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Contact Us...
Please feel
free to contact Terri Haag and Archeo~Arts via email or
telephone. The email address is:
thaag@archeoarts.com. The telephone number is: +1 (520) 909-7846, in
Tucson, Arizona, USA.
We respond promptly to all enquiries so if
you don’t hear from us within 10 days, please assume the
message was lost in space, and call or write again.
About Terri Haag
Terri Haagis a writer, art
restorationist, museum exhibit designer and artist, but has also
been an ambulance driver, plant doctor, marketing director,
phlebotomist, bartender, sculptor and editor.
Shehas also smuggled gemstones out of
Communist Russia, ridden in helicopters over glaciers in the
jungle mountains of New Guinea, babysat baby chimpanzees in
Zambia, been swept away by the current while scuba diving in
Belize, gotten married in a Polish salt mine, dived with sharks
and force-fed thousands of penguins in Cape Town, almost died of
malaria in Windhoek, and brought a dead man back to life in
Phoenix.
She is now back in Tucson, AZ, but
previously lived and worked in South Africa for 8 years. There
she created large-scale museum and aquarium exhibits for major
museums and foundations, did restoration work on national
historical sites and preciousobjets de art, wrote advertising
copy and magazine articles for international publications and
agencies.
- Bachelor of Arts degree,
Spanish major, dual psychology/sociology minor: U of
A, 1975
- Post-baccalaureate science
curriculum (pre-med): Phoenix College, Pima College,
U of A
- Total of 176
university-level credit hours (generally equivalent
to Master’s Degree)
- 12 years experience as a
freelance writer with over 60 published articles and
books, including feature-length science and humor
articles in various domestic and international
magazines.
- 20+ years experience in
desktop publishing, publication layout and design on
both Macintosh and IBM using QuarkXPress, PageMaker,
Photoshop, Corel, Microsoft Word / Works and others.
- 5 years experience as an
exhibit designer for Two Oceans Aquarium and the
South African Museum. Initiator and creative
director of three major exhibitions. Owner and
operator of Archeo-Arts, a design and model-making
concern; one of 3 creators of Iziko’s Sharkworld!
- 12 years experience in
clothing, jewelry and accessories wholesaling and
retailing. Co-owner and operator of Chantik, a
women’s clothing importer and retailer, Tucson, AZ;
co-owner of Silk Road Trading Company and St.
Winifred’s Faire, a women’s clothing retailer,
Milwaukee, WI.
- 20 years experience as a
freelance artist, specializing in restorations and
museum models from original fossils; fossil repair;
museum diorama construction; prop construction for
film and TV; bas-relief and 3-D sculpture; and
murals and faux finishes on a wide variety of
substrates using various media and techniques. 10
years experience in art and fossil restoration.
- 1.5 years experience as
marketing director in charge of public relations and
promotions at Flandrau Science Center and
Planetarium, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Created multi-department, large-scale publicity
events; designed advertising; interacted with
government agencies; collaborated on planetarium
productions; translated and performed voice-overs in
Spanish; designed and built props; generated
donations from the community.
- Speaks, reads and writes
fluent Spanish
- Certified SCUBA diver and
former technical climber.
- Extensive foreign travel to
over 34 countries, many in Africa and the former
USSR
- Lapsed member of Mensa &
TOPS (Top One Percent Society).
- Extensive background in
biology, marine biology, botany, paleontology,
geology, meteorites, archeology, anthropology,
art and more
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- NOTE: These activities were
often concurrent and not necessarily consecutive.
All dates and durations are approximate.
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Right: Tired but happy: massive floor
restoration by Terri Haag of Archeo~Arts, carried out in the historic
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Cape Town. |
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Left: Terri Haag explaining the ampoullae of
Lorenzini to school children visiting Sharkworld! at Iziko SA Museum,
Cape Town. |
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Right: Hanging Greta, the Great White, Sharkworld! at Iziko SA Museum, Cape Town. Left: In the jaws of death.
Sharkworld.
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Above: Hanging with the kids – Louise and
Stephen get a piggyback ride to the forest at Chimfunshi Wildlife
Sanctuary, Chingola, Zambia. |
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