Resume

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