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Last updated 01/2025
EDUCATION
2019 Master of Fine Arts, Ceramics, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
2013 Associate of Arts, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Perkinston, MS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019 – Present Gallery Director, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH
2020 – Present Ceramics Studio Manager, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH
2019 – Present Ceramics Instructor, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH
2018 Assistant Director, Kent State University School of Art Collection & Galleries, Kent, OH
Instructor of Record, Ceramics I, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2017 Instructor of Record, Ceramics I, Kent State University, Kent, OH
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Forthcoming solo outdoor exhibition, Please Don’t Mow, Akron, OH
2019 Palpating the Unknowable, solo exhibition, Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2017 The Nature of Things, Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center, Ocean Springs, MS
2016 Proximity, solo exhibition, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
2013 Ladies Night, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Perkinston, MS
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 OH Queer, FAVA, Oberlin, OH
2023 MUT-AT1-0NS, Finnish Museum of Technology, Helsinki, Finland
Bizaarbeque 10, Kink Contemporary, Cleveland, OH
YES WE ARE, Hildebrandt Artist Collective, Cleveland, OH
You’re Absolutely Spineless, SPA Gallery, Barre, VT
The Groundhog Show, Hope Hickman Studios, Akron, OH
Imaginarium, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH
Crop Circle, NCECA, Pendleton Art Center Annex, Cincinnati, OH
2022 Now & Then: Seven Decades of Kent State Ceramics, KSU Downtown Gallery, Kent, OH
Stopgap, Spaces, Cleveland, OH
MUT-AT1-0NS, 2022 Sideways Festival, Helsinki, Finland
2020 U-hauls in a Library Parking Lot, Kent Free Library, Kent, OH
2019 Queer Voices, Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH
Student Annual, Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Caboodle, Crawford Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2018 University Hospital Healing Garden, University Hospital, Ravenna, OH
The All Ohio Contemporary Ceramics Biennial, PSZ Clay Center, Zanesville, OH
Bringing Kent to Akron, Kent State Downtown Gallery, Kent, OH
Bringing Kent to Akron, Bluff Blue Door Gallery, Akron, OH
Student Annual, Kent State University, Kent, OH
MFA 2018, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2016 MGCCC Alumni Show, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Perkinston, MS
USM Annual Student Show, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
2015 Tri-Art-A-Thon, Yellow Brick Community Arts Center, Perkinston, MS
USM Annual Student Show, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
USM Sculpture Guild Show, The Shop Down Town, Hattiesburg, MS
2014 MGCCC Alumni Show, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Perkinston, MS
Art is Our Nature, Hattiesburg Cultural Center, Hattiesburg, MS
2012 Fall Gala, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Perkinston, MS
Spring Student Show, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Perkinston, MS
2011 Fall Gala, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Perkinston, MS
AWARDS & HONORS
2018 Graduate Assistantship, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2017 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2016 William Clark Art Scholarship, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
Outstanding Student in Sculpture, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
Honorable Mention, USM Annual Student Show, Gallery of Art and Design, Hattiesburg, MS
2015 Jane Seal Art Education Scholarship, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
Roland Heidelberg Scholarship, University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, MS
2014 Culpepper Arts Endowment Award, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
2012 Private Art Endowment, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Perkinston, MS
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2019 Visiting Artist Lecture, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
ARTAXIS 2019 – Present
The Kent State University Gallery Club 2018-2019
Kent State University Ceramics Club 2017-2019
National Society of Leadership and Success 2016 – Present
University of Southern Mississippi Artist Guild 2016-2017
USM Sculpture Guild 2013-2015
Stone County Arts Council 2012-2016
Phi Theta Kappa National Honors Society 2012 – Present