Westwood Community College

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

El Centro Community College (Dallas County)

Partner at Colcerex Trading Company,
Admin/Estimations at Dan Colcer Fine Art,
Coordinator for Deep Ellum Outdoor Market

Archivist for the Deep Ellum Foundation, historic cultural district in Dallas, TX.

Deep Ellum Foundation

Archivist

Co-Curator for the Deep Ellum Blues Alley

Co-Curator

Colcerex Trading Company is a local to Dallas business that specializes in making custom and unique Art Products. The philosophy is to create useful and interesting art products featuring the works of local artists and photographers that are accessible to anyone who loves art, not just those who hang around in galleries. Colcerex Trading practices fairly in the collaboration with the artists making sure that all involve benefit from each sale.

Colcerex Trading Company

Partner

Assist Dan Colcer, with administrative duties (Contracts, orders, materials acquisition, accounting, and general communications with clients).
Estimations and maquette assistance for larger jobs

Dan Colcer Fine Art

Administrator, Estimator

Coordination of vendors, sponsors, local businesses, and police, permitting with the city, and details for the market, held 2x per month.
Point of Contact during the event.  Making sure the lot is marked, the traffic flow during load/unload, walkway requirements, and general public and vendor needs being met.

Deep Ellum Community Association

Market Coordinator for the Deep Ellum Outdoor Market

Part Time Front End Cashier, Concierge Services, Personal Shopping, Product Demonstration, Team Trainer.  Coordinated annual Whole Planet vendor market fundraiser for two years.

Whole Foods Market

Front End

Contract Hire, to assist in completing models required for the Lionel Trains / Ronald McDonald House "Trains at NorthPark Mall" exhibit.  Models completed include White House, Lincoln Memorial, San Francisco homes, details on Fair Park, Dallas and Downtown Dallas highrises (including vinyl application and lighting), and landscaping/foliage assembly and painting.

TW Design

Model Maker

Assisted with accessing drawings, take-offs, and tracking bids and submittals.  Created AutoCAD drawings of metal panel assemblies for construction, created shop tickets for CNC table including panels and sign cutouts, assisted company with graphics, business card design and logo design.  Job types include office complexes, car dealerships, educational facilities, hospitals, municipal buildings.

Composite Panel Technology - South, Inc.

Commercial Estimatior,  CAD Detailer

Assisted with art department production, including creating proofs for customer approval and digital layout for awards and presentation plaques to be produced by laser etching, sandblasting, screen printing, heat-transfer, or sublimation.  Also assisted with light IT work. 
(Temporary Placement Position)

Stellar Recognition, Inc.

Production Artist

Assisted with the estimation of commercial jobs as a subcontractor of natural stone, including granite and marble.  Job types include hotels, multi-residential living, educational facilities, and fountain assemblies.  Worked with the general contractors and architects before and during installation, processed contracts, as well as produced and submitted all shop drawings.

International Marble and Granite/Stone-City

Commercial Estimator

Managed product library, sample library, and the research library for a small high-end residential firm.  Also assisted with model construction, sample requests, materials boards, and all vendor and dealer relations.
(Work-Study via SAIC)

Eric Mullendore, Architect

Intern/Product & Materials Librarian

In charge of the preservation and archival of 85 years of sketches, renderings, photos, and other documentation by the original owner/designer of lighting fixtures which included large scale digitizing, research of past clients, location of fixtures, and archival grade mending of improperly stored originals.
(Work-Study via SAIC)

Snow Architectural Lighting

Archival Catalogue

Assisted with reproduction and cataloguing of historical photos, documents, maps, as well as architectural plans and renderings significant to Chicago’s history.  Duties included digitizing the extensive Chicago Daily News glass slide collection, processing print orders for clients and managing the Hedrich-Blessing library and the Architectural Plans library.  
(Work-Study via SAIC)

Cathryn Colcer