Daniel A. Beach Jr.
Contact Information:
1703 Indian Shores Rd.
Crosby, Texas 77532
832.315.0006
danielbeachjr@aol.com
OBJECTIVE: Seeking: Fine Arts Exhibition
and Representation and/or Arts in the Community and Youth Administrative position.
SUMMARY: • Internship as Art Coordinator for Chicago’s
Restaurant.
• Owner, business manager, web site
constructor, graphics artist, and artist affiliated with Daniel Beach Fine Arts©.
• More than twelve years of experience in guest
service.
• More than four years of experience as Food/Labor
Manager for La Madeleine Inc.
• More than twenty years of experience as a
self driven and self employed Artist (chalk pastels, Prisma
colors, charcoal, water color paints, oil paints, sculpture, and pottery as
well as frame building and canvas stretching).
• Proficient with Adobe Photoshop (7-9 / Elements
/ CS4), Adobe Illustrator, MS Office, MS Word, Windows XP, and the Internet,
including navigation thereof and Macromedia Dreamweaver
MX.
EDUCATION: Louisiana
State University of Baton Rouge 1999 - 2001
School
of Design & Architecture
-Working
on a Bachelor degree in Architecture and a minor in business management.
Courses
taken included:
World
Art History Methodologies Architecture
European
Art and Architecture Creative
Writing
American
Art and History Design
Fundamentals
Modern
Art Spanish
(Language)
French
(Language)
Italian (Language)
Technical
Drafting
Caddo Magnet College Preparatory High
School 1995 –
1999
Courses taken included:
Art
(all four years) Architecture
Drafting
Technical Drawing
Architectural
Design
Activities
included:
Art
Club, Worked as a teacher for “3rd Grade Days” for SRAC (Shreveport,
Regional Arts Council), YACA (Youth Arts Council of America).
EXPERIENCE: Self-Taught/Self-Employed
Artist, Owner and Operator,
-Officially Copyrighted - November 2001 to Present;
-Unofficially
have been producing original art work March 1987 to
Present
Daniel
Beach Fine Arts© 2001 and www.danielbeachgallery.com
• Manage business contracts and lease
agreements between Daniel Beach Fine Arts© and clients including commissions,
galleries, festivals, and image leasing firms.
• Develop press releases and promotional tools
for exhibits, events, and advertisements.
• Integrated Paypal
tools with a gallery/portfolio web site I designed, built, and maintain on my
own for the successful sales and distribution of limited edition, signed and
numbered lithograph and giclée prints.
• The preparation, production, preservation,
transportation, framing, and shipment (when applicable) of photo-realistic original
oil based paintings on canvas.
.
Art Coordinator, May 2002 to March 2006
Chicago’s Restaurant
• Developed
contracts and applications for artists to exhibit.
• Wrote and mailed press releases and
promotional information.
• Managed sales transactions between the
artist, buyer, and restaurant.
• Was responsible for physically hanging show
and printing of flyers and brochures.
Other jobs held:
-Night Stocker at Wal-Mart Super Center on
Siegen Ln. Baton Rouge,
Louisiana
-Duration
of six months beginning December 2001.
-Baton Rouge
City News Stand – Store Manager
-Duration
of four months prior to taking job with La Madeline Inc.
ACTIVITIES: • Authoring of my own book (autobiography), How
to Whisper
• Post Hurricane Disaster Relief Volunteer
REFERENCES: • Chris Latona –
General Manager for Perkins Rowe La Madeleine
225.766.1875
Known
for 8.5 years
• Adam Meshell – Life
long friend and coworker
318.349.5320
Known
for 23 years
• Jeremy Gilbert – Life long friend and
coworker
318.560.1218
Known
for 21 years
• Pam Atchison – Executive Director of S.R.A.C
(Shreveport Regional Arts
Council)
pam@shrevearts.org
Known
for 23 years