SUNY Oswego - Art
Art Educator and Graphic Artist
Graphic Design
Aaron Z.
Lee
Syracuse, New York Area
Hello! I am an Art Educator and Graphic Artist from Central New York. I’ve worked with clients like The United Way, Oswego County Children’s Fund, SUNY Oswego, Zink Screenprinting, Ethernauts, Vince Markowsky, The Oswego Comic Shop and more. My style is influenced by comic books and current design trends. I take on commissions for album covers, gig posters, t-shirt designs, beer bottle designs and illustrating people as superheroes. I am currently working on my first full-length comic book set to debut this year.
I am available for freelance work as well as consultation and am a NYS Certified Art Educator K-12 and instructor in the areas of graphic novels and illustration.
Specialties: Art Education, Graphic Design, Illustration, Blogging
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Visual Art Teacher
Aaron worked at Oswego City School District as a Visual Art Teacher
Graphic Artist
Raised the profile of the Lifestyles Center, Health Center and Counseling Center by creating and implementing branding, and promoting events with social media strategy, print materials, multimedia, t-shirts, videos, websites, etc. Planned and staffed events and led award-winning student groups.
Won SUNY CUAD Award with OZ Quits! Campaign. Won Outreach Award with Counseling Web Series.
Began work in this position as a Graduate Assistant. After graduation, I was brought on part-time and then full-time due to the quality of my work which was recognized by the SUNY Chancellor, Colgate University, and the BACCHUS network.
Worked with United Way, Diversity, Tobacco Free, Suicide Prevention committees on campus as a consultant and designer.
Adjunct Faculty Instructor
Taught a cross section of traditional and digital illustration with the chair of the art department at SUNY Oswego. Developed syllabus, projects, presentations, and facilitated the success of undergraduate and graduate illustration students in their areas of interest.
I also crafted the curriculum for a college level graphic novel course in which students would learn about the history of the art form as well as create their own graphic novels and comics. Class discussions about comics and their techniques were also facilitated.
Publications Associate
Worked with publications staff to produce print documents for the use of the wider campus community.
Artist, Designer, Publisher
Created original works for sale, created custom comic book pages and portraits, created freelance materials and designs for various entities, promoted music and art through articles, cartoons, graphics, podcasts and other media. Also sold t-shirts, self-published comic books and screen prints of original artwork at art shows and craft fairs.
Graphic Designer
Worked with a team of graphic designers to brand and produce promotional materials for the graduate programs available at SUNY Oswego. Worked to update and customize templates provided by the team.
MAT
Art Education
Studied fine arts, graphic design, illustration, multimedia and art education.
Associates
Liberal Arts
DJ at WETD radio station
BFA
Graphic Design, Fine Arts
AIGA student chapter, Oswegonian student newspaper, Swim Lesson Instructor, Lifeguard, WNYO Radio DJ
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I interview creative people about their lives, art and music.
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