bio | resumé

education

Rhode Island School of Design
B.F.A. Furniture Design, June 2009

work experience

Liz Collins Studio
Position: Studio Assistant summer 2008-present
Responsibilities: Production machine knitting, keeping the studio functioning and organized.

Edna Lawrence Nature Lab at the Rhode Island School of Design
Position: Lab Monitor summer 2006-2008
Responsibilities: Categorizing nature lab specimens, arranging cabinet displays and exhibits, animal care i.e. food/cleaning/play for the nature lab creatures. Assisting students in utilizing the nature lab.

Internship Production Designer
Christine Stocking
Position: intern/assistant, Summer 2007
Responsibilities: prop scouting, set dressing, onset scenic work, built large outdoor sculptures out of animal hides and wood for music video set “Class of 73 Bells” - Prefuse 73, directed by Elliot Jokelson.

Internship Encyclopedia Pictura
Position: fabricator for Bjork’s Music Video Wanderlust, Summer 2007
Responsibilities: puppet building/dressing, foam molding and shaping for puppet parts and set, built small stage.

Mount Hope Learning Center
Position: mentor/teacher, Fall 2005-Spring 2007
Responsibilities: Worked in the after-school program at the Martin Luther King School assisting in teaching literacy and art. Taught a class at Mount Hope Learning Center fall of 2006 exploring the relationship between art and science with middle school students.