Resume

• 2008

  LSU School of Art

  Big City Bread Retail and Wholesale Café

  Bistro and Bakery

  Roswell

  GA

  Roswell Art Center West is a thriving community-based

  nonprofit art center in suburban Atlanta

  devoted exclusively to ceramic arts

  including sculpture and pottery. Many of the adults who take classes at this studio are professional artists

  exhibiting and selling their work nationally. As an artist in residence

  I made and sold art

  while receiving studio and living space and a modest stipend in exchange for helping to run the studio. I did everything from loading and maintaining kilns

  to mopping floors

  to helping stage huge art sales and fundraisers. As an art instructor

  I taught classes ranging from figure sculpture with live models

  to technical issues like glaze formulation and kiln firing. I designed all my own content

  and challenged my students by providing greater structure and content than they were accustomed to at a community center

  and encouraging them to take on ambitious projects. Here’s a story I wrote about one particularly memorable student

  Sudha: http://adaringadventureordotdotdot.weebly.com/blawwwg/sudha-living-water

  Art Instructor

  Studio Assistant

  and Artist in Residence

  Roswell Art Center West

  I was hired by staffing firm Quality Recruiting after my first round of applications to elite graduate programs were rejected

  and I needed “Plan B.” Archivus is a scanning company that helps businesses convert records from paper to digital. This was a long-term temp position at a medical center

  in which I sorted and scanned medical records through a variety of large and small scanners using NextGen software

  and then analyzed the scans against the paper originals for quality control purposes. While this was a monotonous job in the basement of a medical facility

  I approached it with my usual focus and professionalism

  and became the management team’s go-to person for special projects and for training new staff. I was trained in HIPAA compliance

  and maintained utmost discretion in the handling of confidential materials.

  Medical Records Scanner and Processor

  Buffalo/Niagara

  New York Area

  Quality Recruiting and Archivus for Lifetime Health

  Carlsbad

  NM

  I was hired by this sprawling social services agency

  which operates 5 programs across 5 counties with a $10+ million dollar budget

  after relocating to Carlsbad when my partner

  a geologist

  took an oil industry job here. I reinvented filing systems to make document retrieval lightning-quick and help the agency breeze through program and fiscal audits. I established stress-free systems for tracking data and archiving records on a weekly and monthly basis to determine actual usage needs when investing in equipment and service contracts

  to support compliance with audits

  RFP’s

  and annual reports

  and to support accurate cost-allocation and preventive fleet maintenance for company vehicles. I saved the agency thousands of dollars and contributed to smarter decision-making through the creation of effective forms

  procedures

  and carefully researched reports. I also helped fill and nurture a once perpetually-shy-of-full board of directors

  and improved the tone and caliber of communications with board and staff. I planned board meetings that unfolded effortlessly

  handling everything from the creation and timely mailing of meeting packets

  to food and audio

  to taking accurate minutes. I left on excellent terms to pursue a more challenging position

  and created a manual detailing the duties of the position for the benefit of the next executive assistant

  and the agency as a whole.

  Executive Assistant

  Southeast New Mexico Community Action Corporation

  I was hired by bakery

  café and bistro Big City Bread during a period of dramatic growth for this college-town start-up. After less than 2 months as a barista

  I was recruited to manage their high-volume kitchen and café as they added breakfast and dinner to their existing services

  and aggressively expanded their wholesale interests. I learned

  performed

  and trained staff on every job

  from barista to line cook to dishwasher to caterer. I galvanized our mostly college-aged staff to work joyfully as a team (we had some serious fun in the kitchen!)

  and to strive for excellence in food production and service. I cultivated loyal relationships with vendors

  wholesale clients

  and customers

  contributing to a family atmosphere and outstanding repeat business. I counted down the register drawer and prepared deposits daily. And I balanced 30+ hours a week at Big City with the full-time pursuit of a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at The University of Georgia (where I graduated summa cum laude with a 3.9 GPA).

  Assistant Manager

  Athens

  Georgia Area

  Big City Bread Retail and Wholesale Café

  Bistro and Bakery

  Georgia State University is situated in the heart of downtown Atlanta

  and attracts a large and diverse student population consisting of Georgia residents

  students from across the country and the world

  and a high number of older students returning to college for career enhancement or a fresh start. I taught four art courses to students who ran the gamut from ages17 to 65

  and from art to engineering major. As a part-time instructor balancing these classes with other jobs

  I nonetheless designed all my own content

  from curriculum to PowerPoint lectures to handouts and assessment methods. I got teenagers and 20-something’s – typically more interested in their iPhones than their studies – to care deeply about art and design

  and

  more importantly

  about their capacity for creative problem-solving. Many of my students continue to keep in touch with me and with one another

  continuing a dynamic of curiosity

  collaboration

  and mutual support that was established in my classroom.

  College Art Instructor

  Greater Atlanta Area

  Georgia State University

  UUCB

  as it is known

  is a bustling

  historic church and community center in the heart of one of Buffalo’s most charming neighborhoods

  hosting weekly AA meetings

  classes

  choir practice

  and soup kitchen ministries

  in addition to Sunday services. Besides serving as the face and voice of this nonprofit’s front office

  I managed scheduling and use of the 3-story building

  tracked and deposited weekly donations

  and produced a monthly newsletter from start to finish on a tight deadline – including writing and copyediting

  design and layout

  in-house printing

  and bulk mailing to over 600 recipients. I revamped and managed the church’s unruly member database

  which tracked active members and their financial contributions

  using Excel and Filemaker software. When the church restructured

  letting my boss go

  I kept my cool and ran the office

  working overtime and coordinating with the minister and board to keep the organization afloat.

  Administrative Assistant

  Buffalo/Niagara

  New York Area

  The Office of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo

  Louisiana State University is Louisiana’s national Flagship University and boasts one of the nation’s top 10 graduate programs in Ceramics. As a Flagship Fellow in LSU’s Ceramics MFA program

  I received a tuition waiver and monthly stipend in exchange for teaching and other duties. I taught courses ranging from Drawing

  to 2-D Design

  to Ceramics

  designing my own curricula and content

  and even creating my own Drawing textbook. I was recruited to be the site administrator for the School of Art’s all-but-dormant Facebook page

  where I generated a 40% increase in activity

  particularly among alumni

  within the first two months. As Communications and PR Coordinator for the student-led nonprofit Ceramic Artist Student Association

  I generated radio

  print

  and word-of-mouth publicity for biannual fundraisers

  built relationships with patrons

  took meeting minutes

  and used email to coordinate and support the group’s entrepreneurial

  educational

  and recruitment efforts. As a graduate student

  I conducted cutting-edge research with ceramic materials

  mounted a solo exhibition

  and published a 38-page thesis

  graduating with a 4.0 GPA.

  College Art Instructor

  Master's Candidate & Fellow

  Communications & PR Coordinator

  Baton Rouge

  Louisiana Area

  LSU School of Art

  http://www.theaeap.com/About.aspx

  Member

  Association of Executive and Administrative Professionals

  French

  LSU Flagship Fellow

  Received Flagship Fellowship from LSU's Graduate School.

  Louisiana State University Graduate School

  Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)

  Masters of Fine Arts with focus in ceramic and mixed media sculpture. Secondary focus in Contemporary art and design history. Taught Intro to Drawing

  Intro to 2D Design

  and Intro to Ceramics as Instructor of Record.

  Fine and Studio Arts

  Flagship Fellow

  Ceramic Artist Student Association (CASA) - PR/Communications Specialist and Participating Member

  \nPR and Social Media assistant for LSU School of Art

  Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

  A+

• 2000

  Bachelor's Degree

  Studied studio art with a focus in ceramic sculpture. Practically minored in art history and fell in love with both medieval church architecture and early 20th-century art.

  Fine and Studio Arts

  Honors student

  Scholarship recipient

  Passionate art history scholar

  Diurnal and nocturnal inhabitant of my dusty studio

  The University of Georgia

  A+

• Southeast New Mexico Community Action Corporation

  SNMCAC is a private non-profit organization that has been in operation since 1965

  and that currently provides programs in Eddy

  Otero

  Chaves

  Lea

  and Lincoln Counties. The agency objective focuses on enabling people to achieve self-sufficiency and providing them with the resources to achieve that goal. The agency has developed programs which produce immediate and tangible benefits that provide support and assistance to those in the community who are in need of and eligible for services.

  Louisiana State University

  Roswell Art Center West (Roswell

  GA)

  Buffalo Arts Studio (Buffalo

  NY)

  Arts Fundraising

  Event Planning and PR

  Contemporary Art

  Sculpture

  PowerPoint

  Art History

  Painting

  Administrative Professionals

  Microsoft Word

  Ceramic

  Curating

  Executive Assistant

  Printmaking

  Copywriting

  Nonprofits

  Fine Art

  Art

  Visual Arts

  Art Education

  Microsoft Excel

  Teaching

  Grant Writing

  A Daring Adventure Or Dot Dot Dot

  Dispatches from a life spent living the questions: “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves

  like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers

  which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is

  to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually

  without noticing it

  live along some distant day into the answer.” \n― Rainer Maria Rilke

  A Daring Adventure Or Dot Dot Dot

  Vanessa Lowry

  host of Empower Radio series \"Art as Worship\" interviews guest Adrienne Lynch about her art practice and how it connects to her sense of the sacred.

  Alchemy and the Act of Creation

  Radio Interview

  A thoughtful examination of the functional ceramic work of studio artists Andy Shaw and Mary Louise Carter

  based on an exhibition of their work at LSU's Glassell Gallery in 2011. Ceramics: Art and Perception Issue #89

  p.50-53.

  Vacancy and Refuge: Theories of Co-Authorship in the Works of Andy Shaw and Mary Louise Carter

  Adrienne

  Lynch

  Southeast New Mexico Community Action Corporation

  Quality Recruiting and Archivus for Lifetime Health

  The Office of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo

  Georgia State University

  Roswell Art Center West