Resume - Caroline Zhang
Honors and Awards
National YoungArts Finalist in Visual Arts, 2018
---One of 26 Visual Arts Finalists chosen from over 1600 Visual Arts applicants
---Received the 3rd place prize in the visual arts discipline
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, 2018, 2020
---Received a Scholastic Art Awards National Gold Medal in 2018
---Received a Scholastic Art Awards National Silver Medal Portfolio Award in 2020
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Group Art Exhibitions
Total Tolerance - U.S. Department of Education - Washington DC - 2018
2018 YoungArts Finalists Exhibition - Jewel Box Gallery - Miami FL - 2018
Community Show - FRANK Gallery - Chapel Hill NC - 2018
Art.Write.Now.Tour - the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers - 2018-2019
Will have my work shown at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, Crocker Art Museum, South Bend Museum of Art, and the Center of Creative Arts (COCA)
Art.Write.Now. National Exhibition - The Pratt Institute Manhattan Gallery - New York- 2018
Rupture. Rapture. Revolution - The Carrack - Durham NC - 2019
Third Friday Exhibition - Dan Ellison’s Durham ArtsPlace - Durham NC - 2019
Community Show: Zola Craft Gallery - Durham NC - 2019
Gold/Silver Key Exhibition - Barton College - Wilson NC - 2017, 2018, 2019
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Activities
Research Assistant at Duke University’s PIPC Program
---2019-2020: conduct research on the development of polarization in Congress by analyzing voting patterns
and senator interviews.
Research in Humanities
---Conducting project to analyze exhibitions of “Primitive”art and Euro-American Modernist Art
NCSSM Art Club
---2018-2019: Junior Director of Outreach - contacted local cafes to exhibit art, organized events and
programs, organized art drives
---2019-2020: Executive Director of Outreach - Developed a curriculum combining art with STEM to be taught
to local elementary school kids, led programs and critiques
TEDxNCSSM
---2018-2019: Photography and Design Committee
---2019-2020: Director of Photography and Design Committee, helped coordinate the event, helped select
speakers, designed brochures, flyers, and stage set-up, and helped document the event
NCSSM Blue Mirror Magazine
---2018-2019: Selection Committee, helped rate pieces that were submitted to the magazine
---2019-2020: Publication Editor, streamlined the selection process, formatted the magazine, helped in the
printing process, and promoted the magazine around campus.
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Volunteer Experience
---Camp Counselor at the Carrboro ArtsCenter - 2017, 2018
Introduced kids aged 8-14 to the basics of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and darkroom photography
Helped encourage kids to ask questions, helped kids feel included, organized games for kids to play before
and after camp
---Durham Scrap Exchange - 2017, 2018
Helped sort through donated materials and figure out ways to repurpose them and market them
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Other Experience:
Certified Associate in Adobe Photoshop (2017)
Certified Associate in Adobe Illustrator (2017)
Honors and Awards
National YoungArts Finalist in Visual Arts, 2018
---One of 26 Visual Arts Finalists chosen from over 1600 Visual Arts applicants
---Received the 3rd place prize in the visual arts discipline
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, 2018, 2020
---Received a Scholastic Art Awards National Gold Medal in 2018
---Received a Scholastic Art Awards National Silver Medal Portfolio Award in 2020
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Group Art Exhibitions
Total Tolerance - U.S. Department of Education - Washington DC - 2018
2018 YoungArts Finalists Exhibition - Jewel Box Gallery - Miami FL - 2018
Community Show - FRANK Gallery - Chapel Hill NC - 2018
Art.Write.Now.Tour - the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers - 2018-2019
Will have my work shown at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, Crocker Art Museum, South Bend Museum of Art, and the Center of Creative Arts (COCA)
Art.Write.Now. National Exhibition - The Pratt Institute Manhattan Gallery - New York- 2018
Rupture. Rapture. Revolution - The Carrack - Durham NC - 2019
Third Friday Exhibition - Dan Ellison’s Durham ArtsPlace - Durham NC - 2019
Community Show: Zola Craft Gallery - Durham NC - 2019
Gold/Silver Key Exhibition - Barton College - Wilson NC - 2017, 2018, 2019
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Activities
Research Assistant at Duke University’s PIPC Program
---2019-2020: conduct research on the development of polarization in Congress by analyzing voting patterns
and senator interviews.
Research in Humanities
---Conducting project to analyze exhibitions of “Primitive”art and Euro-American Modernist Art
NCSSM Art Club
---2018-2019: Junior Director of Outreach - contacted local cafes to exhibit art, organized events and
programs, organized art drives
---2019-2020: Executive Director of Outreach - Developed a curriculum combining art with STEM to be taught
to local elementary school kids, led programs and critiques
TEDxNCSSM
---2018-2019: Photography and Design Committee
---2019-2020: Director of Photography and Design Committee, helped coordinate the event, helped select
speakers, designed brochures, flyers, and stage set-up, and helped document the event
NCSSM Blue Mirror Magazine
---2018-2019: Selection Committee, helped rate pieces that were submitted to the magazine
---2019-2020: Publication Editor, streamlined the selection process, formatted the magazine, helped in the
printing process, and promoted the magazine around campus.
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Volunteer Experience
---Camp Counselor at the Carrboro ArtsCenter - 2017, 2018
Introduced kids aged 8-14 to the basics of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and darkroom photography
Helped encourage kids to ask questions, helped kids feel included, organized games for kids to play before
and after camp
---Durham Scrap Exchange - 2017, 2018
Helped sort through donated materials and figure out ways to repurpose them and market them
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Other Experience:
Certified Associate in Adobe Photoshop (2017)
Certified Associate in Adobe Illustrator (2017)