Artist Resume

Hanada Shagour

963 Farrier PL, Daly City, CA 94014 – (949) 610 4454    hanada_aa@hotmail.com

Objective: To get a position as a Visual intern to gain further experience in this field.

Educational Background

San Francisco State University, CA.                                                                         2010 - 

                         Bachelor of Arts in Art (In progress)

Concentration in Studio Art

Painting/Drawing, and Conceptual Information.

Minor in Art History

Irivne Valley College, CA,                                                                        2007 - 2010

                        Associate In Arts / Art

Experience

-       Participated in multiple School Art Galleries.

-       Was part of a project involving Street Painting in Irvine, CA.

Relevant Experience

            Anthropologie

                        Visual Intern Spring 2011

-        Established aspects related to visual presentation.

-        Conceptualized the visual presentation materials for the store’s products.

Computer Skills:

Proficient in the use of the following computer languages:

-       Adobe illustrator

-       Adobe Photoshop

-       Director MX

-       Macintosh/PC

-       MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint

Core Competencies:

-       Ability to complete tasks within limited time period and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

-       Possess excellent organizational, negotiation, and artistic skills.

-       Took classes in Painting, drawing, figure drawing, 2D design, 3D design, sculpture, and Art History. 

Week -  9 -

Cork me

A new window display, a new deadline, and a new challenging task. This time around, its all about the corks. We contacted neighboring wine bars, wineries, and grocery stores asking them to save the used wine corks for our " new and awesome window display". Astonishingly, the total amount collected was 48,000 corks. YES, 48,000. Bags upon bags of corks were piled in the studio, and just like the clothes pins; we had to paint them.. individually. 3 shades of green, a blue, two 5 hour days, 3 interns, and a sea of colorful corks was created. 

Did you know that theres artist that specialize in corks? cause i didnt. A "Cork Artist" came into the studio as we were working and introduced himself. Steve, (even though he really looked like a Charlie) is a cork artist from the San Francisco. He mainly builds sculptures out of "real corks". Nothing synthetic or monotonous, but rather the unique ones. He slices the corks and then builds sculpture forms out of them. On the side, he likes to peal corks and build iphone cases. thats what i call passion and dedication right there.  

Week - 8 - 

Call me the weaving lady

 Weaving, not a big deal. Actually its pretty easy and fun. But weaving an entire Bed Display looking up while standing on a ladder is an entire different story. There were many moments were i thought i was going to fall straight on my face but luckily that did not happen and i stuck through the entire upside down weaving process. And when they say they want a perfect weave, they mean a perfect weave by all means. The thickness, the color coordination, and the straightness was all taken into consideration.

Hardware was just another word in my vocabulary. But at Anthopologies, fixing the hardware is pretty much someones worst nightmare. It was my turn this time since i've never been given that task before. and maybe i should have said yes when they asked me if i had done this before. Fixing the hardware includes rolling down 2 big metro racks filled with hardware that range from door knobs to hangers and everything thats hardware ever imaginable. After rolling comes the efficient organizing and stocking. i was warned from the sad fact that some start and never finish due to the gabilliion bazziliion colors, patterns, size, kinds. But luckily i got the job done within the time limit and may i say that it looked pretty nice!

  

Create a Creative Project

The art project i will present at the end of the semester will be inspired by my last week at the internship. Like I've said before, in almost every post, i love the idea of making new things out of nothing basically, and in many cases it is literary out of garbage. Some one had gotten rid of that coffee table but now its serving as a shelf, in the middle of a high volume store.  Last day i was there i saw this bag full of mini fabric sample squares and I've definitely experienced one of those enlightenment  moments we all hear about. They create amazing out of nothing, and out of their nothing i will create amazing. The fist time i walked into the store i was taken away by this wall display. It was just a simple portrait, but this portrait was made out of twisted little fabric knots. the different shades and patterns of the fabric complimented and paralleled the shading and the coloring that goes into portraiture. I come from a drawing/painting background, specifically in portraiture. Therefore creating a portrait using Anthropologies unwanted material would definitely hit the mark for me.

- Week 7-

Im just taking away by the idea that we are able to transform old, ordinary things into these cool, hip things ive always wanted to learn how they're made. I spent a good portion of my first day painting and help hanging a shelf. A shelf like no other though. A once upon a time little coffee table is now cut in half, painted aqua, and used as a fully functioning shelf.

I was hoping the next day ill be able to do something as inventive and cool and i did. i was given a newly aqua painted chair, a hammer, pins, old fabric and magic seemed to happen. i was to cover the old chair with this ethic fabric that was taken off of a couch sold at the store. But sadly the couch broke.

- Week 4, 5 & 6 -

I've decided to combine these two to three weeks within one post. Everyone including the entire staff, the visual team and the interns were all focused on one of the biggest corporate visits the store has each year. High tension and high expectations were all at stake, and we were all trying to meet our goals, somehow. Some of the goals were pretty achievable, but some id say, were just a bit unrealistic. I knew in the back of my mind that i should not have taken that coffee break, maybe i would've painted a bit more over 686 clothes pins vs the 1000 pins i was supposed to paint, ...  individually. Took 2 days to paint but the old ordinary looking clothes pins are now hanging on strings and used in the main window display, and it feels goood.

The visit overall was a great success, or so i was told. The regional manager and his team were really impressed with the store displays and really were really taken away by the talent present at the store.  we were told that "it'll take him 10 years to forget that big massive fish thats hanging from the ceiling". and that as well, feels good.

These two weeks were just a blur of organizing, stocking, cleaning, dusting, painting, and painting a bit more. But non the less i found it very beneficial to be in that environment thats full of tension, high pressure and anxiety. I should be expecting deadlines, goals, and corporate visits in the Visual display world right?

Week - 3-

OH man.

wooden blocks. shelves. nails. drills. dust.... is my ability to do intensive physical labor being tested here? 

A new sale room is being built, our job was to install the shelves, move all the merchandise, and set up in a way that will be "appealing to the eye of the shopper". As easy as it sounds, moving and installing those shelves was not the breeziest walk in the park. But none the less, the job was done and we were to set up all the pretty home wear in a way that will make them even prettier. 

May i say that i've missed the studio this week, but stepping out of my comfort zone definitely helped me expand my experience within merchandising and learning how to take the shoppers perspective upon things vs. mine. Ive learned that in such industry, knowing how to make beautiful things wont cut it. But an artist should rather look beyond the physicality of the art work and onto the bigger aesthetic spectrum the work is presented in,  in order to appeal to the, in this case, shopper.

Second day was not as intense. Actually quite the opposite. Making pink gentle flower petals all day was pretty ironic after an intense day of using hammers and drills.