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

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JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2025    

Storefronts, Shunpike Arts, Seattle, WA

(exhibition runs Feb 20 - August 10, 2025)

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2024   

Shaping Perspectives, Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA

Itty Bitty, Pottery Northwest, Seattle, WA

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2023    

Creative Clay, Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA

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2022    

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

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

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2021    

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

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2019   

Kunstbasar, Atelier Au, Munich, Germany

Unbekannte Weg, Brillen Schneider, Munich, Germany

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2018   

Water Sacred, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI

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

Wayne State University MFA Thesis Exhibition, Wayne State University Gallery, Detroit, MI

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2016   

Whitdel Arts Members Exhibition, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, MI

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2015   

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

De:limit, Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI

Curio Artifacto, Madonna University, Detroit, MI​

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2014   

Cascadia NW Arts and Music Festival, Granite Falls, WA

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2013   

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

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2012   

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

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

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​2011   

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

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​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.

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2014  

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Instructor of Record - Beginning Sculpture, 2014-2015

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​2012   

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

Senior Exhibition Materials Grant, University of Puget Sound​

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2011   

University of Puget Sound Art Department Scholarship  

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

Dean’s List

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​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

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PROFESSIONAL & RELATED EXPERIENCE 

2023-Present

Ceramics Instructor, Pottery Northwest, Seattle WA

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

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2022

Studio Management Apprenticeship, Pottery Northwest, Seattle WA

 

2017-18

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 on various projects, including production elements of Legends Are Made Here (2016), a documentary short film created through the Anchorage Museum’s multidisciplinary residency, Polar Lab.

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Healing - a public, interaction-based project focusing on racism and Detroit's racial history, created as part of Folke Koebberling and Nils-Arne Kässens' installation project—Route 313, featured at the Sculpture X Symposium. Detroit, Michigan, 2015

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

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2014  

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

 

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

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2013  

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

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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