Education
Bachelors of Fine Arts | Fiber and Art History
Kansas City Art Institute
2017
6-Week Study Abroad | Florence, Italy
Studios Art Center International
Summer 2015
1-Week Jacquard Weaving Class
Fondazione Arte Della Seta Lisio
Summer 2015
Employment
Technician and Studio Coordinator
Fiber Department | Kansas City Art Institute
Fall 2017–present
Chef
Ox-Bow School of Art
Summer 2018, 2019
Experience
Contractor | Embroidery + Tapestry Examples
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Fall 2021
Curator | Missouri Regional Scholastic Exhibition
Scholastic Art and Writing
Spring 2018, 2019, 2020
Commissioned Writer | ¿Que Pasa USA?
Charlotte Street Foundation
Fall 2017
Durwood Intern
Exhibition Design | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Fall 2016
Curatorial Intern
Architecture, Design, and Decorative Arts
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Fall 2016
Special Projects Work Study
Fiber Department | Kansas City Art Institute
Fall 2014–2017
Writing Tutor
Fiber Department | Disability and Academic Support
Fall 2014–2017
Teaching and Programming
TC2 Jacquard Weaving Workshop
David T. Beals III Studios for Art and Technology
Kansas City Art Institute
Fall 2017
Screen-printing Teaching Assistant
3-day workshop
Continuing Education | Kansas City Art Institute Fall 2017
Guest Programmer | Mitered-Square Knitting
Saugatuck-Douglas Library
Summer 2017
Guest Programmer |Weaving and Frame Loom Poetry
H&R Block Artspace
Spring 2017
Weaving Teaching Assistant | 1-week workshop
Continuing Education | Kansas City Art Institute
Summer 2015
Awards & Honors
VisionMakers2018 Hogan Award for Art | Craft Dialogue
108 Contemporary
2018
Leroy Neiman Foundation Fellowship
Ox-Bow School of Art
2017
Student Commencement Speaker
Kansas City Art Institute
2017
Selected Speaker Art History Symposium
“Enticing Fortune and Entrapping Evil: Interpreting Coptic Motifs”
Kansas City Art Institute
2017
Annual Meeting Student Scholarship
Friends of Dard Hunter
2016
Merit and Work Scholarship
Ox-Bow School of Art
2016
Karen Gould Award - $1,000 Scholarship
Fiber Department | Kansas City Art Institute
2016
Selected Speaker Art History Symposium
“Lenore Tawney and Magdalena Abakanowicz: Redefining Fiber and Fine Art”
Kansas City Art Institute
2016
Susan Lordi Marker Award of Excellence in Fiber
Fiber Department | Kansas City Art Institute
2016
Exhibition Record
Beautiful World(s): KCAI Biennial
H&R Block Artspace | 16 43rd St, Kansas City, MO
2021
Flatfile and Digitalfile Exhibition
H&R Block Artspace | 16 43rd St, Kansas City, MO
2021
Fantastic Fibers
Yeiser Art Center | 200 Broadway St, Paducah, KY
2021
First Date
G-CADD and Open House
St. Louis, Missouri | Kansas City, Missouri
2019
Fantastic Fibers 2019
Yeiser Art Center
200 Broadway Paducah, KY 42001
VisionMakers2018
108 Contemporary
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Fall 2018
Smoke Before Fire
Ox-Bow School of Art
Saugatuck, Michigan
Summer 2018
Casting Shadows: 2017 Kansas City Art Institute Biennial
H&R Block Artspace
Kansas City, Missouri
Fall 2017
Don’t hate the player
Ox-Bow School of Art
Saugatuck, Michigan
Summer 2017
Behind the Facade, Beneath the Surface
Mid-America Arts Alliance
Kansas City, Missouri
Spring 2017
KCAI BFA Show
H&R Block Artspace
Kansas City, Missouri
Spring 2017
First Cut
KCAI Crossroads Gallery
Kansas City, Missouri
Winter 2017