The World According to Toni Girl
Life is amazing. Life as an artist is challenging.
I graduated from the NYC’s School of Visual Arts with a Media Communications BFA in hand just as the computer was gaining momentum.
I found myself working as Design Studio production assistant, a studio manager for a small ad agency and eventually served as electronic illustrator and archive librarian for William H. Sadlier, Inc. — the oldest family-owned academic publisher in the nation.
My early illustrations peppered the pages of Parent Guide Magazine and the Oxford University Press; for larger imagery I painted park murals and sets for off Broadway theater. I served as in-house graphic designer for the Staten Island Botanical Gardens and as Executive Director for Greenwood Forest Farms Assoc., Inc. I have designed hundreds of newsletters, publications and created several annual reports and trade industry directories. I enjoy the challenges of web design paired with promotional marketing.
Attention to details
Distinctive marketing material for ministry,
community and small business groups is my speciality. Clients includes:
Renovations By ReVive - A Potter's House Company, Hopewell Forge Properties, Generation 3 Enterprises, LLC, Chief Essential Oils,
Staten Island Botanical Gardens, Orange County Land Trust,
Transdermal Specialties, New York City Chapter Order of Malta,
Town of Warwick, Greenwood Lake Revitalization, De Buck's Sod Farm,
Greenwood Lake Lions, Lynch’s Lakeside Inn, Breezy Point Inn, Christian Motorcycle Association, Warwick Methodist Church, Covert Baptist Church,
and Faith Baptist Church.
Writer & Poet
As a prolific writer and poet, my poems have been published in the Visual Arts annual publication “Words” and I've participated in poetry readings in
hosted in Staten Island, Fort Lee, Hoboken, Ringwood, and Warwick.
The Staten Island Muse — the link to those places where entertainment and intellectual discourse can be found, was the earliest monthly publication.
The Staten Island Muse became so popular that residents would anxiously await the next issue and hope to retrieve a copy from one of several designated locations. With a limited monthly circulation of 1,500, copies, the publication was reported to have been found in California, Canada, Ireland and Russia. The Staten Island Muse received a New York State Council on the Arts grant in 2000.
The Village Muse – sister publication of the Staten Island Muse, provided news for the Warwick Valley and Orange County, New York. Featured articles included local history, news, venues, poetry and artists.
The Liberty Belle Times is my most recent publication launched in March 2019.
It offers insight, observation and view points at the time overlooked, now censored by the media.