Education
2023
Rhode Island School of Design, Master of Fine Arts in Digital + Media
Certificate in Collegiate Teaching in Art + Design, conferred with Collegiate Teaching Experience
2019
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics
Exhibitions
2023
Interior Atlas: Reimagining Research, Graduate Triennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
RISD MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
Sound and Space, Sound in Place, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
2022
No White Walls, Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven CT
Transitory Void, Boston CyberArts, Boston MA
1+1=22, RISD Digital + Media Biennial Exhibition, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence RI
2021
LOL, Fairgrounds Projects an Immersive Art Museum, Permanent Collection, St Petersburg FL
2020
Kore: Leitmotif, Solo Exhibition, Morean Center for Clay, St. Petersburg FL
2019
Kore: In the Round, Solo Annex Show, New Bedford MA
BFA Group Exhibition, University Gallery at UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth MA
2018
CONNECT Student Design Competition, Sculptural Objects Functional Art and Design Expo Chicago (SOFA), Chicago IL
Crosscurrents: Movements in Contemporary Ceramics, Highfield Hall and Gardens Falmouth MA
2017
The Gustin Wood Kiln: Gifts from the Fire, Arch Contemporary Ceramics, Tiverton RI
20/30 Gustin Anagama & Watershed Anniversary Exhibition, Dartmouth MA
2016
Window Works, UMass Dartmouth Star Store, New Bedford MA
Grants & Awards
2022
Graduate Commons Grant, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
Digital +Media Assistantship, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
2020
Individual Artist Grant, St. Petersburg Arts Alliance, St. Petersburg FL
2018
Windgate Fellowship Nominee, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth MA
Karen Richardson Doherty Memorial Scholarship, UMass Dartmouth CVPA, New Bedford MA
Experience
2023
Critic/ Adjunct Professor, 3D Foundations & Digital + Media/Computation Technology and Culture,RhodeIsland School of Design, Providence RI
Teacher of Record, Dada Instruments, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
2022
Teaching Assistant, Ambient Interfaces: Physical Computing, Rhode Island School of Design
Curator, Digital + Media Biennia Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design
Graduate Assistant,Artist Liaison for Digital +Media, Rhode Island School of Design
2022-2019
Lead Preparator, Design Art Technology Massachusetts, Exhibitions: Zimoun, Do Hu Suh, Abeer Seikaly & Real San Fratello, New Bedford MA
2021-2022
Exhibition and Artist Liaison, Rhode Island School of Design Digital + Media, Providence RI
2020-2021
Creative Technologist at Fairgrounds Projects in St. Petersburg FL
Art Handler, St. Cate Fine Arts, St. Petersburg FL
2019
Contracted Installer by Poetic Kinetics for Silver Current sponsored by Design Art Technology Institute of Massachusetts, large scale public kinetic wind sculpture, New Bedford, MA, Poetic Kinetics based in Los Angeles CA
2017-2020
Studio Assistant to Sculptor Chris Gustin, Gustin Ceramics LLC, Dartmouth MA
2018-2019
Workshop Assistant, FloridaHeat Woodfire with Chris Gustin, John Balistrari, Matt Long and Nancy Train Smith, Morean Center for Clay, St. Petersburg FL
2018
Team Lead and Student Panel Speaker, Sculptural Objects Functional Art and Design Expo Chicago (SOFA), CONNECT Student Design Competition, Chicago IL
2017- 2019
Anagama Club President, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth MA
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