Asanté Tait

• Led organization by establishing business direction and actualizing operational plans to meet goals.
• Oversaw budgetary and financial activities and implemented strategies to grow business and profits. Checked financial reports to confirm financial soundness and good operating margin.
• Constructed and styled garments by hand and by machines.
• Collaborated with photographers and models to showcase brand and merchandising standards.

• Responsible for designing logo and T-shirt designs for special projects and family reunions, designing marketing materials, album artwork, concert posters, and event flyers
• Personal shopper and stylist creating urban, casual, business casual, business, semi-formal, and formal looks for client within their budget.
• Leveraged proficiency in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator to design email blasts, catalogs, posters and other promotional materials.
• Maintained company websites updating with new products and corporate announcements as necessary.

• Cleaning fragile, older works of art, from ceramics to mixed media paintings as large as 7 feet tall
• Handling and packing valuable and fragile pieces of art to be shipped abroad, showcased to curators and other art professionals, and stored where they will be best preserved for the longevity of the pieces
• Very slight, restorative work if something is not seriously damaged
• Cleaning large mixed media works to be shown to collectors, curators, and institutions.

• Assisted curator Grace Aneiza with Donald Locke: Nexus his 'coming home' exhibition so to speak that encompassed much of his life work and also in a way all of the time I spent with/on his work as well.

• Calibrated snow machine equipment to keep operational for each show.
• Adhered to safety protocol in storing, loading and unloading set pieces and stage equipment.
• Assisted in stage and technical setup and breakdown for the Christmas display (50+ foot tree, reindeer statues, present sculptures, and more) that encompasses most of Atlantic Station's holiday decor - as well as the Lunar New Year decor (smoke breathing dragon and pergola) that was put up immediately after Christmas strike

• Recording the dimensions, medium, artists names, genre of art, arts dates of conception, and all other useful information we can find on valuable works of art to be shown in upcoming exhibitions and shows
• All data is put into a database created by Rebecca so that she can quickly find things and pan out how much space pieces might take up in galleries once we get the dimensions of the spaces they are to be shown
• Handling, hanging, and packing valuable and fragile pieces of art
• Talking to collectors about their experiences with obtaining the pieces they have, what they really would like to show at future exhibits, and anything else to make them feel at ease and happy with the process
• Slight appraisal work
• Contingent worker Archiving all 300+ works of art at The Federal Reserve of Atlanta
• First show as assistant curator was 'Colliding with History - African American Works on Paper from the Collection of Wes & Missy Cochran' at Georgia State University
• Archived all works of art at the home of Larry Walker Sr. before his passing
• Archived all works of art John Lewis' home the Atlanta activist

• Scanned weekly material for lectures
• Responsible for keeping attendance for large and small Art History lecture courses
• Helped proctor exams and grade tests and quizzes for large Art History survey/lecture courses.

• Volunteer work at Summer Solstice Festival hosted by the Burren College of Art
• The logistical responsibilities of the festival space were part of the learning experience as well as assisting in preparation of meals
• Experimented with new textile techniques I might utilize in future works such as Trapunto, pleating, painting on natural fibers, and free motion embroidery.

• Responsible for scheduling all commercial and non-profit/government owned galleries the class would visit in the 4 different countries
• Accountable for booking tickets to a plethora of exhibits and collecting invoices to be paid by the school
• Researched and booked hotels to accommodate 16 students and 3 professors in Paris, France and Berlin, Germany
• Leading and navigating the class to the galleries daily and making sure no students were lost during their class or free time
• Worked closely with our student(s) with visual impairments/disabilities
• Assisted students with purchasing transit tickets and guiding them through their final projects and papers.

• Provided administrative oversight for this Georgia Department of Driver Services certified Risk Reduction (DUI) and Driver Improvement (Defensive Driving) school
• Administrative duties which also included scheduling, assisted with website creation and maintenance, accounts receivables
• Helped create and maintain business website (www.drivesafega.com)
• Assist in collecting student payments and administering clinical assessments to students
• Oversee and monitor non-profit community service projects in partnership with Gwinnett County Clean & Beautiful program.