Grace Connell Email & Phone Number

Westport, Connecticut, United States

A luxury goods producer of fine stationery and unique gift products by Martha Stewart artist Grace Connell. American Express Travel Group Luxury Resort and Hotel gift amenity supplier of custom-illustrated, framed resort prints, notes, and more. Featured segment on Martha Stewart Television, editorial contributor to Martha Stewart Weddings Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, service provider to Tiffany & Co., Cartier, and nominated for Modern Bride's Trendsetter of the Year by Mindy Weiss, Ms. Connell started her firm in 1990. www.graceconnelldesigns.com

Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Art Educator for Upper School boys, specifically 7th, 8th and 9th grade students.*Guidance Advisor for 7th & 8th grade students.Moderator for various on-campus programs.Featured presenter @ International Boys School Coalition, Montreal 2019.Featured presenter @ International Boys School Coalition, Barcelona 2021.Art History Liaison for the Fairfield Art Museum at The Quick Center for the Arts.Art Liaison for the Westport Arts Center.*Studio art (design, painting, drawing, ceramics, pottery, digital design, photography, collage, 3-D art, critique.) Art history, Art As A Voice.

A professionally-curated Art Gallery and past home to the works of Andy Warhol and Josef Albers among others, the Gallery hangs new shows every 5 weeks in a diverse range of art forms including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and photography. Duties include portfolio reviews on artist's submissions, roundtable discussions, meeting the selected artists, reviewing and selecting work, discussions of installation, handling, tagging and hanging of artwork, opening reception duties, breakdown and return of artwork, tracking of sales.

Instructed over 150 students, lettering with authentic goose quills and india ink drawn from a period-reproduction inkwell on the finer points of colonial-style lettering. Using the Declaration of Independence as a model, students were taught dipping, inking, illustration and hot-wax sealing. Off-hand flourished renderings were drawn for the students to highlight a popular colonial artform employed to decorate one's personal correspondence.

Teacher Resource Volunteer in the Uris Library Education Center. Duties included assisting teachers in finding appropriate lesson and unit plans designed for all areas of art history, art technique and discussion; developing an understanding of the museum's vast collection of books, dvds, videos and multi-media packets designed for the purpose of better understanding the museum's own collection and other great works of art.

Graphic Design for Marketing, Packaging and Corporate Identity Print Campaigns

Responsible for overseeing cartographers, chapter art designers, proofreaders, indexers and contributing editors to the guides. Created the cover design calligraphy for "Watching the Royals", a guide to following the comings and goings of Great Britain's Royal family.

Responsible for creating marketing presentations, graphics and sales booklets.

Writing press releases, PSAs, proofreading.

Masters Of Art, Arts Education

Masters In Art Education, Arts Education

Bachelor Of Fine Arts, Design And Visual Communications, General

Activities and Societies: Editor, Literary Journal Photographer, Trinity College News

Certificate Of Art History In Renaissance And Baroque Art, Art History