Amanda Frayer artisan // illustrator // designer

Washington, DC • 512.585.2672 • email

EXPERIENCE

• 10/04–Present: Advocacy Website Developer for Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports
  • Logo creation, branding, graphic design and illustration for all printed and digital materials
  • Web development for campaign sites, including: Safe Patient Project, Our Green Energy Future, Stori.es, Your Health Security, Hear Us Now, Defend Your Dollars and Not in My Food
  • Design and maintenance of social networking sites
• Freelance Graphic Design for the Environmental Defense Fund, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, Fitzgibbon Media, Environmental Law Institute and others
• Published Illustrator with the World Bank Group, Consumer Reports on Health, Consumers Union, Deep and What’s Up Annapolis Magazines
• 4/06–11/07: Co-Proprietor, Resident Artist and Web Designer of Red Kite Studio in Savannah, GA: a gallery with bimonthly art exhibitions and community benefit events (no longer in existence)
• 8/01–10/04: Preschool Teacher for the University United Methodist Church Early Childhood Center in Austin, TX
• 1/03–8/03: New Media Intern at Texas Monthly Magazine
• 1/02–5/02: Media Intern at Consumers Union
• 3/00–7/00: Graphic Artist at Montgomery Community College: responsible for illustration and design of promotional materials

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Adobe CS4 Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Fireworks
• HTML, CSS, W3C standards, cross-browser testing
• Content management systems: WordPress, Convio and Movable Type
• Social networking sites: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube
• Other layout programs: Quark Xpress, Adobe PageMaker
• Drawing using the Wacom Tablet
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Scanning and printing equipment
• Proficiency on MAC or PC

ART SKILLS

• Drawing, painting, ink and collage
• Printmaking and silkscreen
• Jewelry making, wood-working and sewing
• Papermaking, bookbinding and papier-maché
• Stop-motion animation and photography
• Creative writing and journalism

EDUCATION

• 9/05–9/07: Savannah College of Art and Design, MFA in Illustration, 4.0 GPA
• 8/00–12/02: University of Texas at Austin, BA in Journalism, 3.85 GPA
• 8/97–5/00: North Harris Montgomery Community College, 4.0 GPA

PRO BONO

• Organized, made stencils and signs for 350.org global climate impacts event in DC
• Web design for the Dream Children’s Home, an orphanage in Kenya
• Community organizing to benefit Remote Area Medical, a humanitarian relief organization
  • Local charity events in Washington, DC included face-painting, speed-dating and book and bake sale
  • Promotion through blogs, social networks and web outreach
• Mural painting for the library of Miner Elementary in Washington, DC
• Graphic Design for EPIC DC, a non-profit organization promoting LGBT rights
• Hand-made cards benefiting Puppet Underground, an activist performance troupe in Washington, DC
• Organized group art project for 350.org: a giant snow yeti constructed near busy intersection in Washington, DC to promote awareness of climate change

EXHIBITIONS (Red Kite Studio: Savannah, Georgia)

• 5/07: MFA Thesis Show
• 4/07: Night at the Movies
• 2/07: Sugar Rush, American Diabetes Association benefit/li>
• 10/06: Cheap Student Art
• 10/06: Clown Show
• 9/06: Deep Fried South
• 8/06: Breakin’ the Law
• 6/06: Red Kite Awareness
• 5/06: Red Kite Studio’s Gala Premiere