Annie Leist Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny

Facilitates inclusive artmaking experiences for students with and without disabilities.• Co-founding visiting professor of Drawing as Seeing, an intensive and inclusive drawing program hosted by the Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy.• Contractual educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, leading access and community programs including Seeing through Drawing for visitors with vision loss.• Access guide at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, leading multisensory and interactive in-gallery experiences for individuals and groups with disabilities.Provides expert user feedback on and training in physical and conceptual access to cultural exhibitions, technology, facilities, and programs.• Specializes in museum and public institution accessibility for patrons with little or no vision.• Trains staff and volunteers in use of assistive technology, multisensory teaching strategies, and engagement with people who have vision loss.

New York, Ny

Creates, exhibits, and sells original works of art, primarily paintings.• Paintings, drawings, and performative work reflects light, life, and architecture of public and urban spaces as perceived through the filters of memory and visual impairment.• Currently represented in several private, corporate, and educational collections in the US and abroad.• Manages all related finances, marketing, and administrative matters, including website, social media, and inventory database.Engages with local and field-wide contemporary art world through ongoing professional development, curatorial work, and community activity.• Participates in solo, juried, and group exhibitions and events.• Serves on panels and delivers artist talks upon request.• Curates solo and group exhibitions at local and regional venues.• Supports local community arts events, and served on steering committee of the Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour.

Greater New York City Area

New York, Ny

Trains, advises, advocates strategies for welcoming visitors with disabilities into cultural institutions.• Leads ABS’s consulting/professional development practice.• Creates customized training/advising solutions for each museum client.• Facilitates interactive learning for all levels of institution staff; topics include disability awareness, inclusive teaching practices, specific strategies for working with patrons with vision loss.Develops programming focused on artists with disabilities & the intersection of contemporary art & disability.• Co-leads ABS’s Art & Disability Institute, a pilot program launching in Fall 2016 offering rigorous study & professional development to artists with disabilities.• Explores impact of disability on artists’ professional practice, critical reception, career development.Contributes to broader accessibility field with service, collaboration, knowledge-sharing, thought leadership.• Professional/community group tenures include Museum Access Consortium steering committee, ADA25NYC steering committee, & access advisory boards at Museum of Fine Arts Boston, NYC Historic House Trust, Brooklyn Children’s Museum.• Presents regularly at conferences including Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability, American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting, Museums & the Web.Shapes organizational initiatives through ideation, conceptualization, project leadership, research, grant development.• Plays diverse leadership & supporting roles in small nonprofit with national reach.• Supports grant writing to private, municipal, federal funders.• Serves as primary programming staffperson; works with interns, consultants, & administrative staff; coordinates projects including annual professional development teleconference & monthly audience growth opportunities for NYC-area arts groups.• Continues ongoing learning via research into areas including cultural applications for accessible technology, holistic approaches to inclusive environments.

Apple Store Soho, New York, Ny; Apple Store Boylston Street, Boston, Ma

Championed accessibility of procedures and technology on in-store and corporate level.• As member of global task force, co-created accessibility workshops and best practices standards to be used companywide.• Assisted corporate headquarters in modifying new employee-side procedures and systems for use by staff members with low or no vision.• Trained customers with disabilities or special needs in product use, pre- and post-purchase.• Elevated accessibility awareness among colleagues through formal and informal training, mentoring teammates in universal access features and best practices. Communicated complex information to diverse students of all technological skill levels through group workshops, one-on-one training sessions, and customer-centered sales transactions.• Facilitated public workshops in Apple software and hardware, in both presentation and hands-on formats.• Demonstrated, sold, and troubleshot Apple products in busy retail environment. • Assisted with student group field trips within the store, encouraging young people to use technology for creative self-expression.Successfully engaged in highly individualized and empathetic customer-centered interactions with diverse clientele on the sales floor.• Learned and practiced excellent customer service skills, as taught by Apple, one of the leaders in the field.• Consistently received exceptional reviews from supervisors, peers, and customers alike.• Aligned with customers from a variety of backgrounds, including visitors from outside the US.• Used knowledge of Spanish to ease interactions with some non-English speakers.

Mfa, Visual Art

One-Year Visiting Postgraduate, Cultural Studies, Literary And Critical Theory

Activities and Societies: Treasurer, Dublin University Graduate Students' Union Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar

Ba, Mathematics And Studio Art

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa Honors in Studio Art Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society Delta Gamma Fraternity (Foundation.