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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
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.