Part Time Studio Assistant

Part Time Artist Assistant
4 hour shifts, 2-3 times per week
8-12 total hours per week.

Looking for creative, energetic and socially comfortable individual with a positive attitude who is willing to learn and apply new skills. The select candidate will seek to become an asset to the studio operations of Jari Poulin Photography and strive to help the studio meet and exceed its goals.

Skill Sets Desired (two or more skill sets desired)

1. Photography: Basic knowledge of digital photography, studio photography, editing, digital processing. Ability to solve problems, work as team and get along well with a variety of personalities. Familiarity with InDesign, Photoshop and/or Adobe Lightroom a definite plus.

2. Marketing: Familiarity with basic marketing strategies for social media, email and web, possesses a strong sense of design, strong writing skills and is eager to assist creating effective marketing campaigns. Basic knowledge of SEO and online marketing such as
AdWords, Facebook Ads, etc. Some basic skills with Adobe InDesign and Illustrator a definite plus.

3. Business: Basic computer skills in Word, Excel. Ability to communicate well and professionally with clients, vendors and community organizations. Organized, thorough and prepared for all assignments.

Activities:
May engage a variety of activities that may include any of the following:

• Marketing: work in tandem with studio owner to explore various approaches and campaigns to marketing a commercial retail photography studio.
• Advertising & Design: Developing ad and promotional copy for print, internet and social media
• Social Networking: Learning about, exploring and implementing best practices for using social networking to promote studio business.
• SEO: Search Engine Optimization basics.
• Website: learn to update website
• Communications: phone, email and personal contact with clients as needed.
• Studio Maintenance: Keeping studio picked up and organized and clean.
• Photo Editing and Processing: Assist studio owner with photo editing, processing as needed.

• Portrait Sessions: Occasionally assist studio owner with photography sessions with clients as needed and willing to learn the basics of assisting on a shoot both in studio and on location.
• Gallery Management: Assist studio owner with mounting shows including printing, matting and framing of artwork and all inherent marketing and publicity as well as attend openings and promote openings.

About:
Jari Poulin is an artist and printmaker using photography as the main expression of her practice.
She lives in both Manhattan's Upper West Side and Ithaca, NY where she has operates her studio practice. She holds her MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design (formerly the Art Institute of Boston). Her work is portrait based and explores ideas of the ephemeral, memory, and identity. As a former dancer/choreographer her work often features movement and dance or the implied sense of physicality and kinetic energy.

Throughout her various bodies of work, Jari often pushes settled visual boundaries to reveal or conceal information in the images. She is interested in how the brain chooses to see, fill in the blanks, and discard visual information as is common in selective memory. As an artist and fine art photographer, Jari’s images are photographically based, but at times she seeks to challenge traditional notions of the photograph by using various combinations of digital and analog processes, as well as mixed media, installation and printmaking techniques such as polymer photogravure, monotypes, and stenciling within her practice.

Ms. Poulin is the recipient of many national and international awards including the International
Photo Awards (IPA), 15th Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 7th Worldwide Pollux Awards,
Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA), Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3), International
Color Awards, ND Magazine Awards, Black and White Magazine Portfolio Award Winner, Color
Magazine Portfolio Prize, the Ink Shop International Mini Print Juried Exhibit and has been published those affiliated magazines and online galleries.

Her work has been exhibited widely including the Barcelona Foto Bienniale, ClampArt Gallery
NYC, Praxis Gallery, Gallery 1202, the Bower's Museum, C4FAP, Galerie de la Ferme du
Mousseau, Elancourt, France as well as in Limerick, Ireland with the Ink Shop Printmaking
Center, Griffin Museum of Photography, John Wayne International Airport, Atlanta International
Airport, Atlanta Photography Group, PhotoPlace Gallery Vermont, the Lunder Gallery in Boston,
SE Center for Photography, Cape Cod Center for Photography, and various galleries in Taos,
NM, NYC for the Story of the Creative Exhibition, See Me Year in Review Exhibition on Long
Island, The Ink Shop Printmaking Center, State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca, NY, and in many venues throughout the Finger Lakes region.

Job Types: Part-time, Temporary

Pay: $20.00 - $30.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 4 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Ithaca, NY 14850: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $20 - $30