Wade is a digital media Swiss Army knife. With experience ranging from photography, podcasting, videography, animation, and graphic design, he has the technical know-how for just about any project in the digital realm.
Graduating Summa cum Laude from esteemed liberal-arts school, Wabash College, Wade studied a broad range of topics surveying history and art. He majored in Classics, the study of Greece and Rome, and loved the many disciplines it presented, analyzing the foundations of Western Civilization through history and religion, art and architecture, and political science and philosophy. He also minored in Studio Art with an emphasis in digital art, expressing himself creatively in the virtual realm.
During his undergrad, Wade had the opportunity to participate in an arts intensive in New York City. He interned as a Production Assistant with documentary film company Blowback Productions, and as a Editing Assistant to independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi. Wade also spent a lot of time eating dollar pizza, hopping around coffee shops all over Brooklyn, and exploring the Manhattan grid, taking photos wherever he went.
After four years of undergrad in Indiana, Wade calls Billings, Montana his home. When he isn't doing all things digital media, he is probably going on hikes or drinking coffee with his wife, Sarah, mountain biking, or reading about watches he can't afford.
Even with the sizable chunk of each week devoted to internships, exploring the city by way of photography was one of Wade's main priorities while in New York. Over the course of the semester, he created three different photobooks:
In Dialogue, investigating the relationships between bildings with abstract architecture photography
Team New York, a street photography book that captures rare moments around the city
A Small Collection of Outdoor Dining Photos Taken One Rainy Afternoon in the Upper East Side, a photo essay documenting outdoor dining structures in my neighnborhood that cropped up during the COVID-19 pandemic
"Reverent Visage," taken in Manhattan's Chinatown, was selected as an honorable mention for the Indiana University School of Optometry 2021 IUSO BCOR Photography Contest.
These photos were published in the knitting publication, Sewn Magazine. The August 2021 issue features Paul Haesemeyer's original camp collar shirt design.
As the Managing Editor, Wade recorded, edited, and mastered Wabash College's weekly Chapel Talk Podcast, a showcase of on and off campus guest speakers. He also utilized Illustrator to create each thumbnail.
In his most ambitious piece to date, Wade listened to over 100 hours of alumni interviews to stitch together a two-part, long-form audio essay on Wabash tales of old, layered with voiceover, interviews, and music.
Wade's breakthrough podcast explores the fascinating history of Wabash's most controversial building, The Sparks Center. Winner of both the 2019 Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Award and 2019 Freshman Writing of the Year.
Brooklyn-based independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi tells an irreverent but touching bite-size story from his own life every day of 2021. Wade was responsible for mastering the podcasts, no easy task because of Caveh's extreme attention to detail.