LISA L. CANGEMI

Art Director • Graphic Designer • Painter • Instructor
Owner & Presidentof C&C Graphic Design, Lynbrook, Long Island, NY

Lisa L. Cangemi is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, with a BFA Honors Degree in Graphic Design, also with a minor in Photography and Illustration, and a MFA in Graphic Design and Marketing.

Lisa established her own graphic design business C&C Graphic Design in 1985, when she began art directing & designing at Grey Advertising and various publishing companies, art directing & designing editorial and promotional projects.

Lisa continues to art direct for numerous companies. Her work involves designing and art directing projects such as logos/corporate ID and logo applications, brochures and promotional materials, media kits, magazine designand redesign, advertisements & ad campaigns, computer illustration & icons, charts & graphs, websites and website graphics, newsletters, book jackets and book interior design, package design, posters, annual reports, trade show booths, and photography & illustration.

Lisa’s art direction work has won her over 3 dozen national design-industry awards. She is a recent winner of 3 American Graphic Design Awards in 2007 for Promotional Pieces she art directed and designed.

Lisa is an active painter, and participates in numerous exhibitions at galleries and libraries in the tristate area each year. She has been exhibiting her work since 1991, and has won several painting awards
from NY art leagues. She paints in a representational style, using
acrylic paints on canvas. Lisa is involved in various art groups across Long Island.

She is an active board member of the TriCounty Artists of Long Island, and amember of West End Arts League, Long Beach, NY and The Artists Group of L.I. She is one of the founding members of the LHS Art Alumni Association and currently works as a chairperson for the LHSAAA. Lisa has also been a judge for numerous art competitions and events on L.I. She has held lectures at L.I. and NYC events.

Lisa is an adjunct profesor of Graphic Design and Art at Briarcliffe College on Long Island, and is Exhibit Coordinator at Briarcliffe’s Patchogue, NY Campus. She instructs continuing-education art & design classes in the Hewlett-Woodmere district.

She is listed in Marquis Who’s Who of American Women(since 1987) and
awarded by Sterling Who’s Who (since 1991) for outstanding work in a
chosen field, and by Cambridge International Who’s Who of American
Business Women for her excellence in Graphic Design. In 2007 Lisa was given a National Alpha Beta Kappa Honorary Award for excellence she has performed in her field.

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