EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Art, Craft and Material Studies, Minor in Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

EXHIBITIONS  

2026

3 out of 70,968, Group Show, Compound YV, Yucca Valley, CA

2025

Waiting for the Wind, Group Show, Compound YV, Yucca Valley, CA
Step After Step, Group Show, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
No Overhead, Group Show, Oakland, CA
Idioms of Indecision, Group Show, Snide Hotel, Louisville, KY

2024

PLOT, Solo Show, Lazy Eye Gallery at Yucca Valley Material Lab, Yucca Valley, CA
Eat with your Eyes, Group Show, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
High Desert Test Sites, Pop-up Group Show, The Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

2023

Count the Ways, Public Art Installation at Yucca Valley Film Festival, funded by Yucca Valley Cultural Commission, Yucca Valley, CA
Life of a Tree, VCUarts Dean’s Research Grant, Stage Installation and Performance at the Anderson, Richmond, VA. Collaboration with Keenan Rowe, Milk River Arts, Bukuru Nyandwi, Hope Ginsburg, VCU Green Action, Valerie Bess, and Taylor Bess
Craft/Material Studies Senior Capstone Exhibition, the Anderson, Richmond, VA
Emptied Pockets, Group Show, Murry N. DePillars Gallery, Richmond, VA

2022

VCUarts Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Juried by Lauren Haynes, the Anderson, Richmond, VA
Vitamin C, Group Show, Murry N. DePillars Gallery, Richmond, VA

2020

Fake News, VCUarts Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Juried by Anna Katz, the Anderson, Richmond, VA

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2026

ACRE Residency, Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions, Steuben, WI   
Compact Residency, Compound YV, Yucca Valley, CA
Artlands REACH Residency, Big Morongo Canyon Preserve, Morongo Valley, CA

2024

Visual Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT 

2023

Fulbright Award Semi-Finalist, Creative Research Grant 
VCUarts Dean’s Undergraduate Research Grant, Material Sourcing and Reuse: Local Urban Wood for Student Use, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

2022

Windgate University Fellowship, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Cynthia Bringle and Edwina Bringle Scholarship, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC
Schooner Foundation Scholarship, Furniture Society 22: Working Together Virtual Conference

2020-2023

VCUarts Dean’s List and Athletic Director’s Honor Roll, Richmond, VA

TEACHING

2026
Kite Making and Flying, Other Places Art Fair, San Pedro, CA 
Flat to Form: Sewing for the Body, Yucca Valley Material Lab, Yucca Valley, CA
In Step with Insects, Artlands REACH Residency, Big Morongo Canyon Preserve, Morongo Valley, CA

2025
Clothing Repair, Morongo Basin School District Prop 28 at Yucca Valley Material Lab, Yucca Valley, CA
Wind & Wood: Introduction to Kite-making, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA
Community Kite Workshop, Co-taught with beck haberstroh and Katie Giritlian at Compound YV, Yucca Valley, CA
Awakening Sensitivity: The Alchemy of Seeing the Invisible, Co-taught with Heidi Schwegler at Small School, Raleigh, NC
Introduction to Paper Making, Morongo Basin School District Prop 28 at Yucca Valley Material Lab, Yucca Valley, CA

PRESS

2025
The Park Record: ‘Step After Step’ walks through social and political themes, June 5, 2025
Suboart Magazine: # 40, Kristen Jean Wheatley, pg. 38 & 39

2024
Boston Art Review: Eat With Your Eyes Offers Temptations at Gallery 263, May 23, 2024

2023
Hi-Desert Star and Desert Trail: YV Exhibits Pop-up Art Installations, December 6, 2023 Issue, pg. 4 

INK Magazine: Luck Volume 15 Issue 2. pg. 41, “Where I Am”