Sometimes it’s good to fall through.
b.1988
Knoxville, TN
BA
Indiana University, 2020
MFA
Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2024
Artist Statement
There’s an infinity between zero and one, an endless recession of halves: half of half, half of a quarter, half of an eighth… .5, .25, .125, .0625, .03125… fractions whose place values expand forever as their corresponding quantities diminish toward nothing and never arrive. Pregnant voids between each number, blackholes between each step- bridged nonchalantly, unconsciously, the casual crossing of infinite interstices.
Motions are made unbroken by discrete increments.
Destinations are reached regardless of the expanding vast between.
But sometimes its good to fall through…
Bio
I’m just trying to build Home.
Home—the nested connections between self and space, and other, and society, and culture— the anchor, base. Building home, 2xs as basic unit- a structural sketch beyond the blueprint, first physical form of the idea. Built with creativity, through resourcefulness, from necessity. Reaching towards belonging, pushing against limitations, constraint… the desperate contortions, and piecings together. Squishing into hard pointy environments, unyielding and strict.
Cling into the corners delicate and flexible, wispy like cobwebs.. and the little shining sunspots catch there and shimmer. Eat them and watch the belly glow warmly.
This is home.
The light from the window flutters in the breeze and falls to the floor, seeps into the cracks before filing back out like school girls- Madeline and mis Clavelle. Hold with communion hands this little orb of manusia- preciously, coo at is comic failings, its endearing deficiencies, irregularity, lack, ineptitude. Such a sad funny little thing does not belong in this serious place.
House it.
Claim it like a child. Pet its petulant little head and feel sympathetically held and soothed.
Home is a series of nested connections, circuits, belonging.
Curriculum Vitae
Exhibitions
2024
Forum Gallery, “On Seeing Red”. Bloomfield Hills, MI
2024
Passageway Gallery, “Glint”. Bloomfield Hills, MI.
2023
Forum Gallery, “Quilt Show”. Bloomfield Hills, MI.
2022
I Fell Gallery, “Between Us”. Bloomington, IN
2022
Accrete Art Collective, “Everything’s Cyclical”, January Exhibit. Bloomington, IN.
2021
The Holocenter NYC, “Light Windows”, Global Sights Specific and Virtual Exhibit.
2021
The In Art Gallery, “New Media”, May Virtual Exhibit. Juried by Jessee Rose Crane.
2021
The In Art Gallery, “Non-Traditional”, April Virtual Exhibit. Juried by Jessica Hunt.
2021
Sit Still Projects, “Fortune 501”, Virtual Exhibit.
2021
Arts Illiana Gallery, “Masks", Terre Haute, IN.
2019
Fuller Projects, “Final Show”, Bloomington IN.
2018
I Fell Gallery, “April Exhibition”, Bloomington IN.
Public Collections
2020
In a Brown Study (documentation). Permanent Campus Art Collection. Bloomington, IN.
2018
In-Tension. The Concert Car. Bloomington, IN. Donated 2018.
Professional Experience
2022-2024
Desk Clerk, Central Media Lab, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
2018-2022
Banjolele Player, The New Hoosier Broadcasters, Bloomington IN.
2018-2019
Assistant Teacher, Children’s House, Bloomington IN.
2018-2019
Drummer, Space Babe, Bloomington IN.
2018
Conceptual Designer for ‘The Salted Snail’ tiny home, Carpenter Owl, Bloomington IN.
2014-2016
Performer, Bloomington Burlesque Brigade, Bloomington IN.
2012-2014
Seamstress, The Tailored Fit, Bloomington IN.
2012
Seamstress, College Mall, Bloomington IN.
2012
Dance Instructor, Arthur Murray Ballroom, Bloomington IN.
2009
Dancer, Swing Dance Performance Team, Knoxville TN.
2009
Dance Instructor, Absolute Ballroom, Knoxville TN.
2008
Dance Instructor, Freelance, Knoxville TN.
2005-2006
Clarinet Teacher, Freelance, Knoxville, TN.
2004-2006
1st Chair Clarinet, Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra, Knoxville TN.
Workshops Attended
2008- present occational
Assortment of dance workshops, Swing, Vernacular Jazz, Argentine Tango. USA.
2018
Battleground old time music and clogging workshops.
2014
Electronic textiles and paper computing, Lynne Bruning, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg TN.
2006
Clarinet Symposium with Kalmen Opperman and Richard Stoltzman, Goshen College IN.
Honors and Awards
2022
City of Bloomington Emerging Artist Grant
2021
Director’s Award. New Media Virtual Exhibit. The In Art Gallery.
2019
1st Place. Vice Provost Undergraduate Art Award and Purchase Scholarship.
2016
Two blue ribbons. Needlework and Embroidery. Indiana State Fair.
2011
Finalist. Vanna’s Choice Yarn Contest.