Cecelia A. Email & Phone Number

Eugene, Oregon, United States

• Lead the design and implementation of arts education and grant-funded programs- afterschool, artist services, family workshops, adult classes and workshops• Conduct outreach and communicate with school districts & educators, parents, working artists, and community stakeholders interested in classes, workshops, mentorships, events, and teaching at the center• Identify opportunities for volunteer engagement; update policies, and train volunteers• Interview, hire, onboard, and evaluate teaching artist partners• Review and update teaching artists’ contracts• Analyze and implement new compensation levels for teaching artists • Manage payroll and track expenditures• Manage Customer Relationship Management database and configure reports • Evaluate community programming, conduct surveys, and provide meaningful, creative opportunities for community involvement at the art center• Train gallery guides on Dia de Los Muertos annual exhibition and manage guided tours for school and community members.

Eugene, Oregon, United States

• Administered career learning events and programming in 3 different schools within the College of Design• Identified the professional development interests and mentorship needs of the students and professional alumni. Led new peer to professional-alumni mentorship events.• Consulted with faculty on embedding career learning into professional development courses - online, hybrid and in-person. • Implemented outreach and awareness programs for students, bolstered individualized advising support, and created new informal mentoring circles, and internship opportunities. • Served as the professional development resource to architecture and design industry firms & companies, as well as nonprofits and government agencies looking for student interns.• Administered, along with Director of Donor Relations, the scholarship review committee. • Communicated and expedited all scholarship awards to students

Eugene, Oregon, United States

• Consulted with tenured and career faculty, staff, and administration about Online learning strategies. • Evaluated and guided faculty's online courses with Quality Matters standards which focus on building student - centered online courses. • Presented online learning topics at faculty summer institutes (remotely and in-person.

Eugene, Oregon, United States

• Certified career coaching services to high schoolers, young adults , mid-career and seasoned professionals• Individual confidential coaching, career exploration assessments, reviewed portfolios, curriculum vitae, and resumesPartnered with makeSpace to deliver arts integration prinicples to public school teachers.

Eugene, Oregon

• Coordinated with Education Director on new classes for the Maude Kerns seasonal rosters• Developed lesson plans• Provided materials inventory sheets• Instructed multiple ages• Prepared materials and cleaned up the art studio• Actively supported the art center staff in providing excellent experiential education to youth and their families

Eugene, Oregon

• Managed contracts for 5 teaching artists, at five different middle schools• Assisted 5 year grant process and partners at two different organizations• Monitored budgets• Advised on curricular planning for institute• Reported on program development• Supervised teaching artists• Managed the Arts Integration Conference

Eugene, Oregon

• Provided practicum instruction and career development advising for students in the following graduate and undergraduate concentrations: music and dance concurrent arts management certificate, museum education, community arts, arts in healthcare, media arts, and performing arts. • Managed marketing and outreach and events, created practicum website and produced informational materials for students to understand the program and career development services.Planned and coordinated the annual Practicum Fair- connecting our creative sector community organizations to new and returning students. My teaching & advisement philosophy was and remains relevant today: "to listen to each student, help identify their personal/academic and life goals, and build practical learning experiences that empower meaningful career and life endeavors."

Eugene, Oregon, United States

UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT• Visual Literacy - Multicultural Undergraduate course• Art and Human Values - Multicultural Undergraduate course• Arts Entrepreneurship - Undergraduate & Graduate• Arts Business Development - Undergraduate & Graduate• Practicum - Undergraduate & GraduateCURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT• Development and implementation of new undergraduate Arts Management degreePRACTICUM COORDINATOR & INSTRUCTOR | ARTS ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM• Reviewed practicum program and implemented new internal and outreach processes to recruit community nonprofit partners and support students seeking practicum• Communicated guidance and advised practicum students• Reported to arts and administration faculty & program manager• Created website and maintained a database of student/community partner projects.• Supported the graduate-undergraduate cohort buddy system

Eugene Oregon

Studio Cartouche's mission included a middle school studio mentorship program: It provided one-on-one mentorship opportunities to 7th and 8th-grade students interested in learning more about studio artists, the art world, the creative process. Students learned to recognize their values. Develop value frameworks that related to their community and interests. And practice drawing and painting techniques. Studio Cartouche's mission was to cultivate a zest for life in individuals and community through fine art painting, artisan products, youth mentorship and educational classes.

Eugene, Oregon

Owned and operated my personal art studio business including the following services: Visiting Artist for preschools & art museumsArtist in Residence public (K-12) schools & private schools throughout Eugene and surrounding rural schools for 14 years. Event Manager and contributing artist for the Winter Holiday Studio Artists Consortium. Exhibited personal artwork in solo, group, juried and open exhibitions. Commissioned works for individual clients. Licensed paintings to wholesale jewelry and literary arts companies.Managed the Studio Mentorship program nurturing the creative capacities of 7th and 8th grade students interested in learning more about painting, drawing and a studio visual art business

Eugene, Oregon

Contracted as an Artist in Residence providing art instruction to students in Lane County K-12 public schools in rural and urban settings. Collaborated with teachers in classrooms to compliment lesson plans and/or provided after-school art programming.

Eugene Oregon

• Administrative support to the museum education and volunteer docent program.• Curated art lessons for K-12 students touring the art museum• Presented impact of educational programming to board, committees, & executive staff• Communicated with visitors and program participants• Coordinated media and marketing materials with communications team

Eugene Oregon

• Provided an arts education experience in the museum art studio to public school students• Taught after school youth workshops • Created summer school curriculum • Supervised studio assistants• Monitored summer camp budgets

Eugene, Oregon

Collaborated and led workshops with visiting artists and arts professionals through the DIVA artists’ enrichment and professional development series. Coordinated panel discussions, artists’ talks, and workshop lessons for Eugene's community of artists

Eugene Oregon

8 Week residency teaching brush painting, ink & watercolor painting, eastern brush techniques to 8th grade students.

Eugene, Oregon

Designed and taught art lessons on letter-writing project, the Hands Across the Sea Project. The goal of the project was to provide correspondence and art between Iraqi children and Eugene children. Collaborating with my partner coordinator and Montessori teacher, Jennifer McConochie, we presented cultural information on Iraq culture and life to teachers and students and assisted them in identifying the universal human values we share around the globe in order to create a letter-writing campaign.

Eugene Oregon

Assisted in teaching Visual Literacy

Eugene, Oregon

Hire arts graduates to teach TAG program students from the surrounding community. Coordinate with university room rentals, manage individual artists budgets. Correspond with supervisor of TAG program. Write workshop descriptions and answer parent questions.

Master Of Science - Ms, Arts Management, Community Arts Concentration

Activities and Societies: Thesis: Forging New Partnerships Between For-Profit and Not for Profit Organizations: A Literature Review.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Fine And Studio Arts

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi Academic Excellence Award Committee for the Education of Visual Arts (CEVA) Gallery Director.