Education

 

University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Bachelor of Fine Arts, Summa Cum Laude

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Certificate Program, Printmaking Major

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Opportunities

 

2019               Officina Stamperia del Notaio, Printshop and Studio Summer Residency, Tusa, Sicily

2018                Bread and Puppet Theater, Summer Apprenticeship, Glover, VT

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Exhibitions

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2020               The Codex Sketchbook Project and Exhibition, Works on Paper Gallery, Philadelphia

                         Dance of Shapes, FMC Tower, Philadelphia

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2019                To Almost Tell, PAFA Alumni Gallery, Philadelphia

                                      American Color Print Society Emerging Printmakers Show, Bob Jackson Gallery,

                                                  The Plastic Club, Philadelphia

                                      Pet Cemetery, Eye’s Gallery, Philadelphia

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2018                Manayunk Arts Festival, Philadelphia

                                      Chimera, Spillway Collective, Northern Liberties, Philadelphia

                                      Performance Potluck, a night of pop-up performance art in West Philadelphia

 

2017                Resistance, High 5 Gallery, Philadelphia

                                      Raxx Vintage Artist Exhibition: Maisie O’Brien and Diane Feissel, Philadelphia

                                      It’s a Movement, Not a Moment, The Common Room, Philadelphia

                                      Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show, Philadelphia

                                      FLYINGHORSE,  guest alumni artist, Booker T. Washington HSPVA, Dallas, TX

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Selected Awards

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2019                First prize, American Color Print Society Emerging Printmakers Show, juried by

                                     Paola Morsiani

2015                Women’s Board Travel Scholarship, PAFA

2013-2016     Cumulative Prizes from the Annual Student Exhibition, PAFA, Philadelphia PA

                                                 The Pennsylvania Governor’s Award

                                                 Marcia Lampert Prize for a Construction

                                                 Benjamin Lanard Memorial Award

                                                 Angelo Pinto Memorial Prize for Experimental Work

                                                 Rose and Nathan Rubinson Prize in Memory of Wharton Esherick

                                                 Henry C. Pratt Memorial Prize in Printmaking

                                                 Robert T. Wickersham Memorial Purchase Prize in Lithography, special notice

2012-2016     Caldwell Scholarship, PAFA

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Relative Work Experience

 

2018 —           Teacher, Artist, and Peace Advocate with Spiral Q Puppet Theater, West Philadelphia

                                                 Print Shop monitor, PAFA Printmaking facilities, Philadelphia

2017 —            Resident artist and graphic designer, Pfefferkorn Paleobotany Lab and the Department                                      of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

2016                Lithography Shop Assistant for Petrichor Press, Philadelphia