Calla Lily
Ottawa, Ontario, CA
Carleton University Media & Communications Hns. (2025)
Graduating in 2025, I hold a degree in Media and Communications which has skilled me with storytelling across new and traditional platforms. I’m especially interested in how stories move through the world—who tells them, who gets left out, and how they shape public memory and place. My studies gave me a strong foundation in research-based storytelling, audio and video media production, and critical media theory, all of which inform the work I create today.
Arts Background
After years of training in fine arts with specialization in realism and pencil drawing, Calla Lily has shifted her creative lens towards abstract and surrealism in pen and paint media.
Several years experience in instructing children’s art classes (classrooms of 12-24, ages 4-14)
Monart School of the Arts (Ottawa, ON)
Ottawa School of Art (Ottawa, ON)
Event Coordination
i. Large-scale and corporate events (~500+ capacity)
ii. Private events such as weddings and celebrations of life
iii. Community events such as fundraisers, fairs, pop-up sales
Communications & Community Projects
Collaboration with Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association
Worked as a consultant in the association's re-branding, website update, and communications strategizing with the goals of new member recruitment as well as current member retainment. Involved a customized and collaborative process to create an updated communications plan for internal and external coordination.
Deliverables:
Marketing infographics for membership recruitment
Customized Google MyMaps platform for neighbourhood attractions
Customized digital survey for current members using quantitative research methods
Fashion & Talent Industry
Fashion Events
Backstage coordinating and front-of-house
Coordination and executive position in fashion shows (~450 guest capacity, multiple sets, ~30 designs)
Responsible for sponsorship outreach, budgeting, promotion and marketing, set and tech design, creative direction
Online retail management for independent Ottawa luxury boutique
Modelling
Nearly ten years of fashion modelling, specializing in runway
Represented by city's top modelling and talent agency
Trained and experienced in commercial acting & voice acting