenging and unconventional exhibitions in our Bushwick gallery space. During our operation, we received a Critic's Pick by Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine and various press reviews and mentions in blogs such as Bushwick Daily and New York Arts Magazine. Since June of 2014, Associated has been operating as a curatorial team searching for venues in and around New York City to host our innovative exhibitions.



WEEKNIGHTS

• 566 Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237

• Gallery Director

  • Jul 2012 - Mar 2013

  WEEKNIGHTS was a 100 square foot exhibition space within my painting studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, only open on selected weeknights. I founded the space with the intention to curate, promote, and sell artwork by innovative and underrepresented artists in Brooklyn. WEEKNIGHTS was a 100 square foot exhibition space within my painting studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, only open on selected weeknights. I founded the space with the intention to curate, promote, and sell artwork by innovative and underrepresented artists in Brooklyn.



Purchase College, SUNY

• United States
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Office Assistant of Art+Design Department

  • Sep 2007 - Sep 2011

  As office assistant in the Art+Design conservatory, my duties included responding to student inquiries about building facilities and professor/staff office hours, answering phones and directing calls to the proper department, cataloguing and archiving student exhibition press material, preparing monthly press mailings for the Art+Design gallery, scheduling staff meetings, and assisting the management of student events such as National Portfolio Day and the BFA Exhibition Reception. I grew more involved with the workings of the Art+Design department and student body during my years as an office assistant, and eventually formed a BFA Committee, nominating students per department to assist in planning annual events, most specifically the BFA Exhibition Reception for each graduating class.



Stone Truss Systems, Fairfield, NJ

• Fairfield, New Jersey

• Office Assistant

  • Sep 2006 - Aug 2007

  As an office assistant for Stone Truss Systems, a tile and marble fabrication and contracting company, I assisted the CEO, Project Managers, and Architects with various administrative tasks including transcribing and editing project proposals, archiving project documentation, and directing calls. As an office assistant for Stone Truss Systems, a tile and marble fabrication and contracting company, I assisted the CEO, Project Managers, and Architects with various administrative tasks including transcribing and editing project proposals, archiving project documentation, and directing calls.