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Garrison Mason Gunter
http://garrisongunter.com heyg@me.com 203-940-1561
Education
Master of Fine Arts, 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
Event Photographer 1998-Current
Photography for Holiday Events, Cooking Events, Fundraisers and Parties. Clients include, American Heart Association, Martha Stewart Living Magazine, Gourmet Magazine, Marsh & McLennan.
Portrait Photographer 2001-Current
Photography for family portraits with an emphasis on casual and fun imagery. Strong focus on images that evoke the nostalgic and conjure up feelings of causality.
Apple Computers. August 2010-Current
Creative (Trainer) for the Apple Retail locations in CT and New York City— Currently West 14th St. Specialty in Photography and Design with a focus on brand identity and dynamic structural organization. Certified in small device support, iWork, and Aperture 3.
Private Clients in the Tri-State Area. March 2010-Current
Private Photography Instructor for Camera Wholesalers, The Memory Studio, both in Southern CT. Platform neutral training methodology focuses on understanding the foundations of photography through the use of digital cameras. Strong emphasis on critiquing work and managing workflows.
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.
Nickelodeon (MTV Networks), New York, NY, 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 SpongeBob Branded Goooze. Other responsibilities include color management, Software and Hardware research. Assisted in the working relations between Nick Creative and the onsite support groups of Xerox and Infoworks.
MTV Networks (Infoworks), New York, NY, 1999-2000
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.
Big Foote Music, New York, NY, 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, 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
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” 2009
Crane Arts, The Gray Area (Gallery), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “The Golden Calf”, Group Show 2008
Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel, “Inspiration Art Exhibition” 2007
Zoller Gallery, University Park, Pennsylvania “Mashafabulatic”. 2007
Window Display Exhibition, State College, Pennsylvania “Fourth Annual ShopHop” 2006
The Wall Street Journal, Photo (portrait of a mother) for editorial on the personal impact of 9/11. 2002
Left of the Bank Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut, Group Show. 2000
Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, California, If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now. 1998
The Geffen Contemporary Museum at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, California, “Uncommon Sense”, collaboration with Mel Chin. 1997
Greenwich Magazine, Photography assignment for article on kids at risk in inner city (nyc) schools. 1992
Workshops & Teaching
Centre Learning Community Charter School (CLC), State College, Pennsylvania. 2009
Design and Photography workshops for CLC’s specials program. Worked with instructors to educate students on the basics of design and composition and created a workshop for students to explore the boundaries of composition possibilities in photography.
Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2008
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.
Global Business Brigades, Los Angeles, California. 2008
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.
Centre Learning Community Charter School, State College, Pennsylvania. 2008
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.
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. 2006
Taught 1 day workshop for yearbook group on InDesign and InCopy, focusing specifically on the use of style sheets for publishing large documents.
State College High School, State College, Pennsylvania. 2006
Assisted Set Designers for Pirates of Penzance. Supervised and Worked with the State High thespians on creating set pieces for their 2006 spring play.