Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Websites
Artshowsandevents
Additionalinvolvements
Interests
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Cassie Chapin Faraway

Northglenn,CO

Summary

Managing the orders, designing and executing designs, meeting with frame reps and staying knowledgeable of products and prices, resupplying shop, reading and double checking design orders and troubleshooting errors, staying up to date on what there is in stock, keeping space organized and tools in good shape, advising on design consults, striving to go under budget while meeting shop demand, updating spreadsheets to stay organized and save time, updating designers on status and issues with their projects, keeping the wheels of communication oiled in order to keep work flow going in order to meet every projects deadline all while keeping a sharp eye on detail. My Department brings in the second highest earnings to this business, second to shops top selling artist.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Framer

Fascination St. Fine Art
10.2022 - Current
  • Head Framer
  • Ordering shop supplies
  • Plugging orders and customer data into spread sheets
  • Advising on frame orders
  • Ordering Customer Supplies in the right sizes and quantities in order to save money and fulfill orders to accommodate any issues in order to correct while keeping the due dates
  • Executing precision craftsmanship in exact measurements, use in proper tools to execute the vision of the customer in a timely yet precise manner
  • Trouble shooting mathematical errors so cuts can be exact
  • Checking in orders
  • Keeping work space and shop organized and tidy in order to improve work flow and safety
  • Maintaining precise cutting and expensive framing and shop tools
  • Taking calls and meeting with sales reps

Artist, Designer, Editor and Publisher

Self Publishing Coloring Books
03.2016 - Current
  • Designing intricate and interesting coloring book, nature themed
  • Editing and graphic design mainly using GIMP and Adobe
  • Publishing (through Amazon)
  • Contacting distributors
  • “Faraway Animals of the Rockies” 9/16
  • “Life’s a Beach” 6/17
  • “Faraway Mountains and Mandals” 8/20
  • Dreams of; coloring book 4/21
  • Coastal Living 6/21

Independent Studio Artist

Faraway Fine Arts
12.2012 - Current
  • Company Overview: Independent Studio Artist
  • Co managed and Co ran a mobile gallery/teaching studio in Crow reservation and now out of our apartment
  • Produced and sale custom art
  • Taught art through the local schools and local venues
  • Represented and sold others art
  • Mail off orders, promote our business, order supplies
  • Independent Studio Artist

Independent Artist

Independent Artist
01.1998 - Current
  • Making a thought-provoking or aesthetically pleasing body of work
  • Self promotion and advertising my abilities as an artist to the general public
  • Completing art, usually portraits, to a customer's specifications and within a deadline
  • Self disciplined to be my own boss and get the ball rolling
  • Attaining knowledge in art and passing that knowledge on

Substitute Teacher

LodgeGrass Schools
03.2018 - 01.2020
  • Filled in position for absent school staff ie; secretary, teacher, librarian and PE

Studio Manager

Crooked Line Studios
01.2015 - 10.2015
  • Promoting classes, designing classes, interviewing instructors, testing and previewing art materials opening and closing gallery and talking with newspapers and magazines about our studio
  • Hiring and training artist and art instructors
  • Attending material conferences, previewing materials, ordering materials and negotiating with vendors

Framing and Gallery Desinger

Rimrock Art and Frame
08.2014 - 01.2015
  • Customer service designing framing orders, keeping stock of materials and reordering, stretching canvases, running saws, pneumatic tools, cutting glass and mailing out orders
  • Organizing art, contacting artists, promoting events and artists, assisting organizing shows
  • Sales representative

POS Store/Gourmet Food and Beverage Asscociate

World Market
10.2013 - 10.2014
  • Customer service, stocking, keeping the appearance of store neat and tidy
  • Promoting World Market memberships
  • Running the gourmet section when the head of gourmet is not
  • Currently in the position of “Point of Sales”
  • Monitor prices on the sales floor and from corporate
  • Update current prices and keep track of what is not moving and letting corporate know each week

Art Instructor

Grumbacher
01.2011 - 04.2014
  • Selling Grumbacher art supplies
  • Teaching variety of students to paint using acrylics and promoting Grumbacher fine art products through Michaels

Substitute Teacher

Chatham County and Lee County Schools, NC
03.2012 - 06.2013
  • Fill in for absent teachers from pre-K to high school seniors
  • Follow sub plans as well as formulating my own plans when a teacher’s absence is sudden
  • Manage classrooms of up to 32 students
  • Ability to handle a variety of subject matters and age groups
  • Effectively run a class, manage students and complete schedule within a school day

Gallery Assistant and Art Instructor

Raleigh Street Gallery
01.2008 - 03.2011
  • Instructing groups of adults and/or children, numbering between 2 to 40 on how to paint and draw.
  • Assisting the owner in the runnings and organizing of the shop; contacting and updating gallery artist, organising and implementing art walks, rearranging and keeping art looking fresh, selling merchandise, handling cash etc...
  • Organizing and cleaning shop
  • Organizing special events and classes

Museum Curator for Well Known Gallery and Cafe

Peggy Wellknown
11.2021 - 09.2022

Running and organizing the Battle field art museum and gift shop. Cataloging collection, pricing collection, organizing artist events and shows, money handling.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Studio Painting

University of North Carolina At Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
01.2010

Skills

  • Art, instructional, managing, designing, simple construction, work shop organizational, simple hand tools, making orders, customer and money handling, curating, art handling, spread sheet, gimp design, organizing events
  • Hand-tool proficiency
  • Layout planning
  • Detail orientation
  • Material ordering
  • Customer consultations
  • Repairing
  • Production and processing
  • Mathematics
  • Design
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Multitasking
  • Woodworking
  • Safety oversight
  • Time management abilities
  • Safety Procedures Adherence
  • Problem-solving aptitude

Artshowsandevents

  • Billings Artwalk, Featured artist, 05/01/15
  • Carbon County Artist Guild Member, 2015
  • Featured in Yellowstone Women Magazine, 06/01/15
  • Chatham Artist Incubator, 2011
  • Chatham Artist Guild Member, 2010-2011
  • Raleigh Street Art Gallery, 2009-2015
  • Weatherspoon Museum, 2010

Additionalinvolvements

  • Volunteering at The Artist Incubator in Siler City, NC
  • Built and helped manage an organic farm
  • Member of the Chatham Artist Guild
  • Assisting in E.C. classrooms
  • Participating at Art Exhibitions
  • Tutoring
  • Tour guide through the forest to educate children on local fauna and flora in NC

Interests

Designing/planning/executing substanible structures that flow with the environment and constructing them ie; Childs large playstation and play house, several decks, a large outhouse/garden shed, chicken coops, bunny hutches, dog/cat houses, green houses, bed frames, shelves, cabinets Drawing and painting especially of environment and animals Travel, hiking, exploring, photography, fossil hunting, conceptulizing ideas and trying to bring them to realty pulling my inspiration from the natural landscape Plants, animals, color and pattern

Timeline

Lead Framer

Fascination St. Fine Art
10.2022 - Current

Museum Curator for Well Known Gallery and Cafe

Peggy Wellknown
11.2021 - 09.2022

Substitute Teacher

LodgeGrass Schools
03.2018 - 01.2020

Artist, Designer, Editor and Publisher

Self Publishing Coloring Books
03.2016 - Current

Studio Manager

Crooked Line Studios
01.2015 - 10.2015

Framing and Gallery Desinger

Rimrock Art and Frame
08.2014 - 01.2015

POS Store/Gourmet Food and Beverage Asscociate

World Market
10.2013 - 10.2014

Independent Studio Artist

Faraway Fine Arts
12.2012 - Current

Substitute Teacher

Chatham County and Lee County Schools, NC
03.2012 - 06.2013

Art Instructor

Grumbacher
01.2011 - 04.2014

Gallery Assistant and Art Instructor

Raleigh Street Gallery
01.2008 - 03.2011

Independent Artist

Independent Artist
01.1998 - Current

Bachelor of Arts - Studio Painting

University of North Carolina At Greensboro
Cassie Chapin Faraway