Allison Bennetts - Resume
Objective: Scuola Lorenzo de’ Medici via Faenza 43, 50123, Florence, Italy Study Certificate in Graphic Design and Communications 2009.
Qualifiations:
- Able to convey one’s mind/ideas to visual media
- Language of Art
- Kinesthetic learner
- Digital media
- Adobe CS4
- InDesign
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Fireworks
- Dreamweaver
- Flash
- Quark
- iMovie
- Fine Arts and work done in traditional media
- 3D Modeling
- Clay
- Metal/Lost wax/wire
- Mache or mixed medias
- Pencil and pen illustration
- Oil pastel paint and bar Watercolor
Education:
- 2009 Study Certificate in Graphic Design and Communication, Scuola Lorenzo de’ Medici, Florence Italy. Accreditation from Marist College Poughkeepsie, NY.
- 2009 Session in June. Telling stories in pictures-creating images, Scuola Lorenzo de’ Medici Tuscania, Italy. Accreditation from Marist College Poughkeepsie, NY.
- 2008 BA in Digital Arts with in an emphasis in illustration, Dominican University of California, San Rafael CA
- 2001 Summer units in metal work shop, California College of Arts, Oakland, CA
- 2003, Notre Dame High School, Salinas, CA. Award in The Arts.
Employment:
- 2007 Summer Sales and gallery care, Galerie Plein Aire, btw 5th and 6th Delores street, Carmel by the Sea CA, 93921
- Summer internship with mentor Cyndra Bradford on how to run a gallery
References:
- Name, phone number, and email if desired
Exhibitions:
- 2009 Scuola Lorenzo de’ Medici, Florence and Tuscania, Italy.
- “The Art is in the Streets” Student show on Via Faenza Florence Italy.
- Entry project “T-shirt design.” Based on two words, Open minded/ love, combined then develop a design that would promote a message. The message included a unisexual color pair for the youth of 2009. It is geometric, simple, and street sign-esque in shape and communication.
- 2008 Spring Senior Thesis show. Archbishop Alemany Library Dominican University, CA
- Entry thesis “Anatomy of a book”
- “Violet” children’s story book
- Revised summer 2008
- 4 Original Illustrations
- 3 Digital drawn story boards
- “Violet” children’s story book
- Entry thesis “Anatomy of a book”
- 2007 August 4 thru September 4, “Estival” and “Legs and Teddy’s” shows at Galerie Plein Aire. Carmel, CA
- “Estival” collaboration show of Plein Aire oil paintings with Cyndra Bradford and Jeff Daniel Smith
- “Legs and Teddy’s” solo show of oil pastel bar drawings. Influences in Art Nouveau poster art. Research done in Paris France summer of 2006.
- 2006 Phil Levine Workshop Inc. Paris, France
- Included an online display
Relevant Bodies of work:
- “T-shirt Design” : 2009 Spring semester project submitted in the student show, “The Art is in the Streets” Spring 2009 at Scuola Lorenzo de’ Medici, Florence, Italy Via Faenza.
- “Legs and Teddy’s”: 2007 show at Galerie Plein Aire; 6 pieces including “Catfish: Must love cookies” from the series Catfish. Oil pastel on Lennox and BFK Paper. I absolutely love this series because it shows how I have mixed Fashion, Paris culture, color, design, and cartoon together.
- “Plein Aire Work”: 2006 Series of 20 paintings at 8x10 on canvas. Done with Art Nouveau esq. and Plein Aire painting outdoors along with freestyle concepts of cartoon and design.
- “The Teddy Bear Violet”: 2005-2006 six pieces done in oil Pastel sticks on 20X30 BFK paper. I developed them using my character as a fine art piece like Art Nouveau.
- “The Violets”: 2005-2007 22 pieces done in oil pastel sticks and paint bars on 38X50 Lennox paper, Series based on storybook illustrations. Digitized and reworked in Adobe Photoshop.
- “Violet’s Book of Stories”: 2005-2008 Children’s book made from “The Violets” and a written story.
- “Advanced Digital Drawing Illustrations”: 2005-2007 Adobe Photoshop on 8X10 paper, 2006. The Wacom Tablet was easy to adjust to; it was like drawing on regular paper, and developed my hand eye coordination.
- “Our Child”: 2006 film edited in iMovie, partner project
- “Have Gun Will Travel”: 2004 film edited in iMovie, partner project
- “Ralph and the Nacho”: 2005 Flash animation 12 minutes long. I feel was an amazing show of humor and fun.
Relevant Course work:
- Studio Drawing: Charcoal, Graphite, Pencil, Oil Pastel bars, and Color Pencils
- Life Drawing
- Oil Painting
- Digital Layout and Design
- Digital Art in:
- Adobe Photoshop; CS1-4
- Adobe Illustrator CS1-4
- Adobe InDesign CS4
- Macromedia Flash MX 2004
- Quark Express
- Digital Photography
- Digital Film, iMovie 3.0.3
- Digital 3D Modeling, Maya
- 3D Clay and multi media sculpture
- Metal and Lost Wax Sculpture
