Artist, designer, communicator with diverse skills and experience in fabrication techniques, architectural design, space planning, set design, maker entrepreneurship, and graphic design –collaborator with passion for sharing in the excitement of learning
WORK EXPERIENCE
Front Desk Ambassador and Member Artisan’s Asylum Somerville, MA
2018-present
· Welcome members and visitors, shared knowledge/passion for maker space culture
· Lead tours of facility, offered design insight and demonstrations with laser cutter
Instructor Massachusetts College of Art and Design Boston, MA
2018: Teacher/Developer – Continuing Ed. Workshop “Laser Cutting Your First Shapes”
2017: TA - Undergraduate course “Laser Cutting for Object Makers”
Asst. Director Alumni Relations Massachusetts College of Art and Design Boston, MA
2013 –2017 (Assistant Director 1.5 years, Coordinator 2.5 years)
· Planned/executed alumni programs and communications
· Managed graduate assistant and work-study employees
· Coordinator annual alumni retreat - Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
· Implemented use of fabrication technologies in offices of Alumni Relations and Institutional Advancement on campus (produced donor gifts, event design and décor items, and led team building activities)
Instructor Haystack Mountain School of Craft Deer Isle, ME
Developed and led: laser cutting workshop (2017), laser engraving workshop (2014).
These workshops focused on integration of laser fabrication in art/design studio practices.
Technician/Fabricator Danger!Awesome, LLC Cambridge, MA 2013-2014
· Provided client support with design/material selections, offered rotary laser cutting services.
· Trained community members on laser cutting machines
· Participated in successful KickStarter campaign for shop expansion
Contracted Alumni Employee Massachusetts College of Art and Design Boston, MA
2012
Developed and designed first MassArt college instructional guide:
“Laser Cutter Use at MassArt in the Architecture/Industrial Design Studio”
EDUCATION
BFA, Architectural Design - Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Artisan’s Asylum, Somerville, MA
Make.Co, web-based community
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2019
- Assistant Technical Director Sweeney Todd production – complex/kinetic set construction
Provincetown Theater – Provincetown, MA
- Gingerspizen design and wearable art stocked at the following locations:
House of LaRue - Provincetown, MA; BXclusive - Provincetown, MA
- You’ve Got To Dream Big large scale sculpture installed on extended loan
Urban Axes - Somerville, MA
- Custom engraved and cut leather patches for company holiday gifts
Downeast Cider House – Boston, MA
2018
- You’ve Got To Dream Big large scale sculptural installation on main esplanade
Burning Man Arts Festival - Black Rock City, NV
- Beer Tasting Flight Boxes for new location at Assembly Row
Client: Somerville Brewing Company - Somerville, MA
- 300 Custom Laser cut wooden rings for ‘No Spectators’
The Renwick Gallery: Smithsonian American Art Museum - Washington, D.C.
2017
- Gingerspizen design and wearable art stocked at the following locations:
Wildflower of Provincetown - Provincetown, MA
- 200 Custom Laser Cut wooden rings for ‘Playa Made: The Jewelry of Burning Man’
Fuller Craft Museum - Brockton, MA
- Installation Artist for ‘The Moment Before Awakening’
Hulaween Music and Arts Festival - Live Oaks, FL
- Co-lead Oasis 47 Theme Camp teaching resin inlay workshop
Burning Man Arts Festival - Black Rock City, NV
2016
- Co-lead Oasis 47 Theme Camp teaching resin inlay workshop
Burning Man Arts Festival - Black Rock City, NV
WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS ATTENDED
Laser Cutting on Black Cat Labs Machines – Artisan’s Asylum - Somerville, MA
ShopBot CNC Workshop – Artisan’s Asylum - Somerville, MA
Intro to Web Design – Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Boston, MA
Drawing for Designers – Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Boston, MA