13814 Loch Loyal Drive, Charlotte, NC 28203 704-588-8745 info@kathycrowe.com

Freelance, 6/84 - present

Websites: a sampling

• The Center for Peace through Culture
• The Peaceful Dragon
• Amy Vermillion
• Drumfest!
• Composer David Crowe
• Mickey Myers Pastels

Illustration: newspapers, web sites, print media

Graphic Design: brochures, fliers, ads, annual reports

Writing/Editing: newspapers, brochures, ad copy, brochures

Time Warner Cable, 1/99 - 5/03
Online Editor 1/02 - 5/03, Web Designer 1/99 - 1/02

Overall responsibility for web presence of Time Warner Cable in Charlotte, NC, including corporate site, support, and AroundCarolina.com, an online magazine. Developed materials to support other departments, including note cards, mouse pads, and movie theater ads. (Site no longer exists.)

• Design and development of online original features:
  Telling True Life Tales
  Festival of India
  Kites!
  Second Ward High School

• Production of major online features: selection and supervision writers, designers, and talent; quality supervision of coding and video production.
  Food Around Carolina
  The Way They Lived
  Stowe Botanical Gardens
  Great Getaways

• Online marketing materials and support pages:
  Cable Modem Support
  Ambit Cable Modem

Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC, 8/94-1/99

Feature page designer. Assignments included Food, Arts, Travel, Health, Living fronts and inside pages. Worked with writers, editors, photographers to help plan lead features stories.

charlotte.com. Substitute editor, creator of entertaining online newsletter.

Fort Wayne News Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 9/89-8/94

Staff page designer, including Living and Neighbors front and inside pages
Illustrations
Freelance writer for Living and Business sections
Freelance theater critic

Springfield Union, Springfield, MA 6/84-12/85 (freelance then full time)

Page designer for Feature section front and inside pages
Editor for Feature stories
Feature section writer

Springfield Library and Museums Association, Springfield MA 6/79-4/84

Communications Coordinator for this complex of four museums and a library: The George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield Art Museum, Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, Springfield Science Museum, and the City Library headquarters. Responsible for overall public relations program.

Produce/design marketing materials
Produce/design monthly newsletter
Oversee corps of volunteers
Produce special events
Press relations

Education

Bachelor and Masters degrees in English from the State University of New York at Binghamton

Skill set

Photoshop
Quark Xpress
Flash
Freehand
html/css
Acrylics
Pastels
Cut paper