Jennifer MacDonald
Visual Artist @Independent Artist - Visual Art
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WORK HISTORY
Visual Artist @Independent Artist - Visual Art
Bushwick, NY, US
Visual artist: 2D, 3D, and time-based media. Painting: oil, gouache, watercolor, casein, acrylicSculpture: lost-wax bronze casting, plastilina, paper and cardboard constructionAnimation: hand-drawn, rotoscope and stop-motionDrawing: dry and aqueous mediaFreelance work includes Project Management for NYC contemporary art fairs, commissioned paintings and animation projects, and financial services + book keeping for artists.
EDUCATION
City University of New York-Hunter College
MFA, Painting / Fine Arts
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Visual and Performing Arts
University of Pennsylvania
Bachelor’s Degree, fine arts, literature, comparative literature, film theory, philosophy, comparative religion studies, summa cum laude
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
certificate-Sculpture, lost-wax bronze casting, stone and plate lithography, painting, drawing, William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship and 5th year Studio Award
ABOUT JENNIFER MACDONALD
Liaising with artists, designers, fabricators, architects, engineers, riggers, shippers, union trades and construction sites, museums, galleries, legal oversight, public and private collections / institutions. I have expertise in curatorial selection processes; overseeing artist exhibition planning, production and installation timelines for proposals; design development, project budgets and 3rd party bid requests; tracking and feasibility; artist, gallery and exhibition contracts, for private institutions as well as city agencies. Project management for large permanent public commissions; indoor and outdoor exhibitions; overseeing production for artworks in a variety of mediums. Expertise in: Painting (oil, enamel, latex, flashe, gouache, acrylic), Foundry techniques: lost-wax bronze, aluminum and iron casting, patination, welding, mold-making, sculpture resins. Overseeing fabrication and installation processes for 2D and 3D mixed media work including enlargement, laser cut / CNC / 3D print, powdercoat, sandblast, rigging. hand-drawn / stop-motion animation, sculpture and mural enlargement, digital printing, traditional mosaic production, dye-sublimation, 3D printing, as well as new technologies and substrates- Past: Studio manager, Virginia Overton Studio, NYC. Senior Management Specialist, NYCSCA: Curator and project manager overseeing public site-specific art commissions for NYC School Construction Authority, Public Art for Public Schools. PAPS is the only program in the country commissioning contemporary permanent artwork for public schools, providing diverse school communities and neighborhoods with site-specific works. In addition to new commissions PAPS maintains the NYC Department of Education\'s collection of over artworks, dating from the 1890s to the present. I oversee commissions including jury selection, proposal development, design and budget review, contract and payment administration, fabrication approval and supervision, onsite installation, as well as PR, community engagement, archiving, documentation and collection management.
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