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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States

Brattleboro, Vermont, United States

Leading guided tours and art activities for grade schoolers visiting the Brattleboro Museum.

Needham, Massachusetts, United States

Weekly drawing lessons. Focusing on gesture drawing and other fundamental approaches that help one embody and understand the drawing process.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

I am honored to be making illustrations for eLife Sciences, focusing on the perspectives of scientists as they reflect on issues and subjects that they have observed throughout their careers. These articles offer a unique awareness of the science community and beyond. So my illustrations reflect this complexity of their awareness in visual form.

Falls Village, CT

Over the past five years, I have enjoyed getting to know individuals mainly from the inner city in the life-affirming context of the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center. The participants in this program explore, nature, cooking, art-making, storytelling, etc. in this restorative environment. I lead the arts and crafts component of this camp bringing.

Sharing my passion for illustration with Upwork's online community.

Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, United States

Offering drawing lessons on a weekly basis to continuing students since the beginning of the pandemic.

Greater Boston Area

I provide a weekly art class to residents at Neville Place. This is a rich learning environment. We work with all types of approaches from portrait drawing, to landscape painting or abstract design, etc. The time with the residents is informative of how important it is to be together and to stay creative in the context of community.

Greater Boston Area

Gould Farm is a program that helps people living with mental health challenges find healing through work and community. Fellside is an extension of that program in the Boston area where I lead a weekly art group for the past 8 years. Each weak I brought a new approach for the participants to explore and often this was a collaborative exercise making group.

Greater Boston Area

Exploring nature journaling with children is a fascinating undertaking. During this time we explore how to look at and observe the natural world through direct experience and observation in the Fresh Pond habit in Cambridge MA. Each 4th or 5th grader at the Cambridge Tobin Montessori school gets paired with an adult mentor. The one on one relationship.

Boston, Massachusetts

I designed a logo and I am in the process of redesigning a website for Pontikes Law, LLC. My role is to restructure content and create a meaningful and practical layout for displaying their work and expertise. This includes creating an appealing and functional design, restructuring content, as well as updating graphics, so as to highlight the firm's.

Greater Boston Area

I supervised 4 cashiers and coordinated their scheduling. Handled cash and credit transactions. Updated membership information in the computer system. Answered phones and addressed customer questions about organic and natural foods.

Greater Boston Area

Transformed architecture blueprints into three-dimensional illustration so that customers could see a vision of the new store in Roslindale MA before it was built. Created large scale artwork for the front entrance of Harvest Co-op in Cambridge MA.

Painted and designed the cover illustration for The Book of Lark and Mole. This project leaned on my sense of character development and understanding of the fictional environment created by the author.

Fabricated and installed habitat for a touch-tank exhibit. This process involved a small team of artists to sculpt rock formations out of foam, eventually building them out of fiberglass and texturizing using epoxy to achieve a realistic appearance. We also created and texturized mangrove trees. Lastly installing these formations on-site at the New England.

Waltham, MA

Working on-site at Brandies University I observed lobster larvae under the microscope and rock crabs, to create scientific illustrations used as graphics for educational lectures, and published in various scientific journals.