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Education
2028 BFA in Fiber, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, United States
2028 Minor in Sound Studies, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, United States
2028 Minor in Social Practice, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, United States
Awards
2026 KCAI Leap Award, Kansas City, MO, United States
2026 Susan Lordi Marker Project Award, Kansas City, MO, United States
Honors
2026 Kansas City Art Institute’s President’s List, Spring, Kansas City, MO, United States
2025 Kansas City Art Institute’s President’s List, Fall, Kansas City, MO, United States
2023 Kansas City Art Institute’s President’s List, Spring, Kansas City, MO, United States
Group Exhibitions
2026 Inner Workings, KCAI Gallery, Kansas City, MO, United States
2026 Dawning, The Warehouse, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, United States
2026 Gathering Voices, NoDivide KC, Kansas City, MO, United States
2026 Convos Around the Dinner Table, Vulpes Bastille, Kansas City, MO, United States
2025 Electric, The Warehouse, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, United States
2025 Trifocal, East Building, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, United States
2025 Caught in Motion, Lester-Goldman Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, United
States
Screenings & Festivals
2026 Nightshades Experimental Animation Festival, Charlotte Street Stern Theater, Kansas City, MO,
United States
2026 Magic Lantern, Epperson Auditorium, Kansas City, MO, United States
2024 Magic Lantern, Screenland, Kansas City, MO, United States
Media Appearances
2025 “Sound in Radio Art” KKFI 90.1 FM Kansas City Community Radio, 29 January 2025
2026
7” x 14”, double weave pickup with cotton yarns
- 3 frame walk cycle woven this summer to practice animation basics on the loom. It is reversible and the animation is also a part of my animation reel on the links page. The grid system of plain weave pickup is very helpful to maintain proportions while advancing frames. In drawing I like to animate frame by frame on a single page, where I can visually estimate and see all frames at once. Going forward with larger, more complex motions, the grid is a tool to rely on. I am exploring ways to mimic screentones and other textural effects, either with patterns or with paint/inks.
2026
13” x 38”, tapestry with cotton and wool yarns
- The image composed in this tapestry is of a fond memory fishing with my family as a child, referenced from a family photo album. The border is woven loose, acting almost like cross-stitch lace for the yarns which occupy it. Similar to a fish net, it catches the image within it, mirroring the action of the figure depicted. My goal was to achieve color blending and gradients, and to work with more complex shapes with tapestry techniques.
2026
16” x 17”, double weave pickup with cotton yarns
- Double weave pickup animation study of Maya Deren’s 1943 short film “Meshes of the Afternoon” in 14 frames. Under the top layer are marks from a sharpie, showing through adding another layer of dimension. In the scene, Deren is falling up the stairs as the camera rotates, and space is removed just enough that the figure is isolated, but not to totally disrupt our understanding of the relationship of motion between the camera and the figure. It also resembles a film strip, and a bigger piece of this project conceptually was the installation. This installation, setting the piece in motion via a system of wooden and 3d printed elements, was my first mechanical experiment, and a major jumping off point for my arcade machine concepts.
2026
27” x 8”, double weave pickup with cotton yarns
- Handwoven double weave pickup animation study of Georges Schwizgebel’s 1982 animated film “The Ravishment of Frank N. Stein”. The animation is made with 5 frames on each side, with the colors carefully planned to continue seamlessly onto the reverse side, resulting in total of 10 frames for the loop. The values are intentionally placed and transitioned through the doors in order to allow both sides to loop together, activating the front and back equally. This creates an endless space, although the physically woven object itself is quite small.
2026
7” x 11”, double weave pickup with cotton yarns, fabric screen printing inks