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Robyn Elise Maas • 330-***-**** • **********@*****.***

**** ********** ** **, ******, Ohio 44484 (permanent address) 4199 Arrel Rd, Poland, Ohio 44514 (studio address) EXPERIENCE

Graphic & Web Designer/LOOP Youngstown Arts + Culture Center 2023 - Present

Naming, designing and branding for LOOP Youngstown. The initiative of LOOP Youngstown is to purchase a building to create an arts and culture center. The LOOP envisions a vibrant scene of artist studios, classes, rehearsals, performances, offices, galleries, artist mentoring and residencies in or near Youngstown. Independent Curator/Exhibition Designer/Art Exhibitions 2022 - Present 2024: Curating/designing the exhibition Make Things Stick and co-curating This is not Nostalgia at the Trumbull Art Gallery. Exhibition designer for A Celebration of Life for Lisa Salcedo Zitello and Looking Back and Reaching Forward at the Coy Cornelius and Judy Rodgers Studios in Youngstown.

2023: Exhibiting in Observations at the Top Of West Virginia CVB and Summit Art Gallery in Weirton, WV. Co-curating and designing the exhibition Compass: It’s not an easy journey. The Nutting Art Gallery, West Liberty, WV. 2022: Exhibiting in Northern Blues and the Golden West, photographs on panels with resin and mixed media at the Art House in Youngstown. Independent Interior Designer/Art Handler 2021 - Present Hanging and rearranging artwork collections for residential homes. Taking clients to artist studios for artwork purchases. Cleaning artwork and arranging furniture for optimal flow. Color and material consulting for rooms, trim, flooring and furniture. Interior Painter 2021 - Present - Subcontractor

Working independently and with cabinetmakers and tile experts in Akron/Youngstown. Specializing in plaster repair, drywall finishing, tiling and painting for residential and historical homes.

Interior Designer/La-Z-Boy Howland 2023 - 2024 - Full Time/Manager Interior Design Consultant meeting in customers’ homes, in the store, or virtually to select products for purchase and installation. Customizing 3-D renderings of the client’s room/s, presenting the rendering with La-Z-Boy products. Exhibition Designer Medici Museum of Art /Howland 2021 - 2022 Subcontractor Assisted in designing and hanging two exhibitions in the new wing of the museum. Exhibition Design and Production Manager 2004 - 2020 - Full Time John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University Executed design, lighting and installation of all exhibitions at the McDonough Museum of Art, YSU’s Center for Contemporary Art. Worked closely with national and international artists, YSU students and faculty exhibiting their work. General art handling including unpacking and packing artwork and completing incoming and outgoing condition reports. Coordinated and facilitated the shipping and receiving of artwork - often picking up and delivering in state artworks. Responsible for the set up and take down of the events and productions taking place in the museum including its annual fundraising event, Mad About the Arts with 500 attendees. Designed graphics for the promotion of events and wall clings. Updated social media accounts with exhibitions, photos, events and updated the website regularly. EDUCATION

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, 1996 Masters of Fine Art Youngstown State University, 1991 Bachelor of Fine Art Howland High School, 1985

Advisory Boards

LOOP Youngstown Arts + Culture Center 2023 - Present WYSU FM 2018 - Present

SKILLS

Adobe Suite, photography, spacial awareness, creative problem solving and strong work ethic

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