Resumé
Opportunities
2021 319 Artist in residence at Grizzly Grizzly gallery, Vox Building, Philadelphia, PA
O'Neill National Puppetry Conference attendee, "Making Manual Cinema" strand, O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT (remote)
Collaborating artist/scenographer for The Conditions by Lucy M. May, 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 apprentice at Bread & Puppet Theatre, Glover, VT
2015 Independent art and puppetry absorption abroad, Penn. Academy of Fine Arts Women's Board Travel Scholarship
(Germany, France, and United Kingdom)
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
2021 Care: Access, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
Picture Consequences in collaboration with the Philadelphia Animation Ensemble, "Illuminate the Plaza", PAFA
Puppets in the Pub, Presented by Blue Gene’s Pub, hosted by Tyler Bunch and Jonathan Little, O'Neill National Puppetry
Conference, Waterford, CT (online)
Nasty Brutish & Short Puppet Cabaret: Quarantine 6, Curated by Myra Su, and Caitlin McCleod. Hosted by Noah Ginex
Puppet Co., presented by Rough House Puppets and Links Hall. Chicago, IL (online)
2020 UConn Puppet Arts Program Fall 2020 Final Presentations, Presented by UConn Puppet Arts and the Ballard Institute and
Museum of Puppetry, guest mentor Paul Zaloom. Storrs, CT (online)
3 Minute Fest, streaming 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 puppetry 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)
Dance of Shapes, FMC Tower, Philadelphia
The Codex Project, Sketchbook Exhibit at the Works on Paper Gallery, Philadelphia
Typos + Spills + Broken Glass: an investigation of failure, 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
2018 Chimera, Spillway Collective, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia
Performance Potluck, a night of pop-up performance art in West Philadelphia
Relative Work Experience
2020 — Shadow theater & puppetry studio creation &consultation
Commission work and collaboration for dance, film, and music projects.
2017 — Teacher, artist, and social justice advocate for
Spiral Q Puppet Theater — SparQ in Schools / Peace Cohorts / Peoplehood / Education Works
Asian Arts Initiative — Access Center
Fleisher Art Memorial — Summer TeenLounge
Philadelphia Arts and Education Program — STEAM at S. Weir Mitchell Elementary
2017-2020 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 — community member
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 — Advanced Shadow Theater with Annie K. Rollins
American Color Print Society — member
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
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