EDUCATION
PhD Candidate / Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts
9/2023 – Present
MFA in Studio Art /Maine College of Art and Design
6/2019 – 5/2021
MA Emphasis in Ceramics / The University of Arkansas at Little Rock
8/2012 – 7/2014
Post-Baccalaureate Work in Ceramics / The University of Arkansas at Little Rock
7/2010 – 5/2012
BS Respiratory Care / The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
6/2002 – 5/2004
EXPERIENCE
Long Island Maine Pottery Studio
2023 – Studio manager and instructor
Maine College of Art and Design, Portland, ME
2023 – FN110 4D: Space & Temporality Adjunct Instructor
2022 – SC105: The Sculptural Imagination Adjunct Instructor
2021 – FN109; Materiality Course Title: Materiality Sculpture/Wood Adjunct Instructor
- 2019–2020 – MFA Teaching Assistant in Introduction to 3D, Installation/Multiples/Land Art, and The Human Body in Context
Mayo Street Arts, 2022 Summer Youth Program
2022 – Present – Teaching Associate
21st Century Program Boys & Girls Club of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
- 2022 – Art Enrichment Teacher
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR
- 2017–2019 – Assistant to Chair of Ceramics
- 2018 – Ceramic Ring Toss Team – Fountain Fest
- 2015–2019 – Ceramics Instructor: Intro
Throwing, Intermediate/Advanced Throwing, Independent Study
- 2016 & 17 – 3D Art Instructor: Junior Arts Academy
- 2015-2017 – Ceramics Artist in Residence
- 2015 – Ceramics Instructor: Extruder Class, Assistant: Beginning Throwing, Sampler Class
Hendrix College, Conway, AR
- 2017, 2018 – ARTS – 180 Beginning Ceramics: Handbuilding Adjunct Instructor
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR
2018 – Visiting Ceramics Instructor – ARAD 4350 Wheelthrowing, ARAD 3350 – Introduction to Ceramics, ARAD 4390 Advanced Studio Project, and ARST 4396 BFA Project
- 2018 – Ceramic Workshop Organizer – Kenyon Hansen
- 2018 – Organizer/Facilitator for Ceramic Demonstrators – CR8 Fundraising Gala
- 2018 – THEA Foundation Connections Instructor
- 2014 – GTA: Beginning Ceramics
- 2013 – Graduate Teaching Assistant
- 2012 – Ceramics Contemporary Crafts Instructor
Artist Assistant to Beth Lambert, Little Rock, AR
- 2014 – Plaster mold maker
Penland School of Craft, Penland NC
2014 – Work-Study
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
- 2014 – Studio Assistant
- 2013 – Work-Study
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Maine Needs, Portland ME
2023 – Organizer, order filler
Innovation HUB Maker Space, North Little Rock, AR
- 2018 – Screen Printer – Halloween Fest
- 2017 – Human Sized Settlers of Catan Creator Team
- 2014 – Human Sized Totoro Puppet Creator Team
Dunbar Gardens, Little Rock AR
- 2018 and 2019 Float-Making Team
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
2022 – 2023 – Running With Scissors Artist Studios & Community
2022 – 2026 – Dispatch Gallery Board Member
2021 – 2024 – International Sculpture Center Member
2020 – 2024 – Union of Maine Visual Artists Member
2018-2019 – Dunbar Garden Board Member
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
- 2017 – Solo Exhibition, Form and Fear, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
- 2016 – Solo Exhibition, Flow, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
2014 – Solo Exhibition, MA Thesis, Landscape of Consciousness, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Group
- 2023 – Chroma2Four, Encounters
- 2023 – 2nd Annual MECA&D Summer Show
- 2022 – MSA Teaching and Studio Artist Exhibit
- 2021 – MFA Thesis Exhibition, Maine College of Art and Design
- 2013 – Light of the Moon, Arrowmont
School of Arts and Crafts
- 2013 – Annual THEA Foundation Arts Festival
2013 – Group Exhibition, Ovolution
AWARDS
Maine College of Art
- 2021 – International Sculpture Center Nominee
- 2019 – 2021 Merit Scholarship
- 2019 – 2020 Albert K. Murray Scholarship
- 2019 – Hildreth Family MFA Endowed Scholar
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock
- 2016, 2017, 2018 – Sally A. Williams Artist Fund
- 2014 – Teaching Award
- 2014 – Alexa Mena Scholarship
Other
- 2022 – Educator Scholarship, Arrowmont School of Craft, Gatlinburg, TN
- 2014 – Betsy and Mark Rowland Scholarship, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC
SKILLS
Organizational:
Event organization and hosting, workshop set up, class scheduling.
Studio:
Teaching ages 5 to adults, hiring, managing work studies, firing, maintaining, and repairing kilns, teaching 3D classes.
Digital:
Microsoft Excel and Word, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Hangouts, Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas, Zoom, some Photoshop, some Photoshop InDesign, some DaVinci Resolve 18, some Adobe Audition.