Education­­­ 

2019–2024      PhD Candidate, Critical Studies, and Artistic Practice with Certificates in Art History and Women’s and Gender Studies

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

  • Anticipated graduation in 2024

 

2016–2018 Master of Fine Arts, Photography and Media

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

 

2013–2016      Bachelor of Fine Art, Photography with Minor in Film Studies, and Art History

The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK

Professional Experience

2024                Co-instructor and Visiting Artist, Art Methods and Pedagogies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2024                Instructor of Record, Beginning Photographic Arts Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2023                Lab Assistant, Visual Resource Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2023                Instructor of Record, Beginning Photographic Arts Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2023                Teaching Assistant, Women and Gender Studies Teaching Practicum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2022               Lab Assistant, Visual Resource Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2021                Instructor of Record, Art Appreciation, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2021                Lab Assistant, Visual Resource Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2020-2021      Instructor of Record, Art Appreciation, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2019-2020      Teaching Assistant, Art Appreciation, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2018          Instructor, ARTES Theatre Entertainment School, San Fernando Valley, CA

2018          CAPSA Instructor, AmeriCorps, Los Angeles, CA

2017-2018        Graduate Assistant, California Institute of the of the Arts, Valencia, CA

2017         Film Archival and Digital Photo Editor, NBCUniversal, Los Angeles, CA 

2016-2017 Photo Lab Technician, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

2014-2016 Volunteer Instructor, Youth Mentor Program, Tulsa, OK

  

Exhibitions

2024    Madres Radicales, group exhibition, hosted by The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA)– First Friday Art Trail– and Satellite Gallery at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2024    Queering West Texas, group exhibition, hosted by The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA)– First Friday Art Trail– and Satellite Gallery at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2024    Pulp Fiction: HERstory is History, group exhibition curated by Tricia Earl at Rock, Paper, Shears, Lubbock TX

2023    Evocative Disobedience, group exhibition hosted by Lubbock Art Depot, Lubbock, TX

2023    Hide & Seek Neighborhood Art Space, group exhibition, hosted by The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA)– First Friday Art Trail– and Satellite Gallery at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2023    Holding Space: The Clothesline Project 2023, group exhibition hosted by Landmark Arts

in the South Gallery at Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX

2022    Performance Art Final– T.G.I.F., group exhibition hosted by The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA)– First Friday Art Trail– Graffiti Building Venue, Lubbock, TX 

2022    Exhale, group exhibition hosted by The Risk Intervention & Safety Education Program (RISE) Department at Texas Tech University, Dairy Barn Venue, Lubbock, TX

2022    Exhale, group exhibition hosted by The Risk Intervention & Safety Education Program (RISE) Department at Texas Tech University, Wild Lark Bookstore, Lubbock, TX

2022    Un/marked, Collaborative exhibition with co-creators Hillary Erin Russell and Tricia Jarrett, hosted by The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA)– First Friday Art Trail– and Landmark Arts at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2020    Allegany National Photography Competition and Exhibition, group exhibition hosted by The Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, MD

2020    Texas National Competition & Exhibition, group exhibition hosted by Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX 

2020    Unpacked: Letting the Light in – Stories of Survivors, group exhibition hosted by Risk Intervention and Safety Education (RISE) department at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 

2020 The ‘F’ Word, group exhibition hosted by The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.

2020    Art at the Center Gallery Exhibits, group exhibition hosted by the Tomahawk Ridge Community Center, Overland Park, KS.

2020    On Edge, group exhibition hosted by Art League Rhode Island in Pawtucket, RI.

2020    30 Under 30 Exhibition, Director’s Choice, group exhibition Viridian Artists Inc. New York City, NY.

2020 Justice Exhibition, group exhibition at Charles Adams Studio Project, Lubbock, TX.

2020    WEAD Feat to Fire Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Suffrage, group exhibition at The Sanchez Art Center, Oakland, CA.

2019 Size Matters Exhibition, group exhibition at Shockboxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

2018    Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, group exhibition at The Box Gallery in Los Angeles, California.

2018    4 x 5 Exhibition, group exhibition in the Lime and Mint Gallery at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. 

2018    I’m Not Dead Yet, solo exhibition in the main gallery at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.

2018    Unframed Unstretched, group exhibition hosted by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna at the Semper depot EG Nord in Vienna, Austria.

2017    MFA 2 Group Show, graduate student group exhibition hosted by California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.

2017    There was a Big Thunderstorm when I was Born, mid-residency solo exhibition in the main gallery at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.

2017 Far Bazaar 2017 Alternative Art Festival, graduate student group exhibition hosted by Cerritos College in Cerritos, California.

2016    Senior Exhibition, group exhibition hosted by The University of Tulsa at the Alexandre Hogue Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

2016    There was a Big Thunderstorm when I was Born, solo exhibition at The Girls Art School in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

2016    Art for Humanities Group Exhibition, group exhibition hosted by The University of Tulsa at the Lorton Performance Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

2016    Core Connections, group exhibition hosted by The University of Tulsa at Living Arts Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

2015    Momentum Tulsa 2015, group exhibition sponsored by the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Works Curated by Mary Kathryn Moeller in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

2015    47th Gussman Art Show, group exhibition hosted by The University of Tulsa at the Alexandre Hogue Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

2015 Art for Humanities Group Exhibition, hosted by The University of Tulsa at the Lorton Performance Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

2014    Northeast Oklahoma Area Artist Show, group exhibition hosted by the Pryor Area Arts Council at Graham Banquet Hall in Pryor, Oklahoma.

2014 Art for Humanities Group Exhibition, hosted by The University of Tulsa at the Lorton Performance Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

2014 46th Gussman Art Show, group exhibition hosted by The University of Tulsa at the Alexandre Hogue Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Lectures, Presentations, Workshops

2023                Artist Lecture titled, Portraits of Choice, hosted by the Women and Gender Studies Department at Texas Tech

University, Lubbock, TX

2023                Curatorial/ Artist Lecture, Holding Space: The Clothesline Project 2023, hosted by the Women and Gender Studies

Department at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2023                Holding Space: The Clothesline Project 2023, group exhibition hosted by Landmark Arts in The South Gallery at Texas

Tech University, Lubbock TX

2023                Hide & Seek Neighborhood Art Space, Cyanotype Workshop, Lubbock, TX

2023                Hide & Seek Neighborhood Art Space, Collage Workshop, Lubbock, TX

2022                Society for Photographic Education Regional Fall Conference, Lecture titled, Portraits of Choice– Art Based

Research and Social Praxis within the Documentary Genre, Shreveport, LA

2022                Inside Out Festival at the Charles Adams Studio Project, Cyanotype Workshop, Lubbock, TX

 

Professional Service

2022                Volunteer, Clothesline Project, TTU RISE (Risk Intervention & Safety Prevention), Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2020                Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, School of Art, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2019                Exhibits and Speakers Committee, School of Art, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

2019                Society for Photographic Education Regional Fall Conference in Lubbock, TX, Volunteer at Texas Tech University

2018          CAPSA Instructor, AmeriCorps, Los Angeles, CA

2014/16     Volunteer Instructor, Youth Mentor Program, Tulsa, OK

 

Awards/Honors 

2020    First Place Color Photography, The Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, MD 

2019    Best in Show, Size Matters Exhibition, Shockboxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2018    AmeriCorps Scholar Grant, Valencia, CA

2018    Bartman Grant, from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA

2018 Helen Levitt Scholarship, Valencia, CA

2017 Helen Levitt Scholarship, Valencia, CA

2017 Bartman Grant, from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA

2016 Bartman Grant, from California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA

2016 Outstanding Senior Award, from The University of Tulsa in Tulsa, OK

2015 2nd Place Gussman Art Show, Tulsa, OK

2014    1st Place Northeast Oklahoma Area Artist Show, Tulsa, OK

2014 Honorable Mention Gussman Art Show, Tulsa, OK