Objective: To be creative, taking a project from concept to execution.
I am able to use my broad skill set to take your art project from beginning to end. I can meet with your clients, clarify; their needs, and produce the necessary concept drawings and shop drawings. I can train and oversee your illustration and sculpting teams, drawing on my 20+ year back ground across the disciplines of theater, architecture and event production. I can help create standards for tracking work flow, tagging projects, crating standards and tracking inventory.
Skill Set:
- Event Production Designer, Spokesperson, TV Personality
- Brand Design and Launching
- Live Sculpting for Event Production
- Draw, Paint, Oil, Acrylic, Wood grain, Marbleize, Mural, Set Painting
- Hand Drawings, Sketch Up, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AutoCAD
- Projector Enlarging, Free Hand Enlarging, Scaling up
- Carpentry, Table Saw, Skill Saw, Routers, Die Grinders
- Welding , Arc, Acetylene, Mig, Tig
- Sculpting in Styrofoam, Plaster, Clay, Ice
- Mold Making, Vacuum Formed, Urethane Rubber, Rigid Mold
Work History:
Creative Director/Debbi Katz Productions/Event Production Company/2016-2018
Create Shop Drawings, Oversee Illustrators and Artists, Live Carve
(Boston, Calabasas CA 2018)
(DC, Philadelphia, Nashville 2017)
(Monmouth Park, Old Beth Page 2016)
Creative Director/TheRise.Org/Halloween Event Production Company /2014-2015 /
Create Shop Drawings, Oversee Illustrators and Artists, Live Carve
(Old Westbury Long Island, San Diego, La Canada, Santa Anita)
Lead Sculptor, Mold Shop Mgr./ David Kucera Inc/ Architectural Stonework/ 2014-1999
Survey, Work from Shop Drawings, Sculpt, Rubber Mold, Carpentry
Met, Sheppard Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Apollo Theater, Belvue…
Set Designer/Rail Road Play House/ Just off Broadway/2000-2012
Shop Drawings, Set Construction, Scenic Painting, World Premier
“Americas Brightest Star”, ”Fiddler”, ”Grease”, ”Sound of Music”,”Joseph”…
Scenic Sculptor/ Costume Armour/ Broadway, Opera, TV /Prop Shop and Stage Armour/ 1986-95
“Phantom”, ”Into the Woods”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Sunset Blvd”, WWE
Education: BS in Studio Art, College of Saint Rose, Albany 1986