Lisa Post is an award winning graphic designer and fine artist. She is a magna cum laude graduate of The New York Institute of Technology, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Design Graphics and winning a Gold Medal in Design Graphics. While working as a graphic designer at a book advertising division of Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide, her work for clients such as G.P. Putnam's Sons, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and Crown Publishers, had appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Publisher's Weekly, Vanity Fair, TV Guide, Vogue, GQ and The Los Angeles Times.
Her freelance clients have included the City of New Rochelle, Family Services of Westchester, New Rochelle Council on the Arts, New York Institute of Technology, Kings Harbor Multicare Center, and Lawrence Nursing Care Center. She has also created ads, logos, business cards, journals, posters, and invitations for various private and public clients.
As a fine artist working in several mediums, photographer, and digital artist, she exhibits throughout New York, primarily in Westchester and the Bronx. She has won many awards for her work and has sold several pieces in her few years as an exhibiting artist.
Artwork of hers is hanging in the City Hall Office of the Mayor of New Rochelle, a digital art piece was published in the 2008 calendar for the city, and a photo published in the county-wide 2009 Westchester Town Planner calendar. She recently finished a commission by the City of Yonkers for its Waterfront Revitalization project, and is a participant in the Tree Project of the International Fiber Collaborative which is on permanent display in the Earlyworks Children's Museum in Alabama.
AWARDS & MEMBERSHIPS
2010- Designed the New Rochelle Memorial Day Parade poster
2010- First Place Pastels Dermott Gale Award Show
2010- Honorable Mention Watercolors Dermott Gale Award Show
2009- Contributed 4 leaves to the Tree Project on permanent display in the Earlyworks Children's Museum, Huntsville Alabama (after being displayed at the Ponopoly Arts Festival, Huntsville, Alabama)
2009- First Place Graphics Jules Bauer Award Show
2009- Designed the New Rochelle Memorial Day Parade poster
2009- Honorable Mention Graphics Dermott Gale Award Show
2009- Designed a poster session for the AMDA Conference
2009- Photograph featured in the Westchester Town Planner calendar
2008-2011- Member of the Mamaroneck Artist's Guild (MAG)
2008- Designed the logo, brochures, design and promotional material for the NRCA Clay Pot buffet fundraising gala honoring Ruby Dee
2008-present- Member of the New Rochelle Council on the Arts (NRCA)
2008- Designed the New Rochelle Memorial Day Parade poster
2008- Winner of the "Dermott Gale Award" Dermott Gale Award Show
2008- First Place Mixed Media Dermott Gale Award Show
2008- Honorable Mention Mixed Media Dermott Gale Award Show
2008- Artwork Featured in The Sound Report newspaper article "New Rochelle Art Association Paints the City Yellow"
2008- Created a panel for the Gas Station Project for the International Fiber Collaborative, Syracuse, NY (National and local magazine and news coverage)
2008- Designed two poster sessions for the AMDA Conference
2008- Digital Art featured in the New Rochelle Calendar "Through the Eyes of Its Artists"
2007- Honorable Mention Pastels Adolph Grant Award Show
2007- Adult Winner A. I. Friedman's Pumpkin Decorating Contest
2007- Painted a Public Art Project Waste Receptacle for the Yonkers Waterfront Revitalization Project
2007- Designed two poster sessions for the AMDA Conference
2006- NRAA Artist's Choice Award Winner
2007- Artwork featured in The Sound Report article "Mayor's Office Art Gallery"
2007- Artwork chosen for the office of New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson
2006- First Place Mixed Media Jules Bauer Award Show
2006- Honorable Mention Watercolor Jules Bauer Award Show
2006- Third Place Digital Art Dermott Gale Award Show
2006- Designed two poster sessions for the AMDA Conference
2005- Honorable Mention Digital Art Jules Bauer Award Show
2005-2009 Designer and Editor of The New Rochelle Art Association newsletter
2005- Honorable Mention Photography Adolph Grant Award Show
2004- Honorable Mention Digital Art/Photography NRAA 89th Annual Open Juried Exhibition
2004- Second Place Digital Art Dermott Gale Award Show
2003- Third Place Photography NRAA Annual Open Juried Exhibition
2003- Honorable Mention Digital Art Dermott Gale Award Show
2002- present- Member of the New Rochelle Arts Association (NRAA)
2000- Honorable Mention Award International Library of Photography for two photographs
1984- NY Institute of Technology Gold Medal in Design Graphics