Professional Experience

Performer and Lead in Trisha Brown's Floor of the Forest - University of Iowa, IA {November 2025}

Artist in Residence - GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in Reading, PA {May - August 2025}

Art Installations Assistant - True/False Film Festival in Columbia, MO {February - March 2024; February - March 2025}

Ceramic Studio Manager - Access Arts in Columbia, MO {November 2022 - December 2023}

Artist in Residence - Osage Arts Community in Belle, MO {August - November 2022; June - July 2023; January 2024}

Studio Assistant to Danielle Yakle - Kirksville, MO {August 2022 - present}

Studio Assistant to Priya Kambli - Kirksville, MO {January 2022 - May 2022}

Assistant Ceramic Studio Manager - Truman State University, Kirksville, MO {August 2019 - May 2022}

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Education

Current MFA Candidate, Ceramics - University of Iowa, IA

2026 MA in Art: Ceramics + Sculpture and Intermedia - University of Iowa, IA

2021 BFA in Studio Art: Ceramics and Fibers - Truman State University, MO

Minor in Art History

Graduated Summa Cum Laude with Departmental Honors

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Exhibitions

2026 - Solo Exhibition, Selfform, University of Iowa – Visual Arts Building – Ana Mendieta Gallery – Iowa City, IA 

2026 - Juried Exhibition, National Juried Student Exhibition, NCECA – College for Creative Studies – Valade Family Gallery, Detroit, MI 

2026 - Group Exhibition, Toy Dispenser Gallery: DELUXE, NCECA – Huntington Place Convention Center, Detroit, MI 

2026 - Collaboration with Aykeem Spivey, Amniotic Ambiguity: Comparative Embryology to Queering a Space,

           Augustana College - Wallenberg Hall, Rock Island, IL 

2026 - Group Exhibition, Shadow Piece(s): Chance-Based Responses in Clay, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN  

2025 - Collaboration with Aykeem Spivey, Amniotic Ambiguity: Comparative Embryology to Queering a Space,

           University of Iowa - Visual Arts Building, Iowa City, IA 

2025 - Group Exhibition, Personal Mythologies, Northwestern College, Orange City, IA 

2025 - Juried Exhibition, Clay Cup VII: Icon, Vessel, Canvas, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Columbia, MO

2025 - Solo Exhibition, Skin Hunger, University of Iowa - Visual Arts Building, Iowa City, IA 

2025 - Group Exhibition, Terrible Twos, University of Iowa - Eve Drewelowe Gallery, Iowa City, IA 

2025 - Group Exhibition, CIRCA Exhibition 2025, University of Arkansas - Studio + Design Center, Fayetteville, AR

2025 - Group Exhibition, 2025 Summer Artists-In-Residence Exhibition, GoggleWorks Center for the Arts - Cohen Gallery, Reading, PA

2025 - Group Exhibition, Toy Dispenser Gallery: Community is Everything, NCECA - Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT

2024 - Juried Exhibition, Contemporary Clay 2024, The Art Center, Grand Junction, CO

2024 - Group Exhibition, Missouri Artists, Missouri State Museum, Jefferson City, MO

2024 - Group Exhibition, Toy Dispenser Gallery: Friendship is Magic, NCECA - Richmond Greater Convention Center, Richmond, VA

2023 - Group Exhibition, Artists Who Make Artists, Columbia Art League, Columbia, MO

2023 - Juried Exhibition, Clay Cup VI: Vessel, Icon, Canvas, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, Columbia, MO

2023 - Group Exhibition, It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To, Department of Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL

2023 - Juried Exhibition, SIP: A Ceramic Cup Show, Savannah Clay Community, Savannah, GA

2023 - Juried Exhibition, Body//Erotic, The Hive St. Pete, Saint Petersburg, FL

2023 - Solo Exhibition, Experimental Weavings, Osage Arts Community Art Center, Belle, MO

2022 - Solo Exhibition, A Solo Exhibition, Osage Arts Community Art Center, Belle, MO

2021 - Group Exhibition, BA Capstone, Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO

2021 - Group Exhibition, BFA Capstone, Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO

2021 - Juried Exhibition, Annual Student Juried Exhibition, Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO

2020 - Juried Exhibition, SDA’s Future Tense 2020, Appalachian Center for Craft, TN

2020 - Juried Exhibition, Annual Student Juried Exhibition, Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO

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Workshops

Ice Dyeing: Melting Magic! - Kirksville Arts Association in Kirksville, MO {June 2024}

Shibori and Indigo Dye Workshop - North MO Fiber Art Guild in Kirksville, MO {June 2022}

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Grants and Awards

Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Art: Studio Art - 2022

Surface Design Association’s Outstanding Student Award - 2022

First Place - Annual Student Juried Exhibition Truman Statue University - 2021

Truscholars Summer Undergraduate Research Program - 2021

Honorable Mention - Annual Student Juried Exhibition Truman Statue University - 2020

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Presentations & Publications

Transfix Magazine - Issue No. 05 - Spring 2025

Internal Monologue of the Digested Self

Summer Research Symposium - Truman State University - 2021

Woven Forms, Twisted Fellowship: Intersection of Abstract Expressionist Thought and Lenore Tawney’s Black-and-White Period 

Engendering Justice Forum: Gender, Justice, and the Arts - Truman State University - 2021

Lenore Tawney: Is Nature to Culture as Craft is to Fine Art? 

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