Natalie Dodge

Artist + Designer

Let’s create something great, TOGETHER.

Hi, I’m Natalie.

I translate subject matter into relatable messages and stories through art and design. Ranging from brand development, editorial, and promotional material, I reach both small targeted audiences and large event invitees with visual assets. Primarily, I work with the Adobe Suite, Blender, Figma, digital photography and traditional illustration. With my design philosophy being ‘everything is everything,’ I believe every part of a graphic is an opportunity to say something and I take advantage of that with everything I create. Through this, I use my skills to uplift nonprofit missions and build awareness.

Additionally, I explore the studio craft of wood burning alongside digital graphics. Read more about that here.

I am a visual artist exploring the relationship between time, change, and memories through wood burning and illustration scaled between 3 inches to 3 feet. With a focus on places I’ve been and landscapes from impactful memories, I begin my process with illustrations pulled from sketches, original photography, and memory. Slowly burning these memories permanently into wood awards them a stable place in my mind, bringing small details since forgotten to light. The commitment for every slow stroke is what makes this craft challenging then steadily meditative for me, putting me between a memory and a dream state, with the freedom to look around. I am often paralyzed to start my work, intimidated by the wrong change. Then, I understand that I have a live, equal relationship with this wood, a relationship of trust and growth; trusting that I make the right move, and trusting I can adapt if not. I hope to share this same understanding with viewers because in life, change is inevitable, and it is a choice to adapt and embrace the chance for growth, or simply stay paralyzed.

Resume

Brand Designer

Virginia Tech Advancement, Blacksburg VA

Presently:

  • Crafting digital and print experiences for external and internal audiences using the Adobe Suite; InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects
  • Creating new brand identities (logo suite and brand guidelines) for alumni groups such as the Black Alumni Society and the Native and Indigenous Society 
  • Supporting marketing efforts through new and original sub-brand identities for staple annual giving campaigns
  • Delivering sleek and functional visuals to a wide spectrum of audiences, from prospective and current students to alumni and industry partners
  • Redesigned university magazine with fresh aesthetic choices and logical, intentional templates 
  • Working closely with those in marketing, licensing, editorial, photo, and video, communications, and philanthropy, among others
  • Expanding brand management tactics to Canva and launching university wide Canva Brand Kits
  • Educating university-wide with brand education modules through PageUp software
Creative Marketing Specialist

Addimmune-American Gene Technologies, Rockville MD

  • Developed and managed the production of graphic, video and social content for website, blog, social media, newsletters, press materials, editorial calendars, presentations
  • Developed logo and brand style guide for spin off company (Addimmune)
  • Designed website through mock-ups and wire-frames​
  • Created variety of motion graphics, 2D vector and 3D mediums
  • Designed investor decks and booklets
  • Managed promotion of podcast series and art direction
  • Managed projects, interns, and brand research through project management systems
Gallery Assistant + Art Instructor

Artful Lawyer Gallery, Blacksburg VA

  • Created graphic designs for online and printed media
  • Led paint nights for public and private events
  • Communicated with patrons about event plans and maintaining positive environment for visitors 
  • Processed orders of artwork, collecting and preparing artwork
  • Provided information about current and upcoming exhibits

Awards & Accolades

2025

Exhibitions

2026
  • Change Art on 1st, Roanoke VA; wood burning
2025
  • Brand Camp Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA; Virginia Tech Brand education live demo and exhibit, Canva University Brand Kit launch, Giving Day 2026 launch
2022
  • Sustainable Summers & Mother Earth Artful Lawyer Gallery, Blacksburg VA; paintings, Honorable Mention 
  • A Study of Faith & Control – Senior Showcase Armory Gallery, Blacksburg VA; paintings, sculpture, wood burnings 
  • From My Perspective Artist Talk Artful Lawyer Gallery, Blacksburg VA; paintings, sculpture, wood burnings
2021
  • The Dichotomy of Nature XYZ Gallery, Blacksburg VA; wood burnings  

Education

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA

BFA Creative Technologies with a minor in Art History

Phi Beta Kappa Member

Graduated Summa Cum Laude