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EDUCATION

2020    MA, American History, Culture, and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

2018    MFA, Sculpture, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

​2012    BA, Sculpture, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington

EXHIBITIONS

2025    Storefronts, Shunpike Arts, Seattle, WA

2024    Shaping Perspectives, Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA

2024    Itty Bitty, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA

2023    Creative Clay, Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA

2022    Art for STEM, Edmonds Center for the Arts, Edmonds, WA

2022    Sensing the City / Sense of the City, ORi, Berlin, Germany (contribution to project led by artist Elke Burkert)

2021    Edmonds Art Walk, Edmonds, WA (featured artist December and January 2022)

2019    Kunstbasar, Atelier Au, Munich, Germany

2019    Unbekannte Weg, Brillen Schneider, Munich, Germany

2018    Water Sacred, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI

2018    Klaus von Gaffron Gegen den Rest der Welt, Kunst Block Balve, Munich, Germany

2018    Wayne State University M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Wayne State University Gallery, Detroit, MI

2016    Whitdel Arts Members Exhibition, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI

2015    Route 313, Sculpture X Symposium, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2015    De:limit, Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI

2015    Curio Artifacto: The Institute of Lateral Chronology, Madonna University, Detroit, MI​

2014    Cascadia NW Arts and Music Festival, Granite Falls, WA

2013    Human/Nature & Salon Anon Anon, Gallery Context, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA

2012    MACAA Members Juried Exhibition, Elaine Jacob Gallery, Detroit, MI

2012    Senior Thesis Art Show, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

​2011    Art Students' Annual Juried Exhibition, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

​2010    Art Students' Annual Juried Exhibition, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

 

 

AWARDS / GRANTS​ / FELLOWSHIPS

2022   Studio Management Apprenticeship, Pottery Northwest, Seattle WA

 

2016   Graduate Munich Exchange Fellowship, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

            Graduate Professional Scholarship, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

 

2015   Graduate Research Assistantship, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

            Assistant to Professor Derek Coté for the 2015-2016 academic year.

2014   Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

            Instructor of Record - Beginning Sculpture, 2014-2015

​2012    Graduation with Honors in Studio Art – awarded by the Art Department, U of Puget Sound

             Senior Exhibition Materials Grant, University of Puget Sound​

2011   University of Puget Sound Art Department Scholarship  

            Juror’s Award - First Prize, Art Students' Annual Exhibition, University of Puget Sound

            Dean’s List

​2010   Helen Buchanan Art Scholarship, University of Puget Sound

            F. Carlton Ball Scholarship (2010-2012) – Studio Art 

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2009   Puget Sound Trustee Academic Scholarship (2009-2012), University of Puget Sound

PROFESSIONAL & RELATED EXPERIENCE 

2022-  Ceramics Instructor, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA

            Ceramics Instructor & Studio Manager, Montlake Community Center, Seattle, WA

            Studio Management Apprenticeship, Pottery Northwest, Seattle WA

 

2017   Build Team, Grant Writing, Events at Kunst Block Balve (KBB) - Munich, Germany

 

2015   Graduate Research Assistant at Wayne State University (2015-2016). Assistant to professor/ artist Derek Coté

            in various projects, including production elements of his documentary film, Legends Are Made Here (2016),

            featured and supported through the Anchorage Museum’s multidisciplinary residency, Polar Lab.

2015   Healing - a public, interaction-based project focusing on racism and Detroit's racial history, created as part of

            German artists Folke Koebberling and Nils-Arne Kässens' project—Route 313, featured at the Sculpture X

            Symposium. Detroit, Michigan, 2015

2015   Assistant/Monitor, Wayne State University Art Department Wood Shop, Detroit, MI

2014   Graduate Committee Student Representative. Wayne State University Art Department, Detroit, MI

 

2014   Graduate Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Record - Sculpture. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2013   Apprentice at NW Wood Design, Seattle, WA (January-April 2013)

 

2013   Designed and produced unique wooden scroll boxes to hold 1’x9’ reproductions of artist Jave Yoshimoto's

            Baptism of Concrete Estuary, an artwork created in response to the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Proceeds donated

            to tsunami relief efforts. Gallery Context, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA

2012   Assistant to sculptor Michael Johnson in fabricating his sculpture, Monument to the Ordinary (Bottle), selected

            for the Bellwether 2012 Biennial Sculpture Exhibition in Bellevue, WA.

 

​2010   Intern, City of Tacoma Arts Commission, Tacoma, WA

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