Resume.
Sarah Lohman
Long Island City, NY
selohman@gmail.com
Summary of Qualifications:
Extensive professional experience with video production in a deadline-orientated environment. Experience both directing projects and working on a production team. Advanced expertise with computers, both MAC and PC, including proficiency with programs such as Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Extremely creative, with a diverse fine arts background.
Education:
Cleveland Institute of Art
August 2000-May 2005
Cleveland, OH-Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Technology and Integrated Media Environment (Digital Art and Design)
-Minor in Video and Digital Photography
-Minor in Installation and Performance Art
-Dean’s List (2000-2005); cumulative GPA 3.7BFA Thesis Project :
Students in their final year are required to complete a thesis project in order to graduate. The project is then juried, and the top six projects receive a post-graduate scholarship dedicated to travel, which I received. My project was a fully-functional, week-long installation of a restaurant that explored art and American history. I constructed a dining space and adjacent kitchen, and served food inspired by recipes from the Revolutionary War era. I also created a website, complete with a dinner reservations system, as well as an advertising campaign.
Grants, Scholarships and Awards:
-Helen Green Perry Traveling Scholarship (2005) - $4,000 grant for the purpose of travel awarded to the top six students of the graduating class, based on their thesis project. I used this grant to fund a two-month expedition in France and Spain, where I hiked the 500 mile. 1,000 year old, pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
-Top Twenty Traveling Award Semi-Finalist (2005)
- Mildred Williams Eynon Wooddell ’25 Scholarship for a Talented Student (2004)
- Honorary Scholarship for an Outstanding Student (2004)
- Portfolio Scholarship for an Incoming Student (2000-2005)
Employment History:
Part Time Educator
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum
October 2009 - Present
New York, NY-Third Person Interpreter (Tour Guide): Leads hour-long tours for groups of 12-15 visitors into a restored tenement apartment. Tour content focuses on Lower East Side history from 1863-1935. Responsible for memorizing content as well as continued scholarship on immigration history.
-First Person Interpreter: Portrays a historic-composite character in a living history program. Leads hour-long programs for groups of fifteen visitors in a restored apartment, educating visitors about life as a Sephardic Jewish immigrant in 1916 New York.
-Tour Coordinator: Manages the day-to-day operations of the educational programs, including assisting with ticket sales, answering visitor questions, monitoring the historic structure, and assisting the educators.
-I have received overwhelmingly positive feedback from both visitors and managers concerning my performance in all of these roles.
Freelance Curator
March 2008 - Present
New York, NY-The Merchant’s House Museum
St. Patrick’s Day with Bridgette Murphey: A culinary history program that focused on food and drink from the 1860s and emphasized the opposing foodways of Irish cooks and their employers.
Post-Mortem: Developed a program based around the sensory experience of the Victorian mourning process, including smells, sounds and tastes.-The Old Stone House
A Revolutionary Thanksgiving: Recreated a Revolutionary War era Thanksgiving feast, prepared over and open hearth, that included a wild turkey, a venison roast, and a pumpkin pie from a 1796 recipe.
Pancakes Aplenty!: 300 visitors attended a hearth-cooked pancake feast featuring three historic recipes.
Bread and Beer: A New Amsterdam Tasting Menu: A five-course tasting menu of Dutch breads and beers inspired by 18th century recipes.-The Henry Street Settlement: Worked with Singer/Songwriter Clare Burson to produce Silver and Ash, a four-course dinner concert that explored immigrantions and Americanization, focusing on the dinner table as a place to both assimilate and maintain cultural traditions.
Freelance Video Production
New York, NY
February 2008-Present-Saatchi & Saatchi - Editing videos that dynamically combine field research with interviews, and are used to pitch advertising campaigns to major corporations such as Tide and Cascade.
-The New York Public Library: LIVE from the NYPL - Working with the artist-in-residence of the NYPL and Guggenhiem Fellow Flash Rosenberg to produce a series of stop-motion animations based on the topics of the Live from the NYPL lecture series, including speakers such as Salmon Rushdie and Spike Lee.
- The Barrow Street Theater: What’s My Line? Live on Stage - Video Production for a weekly live theater event, including video editing, live video operation, graphic design, production of Power Point sideshows and managing video documentation of the show.
-Citysearch.com - Video Producer for food and restaurant blog The Feed Bag. Work closely with Editor in Chief Josh Ozersky to develop stories and video series. Have worked with New York's best chefs including Eric Rippert and Thomas Keller.
Video Producer
New York Magazine, Web Division
February 2007-February 2008
New York, NY
- Launched video for nymag.com in February 2007.
-Responsible for the production of all original video web content, including working with the Editor-in-Chief to develop new web shows and managing a team of videographers.
-Performed all technical aspects of producing video including shooting in the field, editing on Premiere and Final Cut Pro, working in post-production on After Affects, and exporting and uploading content to on-line video server.
-Worked under a Creative Director to develop several successful web series, including The Video Look Book and Overheard.
-Instrumental in developing a unique style for NYMag's videos that was innovative and contemporary; and influenced other New York media outlets.
- Worked with writers from the print magazine to develop stories into video features, or to create video features to compliment their stories.
Photo and Design Assistant
New York Magazine, Web Division
October 2006-February 2007
New York, NY
-Produced weekly interactive features in html and flash.
-Supplied photographs for daily blogs, including cropping and color correction.
-Shot and edited videos for weekly features, including the Video Look Book.
Visiting Artist
Young Audiences ICARE
January 2005-July 2005
Cleveland, OH-Taught students from an inner-city vocational high school how to document their environment through photography and video.
-Shot and edited a short documentary film to promote the Young Audiences ICARE Program.
Digital Arts Teaching Assistant
Cleveland Institute of Art
September 2002-December 2004
Cleveland, OH-TA for foundation digital arts students and workshops for professors. Provided one-on-one assistance and tutoring in Adobe suite programs and Final Cut Pro. .