EDUCATION
2018 MFA in Metal, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2015 BS in Visual Arts Education, Concentration in Metal, Magna Cum Laude, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2023 Instructor: Introduction to Metal, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2023 Instructor: Metalsmithing + Jewelry Pre-College Program, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2022 Instructor: Metalsmithing + Jewelry Pre-College Program, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2019 Instructional Support Technician: Digital Fabrication Lab, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2019 Instructor: Metalsmithing + Jewelry Pre-College Program, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2018 Studio Technician Metalsmithing + Jewelry program: Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2017 Teaching Assistant to Michael Gayk, Computer Aided Design I: SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2016-18 Graduate Student Assistant to Adam Mastropaolo (studio technician): SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2017 Instructor of Record Basic Metal: SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2016 Teaching Assistant to Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Basic Metal: SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2016 Studio Assistant to Sergey Jivetin, High Falls, NY
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2016 Attended Haystack Art School Collaborative: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2015 Participant in the Whitney Museum Educator Opening Night program, New York, NY
2015 Participant in New York City Department of Education Arts Monday Professional Learning Series, New York, NY
2014 Volunteer at New York State Art Teachers Association Region 7 Professional Development Symposium for Art Education, New Paltz, NY
LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
2019 Discussion moderated by Alex Darby of NEWINC with Benjamin Kellogg + Lynn Batchelder, NYCJW, Henrybuilt, New York, NY
2019 Continuing Studies Workshop: 5 RINGS//5 DAYS, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2019 Continuing Studies Workshop: Brooches: Looking at the Back, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2018 Artist Presentation/Slide Slam participant: NP Design Week, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
RESIDENCIES
2018 Penland Winter Residency, Penland School of Crafts, Bakersville, NC
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 Rule Followers: Lynn Batchelder + Benjamin Kellogg, NYCJW, Henrybuilt, New York, NY
2019 CONTROLS/CTRL+S, Art Jewelry Night of Budapest 2019, Budapest, Hungary
2019 Now: Press Play, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY (Curated by Glenn Adamson)
2018 Craft Forms 2018, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA (Curated by Perry Price)
2018 Marzee International Graduate Show, Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands [catalogue]
2018 Closer Approximations, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
2018 Materials Hard and Soft, Meadows Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX (Curated by Perry Price, Executive Director Houston Center for Contemporary Craft [catalogue])
2017 Nine Points of Departure, Sojourner Truth Library, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2017 Adorned Spaces Pop-Up Exhibition, The Sheraton Hotel, SNAG NEXUS, New Orleans, LA
2016 Practice/Play Pop-up Exhibition, State University of New York at New Paltz Fine Arts Building, New Paltz, NY
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2017 Proposed and curated an iteration of Practice/Play—a pop-up exhibition as part of the 2017 SNAG NEXUS conference Adorned Spaces exhibition, New Orleans, LA. (In collaboration with Lynn Batchelder, Assistant Professor, SUNY New Paltz)
2015 Co-presented “Racism, Appropriation and Art” with Dr. Alice Wexler, New York State Art Teachers Association Region 7 Symposium, New Paltz, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2019 2nd Annual SNAG Jewelry and Metals Survey (JaMS), Society of North American Goldsmiths
2018 Klimt02 Selected Graduate (online)
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2017 Graduate Student Research and Creative Project Award, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2017 Mcfadyen Merit Scholarship, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2017 Student Travel Award to attend Jewelry Week, Munich, DE, New Paltz, NY
2017 General Work Study Scholarship, Sondra Sherman Jewelry Talks: Thought to Form, Penland, NC
2016 Penland Metals Work Study Scholarship, Biba Schutz One is Not Enough, Penland, NC
2015 CAS Internship Stipend, New Paltz Career Resource Center, New Paltz, NY
2015 Fall 2015 SUNY New Paltz Outstanding Graduate award, New Paltz, NY
2015 Higher Education Partners Program Scholarship, Simon Cottrell Building the Intangible, Penland, NC
MEMBERSHIPS
2016-Present SNAG (Society of North American Goldsmiths)