ARTS ADMINISTRATION HIGHLIGHTS:

Artist | Designer
CJ NYE • 2008 – Present
• Branding companies by creating logos and brand guidelines • Cultivating relationships with galleries and journalists • Writing and submitting exhibition proposals, grant applications, press releases • Drafting bills of sale, consignment agreements, and artist statements • Creating and maintaining inventory, exhibitions, and grant databases • Researching law regarding sales tax and consignments • Photographing, photo-editing, and photo archiving of artwork • Designing and maintaining website

Assistant
BETTY TOMPKINS, ARTIST • 2013 – Present
• Liaising with galleries, museums, and art handlers • Managing repairs of studio space • Providing miscellaneous personal assistance

SHOP SUPERVISOR
THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM • 2017 – 2018
• Routine customer service and merchandizing • Familiar with legal constraints on museum earned income activities, undertook collections research and floated ideas for mission appropriate merchandise • Assisted Merchandise Manager in locating gallery-produced artist monographs
FOUNDING PRO BONO GALLERY CONSULTANT
PONGRATZ FINE ART • 2013 – 2014
• Drafting basic artist contracts and consignment agreements • Creating exhibitions planning checklists, inventory databases, and bills of sale • Researching appropriate regional public relations outlets • Creating branding, style guides, and templates for all public-facing materials • Designing show cards, informational rack cards, and gallery signage • Consulting on website design and building asset management systems • Photographing artwork • Drafting and submitting first press release and follow-up press packet that garnered Jacob Pongratz an interview for Glastonbury LIFE

Co-Manager — 74 artists, 1 salon show, 2 art fairs 
THE HULLABALLOO COLLECTIVE • 2012 – 2013
• Serving as publicity point person to ensure brand consistency • Creating and distributing exhibition planning timelines • Coordinating, creating, and distributing gallery sitter schedules and instructions • Creating price lists and purchase forms • Drafting and submitting collectively vetted press releases • Creating a flexible, visually branded template for artist information • Editing, and delegating editing of, artist information • Editing of images and management of visual assets • Tutoring artists in the use of WordPress • Maintaining social media accounts

HILLA REBAY GRADUATE INTERN FOR ADULT INTERPRETIVE PROGRAMS — 5 GALLERY GUIDES, 25 DOCENTS
THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM • 2006
• Assisting turnover of AIP management, including the interdepartmentally run Gallery Guide program • Streamlining and documenting AIP administrative workflow • Initiating and contributing to AIP intern manual • Formalizing and mapping Docent procedures across the institution • Overhauling Docent manual • Redesigning attendance and service record systems to work flexibly across departments for multiple reporting purposes and time frames • Compiling and distributing exhibitions and collections training materials • Uniformly branding internal paperwork • Docent scheduling (not for the faint of heart) • Training in The Museum System (TMS) and Raiser's Edge software

GENERAL MANAGER — 22 INSTRUCTORS, 3 DESK PERSONNEL, 50 VOLUNTEERS
THE HIMALAYAN INSTITUTE, a 501(C)(3), NYC • 2003 – 2004
• Initiating all press protocols leading to multiple listings, a feature article in Time Out New York, and a visible increase in attendance • Coordinating programs and streamlining workflow sufficiently to significantly expand programming • Creating and delegating staff duties according to institutional need and individual competencies • Clarifying instructor responsibilities, training instructors in administrative procedure, and designating an instructor liaison • Creating all volunteer policies, procedures, and management systems • Producing a comprehensive desk operations manual • Improving HINYC's visual presence in the storefront of its iconic for-profit subsidiary, East West Books • Orchestrating promotional photography • Designing brochures, postcards, fliers, handouts, and advertising using QuarkXPress and Photoshop • Supervising, producing, and developing content for the HINYC bimonthly email newsletter

​PART-TIME Gallery Assistant
TEN IN ONE GALLERY • 2001 – 2002 
• Maintaining artist files, inventory lists, mailing lists, and photo archives • Drafting title sheets and invoices • Editing and submitting press releases • Providing front of house reception during regular hours and opening receptions • Overseeing the gallery when owner attended overseas fairs
VOLUNTEERISM
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
THE GRACIE MANSION CONSERVANCY • 2019 – 2020
• Planning, writing, and tracking social media for events, “edutainment,” and general interest • Securing image usage rights • Researching art objects and history online and in city archives, museums, university, and manuscripts libraries • Liaising with Mayor’s Office, the New York Public Library, NYC Parks Department, the Council on Gender Equity, Penguin Random House, and multiple art galleries • Designing and editing pubic printed materials
MOMA FILM | FORD FAMILY PROGRAMS | ART IN SIGHT +
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
• Visitor assistance • Memberships sales • Training fellow volunteers in membership procedures • Art workshop and gallery tour support • Art in Sight tour assistance • Researching collections copyrights for Wikipedia Loves Art initiative
EDUCATION
MA ARTS ADMINISTRATION
TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
BA FINE ART
THE SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS
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