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2928 West 13th St. Ashtabula, Ohio 44004 phone: 440-964-3396 Search This Site: Learning the Ropes: Posted: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 Two College Students Spend Summer Interning at AAC Two area college students are spending their summers learning the ropes of their chosen fields through the help of internships at the Arts Center. Cassie Fedor and Stephanie Morris, both students at Lake Erie College in Painesville, are working in different areas of the Arts Center over the course of the summer. Both women are familiar faces to the Arts Center, and have been active in many areas over the years. Fedor, a graduate of Sts. John and Paul High School, is pursuing an English degree at Lake Erie. She is working with Public Relations Coordinator Stephanie Eames this summer, writing press releases and designing brochures, posters and other published materials. In fact, this issue of the newsletter was written and designed primarily by Fedor. Fedor says she chose the Arts Center as her internship site because she wanted to work in a familiar place while still gaining editing, writing and graphic design skills. “I wanted to work on the newsletter,” she says. “I like graphic design and the creativity involved with putting it all together. That’s my favorite part of the internship.” Fedor believes this internship has helped to open up her career options within her field. While the newsletter was her primary project, Fedor has also created brochures and posters for Brown Bag concerts, written weekly press releases for local newspapers, and cropped and organized pictures for use on the AAC website. Fedor plans to pursue her Masters and Doctorate degrees in English. Her goal is to become a college English professor. Morris, meanwhile, is working behind the scenes at Straw Hat Theatre this summer, as part of a Theater internship. She has been working closely with Phil Mullet, Tim Dorman and Chris Nappi, learning everything from lighting design to set building. She helped to clean the lights that were hung in the theater, organized and programmed the lights for “Little Shop,” gathered props for “Funny Girl,” and built one of the set pieces for the show. Morris also served as Stage Manager for “Funny Girl.” “I came into this internship wanting to learn about how lights work and why they are used the way they are in a show, but have learned so much more than what was originally intended,” Morris says. Like Fedor, Morris wanted to intern at the AAC because it was a place she already felt comfortable. “This was the place to go where I could learn at my own pace and be patiently guided along the way,” she says. Morris has been interested in theater throughout her life, and has been seen onstage at Straw Hat in such productions as “Rocky Horror Show,” “Cinderella,” “Footloose,” and “Kiss Me Kate.” A graduate of Geneva High School, Morris is pursuing a dual degree in Psychology / Fine Arts with a Theater concentration. She hopes to continue on with a Master’s degree in Counseling, with perhaps a career in Drama Therapy in her future. The AAC thanks these two bright young women for their hard work and dedication!