CURRICULUM VITAE
WORK EXPERIENCE
Development and Communications Associate - Snow City Arts
Administrative Assistant - Julia Phillips Studio
Interim Administrative Coordinator - Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Chicago Director - ProjectArt
Executive Assistant to the CEO - Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Site Guide & Visitor Center Associate - Farnsworth House
Seasonal Sales Associate - Morton Arboretum
FREELANCE/CONSULTANCY PROJECTS
Session Organizer - Kolaj Fest
17th & 18th Annual Chicago Food Justice Summit Leader - Chicago Food Policy and Action Council
Peer Reviewer - Chicago Arts Census
Juror - apexart
Speaker - Death to Museums Conference
APPRENTICESHIPS
Outreach Coordinator and Liaison - Heaven Gallery & Equity Arts
Policy Assistant - Arts Alliance Illinois
Marketing and Fundraising Intern - Compound Yellow
Exhibitions and Research Intern - Elmhurst Art Museum
Permanent Collections Intern - Columbia College Chicago
Apprentice - Defibrillator Gallery
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Programmer - Comfort Station Logan Square
Volunteer - City of Chicago’s DCASE at the Chicago Cultural Center
EDUCATION
MS Leadership for Creative Enterprises - Northwestern University
BA Visual Arts Management - Columbia College Chicago
AA Business - College of DuPage
PUBLISHED WRITING
Review: Haegue Yang, “Flat Works” at The Arts Club of Chicago
Review: “Absolute Animal” by Rachel DeWoskin
Review: Ray Johnson c/o at The Art Institute - Bridge Magazine
RESIDENCIES
Cultural Research Residency - Arquetopia
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Community Building Mixer for Chicago Collage Community
(ART) GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Community Through Collage - Everybody’s Coffee
Art of Protest - Stola Contemporary Art
BIO
Alex Knapik is a Chicago-based arts laborer, curator, and artist with over 8 years of experience working in the visual arts industry. She currently holds an AA from College of DuPage in Business, a BA from Columbia College Chicago in Visual Arts Management, and an MS from Northwestern University in Leadership for Creative Enterprises. Professionally, Alex is connected throughout Chicagoland and beyond as an arts worker and activist. She has spoken at the Death to Museums conference, co-facilitated the 17th &18th Chicago Food Justice Summit, hosted the "Honest Museum Labels" activist art project, and more. Alex centers many radically progressive beliefs, unapologetically, and these pursuits inform her work in all areas. Her career focus is in arts non-profit leadership and she looks to one day lead an arts organization that would serve Chicagoland. In contrast, Alex does not support "the grind" and practices care through spirituality, movement, continuous learning, and rest.