Lisa Dirks Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas Area

Ensuring the protection and maintenance of art in the museum’s care, primarily responsible for exhibitions organized and toured by the Blanton, including "Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser" and "The Avant-garde Networks of Amauta: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920s," as well as exhibitions borrowed from other institutions. Assists with permanent collection as necessary.

Austin, Texas Area

Coordinated marketing initiatives, while enhancing and maintaining the Texas School for the Deaf Foundation's brand through graphic design and content messaging• Designed online e-blasts, including quarterly newsletters, invitations to special events, announcements of fundraising campaigns, as well as promotional materials for print, such as special event invitations, direct-mail appeals, general brochures, etc.• Wrote, edited, and proofed content for all promotional materials, both online and in print, including website, e-blasts, quarterly newsletters, special event invitations and follow up e-mails, general brochures, direct-mail appeals, social media posts, etc.• Maintained website content

Austin, Texas

Enhanced and maintained The Miracle Foundation’s brand through graphic design and content messaging.• Project managed content for new website: www.MiracleFoundation.org. Collaborated with outside web design/technical team to plan navigation and design layout; Created graphic elements; Wrote/edited/populated copy; Selected/sized/placed images; and Partnered with SEO firm to optimize content • Wrote, edited, designed, proofed, and oversaw production of newsletters, brochures, event invitations, major donor presentations, flyers, and other promotional materials• Maintained website content, wrote press releases, and donor correspondence, as needed• Created blog posts, slideshow/videos, e-mail giving campaigns, and Facebook posts to enhance social media presence

Austin, Texas

Designed print materials for a variety of clients, including the Acton School of Business, the Association Montessori Internationale Elementary Alumni Association, Joanne Trubitt Graphic Design, John Wilson Illustration, the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, and TRC Consultants

Austin, Texas

Oversaw coordination of in-house and traveling exhibitions, as well as design and production of exhibition- and education-related graphics.Specific job responsibilities related to ALL positions while on staff at AMOA (see below) included:• Managed all aspects of coordinating 40+ art exhibitions held at 2 Austin locations, both in-house and traveling exhibitions, as well as publication production, including "Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee’s Bend Quilts and Beyond" (2006); "New Art in Austin" (2002, 2005, and 2008); "New Frontier: Art and Television, 1960–65" (2000); and "Julie Speed: Queen of My Room" (1999)• Served as liaison with artists, curators, lending institutions, conservators, essayists, graphic designers, printers, and in-house staff to adhere to brand guidelines, secure approvals, meet deadlines, and meet budgets• Instituted production schedules and weekly departmental meetings to monitor schedules and priorities• Self-taught graphic designer, responsible for producing all exhibition- and education-related publications, graphics, and signage (catalogues, invitations, gallery guides, newsletters, banners, and wall texts). Received three Mitchell A. Wilder Design Awards from the Texas Association of Museums: - Silver Citation/Educational Resources — New Art in Austin Family Guide (2006) - Merit Citation/Newsletters — Lance Letscher + Manny Farber Newsletter (2005) - Merit Citation/Marketing Materials — Jun-Nguyen-Hatsushiba Bookmark (2005)• Oversaw crating, transit, storage, loan agreements, condition reporting, conservation, and insurance of all incoming/outgoing loans and traveling exhibitions, as well as accessioning works to permanent collection• Wrote, reviewed, and verified compliance of traveling exhibition contracts• Coordinated photography, gathered photographs, and gained copyright permission of images

Austin, Texas

Oversaw editing, design, and production of exhibition- and education-related graphics. Coordinated public relations initiatives and other museum graphics, as necessary

Austin, Texas

Managed production of all exhibition-related publications, protection and maintenance of art in museum’s care—including in-house and traveling exhibitions and permanent collection

Austin, Texas

Coordinated production of exhibition catalogues; Managed traveling exhibitions program; Oversaw care and maintenance of museum’s permanent collection

Austin, Texas

Assisted Design Manager in the management of a ten-member team designing custom interiors ofprivate aircraft, including nine wide-body planes, eleven corporate jets, and nine helicopters• Coordinated in-house production of presentation items and international production of prototypes• Initiated weekly staff meeting to monitor design team schedules and priorities

Greater New York City Area

Oversaw traveling exhibitions program of more than twenty exhibitions of documentary, fine art, andcontemporary photography which annually traveled to forty institutions worldwide• Served as staff liaison with corporate sponsors, borrowing institutions, curators, and artists to manage exhibition tours, meet deadlines and budget restrictions• Administered $300,000 traveling exhibitions budget• Wrote, reviewed, and verified compliance of traveling exhibition contractsTraveled to Amsterdam, Paris, Tokyo, and Torino as courier and to oversee exhibition installations• Initiated concept of traveling exhibitions brochure for future market development (wrote copy,selected images, and co-designed brochure)• Hired, trained, and supervised full-time staff person and numerous interns

Greater New York City Area

Assisted in the organization of 150 photography exhibitions held at 2 New York City locations: • Served as staff liaison with curators, scholars, artists, and in-house production team to meet all deadlines and budget restrictions while coordinating numerous exhibitions and publications, including "Annie Leibovitz Photographs, 1970–1990"; "The Legacy of W. Eugene Smith: 12 Photographers in the Humanistic Tradition"; and "Man Ray/Bazaar Years: A Fashion Retrospective"• Initiated weekly staff meeting to monitor staff schedules and priorities• Wrote, reviewed, and verified compliance of traveling exhibition contracts and letters of agreements with artists, guest curators, and guest essayists• Researched, wrote, and edited text for exhibition literature and signage• Collaborated on development of press materials, edited press releases, selected press images, and coordinated promotional materials for corporate sponsors• Oversaw crating, transit, loan agreements, condition reporting, and insurance of all incoming/outgoing loans and traveling exhibitions

Greater New York City Area

Assisted in the organization of monthly exhibitions and sale of twentieth-century American art