Hello! Welcome to my portfolio site, my name is Karen Wojcik, I am a Freelance Creative and Multimedia Artist from the Great Lake State of Michigan. I graduated from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, with a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design with proficiencies in Adobe Creative Cloud, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. In addition, to offering the latest digital breakthroughs and innovations through multimedia skills and the ability to communicate through visual concepts to create effective user experiences. And, the capabilities to take traditional art skills and use them to produce imagery onto a combination of multimedia content within one or more type of mediums from 2D to 3D images, text, illustrations, animation, video, and web design.

Education

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Bachelor of Science Graphic Design February 2016
Cum Laude, Honors
GPA 3.67/4.00
Honor Societies - Kappa Pi, November 2015, National Technical Honor Society, January 2016

The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Associate of Science Graphic Design April 2012
Cum Laude, Honors, Deans List
GPA 3.65/4.00
Alumni - Art Institute of Pittsburgh, since April 2012

Technical Skills

Adobe Creative Cloud - Photoshop. Illustrator, InDesign, XD, Dreamweaver, Lightroom, After Effects, Animation.
Adobe Substance 3D - Sampler, 3D Designer. Stager, Painter

Apple Final Cut Pro - professional video editing
Apple Compressor - The advanced encoding companion to Final Cut Pro.
Apple Logic Pro - Advanced music production application.
Apple Motion - Powerful motion graphics tool.
Apple Main Stage is a live performance app that lets you take any sound from Logic Pro to the concert stage.

Blender 4.0.2 3D modeling software

Creative Artistic Skills

Traditional drawing skills, life drawing, perspectives, Illustrations and mixed media as well as wet and dry media..

Multimedia

Text, graphics, audio, video, animations and interactive elements.

Website Design and Development

UI/UX design
Front-end Development and Design
Images, content, and structure of the site
Interface design into Adobe XD
Coding | HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Back-end Development
PHP, JavaScript

Activities, Organizations, Social Media, and Societies

Honors Societies
Honor Award, Deans List, Cum Laude, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA., April 2012
National Technical Honor Society, Honor Date Feb 2016 | Issuer, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Kappa Pi International Art Honor Society, Honor Date, Nov 2015 | Issuer,  The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Networking and Social Media - LinkedIn, Behance, Instagram, ArtistsNetwork