Deb T. Larsen Email & Phone Number

Bridgeport, Ct

Sole proprietor of a small resale business devoted to preserving American culture, collective memory, and manufacturing history and advocating for creative sustainable living through enjoying, utilizing, and archiving antiques. Work includes restoration, marketing, design, curatorial, and business operations for online store as well as running pop up shops at artisan farmer's market and other collaborative spaces catering to local art and design.

Greater New York City Area

Researching, recording, and managing multidisciplinary arts and preservation projects devoted to the preservation of living cultural heritage. Currently Project Manager and Oral Historian for a public art history project collaboration with the Housatonic Art Museum in CT and City Lore, NY, Places that Matter called Bridgeport Voices that celebrates people, places, and community life in Bridgeport CT.

New York, New York

Assisting Gallery Director with exhibitions pertaining to the preservation of living cultural heritage in New York City and beyond, such as: "Mother Tongues: Endangered Languages in NYC" and "Boardwalk Renaissance: How the Arts saved Coney Island". Duties include gallery, exhibition, and AV equipment operation and engaging and educating visitors on exhibition content.

New York, Ny

Restorer of high end antique gilded museum frames, objects, furniture and architectural elements. Promoted to Production Manager with responsibility of ensuring quality, timing, and registry on all orders in high-end art service field with clients such as the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum, the NY Historical Society, and other notable collectors nation-wide. Daily art handling of works by such prestigious artists such as Picasso, Lichtenstein, Monet, De Kooning, Remington, and Rembrandt.

United States

Selected Projects: Writer & Researcher, Peace Practices in Lebanon, Peacelights, NY, NY, 2011Oral Historian Associate, Women, Justice and the Law, Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, NY, NY, 2008Oral Historian, Endangered Properties Oral History Project, Providence Preservation Society, RI, 2007Research Assistant, Dr Richard Schechner, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, NY, NY, 2006

New York, New York

Contract position: Reviewing, determining, preserving, and archiving leftist historical paper documents

United States

Sante Fe, New Mexico

Additonal contracts in 2004 & 2009Head restorer and conservator of paintings, folk art, sculpture, and antique gilded frames under the direction of business owner

Ma, Performance And Cultural Studies

Interdisciplinary study of identity, culture, and art. Graduated summa cum laude. Distinguished Master Student Award. Study abroad.

Bachelor'S Degree, Mass Communication- Video Production