Krystal Gorman
Work Experience:
Spring 2018-Present
Beadworks, Philadelphia, PA
Supervisor: Abigail Wall
Job Title: Administrative Manager
Responsibilities include:
- Running a shop efficiently
- Providing topnotch customer service
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Teaching a variety of jewelry making classes from beginner to advanced
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Consulting Customers on Jewelry Making
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Creating Custom Jewelry Pieces
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Repairing/repurposing jewelry brought in by guests
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Maintaining all social media sites and websites across three stores
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Maintaining a clean, safe and friendly workplace for guests and staff
Summer 2017-2018
North Bowl, Philadelphia, PA
Supervisor: Zackery Radtke
Job Title: Server
Responsibilities included:
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Waiting tables and attending to guests in a busy, fast paced restaurant/bowling alley
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Maintaining a clean, safe and friendly workplace
Summer 2016-Spring 2017
Jared’s Galleria of Jewelry, Willow Grove, PA
Supervisor: Joseph King—Design and Service Center Manager
Job Title: Jeweler-Apprentice/Administrative Assistant
Responsibilities include:
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Maintaining/Controlling nearly all orders and paperwork for busy, fully-staffed shop
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Ensuring quality control—matching specific repair orders with finished products
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Overseeing and coordinating return of repaired jewelry to shop of origin or customer
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Repairing broken gold and silver rings, necklaces, pendants and bracelets
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Polishing gold, silver and platinum jewelry
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Sizing gold and silver rings
Winter 2015-2017
Thomas Miles’ Studios, Philadelphia, PA
Supervisor: Thomas Miles, Founding Artist
Job Title: Sculpture Apprentice
Responsibilities include:
• Collaborating with founding artist and performing work on various pieces
• Strategizing with artist and solving logistical and show/presentation-related problems (such as mounting, structural integrity, and stability of finished projects)
• Ensuring artist complies with time deadlines for commissioned work
• Other project-specific duties as needed
Seasonal, 2015
Nordstrom, King of Prussia, PA
Supervisor: Nicholas Gatto, Manager
Job Title: Server
Responsibilities included:
• Waiting Tables/Acting as Hostess in busy department-store café
• General customer service
Winter 2014-Graduation in 2015
The University of The Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Supervisor: Tyler Kline
Job Title: Metal and Wood Shop Moderator
Responsibilities included:
• Acting as a shift-supervisor in both metal and wood shops
• Ensuring strict compliance with all safety protocols and shop rules
•Assisting students and professors as they learned to operate woodworking and metalworking equipment
Spring 2009-Summer 2011
Blooming Artist Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Supervisor: Nora McCloskey
Job Title: Assistant Art Teacher
Responsibilities included:
•Assistant-teaching both art history and art techniques to children aged 5-16
AWARDS, HONORS & SCHOLARSHIPS
• Featured Artist—The Hamilton Hall Public Arts Initiative (HHPAI), Spring 2017
• Walter Erlebacher Memorial Award for Excellence in Figure Modeling (2015 Recipient)
• Dean’s Scholarship—The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA (2011-2015)
• The Larry Weiss Scholarship—The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA (2011-2015)
• Best Artist—Little Flower High School (2011 Recipient)
Artistic Accomplishments:
Solo Exhibitions:
2017 Abundance of Absence, HHPAI
2015 Filth And Foliage, The University of the Arts
Group Exhibitions:
2018 Raw: Ovation, The Trocadero
2017 Metal AD, The University of the Arts
2015 5 Into 1, Moore College of Art
2015 Senior Thesis Show, The University of the Arts
2014 Art Unleashed, The University of the Arts
2014 Giving It All Away, The University of the Arts
2014 Half Baked, The University of the Arts
2014 Senior Sculptors Works In Progress, The University of the Arts
2013 Get Off Your Pedestal, The University of the Arts
2013 I Know What You Did Last Summer, The University of the Arts
Collaborations:
2014 Haystack School of Craft
Volunteer
2013 70 x 7 The Meal, Act XXXIV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“A collaboration between Mural Arts and Lucy + Jorge Orta.”
Skills:
Sculpture, Figurative Sculpting, Teaching, Acrylic/Oil/Watercolor, Costume Designer, Drawing, Etching, Lightroom, Jewelry Repair, Jewelry Working,
Illustration, Leadership, Metalsmithing, Metalworking, Molding and Casting,
Organization, Painting, Photography, Photoshop, Problem Solving, Public Speaking, Rhino, Sculptris, Sewing, Welding, Woodworking,
Microsoft Word/Powerpoint/Excel