EMAIL mere @ meredith-crandell.com

GOALS
Freelance Illustrator, Graphic Designer

EDUCATION
- Graduated 2006 with a BFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute
- Majored in Illustration, minored in Art History
- GPA 3.544
- With Honors

WORK EXPERIENCE

Summer 06 - Present Administrative Assistant to Richard Solomon, Artists Rep (New York)
Responsibilities include:

  • Project Management : Marketing
  • Creating press releases
  • Maintaining online blog
  • Graphic design, coding, and list maintenance for marketing emails to the creative community
  • Creation of powerpoint presentations
  • Presentations made on professional go-sees
  • Collection and maintenance of Richard Solomon's digital image archives
  • Working with clients to fill requests regarding digital files, commission requests, estimates, and various communications
  • Day-to-day time management for Richard Solomon as personal assistant

    Programs used in-office include Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop and InDesign, Microsoft Powerpoint and Excel, and FileMaker Pro

    Summers 03, 04, 05 Program Design and Prop Management for the Empire Lyric Players (Denver)
    Responsibilities include:

  • Program Design
  • Communication with printers
  • Prop creation
  • On-site backstage management including time-sensitive work and good communication with a crew

    SKILLS
    - Trained at a college level in the workings of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Further equipped with a working knowledge of Adobe ImageReady and Macromedia Flash, and competent in web design.
    - Performs equally well in a Mac or PC-oriented environment.

    OTHER ACTIVITIES
    - Secretary and Founding Member of the Pratt Student Sustainability Committee