About the Artist

I am a graduate of the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Originally from Indianapolis, my goal for the foreseeable future is to pursue funding for higher education. I am always looking forward to the opportunities in front of me and am eternally grateful to all the friends and family who have made this possible. I have worked through most of my schooling, holding positions in community education and outreach. Art based nonprofit work has been a pleasure to be part of and I am currently looking for another chance to be part of something larger than my own practice. I am experienced in and looking for positions as a teaching artist, workshop facilitator, community engagement project manager, youth programming manager, and artist-in-residence!

About my work:
“ Webs are a helpful analogy in general. I use them to visualize my own relationship with my work, the meaning of my work, and the physical pieces. My focus is always migrating from intersection to intersection, each leading to the next. The intersection I am at currently includes lofty concepts like, contemporary mundanity, hedonism, grief, linguistic relativity, and flexibility. Along with these concepts are my own symbols that come to repeat across several pieces, like the zinnias you will hear about later. Imbuing these symbols with meaning makes fine arts the perfect environment for my practice because of the circular, paradoxical, simultaneous logic it embodies. My process is a way for me to map this logic onto the current intersection. The resulting pieces are human-focused, intimate, hands-on, and intensely layered. I consistently play with opaqueness, transparency, visual overlap, and accumulation, creating my best work when these all collide into the intersection I’m working in.”