To obtain work that utilizes my background in arts and historic preservation administration, arts education, humanities programs, event planning/design/implementation, fundraising, as well as marketing/outreach, and publishing/desktop design.
E M P L O Y M E N T H I S T O R Y
Current
Arts Programming Consultant/Project Developer
- Allamuchy Board of Education/Rutherfurd Hall, Development funding plan and programs
- Hardwick Township Municipality, Wal-Mart Grant for Sustainable New Jersey Programs, Public Programs, Education Programs, Online Social Networking Efforts
- Hardwick Township Municipality, DEP Pre-application grant, Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction
- Hardwick Township Historical Society, VASS Farmstead Funding Plan, Consortium of regional recreation activities, Grant Writing and Program Development
- College of New Jersey, Campus Art Gallery, Design and Implement Traveling Exhibition Program
- Artists’consultant on funding plan development, grant writing, and program development for various artists including K.S. Ernst, Bennett Bean, Stephan Said (aka Smith)
- CUNY Graduate Center, PhD Art History Program, Program development/fundraising, NY, NY
- Marketing consultant with focus on client development, internet and email marketing, Circuit Lighting (entertainment lighting company), NJ
Consultant/Project Developer 2002-2007
Partner, Universal Hobo and Universal Hobo Touring. Special programs and audience development. Profit and non-profit partnership to use the arts as one agent for social change. Strong online community building component and online music programs through fundraising and collaborations with organizations like True Majority, MoveOn.org, and peace and justice centers nationwide.
· Features Writer, Warren County Life (four issues), Hackettstown, NJ
· Administrative Support, Hal Bromm Art and Design/Hal Bromm Art Gallery, Tribecca, NY, NY
May 2005 to Sept 2006- Cyberjaya, Malaysia, Multimedia University
Supported Dr. C.T. Funkhouser, Fulbright Fellowship. Participated in a range of art and cultural programs nationwide and in Singapore and Thailand. Served both formally and informally as a resource to artists and arts administrators on program development while living in Southeast Asia for one year.
March 2001-March 2002 Executive Director, Alice Austen House Museum
Staten Island, New York
Oversaw all aspects of this small historic house museum’s operation. Responsible for all fundraising, public and school programs, exhibitions, press and marketing, community relations, and collaborative relationships with NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation (as Museum was located within a NYC Park), NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and local and state arts councils. Museum dedicated to telling the story of Alice Austen- an early American photographer and amateur landscape designer; (architecture significant 1690s farm built into a Victorian Cottage).
March 1998-March 2001 Senior Program Officer, EDUCATION
New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, New York
Statewide funding and pilot program development in the field of arts education. Participated in internal strategic planning and web site development projects; both had state and national implications. Invented a range of “experiments” in innovative arts education practice including the development of an online/web literacy residency, a Design Education Resource Compendium, a choral music initiative in NY City’s poorest elementary schools, 30 grants (NY Statewide) to practice innovative artist based arts education teaching, consultant funds, and a range of programs that use the arts to increase literacy (scores).
November 1996- March 1998 Program Director, New York State Alliance for Arts Education, Albany, NY
Statewide public programming in arts education. Responsibilities include design and production of professional development workshops, symposia, conferences, advocacy events, publication writing and design, fundraising, fiscal management, public relations, and coalition building throughout New York State. Constituency includes arts educators, museum educators, artists, and arts administrators.
May 1994 - September 1996 Arts Consultant, Syracuse, NY
· Upstate Video History Project, Educational Program Administrator. Major research and information dissemination project on video history in Upstate New York from 1970-1985. Administrated through the Experimental Television Center, funded by NYSCA, NEA, and the Andy Warhol Foundation.
· Syracuse University, Project Director, Matrilineage Symposium: Women, Art, and Change, Annual symposium on women’s contributions to the arts, feminism, and social activism. Annual operating budget of over $30,000 raised from academic departments, student organizations, and private foundations. Developed cross-disciplinary programming precedent for School of Art.
· Syracuse University, Adjunct Professor, Art Media Studies, Introduction to Black and White Photography.
· Everson Museum of Art, Grant Writer Collaborative programming initiative with Syracuse University around the Matrilineage Symposium.
· Light Work, Grant Writer Developed Institute for Museum Services Grant resulting in over $40,000 annual support for general operations, preservation, and education programs.
· Enable, Assistive Technologies Instructor Worked one-on-one on site with people with disabilities to train them how to use numerous computer software and hardware apparatus including voice activated systems and on-screen keyboard systems.
· Cazenovia College, Adjunct Professor, Introduction to Black and White Photography.
· Media Alliance, Upstate NY Coordinator for the NYS Media Arts Festival Program design and production for statewide conference on the media arts for both artists and educators.
· Freelance Photographer and Videographer Commercial projects for businesses, bands and artists for promotion and fundraising.
1991-1994, Assistant Director, Light Work Coordinator, Visual Arts Facility, Student Programs, Syracuse University
Light Work is a not-for-profit artist space housed at Syracuse University. Responsibilities include co-directing artist-in-residency program, co-curating two galleries, critical writing, publication design, fiscal management, grant writing, internship program, staff management, facility management, and development of arts programming activities for the Division of Student Affairs at the University.
Adjunct Professor, Syracuse University 1993
School of Art and Design, Art Media Studies Department
American Photography in the 50s: A Revisionist Critique
Mentor, Empire State College 1993-1996
Department of Art, Photography Program
One-on-one mentor teaching students in independent study program.
Curatorial Consultant, Old York Historical Society 1990-1991
Projects included research assistant and project writer for interdisciplinary regional history text, exhibition, and lecture series titled A Noble and Dignified Stream: The Colonial Revival Movement in the Piscataqua River Region 1880-1930. Grant writing, research, and catalogue essays for yearlong project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
E X H B I T I O N S, F E S T I V A L S, T E L E V I S I O N B R O A D C A S T S
· January-March 2009, Skylands: Warren County Photography Exhibition; Warren County Cultural and Heritage Commission, Oxford, NJ
· March- June 2008, Group Show; Residents at Peter’s Valley Craft Center, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area., NJ
· Fall 2006, Solo Exhibition and Spring 2005 teaching artist residency, Romano Gallery, Blair Academy. Blairstown, NJ
· July 2006, Gallery 159, Group Exhibition, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
· Spring 2005 Warren County Arts Exhibition, Oxford Municipal Gallery, Oxford, NJ
· Winter/Spring 2005, Sheltered, Lafayette College, Williams Visual Arts Building Gallery, Easton, PA.
· Spring 2005, group exhibition, the Hoyt Institute for Fine Art, New Castle, PA
· October 2001, International Multi-Media/Writing Conference, SUNY Buffalo, Collaborative Performance, “Adventures in a MOO.” (My video projections to writings/reading by poet Christopher Funkhouser).
· March 2001, The Drawing Center, New York, New York, Collaborative Performance “Stintilight.” (My video projections – microscope video loops-- to writings/reading by poet Lee Ann Brown).
· March, 1997, Rensselear County Council on the Arts, Troy, NY and The Exquiste Corpse Gallery, Burlington, Vermont, Tale of the Middleman, Telephone Installation Collaboration.
F E L L O W S H I P S, R E S I D E N C I E S, G R A N T S
Artist Residency, Peter’s Valley Craft Center, Lawton, NJ 2008
Artist Residency, The Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, Alfred, NY. 2004
Finishing Funds Grant, Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY. 1995 and 1997.
Artist Residency, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA. 1995.
Artist Residency, LTC Technologies, Fairfax, VA. 1995.
Elizabeth Perkins Research Fellowship, Old York Historical Society, 1990.
P A R T I A L P U B L I C A T I O N S L I S T I N G
- “Creating Environmentally Friendly Workspaces,” by Brian Hineline, the Warren County Reporter, April 2, 2004.
- Crart: Carft and Art, written by Hufnagel; Feature article on Ceramicist Bennett Bean, October 2002.
- SouthWest Living, Feature story photographs, Minus Electricity, 2002.
- Knots Not: A (Post)Modernist’s Fairytale, limited edition artist book by Hufnagel and Yoshida, published by the Graphic Arts Workshop, in collaboration with photographer Barbara Yoshida, 2001. (recently purchased by NY Public Library’s Print Collection)
- Ceramics Monthly, Feature Cover Story, “Jo Buffalo,” November 1997.
- Technology Review, MIT Press, photo essay titled “Drive By Shooting as part of a larger theme titled “The Technology of Getting There,” February 1995.
- A Nobel and Dignified Stream: The Colonial Revival in the Piscataqua River Region 1880-1930, six essays on women and photography, organizations, and landscape design, 1992.
G O V E R N A N C E C O M M I T T E E S
2004-05 Board of Overseers, National Audubon Expedition Institute and Lesley College
Artist Advisory Committee, New York Foundation for the Arts
E D U C A T I O N
B.A. 1990 Hampshire College Amherst, MA
