EMPLOYMENT
- Northwest Graphic Supply
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Graphic Artist - 11/10 - Present
Creating vector and bitmap graphics for clients, preparing and outputting graphics as film positives, coating and exposing screens, maintaining company website, creating promotional materials, packaging and catalog layouts. - Loumar Courier Inc
Montreal, Quebec
Bicycle Courier - 04/08 - 12/08
Delivering packages and documents between offices, banks, etc. - Weisman Art Museum
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Custodian/Building Attendant - 03/07 - 08/07
Oversaw security and elevator systems, staffed events, closed the museum at night, cleaned lobby, office and gallery spaces. - Science Museum of Minnesota
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Call Center Representative - 10/05 - 08/06
Provided museum information and customer service, arranged school and group visit reservations, sold tickets to Omni theater and special events/exhibits, directed calls - David A Gustafson Construction
Schroeder, Minnesota
Construction Worker - 06/04 - 09/05
Assisting with clearing sites, laying frost footings and pouring foundations, installing in-floor heating, insulation work, landscaping, maintaining and using various power tools, assorted moving, digging, painting, hauling and light carpentry - Isak Hansen's True Value
Lutsen, Minnesota
Store Clerk/Yard Hand - 06/02 - 09/02
Stocking shelves, filling propane canisters, ringing up customers, measuring, cutting and sorting wood and other materials, assembling products, mowing and grounds keeping, operating a forklift and other small trucks, delivering large products, unloading and loading trucks, mixing paint, closing - Arrowhead Center for the Arts
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Theatre Intern - 06/00 - 09/00
Building sets, working as stage crew for numerous productions, training in basic set and lighting design, operating audio and lighting boards for productions, selling tickets, hanging posters, building/rounding up props
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
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PAST CLIENTS
ALEX DAVIS
300 Broadway, Suite 307
Saint Paul, MN 55101
612.293.6434
tallmansmallman@gmail.com
CAREER OBJECTIVE
- Freelance Illustration, Print Media & Visual Communications
ACADEMIC
- Concordia University Montreal, Quebec
Bachelor of Fine Arts - Print Media
2007-2009 - University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota
Transferred
2005-2007 - Cook County Secondary Grand Marais, Minnesota
High School Diploma
2000-2004
SKILLS & RELATED COURSES
- Courses
- [fundamentals of design]
- [architectural design]
- [color theory]
- [contemporary art & technology]
- [marketing for artists]
- [visual and performing arts]
- [screen printing]
- [lithography]
- [intaglio]
- [digital print media]
- [digital print processes]
- [photo & digital intaglio]
- [advanced master printmaking]
- [projects in print media]
- [illustration]
- [video production[
- [programming for artists]
- [web design]
- [time based media]
- Skills
- HTML 5
- CSS 3
- PHP 5
- XML
- MySQL
- Max/MSP/Jitter 5
- Arduino I/O interface
- Google SketchUp CAD
- Adobe Creative Suite
- [Photoshop]
- [Illustrator]
- [Dreamweaver]
- [Premiere]
- [InDesign]
- [Flash]
- [Soundbooth]
- QuarkXpress
- Final Cut Pro
- Microsoft Office
- [Word]
- [Excel]
- [PowerPoint]
- serigraphy
- [file creation + color separations]
- [pre-press]
- [screen making]
- [UV inks]
- [water-based inks]
- [spot color]
- [CMYK process]
- [6C, 8C & spot process]
- lithography
- [stone lithography]
- [offset proofing press]
- [automatic proofing press]
- [plate making/developing]
- intaglio
- [hard, soft, & liquid grounds]
- [aquatint & mezzotint]
- [ImageOn & Puretch films]
- [Toyobo plates]
- drypoint
- relief printing
- [Vandercook letterpress]
- [wood & linoleum cut]
- digital printing
- [outputting to large format printers]
- [applying halftones with a variety of RIPs for screen, litho & intaglio applications]
- experience with a wide range of printing inks, modifiers & etches







