Education

2025   MFA (pending), Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY (expected May 2025)

2023   BS magna cum laude, Painting and Psychology, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY 

2018   AA, Pikes Peak Community College, Colorado Springs, CO 

2017   Certificate of Basic American Sign Language, Pikes Peak Community College, CO 

Professional Experience

2023-2025   Teaching Assistant, Rochester Institute of Technology, (assistant to: Muhammad

  Aslam, course: Figure Sculpture, assistant to: Amy McLauren, course: Intro to 

   Painting) 

2024-2025   Instructor for nonmajor undergraduate workshop program: ArtExperience

   Rochester Institute of Technology

   Welding and Body Double Casting 

2023-2025   Studio Monitor, Rochester Institute of Technology, (printmaking, sculpture) 

2024   Studio Assistant, Jessica Drenk Sculpture, (basic wood construction)   

2018-2019   Gallery Assistant, LSJ Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO (selling, show setup,

  Promotion, gallery maintenance, show takedown, assisting artists workshops)

Awards/Grants/Fellowship 

2023    NYFA Artists with Disabilities Grant 

2022 Napier Fellowship (TNE) Award

2022  National Technical Institute for The Deaf Summer Undergraduate Research

Fellowship Award

2018 First Place in the Painting category, Pikes Peak Community College 

Exhibitions 

2024  Art Out! Rochester, NY

2024  Biafarin Awards, Online Exhibition 

2024  My, My, Tiger’s Eye, Flower City Arts, Rochester, NY 

2023   All These Things Are True, The Yards, Rochester, NY 

2023   KBMArt Gallery, Any Art, Any Time Online Exhibition  

2022   Rochester Institute of Technology Summer Art Exhibition  

2018   Pikes Peak Community College Student Art Exhibition  

2018   Kapow! Comics and Coffee Employee Art Fair Day, Colorado Springs, CO