April L Sanders
1745 Kettner Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 338-9252
Cardboardflies@hotmail.com
OBJECTIVE: Provide my skills, talents and creative techniques to
increasing sales, enhancing production and raising profits
for the company.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Accomplished Photographer; color, black and white, studio, lighting, copystand slides, and portfolio.
- Comprehensive experience and knowledge of selling art supplies and framing.
- Computer and cash register; fluent typist, Microsoft Word and PhotoShop.
- Black and white and color processing and printing.
- Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills; able to quickly establish a strong sense of trust with co-workers, management, and customers.
- Results-oriented, self-starter with accomplished skills in photography,
Photoshop, sales, customer satisfaction, and basic conversational Spanish.
EDUCATION:
2001 – 2004 Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Bachelor of Fine Arts expected in Spring 2007, Photography
1999 – 2001 Grossmont College, San Diego, CA
Associates Degree, General Studies
EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS:
2001 – Present Art Photographer
Documenting musicians' and artists' work with color slides and photography.
2004 – 2006 Professional Photographer, Custom Black and White Printer, Framer
Cecil’s House of Photography, San Diego, CA
Traditional black and white portrait photography of children, families and pets. Photo-restoration using Photoshop 7 and CS2. Trained in hand coloring photographs with oils and custom darkroom printing.
2003 - 2004 Color Lab Printer/Camera Sales Floater
Ritz Camera, San Diego, CA
Wolf Camera, Portland, OR
Responsible for processing and hand color correcting customers film rolls and digital media. Accountable for store opening, camera sales, passport photos, lab inventory and maintenance on chemical and digital processors.
1999-2003 Key Holder/Lead, Design Specialist and Certified Framer
Aaron Brothers Art and Framing, San Diego, CA/Beaverton, OR
Responsible for store operations including opening and closing store, cash handling and office work. Lead Design Specialist and art supply merchandising. Responsible for consulting the public with artwork, art supplies, custom framing and design. Coursework certified as framing and design specialist, sales associate, and cash register.
EXHIBITIONS:
2004 San Diego, CA-Solo Art Show, Sides, Voltaire
2003 PNCA-Solo Installation, Hang, Her
PNCA-Juried Student Art Show
PNCA-Student Holiday Art Show
PNCA-Commons Art Show
2002 PNCA- Juried Student Art Show
PNCA-Student Art Show, For the Love of Art
PNCA-Solo Art Show, Elizabethan Red, Higgins Gallery
2001 Del Mar Fair-Student Art Show
Grossmont College-Student Art Show
AWARDS, HONORS:
2003 PNCA-Best Black and White Portfolio
2001 Del Mar Fair, San Diego, CA - First Place in Black and White Photography
Del Mar Fair, San Diego, CA-Best of Show Traditional Black and White Photography
2000-2001 Grossmont College, San Diego, CA-Dean’s List
PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS:
2001 San Diego, CA-San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, Lighting and
Portraits with Laura London
1998 Port Orford, OR-Steelblue Lodge, Nature and Landscape with David Wing
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