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Art Director/Illustrator/Designer: 10 years experience |
| Katie Miranda U.S. citizen location: Ramallah, Palestine mobile: (972) 546671373 email: flo0dland@yahoo.com Objective : To create and lead in a diverse, team-environment where my unique background, creative problem-solving skills and artistic talents can be used to develop ad campaigns, illustrations, graphics, and a wide variety of other visual communications. Education: Academy of Art University BFA in Illustration 1997-2001 Employment : Art Under Apartheid Director, Teacher 1/2007-present Founded a non-profit which brought together Israeli, Palestinian, and international volunteers to provide creative workshops for underprivileged children in the politically unstable West Bank city of Hebron. Organized craft projects and taught drawing classes to children, fund-raised, managed a team of teachers, designed and maintained the website, and organized field-trips. Freelance Illustration, Design, Concept, Web 1998 - present Worked on a broad spectrum of projects including: book illustrations, CD covers, web design, promotional and marketing artwork, editorial illustrations, business cards, book covers, character design, logos, games, and posters. Clients included: Sony, Sprint, Publicis Dialog, Plextor, Laura DuPriest, Inc., Oaklawn Press, Inc. Palestine Times Cartoonist 1/2007 - 5/2007 Worked with the Editor-in-Chief to conceptualize and draw three political cartoons per week for the newspaper. International Solidarity Movement Coordinator, Artist, Non-Violence Trainer 12/2005 - 10/2006 Lead diverse teams of human rights workers for the International Solidarity Movement in high-risk situations of crisis-intervention and violence de-escalation. Trained new volunteers in the principles of non-violence as made famous by Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi. Wrote and published reports detailing human rights abuses, edited video footage, gave tours, worked in coordination with the United Nations and other regional human rights monitoring groups, painted murals, created a series of educational illustrations about the conflict, taught art classes for children in refugee camps. Skills: Artistic: character design color theory drawing painting comics/cartoons illustration graphic design photography sculpting Arabic calligraphy Technical: Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Painter Maya Filemaker Pro QuarkXPress Dreamweaver HTML iMovie Microsoft Word Wordpress Leadership: team management motivating coordinating public speaking mediating conflict resolution non-violence training crisis intervention Languages: English (fluent) Arabic (intermediate) |