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Frank Pietronigro's Experience:
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Certificate Achiever at Bay Area Video Coalition
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Associate Fellow at STUDIO For Creative Inquiry, College of Fine Arts, Carngie Mellon University
January 2004 - December 2010I work closely with my friend and mentor, Lowry Burgess, Former Dean and Professor, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University serving as a representative of the STUDIO For Creative Inquiry located in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Turner Edcuational Services Interactive Television Sales and Marketing at Turner Broadcasting
1994 - 1996Supported the sales, marketing and promotion of live interactive educational television programs to cable affiliates, and schools in the Western United States. Coordinate television program distribution by securing channel capacity with local cable operators and PBS for these live interactive ecucational 'field-trips' that provided educational support materials to teachers and students to augment the learning experence offered with each live teleivision broadcast.
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Events Production and Marketing, Western Region Affiliate Sales and Relations at Discovery Communications - The Discovery Channel
1988 - 1992Produced regional promotional events and cause-related marketing campaigns and traveled throughout the Western U.S. for the Discovery Channel and the Learning Channel while working with project teams that included multiple corporate departments in remote sites. Researched Business Partnership opportunities in major DMAs, via telemarketing; then wrote proposals and sold marketing campaigns to all potential partners, including internal Discovery Channel departments; matched external opportunities with internal goals. Interfaced with Communications, National Ad Sales, Local Ad Sales, Legal, and On-Air Promotions and other remote corporate staff as Western Region Marketing Task Force Leader while educating co-workers to monthly and seasonal promotional campaign opportunities Conducted proactive telemarketing to educate local marketing /cable system managers on special promotions while attending National, Regional and State conferences.
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Director, San Francisco Arts Festival at San Francisco Arts Commission
1983 - 1985Conceived and supervised all aspects of an arts festival for the City and County of San Francisco, a month-long celebration of the visual and performing arts. oDeveloped production schedules, organizational charts, job descriptions, budgets and managed all aspects of operations.
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Artist at Frank Pietronigro Interdisciplinary Arts
1965Part of my interests include creating as an interdisciplinary artist, educator and author. I enjoy painting, drawing, photography, collaborating on public art projects, performances, videos/new media works and art installations - www.pietronigro.com I achieved the honor of becoming the first American painter to create "drift paintings" where my body floated within a three-dimensional painting created, as scientific research, in zero gravity aboard NASA's KC135 turbojet, flown as a part of the Texas Space Grant Program's NASA Reduced Gravity Student Flight Program in collaboration with the California Space Grant Consortium and the San Francisco Art Institute.
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Professor, Web Design New Media School at Academy of Art University
1999Extensive computer arts and new media project management teaching in graduate and undergraduate departments, teaching MAC OSX; Adobe Photoshop, Illustrators, Acrobat, Premiere, AfterEffects, Quark and other digital applications with an emphasis teaching print and digital video production, compression and distribution. Faculty member of Adobe Partners By Design, Adobe Systems International. Teach a Senior Studio Project course, and multiple years of on-line teaching experience. Researched, prepared and writre course outline, lecture notes, handouts, and exams for fifteen week courses.
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Co-Founder and Project Director at Zero Gravity Arts Consortium
1999Conceives, manages and expands programs of the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium (ZGAC www.zgac.org) an international space arts organization dedicated to fostering greater access for artists to space flight technology and zero gravity space through the creation of international partnerships with space agencies, space industry entrepreneurs, arts and science organizations and leading universities. ZGAC programs include: Artists Into Space, Parabolic Flight Program for Artists, International Conference Program, Arts In Space Education Program and Levity Lab: Engaging Youth In the Arts In Space. I serve the space arts community as one of the Co-Chairs of ISAW4, the International Space Arts Workshop held at Singularity University at NASA Research Park in 2013. I also served as MC, art curation and curators of the STEAM Screen (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Music and Mathematics) Arts in Space Exploration Documentary Film Screening at Yuri's Night Bay Area 2007/08 held at NASA Ames Research Center. In 2006, I was Co-Chair of the Space Art Track of the 25th International Space Development Conference, Co-Sponsored by the National Space Society and the Planetary Society. In 2009, I served as Art Director for 'I See the Earth and It Is Beautiful' a historic international arts and space science and engineering collaboration between artists, musicians, performers and astronauts aboard the International Space Station presented during Yuri's Night Bay Area 2009 at NASA Ames Research Center. In 2011, I authored a featured titled: Arts, Humanities and Culture in Space Exploration that was published in Ad Astra Magazine the publication of the National Space Society. ZGAC is the first organization of its kind, based in the United States, that is facilitating parabolic flight projects that will help in the international effort to set the stage for teams of artists to have permanent access to space transportation systems including the International Space Station.