Education

University of Minnesota Duluth 2003–07
GPA 3.905, magna cum laude, Departmental Honors, UMD
Honors Program
Graphic Design, BFA & General Studio Art, BFA

University of Birmingham 2004–05
Study in England Program, Foreign Studies Minor

Work Experience

The Bond Group Graphic Designer 3/09–present
Began work as a freelancer tasked with website and eblast template creation and maintenance and moved onto layout, print production, and large scale brand identity creation and redesigns

Museum of Contemporary Art Design & Publications Intern 1/09–5/09
Responsible for various production-related tasks such as ad resizes and text updates in addition to creation of informational materials for education and performance departments

Various Clients Freelance Designer 2/08–present
Continued relationship with Tweed Museum of Art with the design of two exhibition catalogs, created various book covers for Litwin Books and Library Juice Press, built websites and blog templates, and did assorted typesetting and layout work as a freelancer

Tweed Museum of Art Graphic Designer 5/06–5/08
Created all museum print and web materials from concept to
production in addition to marketing work and exhibition
design

Not Made in Heaven Production Assistant 6/07–6/08
Designed for print and web, transcribed, and archived
materials for a documentary film about Philip Pearlstein

Art Today Teaching Assistant 4/06–12/07
Assisted intro level Art History course of 300+ students with
Instructor Rob Wittig

University of Minnesota Duluth Library Reference Librarian Student Assistant 6/05–9/07
Created and maintained librarian websites and templates,
catalogued books, maintained reference usage logs in Excel,
and created various promotional material for the reference
team as well as doing needed clerical work

Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Program Self-directed research 1/06–6/06
Explored Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades in museum context through
site visits, mentored research, and primary sources

UMD Education Department Special Projects
Assistant 6/05–9/06
Worked with Assistant Professor Mary F. Wright in creating a
Teaching Education Portfolio web template and created and
maintained a course blog using a specialized template to allow for book and project
discussion and sharing through the class

UMD Study in England Program Student
Office Coordinator 9/04–5/05
Created trip
website, answered student questions, logged program
finances in Quicken, and completed other clerical work as
needed

Volunteer + Leadership Experience

Art Institute of Chicago European Medieval–Modern Paintings Volunteer 2009
UMD Art + Design Lecture Series Committee Student Representative 2006–07
School of Fine Arts Technology Fees
Committee Student Representative 2006–07
UMD Literary Guild Roaring Muse Graphic Designer, Vice President 2006–07
UMD Art Guild President 2005–07
Honors Student Association Vice President 2005–06
Queer and Allied Students Union Office
Assistant 2004

Awards + Honors

BMA Tower Awards Total Communications Program between $200,001–500,000, Bronze 2010
UMD Dean’s List 8 Semesters 2003–07
Best in Show 2008 UMD Student Exhibition 2008
Chancellor’s Purchase Award 2007 UMD Student
Exhibition 2007
Cruden-Riggs GLBT Scholarship 2007
Best in Category Experimental Type, 2nd Annual UMD
Student Design Competition 2007
AIGA/Howard W. Lyons Scholarship 2006–07
Raymond W. Darland Art Scholarship 2006–07
Isaac and Rose Gershgol Award 2006–07
UMD Honors Program Leadership Award 2006
Shulka-Drake Award PFund 2006
Alice Tweed Tuohy Award 2006
Robin Blagburn Memorial Scholarship 2005
Bush Foundation Study Abroad Scholarship 2004–05
Chancellor’s Scholarship 2003–05
Academic Scholarship 2003–04

Exhibitions + Performance History

Puppy Love: An art show Willow (Chicago, IL) 2/13/2009
Visible Means: Observations of Queer
Experience Duluth Art Institute 8/28/08–11/16/08
Emerging Photographers 2008 Duluth Art Institute 3/6/08–6/24/08
2008 Student Exhibition (Juried) UMD 4/12/08–5/11/08
Member’s Show Duluth Art Institute 1/23/08–3/11/08
Duluth-Superior Pride Festival Art Exhibition Duluth
Playground 8/31/07–9/7/07
Twin Cities 2007 Pride Art Show The Soap Factory 6/15/07–7/22/07
2007 Student Exhibition (Juried) UMD 4/7/07–5/6/07
“CHRIS/TOPHER” Senior Exhibition UMD School of Fine
Arts 3/20/07–3/25/07
2nd Annual Student Design Competition (Juried) 2/6/07–3/11/07
UMD 2006 Student Exhibition (Juried) 4/8/06–5/7/06
UMD Interpretive dance dealing with issues of gender QSU Drag Show 3/13/04

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, and some Flash), Microsoft
Office, and Apple’s iLife suite (iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto). Basic FinalCut Pro and AfterEffects.

I know HTML & CSS and have worked with Flash.