> Andrew Wilkinson - Principal
[Media Strategist + Business Development]

Working as an artist in the arena of art and commerce, Wilkinson has worked in marketing communications for over 15 years. Starting in London for a public relations and design firm specializing in film clients such as Disney, Virgin Interactive, and United Artists, Wilkinson was part of the design and interactive team for this start-up. In New York, Wilkinson worked for Ernst & Young LLP in creative services. He furthered his corporate experience with Merrill Lynch in Princeton, NJ. Client projects included Coke, McDonald’s, Fed Ex, Cendant, and Haworth. Wilkinson managed internal interactive assignments, support materials for their annual client conference, and internal career development.

With a background in print media and photography, Wilkinson brings strategy and campaign experience to any project. His strength in fine art is the foundation for conceptual ideas that go beyond expectations and communicate the client’s message both accurately and effectively.

Wilkinson has been a working and exhibiting fine artist for over ten years, exploring both photography and sculpture. His work has been shown regionally and internationally, recently participating in exhibitions in Russia and Beijing. Publications include three New York Times reviews through exhibitions at the Jersey City Museum, NJ, and the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art. Locally, Wilkinson is an active member of the Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton NJ, and donates work to raise money for community development programs.

Wilkinson is a member for the A-TEAM, an artist collective of patrons from the Soup Kitchen.
www.trentonsoupkitchen.org

Andrew at Artworks with Jess and Tronix. Photo by Aylin Green.

> Lauren Otis - Principal

For well over two decades Lauren Otis has been utilizing his skills with words and images to paint vivid pictures of the world around us for newspapers, magazines and websites.

Mr. Otis has written on a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from business to politics, art to wine, for as wide a spectrum of publications, including The New York Times, Poets & Writers, E Magazine and Weird NJ. In 2008, as a senior staff writer with the Princeton Packet newspaper, he won a Suburban Newspapers of America award for best in-depth reporting, and in 2006, as editor of the Princeton Business Journal, he won a first for business writing awarded by the New Jersey Press Association. Mr. Otis, a former contributing editor of New Jersey Monthly magazine, has also received numerous reporting awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and, in 2001, was the recipient of the Rutgers/CIT journalism award for distinguished business and financial reporting of New Jersey issues. Mr. Otis’ photography and photo-based art has been exhibited widely. He is a past board member of the Trenton City Museum, and currently serves on the board of ARTWORKS, the Trenton, NJ-based non-profit visual arts center. He also volunteers as a writing tutor at Trenton Central High School. When he is not writing, working on various media projects, volunteering or making art, Mr. Otis assists Unionville Vineyards winemaker Cameron Stark in crafting great wine.

He resides on the banks of the Delaware River in Trenton, and gets out on his kayak whenever he gets a chance.