Maia Wilkes

I did some of the background research for Alina's engagements, creation of notes and other memos and documents, help with speechwriting, and general jack-of-all-trades help with whatever she needed.

www.SantaClassics.com is an art project by photographer Ed Wheeler. He'd been making santas for 20 years, but had a lifelong dream to share them. In September, the Philadelphia Museum of Art began selling Ed's Santas as holiday cards, and Santa Classics went viral in the blogsphere by late November.

Creating a variety of materials as needed for fundraising and volunteer/sponsored events, including posters, stickers, buttons and T-shirt decals.

Created a series of illustrations for use on posters, cards, and stickers--additional materials to help kids and teachers in language classes.

Editing holiday cards with personal photos and messages, and also serving as Quality Control and liaison between customers and design team. Photo retouching, typographic troubleshooting, printing quality control for many different types of card stock.

I worked as a Designer/Illustrator for printed materials like ads and fundraiser collateral and created multimedia slideshows; helped staff the annual fundraiser Gala; created Facebook events and other social media advertisements; and worked as a Stagehand for their production of A Dybbuk (where duties included: running around in the dark carrying heavy objects, greeting/ushering patrons, gophering between Production crew and Cast, and emptying/filling the stage bathtub with water--its a long story).

Afton LLC is a booking agent for various bands and artists across the country. As their on-site representative in Philadelphia, I organized shows of 5-12 bands a night at different venues across the Philadelphia Area, including the Rusty Nail in Ardmore and World Cafe Live. I coordinated between the venue's sound and house managers, the bands and their managers, (and sometimes their stage mothers), while also being in charge of the door and all ticketing transactions for the shows. Skills included calm under fire, friendliness, good time management and quick mental math.

I worked with Mural Arts and graffiti artist Stephen Powers (ESPO) to create murals for the Summer of Love project, which can be seen on the El line between 69th and Broad streets. Specifically, working with a multi-generational team of 5, we canvassed the neighborhood, brainstormed the design with lead artist Gabriel Tiberino, and painted and applied the mural to the wall at 47th and Market.