About Jean Campbell

Bio

Resume

BIO

Jean Marie Campbell embodies the definition of a twenty-first-century Renaissance Woman, embracing life through a variety of interests, activites, and passions. Jean is an accomplished illustrator and painter, a devoted yoga practitioner and instructor, entrepreneur, web designer, musician (her favorite guitar, "Gilda", is a metal-bodied resonator that she plays lap style), wife, and mother.

A defining characteristic of all of Jean's endeavors is her desire and ability to take what's on the inside and display it on the outside. As Jean puts it: "All of my life I have had a need to be actively producing. It has really never mattered so much what I was producing. It was more an urgent need to use time available in creating. It might be music; it might be planning a garden. It might be creating a mural, curtains, a painting or even knitting a scarf. I can say that for me, if my hands are not busy I am ill at ease, which to me is a sign of needing to get what is on the inside, out."

The works featured on this site may appear at first glance to be a disconnected collection of drawings and paintings and music. But these various attempts have a continuity, Jean says. These works are "the efforts born of impulses from my soul and therefore, a common strain must run through them, my soulfulness."

Born in London, England to a military family, Jean spent much of her childhood in New Jersey and Hawaii before settling in her family's home state of Alabama. She attended the Universtiy of Montevallo where she received a bachelor's degree in fine arts. Jean has worked in digital media since 1985, and currently works both as a partner for Kitchen Sink Creative Group and as a web designer for an international corporation based in Birmingham. She currently lives in Homewood, Alabama, with her husband A.R. Kirby, two dogs, three cats, and numerous amphibians and fish.

RESUME

• Education

• Employment History

• EBSCO, Inc., Birmingham, AL 11/2003 - present
Web Designer - Responsible for concept and creation of web designs for EBSCO subsidiaries. Work with varied clients and large programming staff for the development of successful ecommerce and brochure ware sites.

• VentureNet, Birmingham, AL 1/2000 – 11/2003
Creative Director - Responsible for web department, including client consultation, web design and creation. Also handled all marketing and advertising, including print, radio and mail campaigns.

Clients of note included: United Cerebral Palsy of Birmingham, Alabama, Operation New Birmingham, Regional Metabolic Imaging, Eddleman Properties, The Wynfrey Hotel and Bradley Arant Rose and White.

• TAPSCAN INC., Birmingham, AL 2/1997 - 1/2000
Graphic Artist/Multi-Media Developer - Responsible for concept creation, web design and animation, print media design/illustration, multi-media presentations and software interface design/development. Developed online software sales promotions, including artwork, hiring and direction for video and music talent, coordination and production. Created web graphics, and produced marketing materials for TRAK WEB, MOBILTRAK, TVSCAN, CABLESCAN, DATASCAN, and other TAPSCAN products.

• ANIMOTION DEVELOPMENT, Birmingham, AL 1988 - 1990
Art Director - Created and developed hardware and software presentations and demonstrations for state of the art electronic advertising agency. Developed concepts for online presentations with development team. Created illustration and animation for presentations for clients, including Lotus Development Corp., Digital Equipment Corp., Magnavox, Ashton-Tate, Intel and Sony Consumer Electronics.

• AC3, Birmingham, AL 1985 - 1986
Advertising Director - Developed print advertising, television and radio spot productions. Developed marketing plan and budget for computer retail chain. Created print advertising for nine computer stores located throughout the Southeast. Developed concepts and directed production of 30 second television spots.