ACADEMIC + RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS

2023-present Assistant Professor of Art + Painting Area Coordinator, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver CO

2020-2023 Assistant Professor of Art, East Central University, Ada OK

2019-2020 Fulbright Student Research Fellow, Art-science research, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Oulu Finland

EDUCATION

2019 Master of Fine Arts, University of Montana, Missoula MT

2010 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts with Distinction, University of Delaware, Newark DE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Second Nature, University Center Gallery, Missoula MT

2023 Suon Laulu (Song of the Swamp) with composer Hannah Selin + Tuira Chamber Choir, New Music October, Oulu Finland

2022 Plumb: Sphagnum Moss as Ecosystem Engineer, Arts on Main, Gloucester VA

2021 Atmospheric Encounters (High-Altitude Bioprospecting), Birmingham Open Media, Birmingham United Kingdom

2021 Atmospheric Encounters (High-Altitude Bioprospecting), SOLU Space, Bioart Society, Helsinki Finland

2020 Re:Peat, Gallery MABD, Oulu Finland

2019 Second Wind, Gallery of Visual Arts, Missoula MT

2018 Tree Talk: Emerging Artist Residency, Blackfoot Pathways Sculpture in the Wild, Lincoln MT

2018 Don’t Be Tempted, Off-Center Gallery, Missoula MT

2018 Fold, Light Shaft, Missoula MT

2017  Lag, FrontierSpace Gallery, Missoula MT

2017 Mucuna, Off-Center Gallery, Missoula MT

2017 Tell Me There’s a Mathematical Equation for Being Alive, University Center Gallery, Missoula MT

2017 Attempting Physical Contact with Geologic Time, Student Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula MT

2015 After the Sunset of the Analog Age, Christina Cultural Arts Center, Wilmington DE

2014  in:TENSION, Urban Bike Project, Wilmington DE

2012 Lines, United Nat ions University for Peace, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Wild Media: Wired Wilderness, Curator Alinta Krauth, International Digital Media & Art Association, Winona MN

2023 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, West Virginia University, Morgantown WV

2023 What’s Next For Earth, Curator Michelle Guieu, Post-Carbon Institute of Stanford University CA

2023 Map(un)mapped, Curators Walt Kosty & Steve Liggett, Gallery at Liggett Studios, Tulsa OK

2023 New Geologic Epoch, Curator Mary Mattingly, Ecoartspace online exhibition, Santa Fe NM

2022 Matters of Lives, Jurors Costanza Sartoris, Noemi Biasetton, Matteo Vianello, Metaforte Space, Venice Italy

2022 Innovations 2022 31st Annual Show, Juror Brenda Malkinson, International Society of Experimental Artists, St Albert Canada 

2022 Nature vs Nurture, Curator Caren Helene Rudman, Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park IL

2022 Biosphere, Gallery of Indiana University Kokomo, Kokomo IN

2022 Ada Arts Council Member Show, Chokma’si Gallery of the Chickasaw Nation, Ada OK 

2021 68th Annual Faculty Art Exhibition, Pogue Gallery, East Central University, Ada OK

2021 Hypotheses, Juror Sue Wrbican, Torpedo Factory Arts Center, Alexandria VA

2021 #Burn___ Radio at Pixelache Festival, audio site-specific event at Oodi Library, Helsinki Finland

2021 Reprise of Burn___Radio, Rasos (Roots) Radio, Vilnius Lithuania

2021 Slow Burn, #Burn__Radio, {openradio}, Delhi India

2021 Extraction: Art on the Edge of Abyss, project of the Codex Foundation

2021 Uncompressed: New Media Art, Rebecca Randall Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, Conway SC

2021 Turmoil and Transformation, Juror Francine Weiss, Hera Gallery, Wakefield RI

2021 Scene + Unseen, Bigfork Museum of Art and Culture, Bigfork MT

2021 Of the Earth online exhibit, ArtFLUENT, Sandwich MA

2021 Enviro-Art Gallery, Duke University, Durham NC

2020 Art Ii Biennial: Knowledge of the Earth, curators Ekaterina Sharova & Maria Huhmarniemi, Ii Finland

2020 6th International Exhibition & Publication on New Media Art, CICA Museum, South Korea

2020 Americas 2020: Paperworks, Northwest Arts Center of Minot State University, Minot ND

2020 Home as Situation, Bolivar Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY

2020 On the Surface, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro MA

2020 Quarantine, McKeon Center for the Arts, Tulsa OK

2020 66th Annual Faculty Exhibition, Pogue Art Gallery, East Central University, Ada OK

2019 Seeing Through, sUgAR Gallery, Fayetteville AR

2019 Extinction, Murze: Art Magazine Issue 9, London UK

2019 Lab14 Art Prize, Malamegi Arts Laboratory, Villanova Italy

2019 Translating Place, Gallery of Visual Arts, Missoula MT

2019 Judge, Jury, and Exhibitioner, Waller-Yoblonski Gallery, Bozeman MT

2019 Prelude, OpenAIR Montana, Brunswick Gallery, Missoula MT

2018 First Place, National Juried Exhibition, Juror Laura Ahola-Young, Willard Arts Center, Idaho Falls ID

2018 MiniArtVideoFest, Budapest Environmental Project of the Hungarian Multicultural Center, Dual Gallery, Budapest Hungary

2018 System Processing, Sustainable Agriculture Project of Grand Valley State University, Allendale MI

2018 Textile Landscapes, Juror Jennifer Moss, Sulfur Studios, Savannah GA

2018 (Un)Necessary Duplicates Print Exchange, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie WY

2017 Honorable Mention, Movement, Time & Space, Bauhaus Prairie Art Gallery, Online Exhibition

2017 The Nth Degree, Juror James Chase, Foundry Art Centre, St Charles MO

2017 H2O, Online Exhibition, Linus Galleries, Long Beach CA

2017 Hard Body, Slayer Gallery, Online Exhibition

2017 Practice, Pierre S DuPont Gallery, Wilmington DE

2016 White, Juror Lillian Nelson, E3 Convergence Gallery, Missoula MT

2016 Art for Change, 3rd place & Viewer’s Choice awards, University Center Gallery, Missoula MT

2016 +Additive, Chris White Gallery, Wilmington DE

RESEARCH, RESIDENCIES & GRANTS

2023 Fulbright Finland Alumni Enrichment grant, site-specific data sonification choral project, Oulu Finland

2022 Artist Residency researching underwater tidal grasses and Chesapeake Bay health, Arts on Main, Gloucester VA

2022 “Shape of the River” interdisciplinary summer research grant with faculty and undergraduates, Oka’ Water Institute, Ada OK

2019-2020 Fulbright US Student Fellowship, art-science research on land use and perception of peat extraction sites, Oulu Finland

2019 Field Notes: The Heavens, BioArtSociety High-Altitude Bioprospecting group, Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Finland

2019 Artist Residency researching meeting of short- and tall-grass prairie, Cedar Point Biological Station, Ogallala NE

2019 Open AIR Artist Residency researching microbiology and lake seiche patterns, Flathead Lake Biological Station, Polson MT

2018 Artist Residency, art-science research sonifying Ponderosa pines, Blackfoot Pathways  Sculpture in the Wild, Lincoln MT

2016 Musical Bench Circuit with NWAA and Barrel of Makers, Inspire Lot Placemaking Grant, Wilmington DE

2013 Kalmar Nyckel Mural with the Creative Vision Factory and the Kalmar Nyckel Foundation, Wilmington DE

CONFERENCES
2023 “Re:Peat,” FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science, and Technology, Taos Center for the Arts, Taos NM
2022 “Shape of the River,” Water Sustainability Conference, Oka’ Water Research Institute, Ada OK
“Art+Science for Public Affinity”, Fear to Hope Symposium on Ecological Restoration, Christopher Newport University VA
2020 “Re:Peat,” Fulbright Forum on Education, Innovation, Science, and Art, Virtually due to COVID
2019 “Re:Peat,” Natural Resources Institute Early Career Researchers, Pilke Science Center, Rovaniemi Finland
“Geography, Ecology and Economy: The Shape of Delaware,” American Voices, University of Turku, Turku Finland
PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA

2023 “Peat Quilt,” New Geologic Epoch, Curator Mary Mattingly, Ecoartspace, Santa Fe NM

2023 “Shape of the River”, Earthkeeper’s Handbook, juried by Kim Abeles & WhiteFeather Hunter, Ecoartspace, Santa Fe NM

2022 “High-Altitude Bioprospecting” in Paperbark Art & Literary Magazine, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst MA 

2021 Embodied Forest, juried by Liliana Friaji and curated by Patricia Watts, Santa Fe NM
2021 “Second Wind”, Into the Clouds: Reflections on New Media Art, CICA Museum, South Korea
2021 “Re:Peat”, Extraction: Art on the Edge of Abyss “mega-zine”, Codex Foundation, Berkeley CA
2021 “Tree Talk: Artists Speak for Trees”, series moderated by Sant Khalsa, Ecoartspace, Santa Fe NM
2020 “Second Wind”, LABS: Abstracts Service, Leonardo (International Society for Arts, Science, and Technology), Oakland CA
2020 “Creating Under Quarantine”, Artist Interview, McKeon Center for Creativity, Tulsa OK
2020 “Art Habens Art Review: Special Edition,” Artist interview, Art Habens magazine
2019 “Second Wind Makes Interplay of Wind and Tree Limb Visible,” Peter Friesen, Missoulian, Missoula MT
2019 “Ecotone Show Mixes Science and Art,” Peter Friesen, Missoulian, Missoula MT
2019 “Talk of the Pines,” Roger Day & Hope Quay, Blackfoot Valley Dispatch, Lincoln MT
2019 Artist Interview, OpenAIR Artist Residencies, Missoula MT
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS, FACILITATIONS + WORKSHOPS

2023 “Second Nature: an art-science exploration of our posthuman landscapes”, Zootown Arts Community Center, Missoula MT

2023 “Ink from Soil”, workshop for Wilderness and Civilization Program & Missoula Public Libraries, Missoula MT

2023 “Microbes, Kites, and the Pluriverse: an Art + Science Exploration of High Altitudes”, Women’s Club Lecture, ECU Ada OK

2023 “High-Altitude Bioprospecting”, lecture and workshop, Linscheid Library, East Central University, Ada OK

2022 “Applying for Artist Residencies”, Guest Lecturer, AR/VR courses, East Central University, Ada OK

2022 “Painting Tidewater Plants with Plant-based Ink” Workshop, Arts on Main, Gloucester VA

2022 “Where do Ideas Come From”, Guest Lecturer, Mass Communications Department, East Central University, Ada OK

2021 Tree Talk forum for Embodied Forest book, moderated by Sant Khalsa, Ecoartspace, Santa Fe NM

2021 Guest Lecturer, Department of Visualization, Texas A&M University, College Station TX

2021 Guest Lecturer, Department of Art & Design, Pacific University, Forest Grove OR

2020 Guest Lecturer, 3D Fundamentals, Bitterroot College of the University of Montana, Hamilton MT

2020 Visiting Artist, Belmont University, Nashville TN

2020 Visiting Artist, Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT

2019 Artist Talk, Cedar Point Biological Station of the University of Nebraska Lincoln, Ogallala NE

2019 Artist Talk, OpenAIR Montana, Missoula MT

2018 Artist Talks, Blackfoot Pathways Sculpture in the Wild & Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln MT

2018 Facilitator, ArtTALK with Courtney Starrett and Jennifer Combe, Shakespeare and Co, Missoula MT

2018 Facilitator, ArtTALK with Meredith Lynn, Lee Running, and Nicole Hill, Shakespeare and Co, Missoula MT

2018 Instructor, Gestural Drawing Workshops, Montana Arts Interscholastic, Butte MT

2018 Instructor, Fab Lab Technology workshops for Victor, Bozeman, Helena Public Schools; University of Montana, Missoula MT

2018 Volunteer instructor providing training on metalworking tools, Funkify Your Bike Workshop, FreeCycles, Missoula MT

2017 Instructor, Interpreting the Human Figure, Montana Educators’ Association Annual Conference, Missoula MT

2017 Facilitator, ArtTALK with Elizabeth Dove and Brock Mickelsen, Shakespeare and Co, Missoula MT

2017 Facilitator, ArtTALK with Trey Hill and Tyler Brumfield, Shakespeare and Co, Missoula MT

2017 Instructor, Silk Painting Workshop, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula MT

2014 Pop-up Book Arts Teaching Residency, Delaware Institute for the Arts in Education, Central Middle School, Dover DE

2014 Printmaking Teaching Residency, Delaware Institute for the Arts in Education, Gateway Charter School, Greenville DE

2013 Instructor, Mural Design & Creation for 3rd & 5th Graders, Pegasus Artworks Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware, Wilmington DE

SERVICE

2023 Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Short Term Program Application Reader, US

2023 BFA Program Review Writer for continuance of accreditation, East Central University, Ada OK

2023 Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, East Central University, Ada OK

2022-2020 Treasurer of the Board, Ada Arts Council, Ada OK
Planning Committee, AdaFest Music, Art and Cultural Festival, Ada OK
Planning Committee, AdaFest Film Festival, Ada OK
Global Education Committee, East Central University, Ada OK
Faculty sponsor, Alpha Chi Honor Society, East Central University, Ada OK
Chair, Assessment of Intercultural Understanding in General Education, East Central University, Ada OK
Vertical Foundations curriculum redesign, Department of Art & Design, East Central University, Ada OK
2021 Open Educational Resources Retention Project research group, East Central University, Ada OK
2020 LukeSoc: Social Committee of Luke’s International Community, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Oulu Finland
Volunteer, Slush: Europe’s Leading Technology and Startup Event, Helsinki Finland
2018 Volunteer, International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art, Scranton PA
2017-2019 Co-director and curator, FrontierSpace 501(c)3 contemporary art gallery, Missoula MT
Curator and manager, Art Department Student Gallery and Fabrication Lab, University of Montana, Missoula MT
Facilitator & Researcher, ArtTALK monthly community lecture series, Shakespeare & Co bookstore, Missoula MT
2017 Volunteer, Crested Butte Community Iron Pour, Crested Butte CO
2014-2016 Co-founder, Barrel of Makers community makerspace, Wilmington DE
Co-founder, Night Kitchen monthly art and sound salon series, Philadelphia PA
Community Outreach Committee, Downtown Arts District of Wilmington Renaissance Corporation, Wilmington DE
TEACHING

2023

Fall – Beginning Painting, Oil & Acrylic (3 credits, enrollment 18), Metropolitan State University Denver, Denver CO

Fall – Intermediate Painting (3 credits, enrollment 18), Metropolitan State University Denver, Denver CO

Spring – Water-based Painting 1-3 (stacked courses, 3 credits, enrollment 15), East Central University, Ada OK

Spring – Integrated Studio 1 & 2 (stacked courses, 3 credits, enrollment 5), East Central University, Ada OK

Spring – Digital and Electronic Art 1 & 2 (stacked courses, 3 credits, enrollment 14), East Central University, Ada OK

Spring – Art History Survey II (3 credits, enrollment 19), East Central University, Ada OK

Spring – Professional Practice II (1 credit, enrollment 5), East Central University, Ada OK

2022

Fall –  Painting 1-4 (stacked courses, 3 credits, enrollment 15), East Central University, Ada OK

Fall – 2D Design (3 credits, enrollment 20), East Central University, Ada OK

Fall – Art History Survey 1 (3 credits, enrollment 11), East Central University, Ada OK

Fall – Professional Practice 1 (1 credit, enrollment 3), East Central University, Ada OK

Fall – Senior Exhibit (1 credit, enrollment 5), East Central University, Ada OK

Summer – Multicultural Art History Survey (3 credits, enrollment 26), East Central University, Ada OK

Spring – Figure Drawing (3 credits, enrollment 8), East Central University, Ada OK

Spring – Digital and Electronic Art (3 credits, enrollment 14), East Central University, Ada OK

Spring – Multicultural Art History Survey (online, 3 credits, enrollment 30), East Central University, Ada OK

Spring – Professional Practices I (1 credit, enrollment 5), East Central University, Ada OK

2021

Fall – Senior Exhibit (enrollment 3, 1 credit), East Central University, Ada OK

Fall – Professional Practices II (enrollment 4, 1 credit), East Central University, Ada OK

Fall – Multicultural Art History Survey (online, enrollment 30, 3 credits), East Central University, Ada OK

Fall – 2D Design (enrollment 19, 3 credits), East Central University, Ada OK

Fall – Color Theory (enrollment 9, 3 credits), East Central University, Ada OK

Spring – Professional Practices I (enrollment 5, 1 credit), East Central University, Ada OK

Spring – Digital & Electronic Art (hybrid, enrollment 16, 3 credits), East Central University, Ada OK

Spring – Art in Life Survey for Non-majors (online, enrollment 24, 3 credits), East Central University, Ada OK

Spring – Art History Survey II (online, enrollment 16, 3 credits), East Central University, Ada OK

2020

Fall – Senior Exhibit and Professional Practices I & II (online, enrollment 6, 1 credit), East Central University, Ada OK

Fall – 2D Design (online, enrollment 18, 3 credits), East Central University, Ada OK

Fall – Color Theory (online, enrollment 21, 3 credits), East Central University, Ada OK

Fall – Art History Survey I (online, enrollment 18, 3 credits), East Central University, Ada OK

2019

Instructor of Record, Foundations 2D Design Spring, University of Montana, Missoula MT

 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Art Criticism Spring, University of Montana, Missoula MT

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Advanced Art Criticism Spring, University of Montana, Missoula MT

2018

Instructor of Record, Foundations 2D Design Spring, University of Montana, Missoula MT

Instructor of Record, Foundations 2D Design Fall, University of Montana, Missoula MT

Guest Lecturer, Advanced Art Criticism, University of Montana, Missoula MT

Guest Lecturer, Graduate Pedagogy, University of Montana, Missoula MT

Guest Lecturer, Professional Practices, University of Montana, Missoula MT

2017

Guest Lecturer, Introduction to Art Criticism, University of Montana, Missoula MT

Guest Lecturer, Advanced Sculpture, University of Montana, Missoula MT

2016

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Figure Drawing Fall, University of Montana, Missoula MT

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Fulbright Alumni Association Colorado Chapter, Ecoartspace, New Media Caucus, Ada Arts Council, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Extraction Ruckus of the Codex Foundation

SELECTED CURATIONS

2021 “LOVE” Show, East Central University, Ada OK

2020 Member Art Sh0w, Ada Arts Council, Ada OK

2018 Regular Style: Annual MFA Online Exhibition, University of Montana, Missoula MT

2018 Ecotone: A Statewide Collaborative Exhibit with Montana Graduate Students, University Center Gallery, Missoula MT

2018 If I Say It Enough Times, Will It Go Away? work by Christa Carleton, FrontierSpace Gallery, Missoula MT

2018 Dispute: work by June Glasson, Colleen Friday, and Adrienne Vetter, FrontierSpace Gallery, Missoula MT

2018 The Shape of My Sorrow: work by Monique Janssen Belitz, FrontierSpace Gallery, Missoula MT

2018  Clever | Layer: work by Courtney Starrett, FrontierSpace Gallery, Missoula MT

2018 Divine Providence: work by Meredith Lynn, Lee Running, and Nicole Hill, FrontierSpace Gallery, Missoula MT

2018 Adjacent Conversations: work by Ben Skiba, FrontierSpace Gallery, Missoula MT

2017 Here & Now: work by Soon Kim, FrontierSpace Gallery, Missoula MT

2017 Ecdysis: work by Rachael Mayer, FrontierSpace Gallery, Missoula MT

 2017 A Couple Goes Out to Eat: A Video Portrait by Marshall Granger, FrontierSpace Gallery, Missoula MT

2017 We Live in the Gaps Between the Stories: Johanna Warwick & Kristine Thompson, FrontierSpace Gallery, Missoula MT

2017 Elements: work by Laura Bigger, FrontierSpace Gallery, Missoula MT

2015 BYO [bring your own] MUSE, Beaumont Wherehouse, Philadelphia PA

2015 See // Straight // Through, Savery Gallery, Philadelphia PA

2015 Body Language Immersion, Mascher Space, Philadelphia PA

2014 Dionysia, Little Berlin Fairgrounds, Philadelphia PA

2014 Moonwalk, A Curated Walk through Fairmount Park, Philadelphia PA