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Hire Dr. Elzbieta Kazmierczak

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Infographics Designer & Technical Illustrator | 20+ years of experience in visualization & academic publishing

Summary

SERVICES: Infographics, graphical abstracts, technical illustration, journal selection, pre-peer reviews, technical reviews AREAS: visual communication, media, semiotics, projective drawings; trauma-informed art interventions; minority students' experiences at primarily white institutions RESEARCH METHODS: mixed, interpretive, visual analysis EXPERIENCE: Managing Editorial Assistant (Journal of Aesthetic Education); Editorial Designer; Illustrator; Assistant Editor (Trickster's Way); Guest Editor and Reviewer: Information Design Journal; Founder and manager of an art program at a domestic violence shelter; Academic educator (18 years)

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Visual Communication
• ★ Visualization
• ☆ Graphic Arts
• ☆ Social Sciences & Humanities (General)
• ☆ Publishing Industry
• ☆ Visual Perception
• ☆ Computer Graphics
• ☆ Visual Arts
• ☆ Cultural Diversity
• ☆ Family Violence
• ☆ Semiotics
• ☆ Journal Selection
• ☆ Scientific Illustration
• ☆ Literature Search

Services

• Scientific consulting
• Secondary Research
• Editing
• Other

Literature search Bibliography

Editing Image preparation

Secondary Research Fill a template, Compile list of papers

Work Experience

• Adjunct Assistant Professor

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  October 2015 - Present

• Researcher & Scholarly Consultant

  Self-Employed

  2015 - Present

• Infographics, Graphic Designer, Illustrator

  Self-Employed

  1985 - Present

• Managing Editorial Assistant

  University of Illinois Press

  October 2016 - October 2018

• Art for Empowerment Educator

  Self-emloyed

  August 2003 - August 2017

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  University of Illinois

  2008 - 2011

• Visiting Assistant Professor

  Southern Illinois University Carbondale

  2006 - 2008

• Assistant Professor; Illustration Program Head

  State University of New York

  1996 - 2003

• Instructor

  Capilano University

  1995 - 1996

Education

• Master of Arts (Art Education)

  University of Illinois

  1993 - 1995

• Master of Fine Arts (Graphic Design)

  University of Illinois

  1990 - 1993

Publications

BOOK CHAPTER
• Kazmierczak, E., & Storkerson, P. (in press). Understanding and making visualizations: Adventures in tacit knowledge. In M.-T. Cheng and Y. Cooper (Eds.), New Visions in Art Education Research and Practices. Shanghai, China: Shanghai Education Press.
• Kazmierczak, E. (2016). Engaging communities through an art program at a domestic violence shelter. In L. N. Hersey and B. Bobick (Eds.), Handbook of research on the facilitation of civic engagement through community art (339–366). Hershey, PA: IGI Global .
• Kazmierczak, E. (2015). Emotional body, healing, and art: A journey of a woman. In E. H. Oleksy, A. Rozalska and M. Wojtaszek (Eds.), The personal of the political: Transegenerational dialogues in contemporary European feminisms (19–42). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing .
• Kazmierczak, E. (2004). Embodiment and image making. In W. Nöth and G. Ipsen (Eds.), Body, embodiment, disembodiment. International Congress of the German Association for Semiotic Studies. Kassel, Germany: Kassel University Press, ISBN 3-89958-045-1, cd-rom.
• Kazmierczak, E. (2002). Poster as an art form. In S. Pite (Ed.), Digital designer: 101 graphic design projects for print, the web, multimedia, and motion graphics (76–79), students’ works: 52–55. Clifton Park, NY: Thomson/Delmar Learning .
• Kazmierczak, E. (2000). In the beginning was the circle: Longing for perfection as a semiotic paradigm. In A. Gimate-Welsh (Ed.), Selected Papers–6th Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (629–640). Mexico City, Mexico: Grupo Editorial Miguel Angel Porrua.
• Kazmierczak, E. (2001). Why do we want Tricksters? In C. W. Spinks (Ed.), Trickster an ambivalence: The dance of differentiation (143–151). Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing.
• Kazmierczak, E. (2007). If these walls could speak. In R. Viana (Ed.), Remembering 9/11 through the eyes of a printmaker (48–49). Publisher: Robert Viana .

DISSERTATION THESIS
• Kazmierczak, E. T. (2015). Interpreting Abuse from Self-Representational Drawings: A Mixed-Method Study (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL.

JOURNAL ARTICLE
• Stephen J. Dollinger, Elzbieta (Elka) Kazmierczak & Peter K. Storkerson (2011): Creativity and Self-Exploration in Projective Drawings of Abused Women: Evaluating the Inside Me–Outside Me Workshop, Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 6:3, 202-219 .
• Kazmierczak, E. (2003). Design as meaning making: From making things to design of thinking. Design Issues: History, Theory, Criticism, 19(2), 45–59,
 https://doi.org/10.1162/074793603765201406 .
• Kazmierczak, E. (2000). A semiotic perspective on visual literacy, aesthetic preferences, and information design. Information Design Journal, 10(2), 176–187, 
 https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.10.2.15kaz .
• Elzbieta T. Kazmierczak (2001) Iconicity, diagrammatics, and aesthetic preferences, Visual Sociology, 16:1, 89-99, DOI: 10.1080/14725860108583828d .
• Kazmierczak, E. (2000). Shortcuts to meaning, or diagrams and making sense out of image-text de-signs. Semiotics 2000, 142–159, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 
DOI: 10.5840/cpsem200035 .
• Kazmierczak, E. (1999). Portrait of a woman or diagrammatic modeling in art. Semiotics 1999, 360–373. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, DOI: 10.5840/cpsem199934 .
• Kazmierczak, E. (1998). Triangle as the Trickster redeemer of human sensitivity, imagination, and improvisation: The tao of J.J. The American Journal of Semiotics, 14(1–4), 190–207, DOI: 10.5840/ajs1998141/414 .
• Kazmierczak, E. (1999). In the vicious circle of codependency: The artist as Trickster. Semiotics 1998, 82–94. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, DOI: 10.5840/cpsem199822 .
• Kazmierczak, E. (1995). Introduction to semiography or approaching the visual language. Semiotics 1995, 198-207, DOI: 10.5840/cpsem199529 .
• Kazmierczak, E. (1995). Universals in visual codification. Semiotische Berichte, 19(1–4), 131–152. Vienna, Austria: Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies.
• Kazmierczak, E. (1994). Philosophy and aesthetic preferences: Symmetry versus asymmetry. Semiotics 1994, 370–379. New York: Peter Lang Publishing .

CONFERENCE PAPER
• Kazmierczak, E. (2001). On Diagrammatic Nature of Representation: Art, Design, and Information as Modeling Forms of Thinking. Proceedings of The 6th World Congress of the International Association for Visual Semiotics: The Visual in the Age of Post-Visual, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada.

MAGAZINE ARTICLE
• Kazmierczak, E. (1989). Semiographic analysis of primeval symbols: Part 1 and 2. Poligrafika, 7, 160–168, and Poligrafika, 10, 239–242. Warsaw, Poland .

BOOK
• Kazmierczak, E. (1986 & 1990 fully revised). Principal choremes in semiography: Circle, square, and triangle. A historical outline. Warsaw, Poland: Institute for Industrial Design.