Mark Strauss

Brooklyn, NY, USA

Work Experience

Magenu

Freelance artist, graphic designer

Magenu.org is a non-profit organization focused on educating children (including those with disabilities) about personal safety. Their work focuses on Jewish communities. My work with them has covered newspaper comics timed with the holidays, handouts for classrooms, books, and more.
January 2013 - Present Brooklyn, New York, United States

New York Energy Consumers Council

Administrative Assistant

The New York Energy Consumers Council, a non profit group that serves to keep electric rates under check as well as consider ways to be energy efficient. I was the administrative assistant to the executive director.

As part of my time at the NYECC I designed an all new company award, labeled the Energy New York Award (a.k.a. "ENYA").
May 2005 - June 2008 New York, New York, United States

MNS Art

Owner, designer

Over the past eight years I've developed my own little business of designing t-shirts and other items of my own. I do my own original screenprints as well as hand drawn shirts, of all sorts of custom designs and commissions. It is very satisfying work.
June 2006 - Present Brooklyn, New York, United States

Education

School Of Visual Arts (SVA)

Bachelors of Fine Arts

September 2000 - June 2004 New York, New York, United States

Skills

Drawing, Sculpting, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Conceptualizing, Drafting, Illustration, Painting, Screenprinting, Sewing, Sketching, Woodworking,