Art Teacher Designer

Tristan Tom

**** *. ********* *** #* Chicago, IL 60645 ***********@*****.*** 773-***-****

I use puppets to help children find their voices to tell their stories.

EXPERIENCE

Art Teacher/ Remote Learning Coordinator- 2018-Current

●Monitor 10 children in their on-line classes, & assist in completing assignments.

●Developed an in-school/family recycling program for the 125 person school

●Organized activities for winter, spring break & summer camps

Guest Teacher- CSTNetwork- Chicago, IL- January 2017- 2018

●Taught 10-30 Chicagoland infants through twelfth grade per classroom/nursery visit

●Successfully communicated & documented daily reports to school, teacher & CSTN @ end of shift

Lead Teacher - Tiny Giants Early Learning Center - Chicago, IL - July ‘15 - Oct ‘16

●Planned curriculum & schedules for 12 students; updated “Gateways” & “Tadpoles” accordingly

●Communicated with appropriate parties & documented child milestones,progress, & observations

FOH Liaison/ Floating Aide - Little Green Tree House - Chicago, IL - July ‘14 - Feb ‘15

●Answered phone/email inquiries, scheduled appointments, processed outgoing mail & billing; Directed visitors, faculty & prospective family tours to respective areas

●Assisted in enrollment for 120+ spots; Updated records, family contacts, medical, DCFS, inventory & service, assisted DCFS nurse

Head Designer/Run Crew- Performance Arts Workshop (PAW)- Gillette, WY- June 10-18

●Measured, designed, created hundreds of costumes for 75 child performers in just 21 days

●Interviewed and managed a team of three other stitchers to complete the projects

Wardrobe Head/Wig Master Louis and Keeley Live at the Sahara! - Chicago, IL Feb ‘15- June ‘15

●Coordinated costumes and worked as liaison between director and designer.

●Maintained & tracked of over 50 authentic vintage 50’s costumes & accompanying wigs

Designer's Assistant- Broadway Costumes - Chicago, IL - Aug ‘11 to June ‘13

●Sorted, laundered, steamed, packed and weighed costumes for outgoing performances.

●Acted as Dye master and distressing artist for all new shows going out

Asst. Head Costumes- Emerald City Theatre's "Alice In Wonderland" - Chicago, IL July 2011

●Coordinated, created and fit costumes for the performers

Wardrobe Head-Royal George Theatre’s The Doyle and Debbie Show - Chicago, IL 2011-12

●Cared and maintained actor’s costumes, wigs and stage props

●Created replicas of costumes for “swings” and “Understudy” characters

Stitcher/Run Crew- Chicago Shakespeare Co."Madness of King George"- Chicago, IL 2012

●Tracked over 20 costumes from cue to cue to their specific locations

●Dressed and quick changed many of the actors

Assistant/Run Crew- Whoopi Goldberg's "White Noise"- Chicago, IL 2012

●Stitched, completed beading and "finish" work, shopped for lead actress' costumes

●Performed quick changes; tracked, laundered and maintained over 200 costumes

Mascot DesignerCookie Gluck Designs - Chicago, IL 2010-11

● Created 3-D wearable foam mascots and oversized foam props for businesses, conventions,theaters, all over the USA.

Ensemble Actor, Todd Barry - “Scrapers” - Chicago, IL

Background Actor - Chicago Med - Chicago, IL

Background Actor - The Chi - Chicago, IL

PROJECTS/DEVELOPMENTS

Developed puppet storytime series “Grandma D & the Magic Book Machine”, creating the puppets, storylines, sets and props for kids as early as two years old.

Created “The Puppet Project”, a puppet-building workshop/camp for kids where we work together to build puppets, write scripts and build sets to perform our stories for our community and families.

*Both programs encourage Compassion, Empathy and acceptance in children’s worlds.

For more information:

Instagram/TristanTomDesigns

Facebook/TristanTomDesigns

Facebook/GrandmaDandthemagicbookmachine

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies & Theatre

South Dakota State University (2004)

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