Synopsis
of experience

Exceptional skills
  • Drawing and watercolor painting and illustration
  • Project framing, systematic design and management
  • Lateral thinking and creative problem solving
  • Detail oriented
  • Highly intuitive and empathic
  • Unusual depth and breadth of experience in multiple disciplines
  • Experience with diverse audience and client base
  • ​Constructive critique
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Coaching
  • ​Creative projects for private clients including project development and management, ghostwriting, editing, and illustration
  • Personal Life Coaching with focus on healing and personal development for private individuals and small groups
  • Self-healing modalities for live classes and online groups
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 Writing and editing
  • Blogging on drawing, watercolor, creative process, history, healing and culture, 2006-2018
  • Instructional content for over a dozen live and online teaching programs​ for public library systems throughout New England, Illinois, Virginia, South Carolina, Florida
  • UrbanBound, freelance contract content creation
  • ​Multiple albums of song lyrics
  • MIT Office of the President documents, Chair of MIT Faculty support documents, Faculty Meeting Minutes 
  • Private clients
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Teaching
  • Art History live classroom lectures, drawing and watercolor practicums and online courses
  • Drawing and Watercolor national workshops and courses live and online for ages 10-100
  • Architectural drawing for children, Charleston, SC
  • ​Music History, live performance programs
  • Elements of Music and Music History, ​6th grade curriculum, Ashley Hall, Charleston, SC
  • Songwriting workshops and short courses for college campuses and Elderhostels
  • Guitar for beginners of all ages, live and online
  • Natural healing modalities and energy work live and online
  • Essential Oils, live and online courses
  • Tarot and Astrology, community courses
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Instructional design and content creation ​
Illustration
  • 60 book illustrations and cover design for Delicious!
  • Live and recorded demos and illustrations for over 48 instructional lessons in drawing and watercolor
  • ​Freelance illustration and graphic design
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Event Planning
  • Drawing America (National initiative to promote drawing in neighborhood communities)
  • Big Draw Nashville 
  • Big Draws: Atlanta, GA, Merion Station, PA, Chicago, IL, Monterey, CA 
  • MIT Media Lab symposiums ​
  • MIT Faculty committee meetings 
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Concert, musical recording, theatrical and exhibit production and administration
  • 12 years solo concert touring throughout US and Europe including all travel, booking, accommodations 
  • Multiple productions and installations of painting exhibits
  • Six musical recording projects
  • Boston World of Music production, Lincoln Center, NYC, Road manager and MC
  • La Musica di Asolo, production and artist support
  • Play with music for New College/USF-FSU joint production, Asolo Sate Theater, Sarasota, FL, playwright, director, producer
  • Exhibition of original watercolors with research on Sarasota, FL, architectural history at City Hall and Northern Trust Bank
  • Sarah Vaughan, personal secretary, business office and special projects manager
  • 20th Century Music series at McCabe's Guitar Shop, creation and full production
  • McCabe's Guitar Shop concert series production assistant
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Design ​
Performance
  • ​Extensive live performance and public speaking experience
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Experience with children and youth

  • Drawing and Watercolor national workshops and courses
  • Architectural drawing for children, Charleston, SC​
  • Out Under the Sky: History and Development of the Christmas Carol, live performance touring program
  • American Folk Songs for Children, live performance touring program
  • Elements of Music and Music History, ​6th grade curriculum creation and presentation, Ashley Hall, Charleston, SC
  • Songwriting workshops and short courses for college campuses
  • Guitar for beginners 
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