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Education
Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
BFA Drawing, with honors
Minor, Art History
Minor, Printmaking
Related Work Experience
2022 – Present
Events Management Intern, Four Star Theatre.
Grand Rapids, MI
Gallery Attendant, Grand Rapids Art Museum.
Grand Rapids, MI
2021 – May 2022
Guest Services, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts.
Grand Rapids, MI
2020 – May 2022
Printmaking Studio Technician, Kendall College of Art and Design.
Grand Rapids, MI
2020 – 2022
Sculpture Lab Technician, Kendall College of Art and Design.
Grand Rapids, MI
June 2021 – August 2021
Events Management Intern, Avenue for the Arts.
Grand Rapids, MI
Artist Residencies
2022 – Anderson Ranch Arts Center (August 1 – 5)
Snowmass Village, CO
The Moon (September 1 – November 30)
Grand Rapids, MI
Related Volunteer Experience
May 2022 – Present
Co-Chair of Printmaking Dept., Festival of the Arts.
Grand Rapids, MI
May 2022 – February 2023
Founder and President, Catbird Saintly Collective.
Based in Grand Rapids.
September 2022 – October 2022
Guest Services, Artprize.
Grand Rapids, MI
May 2022
Lead Screenprinter, Festival of the Arts.
Grand Rapids, MI
September 2019 – May 2022
Founder and President, Art Appreciation Society.
Grand Rapids, MI
October 2021
Gallery Attendant, The DAAC.
Grand Rapids, MI
September 2021 – October 2021
Gallery Attendant, ArtPrize.
Grand Rapids, MI
2016 – 2018
Volunteer Instructor, Shiawassee Arts Council.
Owosso, MI
Collections
ROCO Real Estate, Grand Rapids, MI
Hackley Public Library, Muskegon, MI
Academic Honors and Awards
2022 – Drawing Studio Excellence Recipient
Anderson Ranch Tuition Scholarship
2021 – Norma Gray College Visual Arts Scholarship
2020 – 2022, Scholarship of Merit, Kendall College of Art and Design
2018 – 2022, Michigan Competitive Scholarship
President’s Scholarship
President’s List Recipient
2018 – Jerry Powers Scholarship
Solo Exhibitions
2022 – Dreams West, The Moon, Grand Rapids, MI
Annual Student Exhibition, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
2018 – Annual Student Exhibition, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
Group Exhibitions
2023 – Untitled, 200 Ionia Ave. NW, Grand Rapids, MI
Smorgasbord!, Lodger Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Collectors Choice 2023*, Studio Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
Dream within a Dream: Bizarre + Surreal, 106 Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
2022 – Glitz and Kitsch*, Black Creek Arts Council, Hartsville, SC
Michigan Emerging Graduate Artists (MEGA)*, Alluvium Galleries, Grand Rapids, MI
100 Best Annual*, Creative Quarterly, Brooklyn, NY
Annual Excellence Awards Exhibition, Alluvium Galleries, Grand Rapids, MI
2021 – Memento Mori*, Air Gallery, Manchester, England
Visions of Self*, Yosemite Sierra Artists, Oakhurst, CA
Smoke and Ghosts*, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
Creative Quarterly 65*, Brooklyn, NY
2020 – Postcard Perspectives, ARTSPACE at Untitled, Oklahoma City, OK
2019 – Coexistence: A Printmaking Exhibition, 106 Division Avenue, Grand Rapids, MI
Curatorial Projects
2022 – Night Descending, 200 Ionia Ave. NW, Grand Rapids, MI
Beyond Words: sun moon stars rain, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
2021 – On Heartache, Alluvium Galleries, Grand Rapids, MI
Smoke and Ghosts, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI
Print Media
2023 – Huer Magazine. Issue 1.
2022 – Creative Quarterly: the Journal of Art and Design. 100 Best Annual.
Creative Quarterly: the Journal of Art and Design. Issue 65.
2021 – Kingman, Jay, and Megan Stout. Come Back Down to Earth: An Anxiety Anthology.
Publications as Author
Fried Pigeon. February 2021.
"The Return of Absurdism", The Rapidian. May 2022. https://www.therapidian.org/return-absurdism.
*juried exhibition