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Brief Overview
CURRENT
CASE INVESTIGATOR, IN COVID-19 Contact Tracing Program, full-time remote.
EDUCATION
2013 MASTERS OF FINE ART, Ceramics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2010 BACHELORS OF FINE ART, Ceramics, Minor-Art History, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
TEACHING AND LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE
Total classes – 20, three credit hour courses: 2D design, 3D design, drawing level 1, ceramics level 1
2020 ADJUNCT FACULTY, Southern Utah University, Spring 2020, Cedar City, UT
2018 TEACHING ASSISTANT drop-in childcare, YWCA Utah Family Crisis Shelter, temporary, Salt Lake City, UT
2018/15 ART INSTRUCTOR, Museum of Northern Arizona, Discovery Program, 2 summers , Flagstaff, AZ
2017-18 INSTRUCTOR of FOUNDATIONS, Northern Arizona University, 9-month contract full-time, Flagstaff, AZ
2016-17 DIRECTOR of Sculpture and 2D Media, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
ASSISTANT to Discovery Manager, Museum of Northern Arizona, temporary, summer, Flagstaff, AZ
ADJUNCT FACULTY, Coconino Community College, spring 2015, Flagstaff, AZ
ADJUNCT FACULTY, Northern Arizona University, fall 2014, spring 2015, Flagstaff, AZ
2014 DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT, Museum of Northern Arizona, temporary, summer, Flagstaff, AZ
2011-13 INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD, Arizona State University, Fall 2011 - Fall 2013, Tempe, AZ
SPECIAL PROJECTS AND AWARDS
COORDINATOR/ CURATOR: coordinated and facilitated six group, public arts exhibitions for students, emerging and professional artists, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: selected for and participated in four, full to partially funded, self-driven artistic (national and international) residencies, 2013, 2016, 2019.
GRANT RECIPIENT: of six grants from 3 (state and private) funding sources, to support production of artistic work, travel and research, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2019.
VOLUNTEER: for 4 organizations (3 arts related), in long-term roles including: grant reviewer, scholarship chair, social media manager, each term 1-3 years spanning from 2011 – 2021 (current).
LECTURES: gave multiple public lectures on professional artistic work for community arts organizations, academic art classrooms and high school art students in Arizona, Florida, Indiana and Illinois.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
TBD TITLE TBD (COVID POSTPONED), SOLO, Eric Fischl Gallery, Phoenix College, Phoenix, AZ
TITLE TBD (COVID POSTPONED), SOLO, Yavapai College Prescott Art Gallery, Prescott, AZ
TITLE TBD (COVID POSTPONED), GROUP, Olney Gallery at Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix, AZ
2020 CLAY INTERNATIONAL, JURIED, Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA
23rd SAN ANGELO NATIONAL CERAMIC COMPETITION, JURIED, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX
CONNECTIONS, A VIRTUAL EXHIBITION, Juried, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
2019 POST BIOLOGICAL MUTATIONS, SOLO, The Jewel Gallery, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
RESIDENT IV, GROUP, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN
RESIDENT EXHIBITION, GROUP Clayarch Gimhae Museum Gallery, Gimhae-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
VALDOSTA NATIONAL 2019, JURIED, honorable mention, Dedo Maranville Fine Art Gallery, Valdosta, GA
2018 LINCOLN GALLERY REGIONAL FINE ART SHOW, JURIED, first place, Lincoln Gallery, Loveland, CO
FUNCTION, JURIED, An Exhibition of Contemporary Craft, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA
MIXED MEDIA: SITE BROOKLYN, JURIED, Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
CLAY NATIONAL XIII OUT OF THE MOLD, JURIED, Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale, CO