Samantha Paige Furgason

Experience

Artwork International
Owner/Director
Santa Fe, NM
May 1999 - Present

Artwork provides resources and promotion to individual artists. Specializing in: grantwriting, funding research, residencies in the U.S. and abroad, museum and gallery placement, creative promotion, publicity and press release, micro and macro marketing, client correspondence, corporate collections, graphic design, portfolio building, career assistance, consultation.

Associate Director/Director
Conlon-Siegal Galleries
Santa Fe, NM
1996-1999
Bunny Conlon and Bill Siegal, Owners

Responsible for: administrative, client (private and corporation) correspondence, sales, reception, curating, bookkeeping, payroll, employee training, desktop publishing, inventory, installation, photography, packing and shipping, promotion, public relations, marketing. working knowledge of Aymara, pre-Columbian, Indonesian, and African textiles and objects, installation, archival packing and storage.

Associate Director
Copeland Rutherford Fine Arts Ltd.
Santa Fe, NM
1992-1996
James Rutherford and Jack Copeland, Owners

Part-time Assistant
Cynthia Drennon Fine Art
Santa Fe, NM
1994-1996
Cynthia Drennon, Owner

Responsible for: dealing in the secondary “blue chip” art market, maintaining auction results, correspondence, shipping, public relations, art installation.

Sales Associate
Barbara Zusman’s Fine Art and Antiques
Santa Fe, NM
1991-1992
Barbara Zusman, Owner

Responsible for sales, working knowledge of early American artworks, contemporary New Mexican artworks, pre-Columbian objects, antique jewelry (Mexican, native American, and American) administrative, reception, employee training, installation, packing and shipping.

Shidoni Foundry
Santa Fe, NM
1992
Tommy Hicks, Supervisor: Paul Moore

Tasks: multi-medium enlarging of contemporary sculpture.

Assistant Director
Conlon Gallery
Santa Fe, NM
1990
Bunny Conlon, Director

Responsible for: administrative, client (private and corporation) correspondence, sales, reception, installation, inventory, photography, packing and shipping, promotion, public relations, marketing.

Painting Department Supervisor
B.D. Company
Santa Fe, NM
1988-1990
Fred Prescott and Barbara Day, Owners

Tasks: supervising detailed painting of artworks, employee training, installation.

Art Tour Director
Detours
Santa Fe, NM
Tony Peck, Owner

Tasks: guided art tours of Northern New Mexico, lecturing on art and art history (groups ranging in size from 20-200), tour coordination, administrative, client (private and corporation) correspondence, reception, employee training, promotion, public relations, marketing.

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