Kate O'Malley Email and Phone Number

Consultant for artist and non-profit services, including project planning, budgeting, and execution, community outreach, contract drafting and negotiation, RFP development and management.

● Transformed the organization's role in economic and community development through strategic planning and partnerships.● Proven ability to create and manage budgets, secure funding and partnerships, lead a team, and serve as a spokesperson for the arts.• Revived the highly popular “Mural Week” program and successfully launched “Foxx and Friends” Mural Festival, attracting the highest volume of internationally renowned artists to Atlantic City in a ten-day period.• Advocated for fair payment rates for artists, resulting in a 60% increase in stipend amounts and a significant rise in contracted artists.• Secured $514,700 in grants, including $284,700 from NJEDA, and cultivated relationships with key community development corporations.• Implemented OSHA compliance measures and prioritized artist safety, offering free lift certification courses and ensuring adherence to safety standards.• Enhanced organizational transparency and donor engagement through effective communication strategies.

Community outreach and fieldwork for cultural mapping project of South Jersey

1. Worked under Taral Thompson, marketing manager for Wheaton Arts, to advertise upcoming virtual events that the museum would be hosting2. Worked in google sheets to compile detailed spreadsheets of free listing sites, Facebook groups and pages, and email contacts that the events had been advertised on

1. Worked under Dr. Iveta Pirgova, director of the Down Jersey Folklife Center, to do online Anthropological fieldwork finding visual and performing folk artists and arts organizations representing countries in Central and South America for participation in a year long project showcasing these art forms2. Contacted and built relationships with folk artists, organizations, church and community members as well as compiled detailed lists of their contact information, photos of their work, biographies, as well as a detailed daily journal of each day’s work for context of such lists3. Performed detailed interviews with several artists for the cultural significance of their work, their life histories, and what role their work plays in ensuring that their culture survives in an American landscape, transcribed interviews for use within the project

1. Spring Semester internship from January 2020 through April 2020a. Working under Saskia Schmidt, director of education, performing research and producing education guides for upcoming exhibitions, traveling to Atlantic City schools to help facilitate meet the artist programs, helping to facilitate crafts and events at the Arts Garage, helping to design and physically put together exhibitions2. Working with Stockton Archivist Heather Perez to process museum archivesa. Interviewing artists within the museum’s collection for the purpose of producing biographical research papers