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CV

Education:

2025 (In Progress)    Business Diploma, Red Deer Polytechnic, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

2023    BFA in Painting and Drawing, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

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Professional Experience:

2022-Present    Resort Gift Shop Merchandise Artist

2016-Present    Freelance Digital and Traditional Artist
 

Scholarships:

2022-2023    Provost Undergraduate Research Fund

2022-2023    Special Talent Award Scholar

2019-2023    Ohio Promise Award

2019-2023    Ohio Distinction Scholar

2019-2023    Ohio Focus Award

2019-2023    Ohio Success Scholarship

2019-2023    Ohio Pathway Scholarship

2019-2022    Federal Pell Grant

2019    KMC Scholarship Fund

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Exhibition Record:

2023    Group Thesis Exhibition, Ohio University, "Root of the Matter", Siegfried Hall, Athens, Ohio

2023    Online Group Exhibition, Wild Heart Gallery, 1st Annual Animal Portraiture, California

2022    Group Exhibition, Ohio University, Pop-Up Entrepreneurship Market, Athens, Ohio

2022    Group Exhibition, Ohio University, Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Siegfried Hall, Athens, Ohio

2022    Group Exhibition, Maisy Krystek, “To Each Their Own”, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

2021     Group Exhibition, Ohio University, Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Siegfried Hall, Athens, Ohio

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Commissions:

2016-Present    Character Illustration Commissions, Variety of Clients

2024    Clothing Design Commissions, Lily Moon Suits

2022    Gift Shop Sticker Design Commissions, Jaguar Reef, The Belize Collection, Hopkins, Belize

2022    Hotel Room Artist, Jaguar Reef, The Belize Collection, Hopkins, Belize

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Technical Skills:

Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Lightroom, and Clip Studio Paint

Proficient in acrylic paint and oil paint

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Travel/Foreign Languages Spoken:

2002-2006    Lived in Belize, visits on average once every year or two since then

2016-2019     Lived in Germany

2023-Present    Living in Alberta, Canada

Semi-fluent in basic Spanish

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References:

David Lapalombara

John Sabraw

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