email: liseroostfreitas@gmail.com
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this website highlights a portfolio of select completed original works. for additional content, collaborative projects, process pictures, formal CV and letters of rec, please visit my instagram &or message me :)
CV:
Languages // ENGLISH, fluent // PORTUGUESE, fluent // DANISH, proficient
Languages // ENGLISH, fluent // PORTUGUESE, fluent // DANISH, proficient
Experience
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ARCHITECTURAL INTERNSHIPs W/ JULIA M LEEMING ARCHITECT & MEG LYONS ARCHITECTS - 2020 -> Current
Site visits & client meetings, design sketching, AutoCad, SketchUp
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ACCLARO TRANSLATION -
2020 -> CURRENT
Danish to English &
Portuguese to English translation
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STUDIO / OPERATIONS MANAGER & CLIENT RELATIONS
- GREEN RIVER PROJECT LLC — JAN 2019 -> March 2020
Studio Management including running weekly team meetings with the studio, managing incoming orders, 3d-rendering
w/ Rhino & SketchUp, sourcing & ordering materials, generating material samples, organizing & delegating production & outside fabrication, and onsite project
management.
Operations Management including accounts receivable, generating invoices, scheduling shipments, creating / formatting / updating all documents with InDesign and maintaining
the website.
Client relations including managing the GRPLLC email & calendar, scheduling & attending client meetings, managing relations with exhibitions / fairs / furniture loans, running the
store / gallery space at Green River Project LLC and acting as liaison for GRPLLC and Bode collaborations.
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ART HANDLER & ART DIRECTER / CURATOR
- ROBERTO FREITAS AMERICAN ANTIQUES & DECORATIVE ARTS — 2010 - PRESENT
Responsible for the handling, packing, transportation, installation & curation of works
varying from furniture to paintings to porcelain. Directing the documentation and
photoshoots of all inventory.
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FURNITURE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION - SMOKE STACK STUDIO - 2018 -
Design and production of personal and commissioned works. Drafting / drawing, wood
working, cane weaving, and the documentation of finished pieces.
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STUDIO MONITOR - RISD FURNITURE DEPARTMENT — 2015 - 2018
Responsible for the management of the studio spaces, maintenance of the machines and
equipment of the department, and aiding other students with their work.
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BAKER AND PASTRY CHEF - HENDRICKX BELGIAN BREAD CRAFTERS — 2013 - 2016
Production baking and pastry at Hendrickx Belgian Bread Crafters in Chicago, Il.
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ARCHITECTURAL INTERNSHIPs W/ JULIA M LEEMING ARCHITECT & MEG LYONS ARCHITECTS - 2020 -> Current
Site visits & client meetings, design sketching, AutoCad, SketchUp
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ACCLARO TRANSLATION -
2020 -> CURRENT
Danish to English &
Portuguese to English translation
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STUDIO / OPERATIONS MANAGER & CLIENT RELATIONS
- GREEN RIVER PROJECT LLC — JAN 2019 -> March 2020
Studio Management including running weekly team meetings with the studio, managing incoming orders, 3d-rendering
w/ Rhino & SketchUp, sourcing & ordering materials, generating material samples, organizing & delegating production & outside fabrication, and onsite project
management.
Operations Management including accounts receivable, generating invoices, scheduling shipments, creating / formatting / updating all documents with InDesign and maintaining
the website.
Client relations including managing the GRPLLC email & calendar, scheduling & attending client meetings, managing relations with exhibitions / fairs / furniture loans, running the
store / gallery space at Green River Project LLC and acting as liaison for GRPLLC and Bode collaborations.
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ART HANDLER & ART DIRECTER / CURATOR
- ROBERTO FREITAS AMERICAN ANTIQUES & DECORATIVE ARTS — 2010 - PRESENT
Responsible for the handling, packing, transportation, installation & curation of works
varying from furniture to paintings to porcelain. Directing the documentation and
photoshoots of all inventory.
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FURNITURE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION - SMOKE STACK STUDIO - 2018 -
Design and production of personal and commissioned works. Drafting / drawing, wood
working, cane weaving, and the documentation of finished pieces.
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STUDIO MONITOR - RISD FURNITURE DEPARTMENT — 2015 - 2018
Responsible for the management of the studio spaces, maintenance of the machines and
equipment of the department, and aiding other students with their work.
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BAKER AND PASTRY CHEF - HENDRICKX BELGIAN BREAD CRAFTERS — 2013 - 2016
Production baking and pastry at Hendrickx Belgian Bread Crafters in Chicago, Il.
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Education
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RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN - 2015 -> 2018
Department of Furniture Design
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BROWN UNIVERSITY - 2015 -> 2018
Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO— 2013 -> 2015
Designed Objects,Art History
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HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN - 2020
The Architectural Imagination
(accredited online course via EDX)
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RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN - 2015 -> 2018
Department of Furniture Design
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BROWN UNIVERSITY - 2015 -> 2018
Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
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THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO— 2013 -> 2015
Designed Objects,Art History
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HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN - 2020
The Architectural Imagination
(accredited online course via EDX)
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Exhibitions and Awards
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PORTO ACADEMY, 2021
Participant in Nuno Melo Souza’s workshop for Port Academy hosted by FAUP.
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DUTCH INVERTUALS ACADEMY, 2021
Jetsam Vases in a digital group exhibition hosted by the Dutch Invertuals
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GIRLS ROCK CHICAGO FUNDRAISER, 2021
Jetsam Vases for GIRLS ROCK CHICAGO fundraiser hosted by Emofest
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SIT ON IT!, WOODS GERRY GALLERY, PROVIDENCE RI. 2018
Thesis furniture series on display in the group show titled SIT ON IT!
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HOUSTON DESIGN WEEKEND, HOUSTON TX. 2017
Chair shown at Houston Design Weekend.
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ARTE DA PALAVRA, BROWN UNIVERSITY, PROVIDENCE RI. 2015
Award for best creative writing in the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Department
awarded by Brown University.
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PORTO ACADEMY, 2021
Participant in Nuno Melo Souza’s workshop for Port Academy hosted by FAUP.
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DUTCH INVERTUALS ACADEMY, 2021
Jetsam Vases in a digital group exhibition hosted by the Dutch Invertuals
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GIRLS ROCK CHICAGO FUNDRAISER, 2021
Jetsam Vases for GIRLS ROCK CHICAGO fundraiser hosted by Emofest
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SIT ON IT!, WOODS GERRY GALLERY, PROVIDENCE RI. 2018
Thesis furniture series on display in the group show titled SIT ON IT!
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HOUSTON DESIGN WEEKEND, HOUSTON TX. 2017
Chair shown at Houston Design Weekend.
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ARTE DA PALAVRA, BROWN UNIVERSITY, PROVIDENCE RI. 2015
Award for best creative writing in the Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Department
awarded by Brown University.
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