Steve Misencik

Steve Misencik

Special Exhibits Coordinator and Designer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Display/Design/Product Installer

  • Education

    • Cleveland Institute of Art

      1974 - 1979
      Bachelor's of Fine Arts Industrial Design, Minors Photography/Graphics 3.2

      Final thesis project was with Health Hill Hospital of Cleveland. An ADA-based focus upon an improved playground swing design for the physically/mentally impaired. Project was adopted and successfully placed into service following it's specification.http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=HHHFC---------------Followed a two-year Cleveland Museum of Natural History Internship contiguous with college coursework as a design department associate. This position participated with multiple… Show more Final thesis project was with Health Hill Hospital of Cleveland. An ADA-based focus upon an improved playground swing design for the physically/mentally impaired. Project was adopted and successfully placed into service following it's specification.http://ech.case.edu/cgi/article.pl?id=HHHFC---------------Followed a two-year Cleveland Museum of Natural History Internship contiguous with college coursework as a design department associate. This position participated with multiple public design installations whose popularity has extended to their ongoing display to this day. Show less

  • Experience

    • Cleveland Museum of Natural History

      Jan 1980 - Jan 2014
      Special Exhibits Coordinator and Designer

      I was accountable for project internal/external communications, floor plan design, project continuity and expediting team skill sets for procuring staffing. budgets and lodgings. Real-time floor management, shipping coordination / receiving / warehousing and securing equipment properties. Oversaw any necessitated security, safety, object conservation, live animal or cultural protocols. Exhibition preparation, final placement and public easements. Maintained, designed and installed all focus and special effects lighting. Show less

    • Cleveland Animal Protective League

      Jul 2014 - Oct 2015
      Volunteer Clinic Associate

      This ongoing work prepares surgical instruments/materials, internal animal transport, surgical clinic sanitation. volunteer consulting with Events Presentation Committee and Animal Foster Care

    • Non Profit efforts

      Sept 2014 - now
      Volunteer Neighborhood Resident Designer

      I have been an in-kind contributing designer and events projects, ranging from street scaping to site installation.

    • Western Resrve Historical Society

      Aug 2015 - Apr 2018
      Museum Gallery/Content Interpreter/Project Implementation

      Direct interaction with Museum visitors/clients to inject additional content and collections exposure. Support staff for Programming, Collections display fabrication and installation, Projects and Troubleshooting.

    • Cleveland I-X Center

      Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
      Display Intallation Lead

      As a Teamster hire I facilitated a daily labor team's providing installation and logistics service to commercial trade show booths i.e.: 2018 Automotive Show. Cleveland Power and Piston Show, National Motorcycle Show and Quilting- Needlecraft Show and Home and Garden Show.

    • Petitti's Garden Centers

      Apr 2018 - May 2018
      Merchandising Associate, seasonal

      Merchandising of live plant products/ promotions and directly with customers in gardening fact-finding and sales for gardening amenities/ supplies. Warehouse receiving and logistical material handling of display forms via lift truck, shipment deliveries and maintaining ongoing sales space.

    • Merchandising: The Home Depot

      Aug 2018 - Feb 2024
      Merchandising Execution Associate

      Product sales staging and retail venue presentation. Hardwares, lumber, flooring, lighting, garden

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Adobe Illustrator, Object/light conservation methods, Lift truck, CPR

      Tri-C College, Cambell Center, NEON Material Handling, American Red Cross
      Jul 2013
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Steve Misencik
      Ted Ganger Honorarium Award The Cleveland Museum of Natural History and the Ted Ganger Estate Sep 2011 I received this first time award for a staff member specializing in an allied field outside of the scientific community. This was presented for my 25 seasons in researching, promoting and designs on the Museum's repeated anniversary of the Museum's signature collections' mount, Balto The Sled Dog and those 1925 events of The Nome Serum Relay.
    • Awarded to Steve Misencik
      The Annual Staff Achievement Award for Excellence in Personal Accomplishment The Cleveland Museum of Natural History Sep 2011 Nominated by peer professionals for my work in design and installation over 20 seasons of cyclic traveling exhibitions. This work entailed the networking, installation and floor management of over 40 displays and demonstrations of domestic and off-shore origin. Presentations covered scientific, cultural, natural history and fine arts content utilizing immersive / interactive, living and competition formats.
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Volunteer Design voice

      Issued by Campus District, Community Development Corporation
      Campus District, Community Development CorporationAssociated with Steve Misencik
    • Clinical Support Associate

      Issued by Cleveland Animal Protective League on Jul 2014
      Cleveland Animal Protective LeagueAssociated with Steve Misencik