Maura Kelley
31-28 35th
St. #1a
Astoria, NY 11106
917 776 1039
Fax:
718 545 5927
Email: Maura_kelley@hotmail.com
BFA
in Painting - University of Hartford -Theatre Minor
Continuing Education
SVA: Graphic Design & Advertising
Skilled in Adobe
PhotoShop 5.5, 5.0, Quark 4, Illustrator 8, Mac Os, Windows 98, Fetch, a little
html (Dreamweaver & Bbedit), MSWord, WordPerfect
Artistic
Qualifications:
Skilled
in using scenic techniques: wood grains, stains, industrial air brush, sponging,
shading, light, Strong drawing & Painting skills, computer graphics, copywriting
Pet
and House Portraits www.petandhouseportrait.com
Fall '98 to present
- my
own ongoing business: paintings and drawings of peoples pets and houses
National
Touring theatre, New Haven, CT 12/02
- Painted
a large mural of a Mississippi cotton field ( realistic style)
Theatre
Arts Center NY 7/02
- Painted
NYC cityscape Large backdrop mural for a Broadway review (black and white film
style with washes of Primary colors)
Astoria
Arts Theatre, Astoria NY
- Nunsense- stage floor- wood grain - rendered
wall tiles In 1940's aged style 03/03
-
Painted sets,
backdrops and props for "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" (Cartoon style) 6/02
Pinxit:
Hale Tine (designer) NYC 588 Broadway 5/01
- Painted
large ornate set piece for Opera at SUNY Purchase
Weber
Prianti Productions DE
Toy
Fair 2001, 2000, 97, 95 for Rose Art Industries
- 35x 10
mural of clouds for Rose Art Industries 2001
- Mural
backdrop: realistic summer scene of trees for Rose Art Display 2000
- Sesame
Street Backdrop (large) 1997
- Painted
displays in an impressionistic style to house "Precious Moments Dolls"
including doll houses, outdoor scenes, & trees
- Painted
a large outdoor playground mural 1995
Summer 91
- Painted outdoor
people murals for the construction site at the Dupont building
- Landscape
with Gazebo- drop for QVC home shopping network
- Fiddler on
the Roof two huge village drops and the sets
- Burle & Ives Christmas
Theme Drop (scene of snow and On Weber Priantis website- Homepage
- Mottled
drops for stock photography studio for rentals
Trollwood
Performing Arts School Fargo,
ND 6/99 -7/99
- Painted
sets and was the scenic charge for the huge outdoor theatre
- (85 ft by
65- 3 stories high)
- Taught children and adults different scenic
techniques along with a 16 yr. old apprentic
David
Sally artist / Scenic Wonders (shop) 5/99
- Painted
murals for the artist for his upcoming show
The
Running Man - Musical Theatre Group
- Painted scrim
to look like foliage (sponge), wood grain, and layering of the floor in high gloss
washes to look like water
Showman
Fabricators, Brooklyn 1/99
- Toy Fair 99
repainted old North American Bear set,
- Emril Live set (floor treatment)
- Industrial
stage set
PDI
NYC 9/98
- restaurant
mural: copy of a Kandinsky painting for Sax Fifth Avenue showroom
Under
the Porch Productions 10/97
- Meet
Me Painted sets for the production at the Mint Theatre Joseph Andorfer
Remember Whenn
for AMC Television 12/96
- Painted
the sets and aged them with a team of painters
Central
Piedmont Summer Theatre, Charlotte, NC Summer 96
- She Loves Me
and The Secret Garden
- Painted sets and props for the summer season
References:
Gary
Prianti wpscenic.com
WEBER-PRIANTI SCENIC STUDIO,INC.
408-A
Meco Drive, Wilmington, DE. 19804
Phone: 888-997-6500 Fax: 302-998-6931
David Boyd: Scenic artist 917 309 8054