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Garrison Mason Gunter
garrisongunter@mac.com
85 Franklin St #6, Stamford, CT 06901
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Education
Master of Fine Arts in New Media, The Pennsylvania State University, December 2009
Master of Education in Art Education, The Pennsylvania State University, December 2009
Bachelor of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Photography, May 1998
Professional Experience
The Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH), PSU, January 2005-December 2009
Responsible for the design of all faculty and guest speaker lecture flyers and posters. Rebranding of the IAH look at feel including Newsletter, lecture posters, email banners, and promotional materials. Designer and Photographer for the August Wilson Play Festival at Penn State. Redesigning the IAH logo for the 40th year anniversary for 2006.
Photographer, Current
Photography for Holiday Events, Cooking Events, Food Photography, Product Photography, Fundraisers and Parties.
American Heart Association Fund Raising Gala and Auction
Martha Stewart Living Magazine hosted Chef open house with SoNo, CT Chefs.
Gourmet Magazine hosted wine tasting and Chef open house with guest Chefs Michelle Nichon of HeartBeat, NY and Jean Louis of Jean-Louis, Greenwich.
Marsh & McLennan Private Client holiday party.
Nickelodeon (MTV Networks), New York, NY, February to August 2000
Designer for Nickelodeon Consumer Product’s NickToons Group. Design of packaging and Products for Nickelodeon branded products as well as property specific items. These items include Nickelodeon Toothpaste, multi property fruit snacks, SpongeBob SquarePants Style Guide, Kites, Lunchboxes. Art Direction of many outsourced projects, including multi property matchbox cars, Valentines day cards, school binders and folders, Paramount Parks Billboards and Goooze product lines, such as multi-packs and property connected Goooze items such as SpongeBob Branded Goooze. Other responsibilities include color management, Software and Hardware research via visits to seminars such as Seybold and Macworld. Assisted in the working relations between Nick Creative and the onsite support groups of Xerox and Infoworks Macsupport.
MTV Networks (Infoworks), New York, NY, March of 1999 to February 2000
Macintosh Field Support Technician for InfoWorks Group at MTV Networks. Support of the creative departments at MTV, Nickelodeon and VH1. Duties included Troubleshooting Macintosh computers for Designers, Directors, VPs, and Presidents of all off-air groups, as well as MTV Animation including Celebrity Death Match and Blues Clues Productions. Deployment of new machines to users, as well as redeployment of existing machines. Specializing in troubleshooting both Hardware and Software related issues. Managed the troubleshooting of a major RAM incompatibility problem, with the assistance of technicians at Microtech International, resulting in the exclusive use of Microtech’s RAM in all newly deployed Macintosh Computers.
Big Foote Music, New York, NY, March to December 1998
Office assistant for Ray and Sherman Foote. Basic troubleshooting of Macintosh computers for sound designers and engineers. Assisted in the research of new Hardware and software for both Production and Administrative staff. Assisted in design of packaging look and label system for video and audio tapes. Maintenance and Development of Macintosh hardware, software and audio/asset tracking system.
Delicate Productions and Joe Allegro (LD), Los Angeles, CA 1997-1998
Freelance Photographer and Grip for Joe Allegro. Photography of the Starship Troopers premier cast party at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, CA. Photography of Superbowl XXXII special events booth sponsored by Sprint. Grip for various events in Southern and Northern California.
Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT, Fall Semester, 1996
Assisted Photo Instructor Ron Lake with Advanced level photo students. Development and outlining of group and individual projects. Discussion of composition and design, as well as use of color and form. Directed critiques and introduced College level art critique methods to students
MoCA & Spelling Productions, Los Angeles, CA 1996-1997
(Museum of Contemporary Art)
Created custom props for Melrose Place, concentrating on wall art, and package design of fictitious brewery for Shooters Bar. The fictitious brewery named 28IF focused it’s line on the Beatles Abby Road Album cover for design, and used the urban myth and public’s perception during the period for the design of each beer. The project was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Temporary Contemporary space in downtown Los Angeles.
Exhibitions & Publications
2009 The Zoller Gallery, University Park, Pennsylvania, “Dark Matter”
2009 Art House Coop, New York, New York, “A Million Little Pictures”
2009 Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, “Graduate Research Exhibition”
2008 Crane Arts, The Gray Area (Gallery), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “The Golden Calf”, Group Show
2007 Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel, “Inspiration Art Exhibition”
2007 Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, “Mashafabulatic”
2006 Window Display Exhibition, State College, Pennsylvania “Fourth Annual ShopHop”
2002 The Wall Street Journal, Photo (portrait of a mother) for editorial on the personal impact of 9/11.
2000 Left of the Bank Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut, Group Show.
1998 Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, California,
If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now.
1997 The Geffen Contemporary Museum at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, California, “Uncommon Sense”, collaboration with Mel Chin.
1992 Greenwich Magazine, Photography assignment for article on kids at risk in inner city (nyc) schools
Workshops & Teaching
2008 Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Summer 2008 Apprenticeship program which involved a collaborative 2 color fabric design project and an independent single color print design. For the collaborative project I art directed and was in charge of the pattern development of the group design. Other duties included assisting the workshop with organizing artists printing screens at their offsite storage space prior to their office move.
2008 Global Business Brigades, Los Angeles, California.
Art Directed the Panama City Small Business Brigades during the spring 2008 season. During the 10 day session, a group of students designed business plans and created marketing materials for 3 businesses.
2008 Centre Learning Community Charter School, State College, Pennsylvania.
Taught 2 day workshop with a museum visit for 7th and 8th graders on renaissance art and the impact of perspective and image hierarchy and it’s relationship to design hierarchy.
2006 Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Taught 1 day workshop for yearbook group on InDesign and InCopy, focusing specifically on the use of style sheets for publishing large documents.
2006 State College High School, State College, Pennsylvania
Assisted Set Designers for Pirates of Penzance. Worked with the State High thespians on creating set pieces for their 2006 spring play.
Creative Tools
Film Cameras:
4×5, 2-¼, and 35mm
Digital Cameras:
SLR and Point & Shoot
Hardware:
Apple Desktop and Laptops
Software:
Adobe CS1-4, Microsoft Office, iWork, iLife, Final Cut, Remote Desktop.
Font management software:
Extensis Suitcase
Extensis Font Reserve
Linotype Font Explorer (preferred)
Backup and Utility Software:
Dantz Retrospect Server and Client
Norton System Works
Prosoft Data Backup
Prosoft Drive Genius
Hobbies:
Cooking & Entertaining
Snowboarding
Skimboarding & Boogie Boarding
Stunt Kite flying
Youth Volunteering (Teaching & Photography)