Education:

Lesley University College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

MFA Visual Arts

Expected Graduation Date: June 2019

University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT

MA Education: Curriculum and Instruction

GPA: 4.0

Graduation Date: June 2016

University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education

Bachelor of Arts in English Literature

Summa cum laude

Date of Graduation: May 2013

Teaching Experience:

RJ Kinsella Magnet School of the Performing Arts

250 Locust ST, Hartford, CT 06114 (August 2016-2017)

English Teacher

11th and 12th Grade Literature and Composition

●Creating relevant and curriculum-aligned plans to engage students

●Managing activities in terms of time, participants, and physical space

●Cooperating with other teachers and administration to reflect and improve existing interpretations of curriculum

●Differentiating instruction for student need and learning styles

●Strong writing and speaking skills, constantly practiced and executed

●Assisted students with college essays, resumes, and job applications

Hartford Public High School Nursing Academy

55 Forest ST, Hartford, CT 06105 (August 2013-2016)

English Teacher

English Department Lead 2015-2016, 11th Grade Public Speaking, 12th Grade Capstone (research writing and presentation), Creative Writing, 10th Grade English, and 11th Grade American Literature

●Led departement meetings and assisted other educators with planning

●Utilized online classrooms as a way for students to practice e-communication and as a reflecting tool

●Used multimedia presentations to engage students and diversify educational output for different learning styles

Work Experience:

Muse Paintbar

Blue Back Square (October 2015-Present)

69 Raymond Rd, West Hartford, CT 06107

Lead Shift Artist

●Responsible for leading art instruction at Muse Paintbar

●Responsible for assisting other artists with generating master copies and breaking down steps of painting

●Teaching large groups to paint a selected painting

●Recreating images with acrylic paint to match what is posted online

●Teaching color mixing, blending, washes, dry-brushing, and sketching (esp. for organic figures such as animal silhouettes)

Web Design

Hartford, CT 06105 (December 2014-Present)

Freelance Web Design

●Create assets according to client necessity and desire

●Customize pages on CMS and Adobe Muse for sales and information purposes

●Utilizing SEO to boost activity

●Using navigation options and design to create visual narrative to build a brand

Arts Experience:

●Curated the Bilocular popup exhibit at LUCAD and generated wall text (2017)

●Nasty Woman Exhibit, New Haven, CT (2017)

●Gallery showing, Mindscape, Hartford (2016)

●Recognized by the Orleans, MA Chamber of Commerce for abstract painting, Nauset (2016)

●Web design for local authors (2014-2017)

●Published poet in Interpretations (2015)

Academic Awards:

●Awarded $21,000 scholarship from Lesley University to attend for MFA in Visual Arts

●Achieved all degrees summa cum laude

●Alpha Chi (Honor society for the top 10% of upperclassmen in the university)

●Award of excellence for highest achievement in the Secondary English Literature program

●Ribicoff Bell Prize Candidate, chosen from all attending university students for excellence and innovation in my content major (English Lit)

●Alpha Lambda Delta (Honor society for first year students in the top 20% of their class, with a GPA higher than 3.5)

References:

Marco Tirillo, Vice Principal, email: ac1v4a@r.postjobfree.com, phone: 860-***-****

Robyn Levine, Artist, email: ac1v4a@r.postjobfree.com, phone: 203-***-****

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