EDUCATION
2021 MFA in Visual Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2017 BFA magna cum laude in Studio Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
SELECTED AWARDS
2023 Best Animated Film, Maryland International Film Festival, Hagerstown, Maryland
2023 Evelyn Smith Professor Award, School of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2022 Gold Medal Digital Animation, 01 NFT / New Media / Experimental / Digital Arts Film Festival, London, United Kingdom
2022 Mixed Media/Experimental Honorable Mention, Florida Animation Festival, Tallahassee, FL
2022 Finalist, Japan International Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan
2022 Tarkovski Grant Recipient, Brussels Independent Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium
2021 Best Experimental Film, Sydney World Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
2021 Tarkovski Grant Recipient, Sydney World Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
2021 Best Underground Film, Obskuur Ghent Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium
2021 Tarkovski Grant Recipient, Obskuur Ghent Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium
2021 Honorable Mention, Independent Shorts Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Artistic Achievement Award, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2021 Graduate Research Assistantship Award, Fenwick Library, GMU, Fairfax, VA
2021 Graduate Research Fellowship Award, GMU, Fairfax, VA
2020 Juror’s Award: SHIFT, Mclean Project for the Arts, Mclean, VA, Juror: Sarah Tanguy
2019 Trawick Prize Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards Semifinalist, Bethesda, MD
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2023 SPECTRAL Performance Art Festival, Rhizome DC, Washington, DC
2023 REACT & RENDEVOUS, Reacting Studios, Phoenix, AZ
2023 ALPINALE Kurzfilmfestival, Bludenz, Austria
2023 Denver Digerati Emergent Media Festival, Denver, CO
2023 Maryland International Film Festival, Hagerstown, MD awarded Best Animated Film
2023 Liber Films International Festival, Athens, Greece
2023 Austin International Art Festival, Austin, TX
2023 Boulevart Immersive Experience, Digital, and New Media 23__26 Festival, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2023 FTNFT X Chiko & Roko Collab, Project22, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2022 Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO
2022 Shockfest Film Festival, New York City, NY
2022 01 NFT / New Media / Experimental / Digital Arts Film Festival, London, United Kingdom, awarded Gold Medal Digital Animation
2022 Florida Animation Festival, Tallahassee, FL, awarded Mixed Media/Experimental Honorable Mention
2022 Japan International Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan, awarded Finalist
2022 Happy Valley Animation Festival, State College, PA
2022 Short Film Feature, Slamdance Channel, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Erotic August Festival, Rhizome, Washington, DC
2022 Short Film Feature, Slamdance Youtube Channel, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Brussels Independent Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium
2022 Flickfair Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO
2021 Loudon Arts Film Festival, Leesburg, VA
2021 New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, LA
2021 Sydney World Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, awarded Best Experimental Film
2021 Obskuur Ghent Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium, awarded Best Underground Film
2021 Independent Shorts Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, awarded Honorable Mention
2021 Slamdance Film Festival, Joshua Tree, CA
2021 Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS
2021 New Wave Short Film Festival, Munich, Germany
2021 Seoul International Short Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
2021 Chicago Indie Film Awards, Chicago, IL
2021 Roma Short Film Festival, Rome, Italy
2020 CAA 2020 Annual Conference, Chicago IL
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 SPECTRAL Performance Art Festival, Rhizome DC, Washington, DC
2023 Boulevart Immersive Experience, Digital, and New Media 23__26 Festival, Foundry, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2023 FTNFT X Chiko & Roko Collab, Project22, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2022 Project 22, ARTinSPACE, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2022 Happy Valley Animation Festival Gallery Exhibition, Penn State University, State College, PA
2021 Empowered Women Empowering Women, NFT Exhibition, Sevens Foundation, Juror: Paris Hilton
2020 Latela Curatorial x Artsy: Artists as Mothers, Artsy, Washington, DC Juror: Marta Staudinger
2020 SHIFT, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA Juror: Sarah Tanguy, awarded Juror’s Award
2020 Call & Response: Structures, Fenwick Library, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2019 SWEETbutPSYCHO, Olly Olly, Fairfax, VA
2019 Cute but deadly, Poison but tasty, The Stomping Ground, Del Ray, VA
2019 Call & Response: Transmogrify, Fenwick Library, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2019 DADA QUEER DADA, Rhizome Gallery, Washington, DC
2019 Round N’ Round We Go, SOLOLAB5, The Gibbs Gallery, Visarts, Rockville, MD
2019 March150, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
2019 VENUS, La Bodega Gallery, San Diego, CA
2019 Women Who Run With Wolves, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
2019 Land[scapes], Lorton Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA
2019 Welcome to ANDiLAND, New Project Studio, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
2019 Land[scapes], Fenwick Library, George Mason Univseristy, Fairfax, VA
2018 The Zodiak Show, La Bodega Gallery, San Diego, CA
2018 Spring Small Works Show, Vanessa Lacy Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2018 Mason Popup Art Space at The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
2018 Mini Solo Exhibition, Nano Gallery, Manhattan, KS
2017 BFA Painting Thesis, Mark A. Chapman Gallery, KSU, Manhattan, KS
2017 Scholarship Exhibition, Mark A. Chapman Gallery, KSU, Manhattan, KS
2017 Manhattan Creative Market Identity Show, The Fellow, Manhattan, KS
2017 Featured Artist, The Fellow, Manhattan, KS
2016 BFA Drawing Thesis, Mark A. Chapman Gallery, KSU, Manhattan, KS
2016 The Frida Khalo Art Show, La Bodega Gallery, San Diego, CA
2016 The Little Big Art Show, La Bodega Gallery, San Diego, CA
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2023 SPECTRAL Performance Art Festival, Rhizome DC, Washington, DC
2023 REACT & RENDEVOUS, Reacting Studios, Phoenix, AZ
2023 Welcome Winter, Fox and Hare Cabaret, The Parlor Room, Gilbert, AZ
2023 Bad Guy, Debauchery Productions, Egyptian Hotel, Phoeniz, AZ
2023 Adrenalize Me, Debauchery Productions, The Nile Theater, Mesa, AZ
2023 Adrenalize Me, GILA Tattoo Expo, Renaissance Hotel Glendale, AZ
2023 Bang Bang, Do Crime, Creators Space, Gilbert, AZ
2023 Cake, Sweet and Spicy, Creators Space, Gilbert, AZ
2019 Drawing Performance Collaboration, Rikrit Tiravanjia: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Green?, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
2019 SWEETbutPSYCHO, Olly Olly, Fairfax, VA,
2019 The groTEAsque Party, Torpedo Factory, Alexdandria, VA
2019 SOLOLAB5, Visarts, Rockville, MD
2019 The Olly Olly Talk Show, Epicure Cafe, Fairfax, VA
2019 CUT & PASTE WITH BUNNi, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2019 LOVE & RITUAL at The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA,
2019 Land[scapes], Fenwick Library, GMU, Fairfax, VA
2019 Art in Motion at The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
2018 Welcome to ANDiLAND, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor of 3D Animation, Tenure-Track, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
3D Computer Imag & Animation (Fall 2022)
Adjunct Professor, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
3D Experimental Animation (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
Drawing I (Fall 2021)
Instructor, Hylton Performing Arts Center, Manassas, VA
Women Veteran’s Mixed Media Workshop (Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
Instructor, Mason Community Arts Academy, Fairfax, VA
Intro to Oil Painting (Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
Instructor of Record, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Painting I (Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
Teaching Assistant, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
3D Animation (Spring 2021)
2D Animation (Spring 2021)
Senior Project (Spring 2020)
Experimental Painting (Fall 2019)
SCHOLARSHIPS
2017 Mark A. Chapman and Cheryl Mellethin Fine Arts Scholarship, KSU, Manhattan, KS
2017 Oscar V. Lamar Art Scholarship, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2016 Dale Clore Weary Art Scholarship, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2015 Dale Clore Weary Art Scholarship, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2014 Weary Art Scholarship, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
ARTIST TALKS
2021 Desert Air Q&A, Slamdance Film Festival, HULU, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Experimental Block Q&A, New Orleans Film Festival, New Orleans, LA
2021 Local Shorts Q&A, Loudon Arts Film Festival, Leesburg, VA
2021 “ANDiLAND: Down the Rabbit Hole” Visting Artist Talk, Belmont University, Nasheville, TN
2021 Graduate Guest Speaker for Professional Practices, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2020 “Artists as Mothers” Interview for Latela Curatorial x Artsy, Washington, DC
2020 Alumni Guest Speaker for ART 105, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2021 Associate Programmer, Narrative Shorts, Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, UT
2020 Echo Impressions, Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2019 THE groTEAsque PARTY, The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
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