Education:

2024: Ohio University
    MFA, Sculpture + Expanded Practice | Certificate, Visual Arts Management | GPA 3.955
2015: CUNY - Brooklyn College
    MS, Media Studies | GPA 4.0
2010: Wheaton College (MA)
    BA, English, Concentration in Media & Contemporary Culture

Experience:

Adjunct Faculty, Youngstown State University
                            Fundamentals of 3D Design
, Spring 2025
                           Fundamentals of 2D Design, Fall 2024
                           Intermediate Drawing, Fall 2024

Instructor of Record, Ohio University
                            Image + Design (ART 1220)
, Spring 2024
                            Description + Drawing (ART 1200), Fall 2023
                            Image + Design (ART 1220), Spring 2023
                           Structure + Space (ART 1230), Fall 2022
                           Introduction to Sculpture (ART 1191), Spring 2022

Online Course Facilitator, Ohio University
                            Function + Practice (ART 1240)
, Spring 2024
                            Structure + Space (ART 1230), Fall 2023

Lab Administrator at CREATE_space, Ohio University 2021 - 2024
    • Facilitate Workshops, class projects for the School of Art + Design and wider university community
    • Oversee and supervise use of equipment, provide assistance for individuals utilizing equipment for independent projects
    • Maintain and troubleshoot CNC, laser cutter, 3D Printers, advise best practices for maintaining and replacing equipment

Certifications:

Online Facilitator Training, Ohio University, 2021
Community Engaged Scholar Training, Ohio University, 2023
72 Hour Online Rhino + Grasshopper Certification from ControlMAD in Madrid, Spain, 2023

Awards / Grants:

2023: Graduate Travel Grant, Ohio University
2023: Ohio Arts Seed Fund Grant for Future Store
2021 - 2024: Graduate Teaching Award, Ohio University
2021 - 2024: Graduate Tuition Waiver, Ohio University
2020: Pittsburgh Artists’ Emergency Fund Grant Recipient
2016: Dean’s Award, TV & Radio Department. CUNY – Brooklyn College
2015: Rose Goldstein Memorial Scholarship, CUNY - Brooklyn College
2012: Edward R. Segal Americorps Education Award

Selected Exhibits (* indicates solo show / installation):

09/2025 - 11/2025 (forthcoming): Synthtember, New Alliance Gallery, Somerville, MA
09/2024: Legacy: 58 Years of Art at YSU, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
07/2024: More Small Things, PAR Projects, Cincinnati, OH
04/2024: iota upriver, MFA thesis exhibition, Future Store in the Market on State, Athens, OH*
07/2023 - present: Mills Mall Montage, Atwood Window Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA*
07/2023: New Horizons, PAR Projects, Cincinnati, OH
07/2023: Print Screen, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA
06/2023: Cabin23, curated by Anna Rafalowski, Strouds Run State Park, Athens, OH
01/2023: Digital Love: In Art + Tech, juried by Luis Varelo-Rico, Winchester-Dondero Cultural Center, Las Vegas, NV
09/2022: Still Uncertain, Siegfred Gallery, Athens, OH
06/2022: Cabin23, curated by Anna Rafalowski, Strouds Run State Park, Athens, OH
03/2022: Kidpix Art Show (Virtual), Media Archaeology Lab @ University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
01/2022: Notable Uncertainties, Siegfred Gallery, Athens, OH
10/2021: Fieldscape, Gallery Askew at campSITE Sculpture Park, Cincinnati, OH
05/2021: Amity Storefront Gallery, Homestead, PA
07/2019: Annual Art Show, Nettle Nest, Pittsburgh, PA
2019: Tower Sprawl, Mural, Redfishbowl Studios, Pittsburgh, PA*
03/2019 – 06/2020: Featured Artist, 7 Belvidere, Brooklyn, NY
02/2019: February Group Show, Stadens Museum for Kunst, Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 - 2019: Triangle Field House, Corner of Lumpkin and Carpenter, Detroit, MI*

Presentations:

11/2022: Workshop in ART2110, Sound: Circuits, Arduino and Processing, Ohio University
10/2022: Workshop in ART2110, Photoshop to Laser Cutting, Ohio University
11/2021: Workshop in ART1230, Introduction to P5.js, Ohio University
07/2016: “X-Files, Quantum Leap, New Media and the Televisual.” Serialized Storytelling Conference, Hanze University of Applied Sciences. Groningen, Netherlands.
04/2016: Guest Speaker in BUSN 3130 / TVRA 2517, “Cult Television and Television Futures.” CUNY Brooklyn College. Brooklyn, NY.

Residencies:

2024: Digital Weaving Residency, Praxis Fiber Lab, Cleveland, OH
2019: Christiania Researcher in Residence, Freetown Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2015: Keinhaus, Hamtramck, MI.

Press:

12/2023: A View From the Easel feature, HyperAllergic
09/2023: Interview, PAR Projects Quarterly, Cincinnati, OH
01/2019: Christiania Radio, Interview, Copenhagen, Denmark

Live Visuals, Film Festival Screenings:

04/2024: Ohio River II, pt. 8 51st Annual Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, OH
06/2023: Susuby, Walthamstow International Film Festival, Walthamstow, London, UK
03/2023: Ohio River II, pt. 18 Sync’d PGH @ Irma Freeman Center, Pittsburgh, PA
06/17/2022: Rothko House, Pittsburgh, PA
02/25/2022: Apartment 10, House Show, Pittsburgh, PA
02/2022: Sync’d PGH, Virtual Video Music Short, Pittsburgh, PA
12/03/2021: Collision, Pittsburgh, PA
05/2021: Sync’d PGH, Virtual Video Music Short, Pittsburgh, PA
03/05/2020: Collision, Pittsburgh, PA
10/30/2019: House Party, Pittsburgh, PA
05/24/2019: Soli-Party, Collision, Pittsburgh, PA
04/14/2019: Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
04/10/2019: Flowers For All Occasions, Brooklyn, NY
03/27/2019: Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
03/26/2019: Flowers For All Occasions, Brooklyn, NY
03/24/2019: Three Pigs Collective, Pittsburgh, PA
2019: Eyegone Era, Most Eclectic Cast, Pittsburgh 3K Film Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
03/26/2017: H0l0, Brooklyn, NY
2016: Roadkill, Best Graphics, Pittsburgh 48-hour Horror Film Festival, Pittsburgh, PA



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