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Artist Statement
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"My practice is in the making, literally. I engage in creative acts, visual experiments, and the crafting of tangible objects. I spend time with these objects and document them. They in turn, inform me, teach me, about myself and the larger world of which I am a part. I work as an Interdisciplinarian, approaching art as though it were made of breath, blood, and bone, a source and container for the perpetual flow of energy, and therefore cannot be defined by medium. I work with and explore the multiplicity that is inherent in all things. I work from the parts to the whole, always mindful of the parts, investigating the numerous relationships among them. The content of my work builds narratives around internal struggles and conflicting desires. I feel out locations of tensions in our social, political, and natural world and in my personal lineage and experience, and then I sit with them, spend time with these tensions, and re-imagine them. I work to insert distractions into the regular flow of life. My intent is to craft my own language, meaning, and history into a tangible form." |
Education
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MFAIA 2014 Goddard College Master of Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Art BA 2011 University of Alabama in Huntsville BA in Art Studio, Painting & Drawing (Magna Cum Laude) Certificate 2000 Coastal Carolina Community College, Effective Teachers Training |
Professional Experience |
2020-Present
Independent Teacher, Northern Hall, Forestdale, MA 2018-Present Artist In Cellophane, Art-O-Mat, Winston-Salem, NC 2018-2019 Adjunct Faculty-Art, Art Appreciation, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 2016-2018 Adjunct Faculty-Art, Design I & Art Appreciation, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL 2015-2016 Part-time Lecturer, Drawing, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 2013 Summer Camp Art Educator, Greengate School, Huntsville, AL 2012-2013 Art Educator, Lyman Ward Military Academy, Camp Hill, AL 2011-2012 Program Administrator/Art Educator, Inspired Hearts, Merrimack Hall Performing Arts Center, Huntsville, AL |
Awards & Honors |
2011 Emerging Woman Artist, Women’s Studies Art Award, Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, University of Alabama in Huntsville 2011 Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society 2010 Kappa Pi Honorary Art Fraternity 2010 Finalist, Outstanding Student Leader, University of Alabama in Huntsville 2009 Honorable Mention, Bike Sculpture Contest, Downtown Anniston Bike Festival |
Exhibitions |
2018 • "Found Imaginings", Kennedy-Douglas Center for the Arts, Florence, AL (Solo) 2017 • "Bearing(s)", University of North Alabama, University Gallery, Florence, AL (Invitational) • "Mostly Blues", Kennedy-Douglas Center for the Arts, Florence, AL (Invitational) • "Our Nature", Georgia State University, 4th Floor Library Gallery, Clarkston, GA (Invitational) 2016 • Art Faculty Showcase, Salmon Library Gallery - UAH Campus, Huntsville, AL 2015 • “Precarious: The Dangerous Practice of Uncertainty”, Union Grove Gallery - UAH Campus, Huntsville, AL (Invitational) • “Tiny Art Show”, Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC (Juried) 2011 • "Our Town", ARTworks Gallery, Beaufort, SC (Juried) • "BLEEP", Connector Gallery, Flying Monkey Arts Center, Huntsville, AL (Collaboration: Matthew Knopps) • Emerging Artist, Panoply Festival of the Arts, Huntsville, AL (Juried) • Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, Wilson Hall Gallery, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL (Juror: Steven Alvarez): Women's Studies; Emerging Woman Artist Award • "Obsessive Convulsory Distraction", Union Grove Art Gallery, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL (Solo) 2010 • "Do It" Collaborative Performance Show, Union Grove Art Gallery, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL • "Serial Treasures: Miniature Painting Show", Connector Gallery, Flying Monkey Arts Center, Huntsville, AL (Solo) • Emerging Artist, Panoply Festival of the Arts, Huntsville, AL (Juried) 2009 • "Oblique Strategies" Small Group Exhibition, Connector Gallery, Flying Monkey Arts Center, Huntsville, AL (Invitational) • Embracing Art VII, Carnegie Visual Arts Center, Decatur, AL (Juried) • Art Hive Old Bridge Art Festival, Florence, AL (Invitational) • Emerging Artist, Panoply Festival of the Arts, Huntsville, AL (Juried) • Bike Sculpture Contest, Downtown Anniston Bike Festival, Anniston, AL: Honorable Mention |
Residencies & Visiting Artist Positions |
2015 Visiting Artist, Lecture & Books Demo, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 2015 Old Furnace Artist Residency, Harrisonburg, VA 2014 Visiting Artist/Bookmaker, Greengate School, Huntsville, AL 2012-2016 Resident Artist, Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment, Huntsville, AL |
Community Projects |
2012-2013 Picturing Community, Community-Based Arts Initiative & Mural Project Tallapoosa Girls Ranch, Camp Hill, AL & SOS School, Decatur, AL 2012-2013 Inner Pages, Community-Based Arts Initiative Hands Home, Decatur, AL |
Professional Development |
2015 “Art of Text” Workshop, Kenyon Review, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH |
Professional Organizations: Past & Present |
Walker County Arts Alliance Women’s Caucus for Art
College Art Association Southeastern College Art Conference |