Stephen Wanek’s Career Portfolio!
Welcome! My name is Stephen Wanek, and I want to welcome you to my career portfolio! I invite you to scroll through the various pages on my website to gain a greater understanding of my professional career, and get to know me more as an artist and individual.
As you get to know me through this website or in person (hopefully!), you will learn that I have a few passions in my life:
I am passionate about fostering uplifting, authentic community in my own life and in others lives, and believe that we are not made to do life alone.
I am passionate about growing my skills and abilities as a Graphic Designer to make visually stunning pieces of art that doesn’t compromise quality communication, as well as my studio art skills in both painting and drawing and pottery.
I am passionate about my Faith in Jesus and His saving Grace as a Christian, as well as helping others grow in their faith in Christ Jesus, specifically youth and young adults.
I hope that you find this website helpful for you as you learn about my career and see the various aspects of my career portfolio.
Passions, and Art & Design
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Much of what we do now in days is digital, as such, art has followed suit in the form of Graphic Design. Utilizing various digital products, such as Adobe Suite, Canva, etc. designers look to create stunning visual communications for digital platforms including myself.
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Art has a long history, taking on various modes and forms. From painting and drawing, pottery, textiles, and even the bridge to graphic design through various handout documents, signs and large prints, or apparel design, art and design continues have real world applications outside of the screen.
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Capturing the moment can be so important when looking back on mile stone moments, or big events for life, business or ministries and various faith practices. I have had the privilege to be a part of several of these moments over the past few years. Due to copy right privileges many of my professional examples are not visible on this site. I am versed around DSLR cameras, and understand how to edit picture settings pre and post production.
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One of my biggest passions, is my calling to serve God as a reflection of my own salvation in a local church context. The Lord has given me a passion for helping youth and young adults grow in their understanding of Scripture, and grow in their relationship with their personal savior Jesus.
An Oregonian at birth, I now live in Norfolk Virginia, after having worked in Northern California for 7 years. I am currently seeking further education and vocational training to transition into the education field, with the intent to teach art at the secondary level. Prior to this move, I had been serving at Pathway Church in Redding California as a local church as a Pastor.
It has been exciting to be able to utilize my graphic design skills in my ministry contexts as I work with teens and young adults as well contribute my time and ability to other local ministries and businesses over these pasts years in Redding, but I am excited for a new chapter in life and change in careers. I look forward to being able to begin to practice art more regularly for myself as an artist, while entering the education field to be able to grow the passions of young artists, and be able to build up young minds in their academics, and in themselves as they grow in who they are.
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Let’s Get in Touch!
Interested in learning more about my career either as a ministry worker or about my art and graphic design works? I’d love to hear from you. Just fill out the brief form below and I will get back to you soon!
-Stephen