Chris Jonas Employment Resume
Co-founder,
Santa Fe Beehive, NM, December 2004-current.
Planning towards the creation of a large-scale artist services, resources and
creative culture research center in Santa Fe.
Co-founder,
Little Globe Productions, Inc, NM, January 2004-current.
Intermedia projects, BING, large scale performance productions.
Adjunct
Faculty,
College of Santa Fe Creative Music Program, NM, January 2005 -current.
Private saxophone lessons.
Graphic
Designer / Video / Soundtrack Composer,
Freelance, various projects, Santa Fe. January
2004 - current.
Website design, graphic design, video creation for artists, installations and
documentaries, multimedia and effects design for video and film projects, soundtracks
for installations, films and documentaries.
Curator/Director
of Installation and Performance Arts,
Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe, NM, December
2002-December 2003.
Creation of programming for two galleries and two performance spaces in experimental
community-based art space and international presenting organization. Created
monthly series (Open Process, Global Sonics, HAT Improvisation, CCA In Motion
and others), regular visual and multimedia art shows and various performance
festivals. Instigated new parternships with other regional arts oganizations,
managed staff working in installation, tech, PR, calendar, web, curatorial,
events management, research, archives, outreach, grant writing, interns, fundraising
and budgetary.
Director
of Marketing and Operations,
WorkingWild, Inc., Santa Fe, NM, December 2001-December
2002.
Development of Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) start-up company.
Participation in creation of overall company strategy, infrastructure, branding,
overseeing graphic and web design, press, marketing, employee hiring and firing,
administration and general management.
Graphic/Information
Designer, Protection
Technology Los Alamos (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Los Alamos, NM,
October-December 2001.
Long-term Temporary Assignment in HR department of
PTLA: information design, HR flow-charts and job manuals.
Assistant
to the Director,
Creative Center for Women with Cancer, NYC, Winter-Summer
2001
Administrative duties, research into and purchase of new computer equipment,
participating in board meetings, correspondence, telephones, Internet, copy
editing, general assistance to the director.
Office
Manager/Registrar,
Willem de Kooning Revocable Trust, NYC, Winter-Fall
2000
General management and maintenance of the office and art collection,
inventory, database, business and computer systems administration, supplies, correspondence,
copy editing, research, archives.
Assistant to Composer Anthony Braxton,
Middletown, CT
and NYC. 1996-1999.
Assistance to MacArthur Grant recipient, composer and
Wesleyan University music professor, Anthony Braxton; Teaching (as a T.A.) of
Wesleyan University music classes, conductor of Wesleyan Braxton music ensembles;
Functioning as the vice president of the TriCentric Foundation, his non-profit
organization which produces large projects, festivals, orchestra and opera performances.
Organization of events, running of meetings, participation in development, funding
and maintenance of the Foundation.
Administrative
Director, Triquetra
Journeys,
NYC, 1993-96.
Specialized group trips to Peru, Bolivia and Southern France,
workshops in North America. Accounting and taxes, projects development, advertising,
graphics, general office management, writing and editing of pamphlets and travel
materials.
New York Representative / Coordinator, Midwest
Fine Arts, Services & Technology (MFAST), 1992-96.
Organization
of shipping, and handling artwork for private collectors, galleries and museums
in New York and New England areas. Supervision of installation and shipping crews
for large traveling shows.
Preparitor, Galleries, Museums,
Art Shipping companies, San Francisco and New York,
1986-2001.
Organization and installation of art shows, supervision
of installation crews, management of gallery spaces and installation materials;
specialist in packing delicate or difficult to ship works of art.
Education
New
York University - School for Continuing and Professional Studies
(Certificate in Multimedia/Digital Design), 2001.
CD and Web Media, Design
and Multimedia.
Wesleyan University, CT (MA music composition / ethnomusicology),
1996-99.
Composition and installation arts.
New
School for Social Research, Mannes College of Music,
NYC, 1992-96.
Additional studies in composition, theory, conducting and performance.
Oberlin
College, OH (BA
Art History / Art Studio), 1984-88.
Painting, multimedia, contemporary art
history, Italian Renaissance. Minor in music (jazz and composition).