Resume
Opportunities
2022 Artist/scenographer for The Conditions by Lucy M. May, phase 2 at Eastern Bloc Gallerie, Montreal, QC, CA
2021 319 Artist in residence at Grizzly Grizzly gallery, Vox Building, Philadelphia, PA
O'Neill National Puppetry Conference, "Making Manual Cinema" strand, O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT (remote)
Artist/scenographer for The Conditions by Lucy M. May, phase 1 at Studio 303 residency, Montreal, QC, CA (remote)
2019 Artist in residence at Officina Stamperia del Notaio, printshop and studio residency, Tusa, Sicily, Italy
2018 Summer apprenticeship at Bread & Puppet Theatre, Glover, VT
2015 Independent art and puppetry absorption abroad, Penn. Academy of Fine Arts Women's Board Travel Scholarship
(A backpacker's quest for art museums and puppetry throughout Germany, France, and the United Kingdom)
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
2022 Baltimore Crankie Fest, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
Short Film Festival, Burlington County Library, Burlington, NJ
Puppet Slamwich at Black Cherry Puppet Theater Baltimore, MD
Nasty Brutish & Short Puppet Cabaret with the Chicago International Puppet Festival, presented by Rough House Puppets
and Links Hall. Chicago, IL
2021 Dramatis Personae, Summer Artist in residence installation at Grizzly Grizzly with MOYOGASH KITSCHMAGIK, Philadelphia, PA
CARE: Access, highlighting the role of caregivers in the pandemic, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
Picture Consequences in collaboration with the Philadelphia Animation Ensemble, "Illuminate the Plaza", PAFA
Puppets in the Pub, presented by Blue Gene’s Pub, O'Neill National Puppetry Conference, Waterford, CT (online)
Nasty Brutish & Short Puppet Cabaret: Quarantine 6, presented by Rough House Puppets and Links Hall. Chicago, IL (online)
2020 UConn Puppet Arts Program Fall Final Presentations, Presented by UConn Puppetry Arts and the
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry. Storrs, CT (online)
3 Minute Fest, salon-style short performance work, presented by Vox Populi Gallery' s Digital Doings, Philadelphia (online)
Virtual Rocky Mountain Puppet Slam, a night of curated short form puppet and object theatre presented by
Katy Williams Design in collaboration with Theatrical Response Team, Denver, CO (online)
Virtual Slam Extravaganza, Live broadcast puppet slam presented by Puppet Showplace Theater, Brookline, MA (online)
International Toy Theater Festival Day #5, an evening of isolating together through puppetry, presented by
Great Small Works, Brooklyn, NY (online)
The Codex Project, Works on Paper Gallery, Philadelphia
Typos + Spills + Broken Glass, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 To Almost Tell, PAFA Alumni Gallery, Philadelphia
Emerging Printmakers Show, American Color Print Society, Bob Jackson Gallery, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia
Pet Cemetery, Eye’s Gallery, Philadelphia
The things I do
Shadow theater & puppetry studio, consultation, & teaching
Shadow puppetry (design, creation, and performance)
Theater, sets, costumes, and special props
Collaborative work for dance, film, and music
Guest lectures on my work and its roots in puppet theater, animation, and printmaking
Workshops for the passionate and the curious: shadow puppetry, giant puppets, papier maché, woodblock printing, natural-dyeing
Educator, artist, and social justice advocate with
Spiral Q — SparQ in Schools / Peace Cohorts / Peoplehood / Education Works
Asian Arts Initiative — Access Center / Youth Arts Workshop / Community Fair
Fleisher Art Memorial — TeenLounge / Community Partnerships in the Arts
Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia
Philadelphia Arts and Education Program — STEAM at S. Weir Mitchell Elementary
Scientific illustrator at Pfefferkorn Paleobotany Lab, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, UPenn
Education and Community
National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center— 2021 Manual Cinema strand participant, Eugene O'Neill scholarship
Puppeteers of Color Social
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival Workshops — Shadow Puppetry II with Linda Wingerter, BIPOC scholarship
Crankie Theaters with Myra Su, BIPOC scholarship
Philadelphia Animation Ensemble — member
University of Connecticut (UConn), Puppetry Arts Certificate Program — Advanced Shadow Theater with Annie K. Rollins (un-matriculated)
American Color Print Society
Bread & Puppet Theater — 2018 Summer apprentice: Grasshopper Rebellion Circus, and Out-of-Joint Hamlet
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Bachelor of Fine Arts*
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) **— Certificate Program, Printmaking Major in traditional Woodcut and Lithography
Funding
2022 Bartol Foundation Teaching Artist Microgrant
Illuminate the Arts Grant, distributed by the Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy, and Philadelphia City Council
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* Call for Penn to pay PILOTS and to invest in wholistic safety measures to ensure the safety and thriving of all people in the Penn community
** Sadly my alma mater takes consistent administrative actions against creating an equitable, safe environment for its students and teachers. Like
many early American institutions descended from colonization, its administrative and corporate agenda clearly sustain its history (rather than isolated incidents) of white male supremacy. I stand with my classmates and faculty against PAFA's absence in appropriately facilitating healing and proactive measures in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and survivors of sexual assault. I think that it speaks worlds that the most fostering and generous colleagues that I met in school were the ones who were enduring and speaking out against the racism and sexism that they were still not protected against there. While the full website displaying the student and staff-led call for change at PAFA has since expired, I encourage any curious or thorough friend to read more in the Philly Inquirer and Hyperallergic