Documenting my art experience

This resume page is home only to my experience on formal projects and relevant coursework. For non-creative professional experience, please view my LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/leyee-dai.

SILK: "First Light" Fashion Show F2024

For two months until November 2024, I worked with a working group of over 30 individuals. The show featured an art gallery, short film showing, and runway fashion show featuring 12 looks. Here's what I did!

Designer Outreach Lead

Led a team of 6 members, liaised with ~20 brands and designers, arranged transportation and garment handling for garments

Styling Team

Styled garments with accessories, managed garment maintenance and preparation leading up to and on the day of the show, coordinated with different teams on look designs

Model & Make-up Artist

Modeled a gown by Parsons graduate. The gown had bone and skeleton shapes and was floor-length with a trail. As one of three MUAs, I did make-up for a team of 12 models, focusing on natural and glam looks to emphasize the stylistic qualities of each look.

Art Presented

My charcoal painting "Alice Through the Looking Glass" was presented in the art gallery. The painting can be found in my portfolio under the General Art Projects page.

Film Studies

Interested in an academic approach to film, I list my relevant coursework (denoted by asterik) and experience in film studies. Coursework taken since fall 2024 at Columbia University and previously at Choate Rosemary Hall.

Double Exposure

Staff writer for Columbia University's only digital film journal. Wrote a blog piece on Cléo from 5 to 7 in fall 2024 & an academic piece for spring 2025.

Cinema of Subversion*

Russian filmmaker Andre Tarkovsky said that “the artist has no right to an idea in which he is not socially committed.” Guiding question: How do authoritarian governments influence the arts, and how do artists respond? Study how socially committed filmmakers have subverted and redefined cinema aesthetics to challenge authoritarianism and repression. Topics include Third Cinema, response to repression, violence and trauma, gender and sexuality, psyche of modern cinema, and auteur. 4000 level course.

French Cinema*

Course covering French cinema and major film movements. Exploring French culture, film production, and the sphere as the 7th Art. Produced a French short film. Studied New Wave, Cinema du Look, Postcolonial Cinema, including films like Indochine, La Haine, À Bout de Souffle, La Règle du Jeu, Pickpocket, & Les Parapluies de Cherbourg. Instructed and wrote formal academic pieces in French.