Formal Education
B.A. Art, Guilford College, 2015.
Exhibited Work
2020
Perfect Knowledge of the Ground | Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
2019
Natura Naturans | Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
Transformer’s 16th Annual Silent Auction and Benefit | Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC
2018
Land/Trust | Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Fight Toxic Prisons Convergence | University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA
Nydorf’s Gift: Guilford Printmakers 1978-2018 | Founders Gallery, Greensboro, NC
2017
ARTINA: (Re)Use and Abuse of the Land | Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD
Creative Corridor: Artists of the Gateway Arts District | Marlboro Gallery, Prince George’s
Community College, Largo, MD
Transformer’s 14th Annual Silent Auction and Benefit | Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC
2016
Homegrown Talent | District Clay Center Gallery, Washington, DC
Transmogrify | Center for Visual Arts, Greensboro, NC
2015
PITH | Guilford College Senior Art Thesis Exhibition, Founders Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Speaking
Ceramics School Resident Artist Talk, Ceramics School, Detroit, MI, May 2021
”Material Mnemonics for Environmental Justice”
Lecture and Workshop, Virginia Environmental Justice Summit, Virtual, March 27, 2021
“Haunted Ground: Slavery, Trash, Soil, and the Logics of Ecological Destruction” Lecture and Workshop, Washington Project for the
Arts, Washington, DC, September 2019
“Fieldwork: Relationships and Responsibilities to the Land”
Roundtable, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, January 2018
“Public Soil Memory for the Plantationocene”
39th St Gallery, Brentwood, MD, September 2017
“Beside Paranoia: An Exploration of the Dan River Coal Ash”
Guilford Undergraduate Symposium, Greensboro, NC, May 2015
“Reciprocity, Respect, and the New Doctrine of Discovery: Grounding the Ethics of Traditional Healing Knowledge”
Hege Library, Greensboro, NC, August 2014
Writing
“How the Soil Remembers Plantation Slavery,” co-authored with Bii Robertson for Edge Effects Magazine, March 2018
Writing and Research Support for Artist Mother Studio at the Washington Project for the Arts, Fall 2018
Teaching
Ceramics Instructor, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, September 2019-present
Guitar Instructor, Girls Rock Camp DC, July 2018
Band Coach (Collaboration Facilitator), Girls Rock Camp DC, June 2017
Glaze Techniques: Spray Booth Workshop, District Clay Center, March 2016
Shop Assistant, Wood and Metal Shop, Guilford College, Professor Mark Dixon, 2014
Teaching Assistant, "Sound, Art, Noise", Guilford College, Professor Mark Dixon, 2013
Collections
"Trash Cup IV," trash incinerator ash on porcelain, Great Cups Collection, District Clay Center, Washington, D.C.
"Broody Summer," 40''x 20'' relief print in Transmogrify Print Portfolio curated by Jack Arthur Wood Jr, Robert C. Ketner Vitrines, Hege Library, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
In the Media
Transcorporeal Trash Communion in Transformations Journal Issue 33 Spring 2020
Ultra Beauty in the Washington Post, Pitchfork, Stereogum, and Stereogum