Curriculum Vitae

Born in Mobile, Alabama, USA.
Currently lives and works in Texas.

Education: Academic

2011
Master of Fine Art – Sculpture. The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL.

2007
Post Baccalaureate Certificate – Ceramics, Fresco and Painting.
Studio Art Centers International - Florence, Italy

2006
Bachelor of Art - Painting and Ceramics. The University of Mobile, Mobile, AL ▪ Transferred from the University of New Orleans

Education: Technical

2018
Certificate in Welding. Bishop State Community College Mobile, AL

Academic Positions

2021- Present
Visiting Assistant Professor: Sculpture and Ceramics - Texas A&M Corpus Christi, TX.

2011-2021
Instructor - The University of Mobile, AL.

2016-2022
Instructor– Spring Hill College, AL.

2010 – 2011
Instructor of Record – The University of Alabama

2008 – 2011
Teaching Assistant – The University of Alabama

Professional Appointments

Resident Artist and Foundry Assistant – Fairhope, 2014 – 2016
Metal Arts Instructor – New Orleans Glassworks, 2014 – 2016
Sculpture Intern – Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum and Foundry 2014
Art Instructor – Girl Scouts of America, 2007 – 2009

Professional Experience

2000 - Present
Professional Sculptor, Painter, & Photographer

2013 - Present
Scenic and Prop Artist for Film

Selected Exhibitions - Alabama

2018-2022
Mobile Area Mobile Mardi Gras Designer and Builder

2022
Official Sculptor Mobile Medical Museum
Commissioned sculptor for Equal Justice Initiative and Mobile County

2021
Community Remembrance Project, Mobile, AL

2020
Curator- Different Kind of Weapon- Alabama Contemporary Art Center

2019
Mobile Medical Museum, Commissioned Alabama Biennial Sculptor – Minorities in Medicine. Dr. James Franklin Memorial
History of Midwives in the American South Memorial – Motherwork
Poarch Creek Healer Memorial – Portrait of Bessie McGhee

2017-2019
Memorial Bust of Cudjoe Lewis Tour – Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

2018
Mobile Museum of Art, Courthouse Display Invitational
DO IT. (Installation with University of Mobile).
Mobile Arts Council, Commissioned Award Sculptor – Arty Awards

2017
Bay Area Arts Educators Annual Show
Art of the Bay

2016
Saenger Theater Space Invitational
Bay Area Arts Educators Annual Show

2016
“Out There” Photography Exhibit – Optera Creative

2015
Wallace State Community College Sculpture Invitational
New Life

2014
Lookit – Optera Creative

2012 + 2014
University of Mobile Faculty Exhibition

2012 + 2013
Analogy Invitational

2011
The End and Means – Lite Box Gallery

2010
Biennial Faculty Exhibition – University of Alabama

Selected Regional, National and International Exhibitions

2022
Eisenwunderwelt Invitational, Berlin, Germany

2021
Community Exhibition, Holmavik, Iceland

2020
USPS Art Project Artworks – Sunset Art Studios, Dallas, TX

2019
Iron Tribe Invitational Exhibit – NM Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM
Selected for Exhibition Contemporary Cast Iron Art & Practices National

2018

Verge Interactive Art Festival, Jackson, MS

2017
Conference Sloss Furnaces

2016
Keystone Iron Works Juried Show, Scranton, PN
Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum and Foundry, Solsberry, IN

2017
Xiodid (2014) and Capella

2016
Fall Invitational – Biletnikoff Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
“Out There” Photography Exhibit – Millsaps College, Jackson, MS 2016

2014-2015
La Siren – New Orleans Healing Center, New Orleans, LA

2009
Idle Hands – The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

2007
Piano, Piano. Galleria La Corte. Florence, Italy
Expatriate Invitational. The Cellar Gallery. Florence, Italy

Awards + Honors

La Merienda Invitational, Corpus Christi Texas, 2022
Best Sculptor- Lagniappe Magazine Nappie Awards 2021
Elected Board Treasurer – Mobile Medical Museum 2020
Official Alabama 200 Bicentennial Artist 2018-20
Ceremonial Plaque of Gratitude – Union Missionary Baptist Church 2017
Selected Panelist – Artist Discussion Group – Mobile Museum of Art 2017
Finalist, “Best Sculptor,” Lagniappe Weekly’s Nappie Awards. 2016-21
Finalist, “Visual Artist,” Mobile Art Council’s Arty Awards 2016
Best in Show – Vessel 4 2012
Best in Show – Vessel 3 2011
Best in Show – Juried art show at ASL Gallery 2009
Award for Excellence in Field – University of Mobile Studio Arts 2006

Selected Grants

Verdant Fund, 2020
National Endowment for the Arts and Alabama State Council for the Arts Grant 2018
Franklin Primary Health Center Grant 2018
Christian Benevolent Funeral Home/Cooper Foundation Grant 2018
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. New Orleans, LA 2011

Selected Residencies + Visiting Artist Invitations

Adobe Building Workshop, New Mexico Earth Adobes, NM, 2021
GisfjordurArts Residency, Northern Iceland, 2021
Guest Curator, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, 2020
Visiting Artist- Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum and Foundry, 15-19 and 22
Visiting Artist- Carrie Furnaces – Cast Iron Intensive, 2017
Sloss NCCCIA Large Mold, 2017
Resident Artist- 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center, 2011

Curatorial Projects

Alabama Contemporary Art Center - Guest Curator – A Different Kind of
Weapon – Art and Advocacy 2019 – 2020
Selected Curator – For Freedoms Exhibit 2018
Curator and Public Relations Specialist, Lookit exhibition, 2014
Organizer, Curator, and Public Relations Specialist- The University of Mobile
Photo/Art Shows 2011 – Current
Co-Curator – The Paul R. Jones Gallery - Icon 2011
Organizer and Curator – The Lite Box Gallery, The End and Means 2011
Organizer and Curator – The Sella-Granata Gallery, Thou Shalt Pow 2010
Organizer and Curator- The Second Coming of Ed Flesh 2009

Selected Commissions

Community Remembrance Project Mobile County 2021
Minorities in Medicine – Mobile Medical Museum 2018
Award Artist – Mobile Art Council’s Arty Awards 2017
Memorial for Cudjoe Lewis – Union Missionary Baptist Church 2016 – 2017
Anba Dlo Sculpture and Illustration – New Orleans Healing Center 2014
Creative Campus – The University of Alabama 2009 – 2010
Hudson Alpha Institute of Biotechnology 2009

Films

Supercool (Lead Scenic Artist)- 2022
Peel (scenic artist and sculptor)- 2019
Between Worlds (scenic artist)- 2018
Last Fair Deal (Short) (scenic)-2017
Convergence (painter: faux)-2017
Get Out (scenic art)-2017
Sasq-Watch! (props)-2016
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (scenic artist)-2016
Before I Wake (sculptor)- 2016
Here Comes Rusty (props)- 2016
Aether: Prologue (Short) (painter: faux)- 2015

Press

The Descendent- Netflix 2022
The Clotilde- The Last Slave Ship, National Geographic, 2022
”Livingston Leads in the Community Classroom,” Focus Magazine, 2021
EPIX -Enslaved (S1 E4): New World Cultures- 2020
PBS News Hour- How discovery of the slave ship Clotilda informs U.S. history-2020
archleague.com- Image and article- 2020
”Alumna Casts Sculptures for Bicentennial Project,” University of Alabama News, 2019
The Philadelphia Tribune- Image and article- 2019
BBC News- Image and article- 2019
Los Angeles Times -Image and article- 2019
smithsonianmag.com- Article and Image- 2019
Curiosity Stream- The Illegal Arrival of America's Last Slave Ship-2019
boredpanda.com- Image-2019
The Atlantic, Image and article- 2018
National Geographic – images and articles 2018 – 2020
Radio Interview, 92ZEW, 2020
Washington Post – images and article 2018
The New York Times – article 2018
”Whole New Weld,” Access Magazine, 2018
”The Street of Many Colors,” Alabama Public Radio, 2018
Cudjoe Lewis Project, WKRG, WPMI, and Lagniappe, 2016 & 2017

Languages

English
German, Italian and Spanish (Limited Working Proficiency)

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