Megan Lavelle

Edu­ca­tion

2013 MFA Social Prac­tice, Cal­i­for­nia Col­lege of Art, San Fran­cisco, CA

2007 M.A. Dig­i­tal Arts, Mary­land Insti­tute Col­lege of Art, Bal­ti­more MD

2004 BFA Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Design, Kutz­town Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia, Kutz­town, PA

2003 Colch­ester Insti­tute: School of Art and Design, Colch­ester, Essex UK
One of five stu­dents cho­sen to study graphic design and illus­tra­tion under David Jury in the Spring of 2003.

Exper­tise

Exten­sive expe­ri­ence in inter­ac­tive design, print design, motion graph­ics, video edit­ing, pho­tog­ra­phy, and pho­to­graphic manip­u­la­tion. Pro­fi­cient MAC and PC skills: After Effects, Dreamweaver, Flash, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Pre­meire, Illus­tra­tor, InDe­sign, and Photoshop.

Pro­fes­sional Experience

Present — 2008 / Ten/Four Stu­dio, Owner / Bal­ti­more, MD: Print and web design spe­cial­iz­ing in brand iden­tity, design con­sul­ta­tion, and front-end design & devel­op­ment for artists & non-profits in the greater Bal­ti­more area.

Present — 2009 / Gallery Four, Res­i­dent Artist & Cura­tor / Bal­ti­more, MD: One of six res­i­dent artists col­lab­o­ra­tively orga­niz­ing and curat­ing exhi­bi­tions for Gallery Four.Each res­i­dent takes part in select­ing artists, installing work, plan­ning the open­ing recep­tion, as well as writ­ing press releases for each show.

Present — 2010 / Tri­a­logue Stu­dio: Designer / Wash­ing­ton DC: Working with Tri­a­logue to deliver brands that can help build com­mu­nity and drive eco­nomic devel­op­ment at the inter­sec­tion of com­mu­nity, com­merce and culture.

Present — 2009 / CCTS: Free­lance Designer / Bal­ti­more, MD: Lead designer pro­vid­ing Bal­ti­more area non­prof­its with increased web pres­ence as well as the abil­ity to use tech­nol­ogy, strengthen their orga­ni­za­tions and improve their ser­vice delivery.

Present — 2007 / Megan Lavelle Pho­tog­ra­phy / Bal­ti­more, MD: Documentary style approach to Wed­dings, Events, & Por­traits. Canon platform.

2010 / FotoWeek DC: Media Pro­ducer / Wash­ing­ton DC: Coordinating and orga­niz­ing media in prepa­ra­tion for FotoWeek DC

2010 — 2009 / Mil­len­nium Mar­ket­ing Solu­tions, Inter­ac­tive Designer / Annapo­lis Junc­tion, MD: Lead designer for mul­ti­ple, large scale Real Estate Devel­op­ers in the Baltimore/DC region. Led inter­ac­tive team to develop a Word­Press pack­age for clients and devel­oped client com­mu­ni­ca­tion stan­dards for proof­ing.  Exten­sive expe­ri­ence with SEO com­pli­ance, CSS and HTML development.

2009 / AICA USA: Free­lance Designer & Pro­gram­mer / New York, NY: Lead designer on project to re-design exist­ing AICA USA (Inter­na­tional Asso­ci­a­tion of Art Crit­ics, USA) web­site. The client wanted a dynamic site they could eas­ily update in order to keep their cur­rent mem­bers informed as well as drive a younger audi­ence to invest in a new membership.

2007 / World Bank Tan­za­nia : Assis­tant Pho­tog­ra­pher & Designer / Dar es Salaam, TZ: Consultant for the devel­op­ment of pro­mo­tional mate­ri­als to bring aware­ness to the Dar es Salaam com­mu­nity of the World Bank’s pres­ence and sup­port in both the pri­vate and pub­lic sectors.

2009 — 2006 / Planit Adver­tis­ing, Inter­ac­tive Pro­duc­tion Designer / Bal­ti­more MD: Website pro­duc­tion as well as design devel­op­ment uti­liz­ing Flash, CSS, HTML, and After Effects. Worked with var­i­ous clients such as Healthy Neigh­bor­hoods, The John F. Kennedy Cen­ter for the Per­form­ing Arts, The Wal­ters Art Museum, Chevy Chase Bank, Under Armour, and The Wall Street Insti­tute. Pro­vided clients with the lat­est in social media, national brand­ing, SEO com­pli­ance, cus­tomized con­tent man­age­ment sys­tems, as well as a unique inter­ac­tive experience. Facilitated all in-house pho­tog­ra­phy and video needs.

2006 — 2004 / Jack Utsick Presents NE: Junior Designer / Philadel­phia, PA: In-house designer and copy­writer work­ing with local music pro­mo­tion com­pany to pro­duce and mar­ket shows for artists such as Dolly Par­ton, Blue Oys­ter Cult, and Lit­tle Feat.

Teach­ing

Mary­land Insti­tute Col­lege of Art / Elec­tronic Media and Cul­ture / Fall 2010 & Spring 2011
Elec­tronic Media and Cul­ture (EMAC) is a plat­form for stu­dents to expe­ri­ence work­ing with var­i­ous forms of dig­i­tal art. Stu­dents are asked to read both crit­i­cal and rel­e­vant texts to sup­port in-class dis­cus­sion on present issues in dig­i­tal cul­ture and media. They explore dif­fer­ent medi­ums includ­ing dig­i­tal col­lage, art in the pub­lic realm, per­for­mance art and video, typog­ra­phy and lay­out, as well as html design and development.

Anne Arun­del Com­mu­nity Col­lege / Digi­tial Design Foun­da­tion / Spring and Fall 2010
Part-time fac­ulty with the Foun­da­tions depart­ment at AACC. Stu­dents are intro­duced to the foun­da­tions of Dig­i­tal Design through design his­tory, 2-D illus­tra­tion, video pro­duc­tion, 3-D ani­ma­tion, and html development.

Mary­land Insti­tute Col­lege of Art / Teach­ing Assis­tant / Spring 2007
Assisted and led class dis­cus­sions, lec­tures, and cri­tiques for Video I. Intro­duced stu­dents to basic light­ing, shoot­ing, and edit­ing techniques.

Ser­vice

2010 / AIGA: Port­fo­lio Review Day / Bal­ti­more, MD
Indi­vid­ual meet­ings with soon-to-be col­lege grad­u­ates in the Baltimore/DC area to review and dis­cuss their portfolios.

2009 / AIGA: ‘Cre­ate! Don’t Hate’ Men­tor / Bal­ti­more, MD
Men­tor­ing three area high school stu­dents over four weeks to pro­duce a bill­board cam­paign pro­mot­ing tol­er­ance through­out Bal­ti­more. The win­ning bill­board was placed along 95 South.

Recent Exhi­bi­tions

2010 / Home­works / Group Show / Com­mu­nity Col­lege of Bal­ti­more County / Bal­ti­more, MD

2009 / Baltideliphia / Group Show / Hexa­gon Gallery / Bal­ti­more, MD

2009 / See You Again Last Year / Group Show / Com­mu­nity Col­lege of Bal­ti­more County / Bal­ti­more, MD

2008 / To The Teeth / Group Show / Cre­ative Alliance / Bal­ti­more, MD

2007 / MADA: MA The­sis Show / Group Show / Mary­land Insti­tute Col­lege of Art / Bal­ti­more, MD

Cura­to­r­ial History

2010 / You & Me Liv­ing Today, Vol.2, The Land / Gallery Four / Bal­ti­more, MD

2010 / You & Me Liv­ing Today, Vol.1, Anatom­i­cally Mod­ern Explor­ers / Gallery Four / Bal­ti­more, MD

2010 / Terms of Use / Gallery Four / Bal­ti­more, MD

2008 — 2009 / How We Dwell / 2625 St. Paul / Bal­ti­more, MD

Per­sonal Work

A Con­ver­sa­tion / ongo­ing
Curated con­ver­sa­tions. I am pair­ing peo­ple I have met at dif­fer­ent inter­sec­tions of my life who have never met, but who I believe should meet for var­i­ous rea­sons. They are brought to my liv­ing space and placed in a neu­tral envi­ron­ment with com­fort­able chairs, snacks and top­ics of dis­cus­sion specif­i­cally cho­sen for the pair. Each expe­ri­ence will be doc­u­mented with por­traits of each par­tic­i­pant along with a printed script of their conversation.

How We Dwell / 2009 — 2008
How We Dwell is an inves­ti­ga­tion into how we dis­play our objects within our dwelling space as exten­sion of both iden­tity and habit. Twice a month I leave my effi­ciency apart­ment and wel­come a new artist to move in. For three days they are granted full access to my life of objects and put together an instal­la­tion based on their per­sonal dwelling expe­ri­ence. I, in turn, move back in and live with their instal­la­tion, doc­u­ment­ing my expe­ri­ence with an essay, an open­ing for the pub­lic, and pho­tos. www.howwedwell.wordpress.com

Restops / 2006 — 2007
‘Rest Stops’ is a year­long explo­ration of rest stops through­out the North­east Mid-Atlantic Region. The stops along the New Jer­sey and Penn­syl­va­nia turn­pikes were cho­sen specif­i­cally for their sit­u­a­tional iso­la­tion. The user expe­ri­ence becomes robotic within the con­fines of this struc­ture built for uni­lat­eral expe­ri­ences. My time spent within the rest stops seeks to cap­ture the pro­found alter­ation of aware­ness, iso­la­tion, and sud­den moments of interaction.

Bib­li­og­ra­phy

2010 Cieri, Charles. The Ulti­mate Fight­ing City?, Philadel­phia Inquirer, Octo­ber 21st

2008 Ober, Cara. How We Dwell Open­ing at Megan Lavelle’s, Bmore Art, Decem­ber 16th

2008 John­son, Mar­tin. How We Dwell: Bryan Hey­boer, City Paper: Bal­ti­more, Novem­ber 5th

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