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Awards
Benjamin C. Johnson Award for Graduate Design Excellence (2022)
Rice University President’s Honor Roll (2017-2021)
Jessie Matthews Memorial Award (spring 2021)
Selected for Rice University Provost’s Office Gallery (2019-2020)
Christine C. Sayres Memorial Scholarship (spring 2020)
Mavis C. Pitman Exhibition Fellowship (spring 2019)
Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen’s 10th Anniversary Art and Engineering Showcase, 2nd place award (October 2018)
Exhibitions
bird bonk - a popup group exhibition at Bird Block Gallery and Ceramic Studio, Blacksburg (November 2024)
are we the universe falling in love with itself? solo show at Miller off Main St. Galleries, Blacksburg (April - May 2024)
ICAT: Open (at the) Source at the Moss Arts Center (spring 2024)
The Space We Have group show at Virginia Tech (fall 2023)
ON/OFF sculpture garden and group exhibition at Rice University (fall 2020)
Other Places Art Fair in Los Angeles (fall 2021)
REHABIT group show at Rice (spring 2021)
SUPERHEAVY exhibition at the Shepherd School of Music (2021)
Lisa Lapinski & Gareth Long’s Joint Exhibition at Johnathan Hopson Gallery - group show (January 2020)
Rice 56 Student Exhibit - group show (April-May 2019)
Rice Architecture and Arts Student Exhibit - group show (April 2019, April 2020)
Extracurriculars
Virginia Tech intramural soccer - team captain & coach (2021-2024)
Student advisory committee member informing the selection of the new chair of Rice University Visual and Dramatic Arts (2021)
Student advisory committee member informing the creation of Rice’s new Visual and Dramatic Arts building, Sarofim Hall (2020)
Rice University Young Democrats (2017-2021)
Rice University intramural soccer (2017-2021)
Rice University Creative Society (2018-2019)
Rice University Music Collective (2021)
Graduate Education
Virginia Tech (2021-2025) - graduating gpa: tbd
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Technologies
Undergraduate Education
Rice University (2017-2021) - graduating gpa: 3.97
Bachelor of Art in Visual and Dramatic Arts (studio art concentration)
Bachelor of Art in Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations
Bachelor of Art in Sociology
minor in Anthropology
Software
Microsoft Office Suite
Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro)
AutoCAD
Fusion360
Blender
Rhino+Grasshopper
Hardware
-Experienced with woodworking tools and carpentry techniques, metalworking and welding, concrete and plaster casting, ceramics slipcasting, creating silicone and alginate molds
-Printmaking and silkscreen printing.
-Experienced with operating audio and video capture equipment.
-Experienced with operating CNC machinery such as laser cutters, plasma cutters, and 3D printers.
Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistantship with the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech
(fall 2024 - spring 2025)
(fall 2024): currently teaching a section of ART-1214: Principles of 3D Art & Design, the foundations sculpture course for studio art and creative technologies students at Virginia Tech. Coursework involves introducing students to soft modeling in Blender and parametric design in Fusion360 to prepare them for CNC projects in upper-level courses. Projects for ART-1214 include recreating digital low-polygon mesh models from printed and cut paper, creating a ‘gravity lantern’ (a form built from basswood and trace paper that diffuses light), 3D printing student-designed objects, and plaster casting hands in alginate. Learning outcomes outside of specific creative techniques for first-year students include working collaboratively on creative projects in a studio environment, developing a body of references to moments in art history and creators across disciplines, developing insightful and respectful discourse in the context of class project critiques, and learning stewardship of shared spaces and tools.
(spring 2025): teaching section has not yet been assigned
Summer Part-Time Instructional Faculty with the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech
(summer 2024)
Created curriculum for and taught the first-ever offered section of ART-3984: Computer Aided Design in Rhino+Grasshopper, an upper-level art elective where students learned how to use the 3D modeling software Rhino and its parametric design plugin Grasshopper to create original artworks. Coursework involved producing scaled construction documents, learning command-based drafting in 2D and 3D, as well as producing scaled fabrication files (.dxf and .stl file types) appropriate for CNC technologies such as plasma cutters, laser cutters, and 3D printers. Students were asked to research professional artists, architects, and designers leveraging computer aided design alongside CNC technologies, and then identify specific design techniques and processes used by these professionals to riff off of in the creation of their own final projects. Students enrolled from a wide variety of disciplines; including architecture, industrial design, creative technologies, and studio art.
Graduate Assistantship with the Moss Arts Center
(fall 2023 - spring 2024)
Worked with the Moss Arts Center Exhibitions team to install and deinstall the 2023-2024 season shows:
william cordova: can't stop, won't stop: tenets of southern alchemy
September 21-December 17, 2023
Laurie Steelink: Spirit Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot
September 21-December 17, 2023
Joe Kelley
I am gone, expanding
January 5-January 13, 2024
Messengers
Leslie Hewitt, Tarrah Krajnak, and Rodrigo Valenzuela
February 1-April 21, 2024
ICAT: Open (at the) Source
April 29-May 11, 2024
SOVA Senior Show
May 3-9, 2024
Assistantship responsibilities also involved archival work with Virginia Tech’s art collection. Before the Moss Arts Center recently took on official responsibility for the collection, it had been managed by volunteers and was in a state of disarray. Work included digitizing the collection (locating, tagging, photographing, and entering works into an excel database with descriptive tags and location metadata), physically trawling 1200+ unique items in the collection and identifying work that was in dire need of conservation, and managing art loans - packing, handling, and installing artwork - for Virginia Tech department and administrative offices.
Principle Investigator for Weaving Weeds, a Virginia Tech Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) Student Grant
(fall 2023 – spring 2024)
Initiated and led an interdisciplinary team of graduate students in a biofabrication research project seeking to harness the self-assembling intelligence of grass roots in the development of a novel biomaterial that actively sequesters carbon in its growth. Our overall goal was to collaborate with grass species in ways that were mutually beneficial rather than solely extractive, while my specific technical contributions included designing and 3D printing mold formwork and casting the grassroots into the mold forms. P.I. work involved grant writing and research, organizing and scheduling meetings, managing project specialists and project phases in adherence to overarching timelines, communicating with grant donors at the end-of-year Open at the Source exhibition, delivering project updates to representatives of ICAT, and photographically documenting and summarizing our findings in a final report.
Our project team consisted of myself, our faculty sponsor Dr. Shaun Rosier, and:
Chelsea Brighton-Smith, Master of Landscape Architecture (BS Environmental Horticulture)
Ben Hornyak, MFA Creative Technologies (BFA Studio Art: Sculpture)
Lois Nguyen, PhD Science and Technology Studies (MS STS, BS Landscape Architecture)
Thomas-Mark Peterson, Master of Architecture (BS Biology)
Maggie Webb, PhD Engineering Education / MS Civil Engineering (BS Mechanical Engineering)
Graduate Assistantship with Virginia Tech’s Landscape Architecture Community Engagement Lab
(fall 2021 - spring 2022)
Worked with Dr. C.L. Bohannon on a range of projects for the community engagement lab, including building a website to showcase community engagement projects, editing press release videos, and grant research and writing for equipment and travel funding for an oral history and community revitalization project with Wrightsville, a historically Black town in rural southwest Virginia whose growth was negatively impacted by the construction of state highway construction projects in the 1960’s and 70’s that used imminent domain to level neighborhoods and bisect their once-vibrant downtown. Responsibilities also included assembling a database of resources for the landscape architecture program’s future pro-bono design charrettes and highlighting student work from past design charrettes.
Graduate Assistantship with Virginia Tech’s Schools of Architecture and Design Communications Team
(fall 2022)
Worked with Aki Ishida on a range of projects for the Schools of Architecture and Design communications team, including moderating the VT A+D YouTube channel, showcasing thesis work, studio culture, and collaborative class projects through photography and videography, as well as filming, editing, and uploading the fall 2022 A+D faculty and guest lecture series, and A+D foundations lecture series, which included the following speakers:
Isaac Alejandro Mangual-Martinez
Miranda Shugars
Bill Green
Archie Lee Coates IV (PLAYLAB)
Marcia Feuerstein, Jodi La Coe, and Paola Zellner Bassett
Steven and Cathi House
Lydia Kallipoliti
Tatiana Bilbao
Ruth Mandl (CO Adaptive)
Chris Pritchett
Studio Art Assistant with Rice University Visual Arts
(2019-2021)
Assisted artist and professor Lisa Lapinski in preparing for upcoming group and solo shows, including her twenty-year retrospective at the University of Texas Visual Arts Center. Aided in planning and packing for upcoming shows, creating maquettes of gallery spaces and sculptures. Work also included fabricating sculptures; including slip casting, laser cutting, woodworking, researching and hiring contractors, as well as finishing, installing, and photographing sculptural elements in gallery spaces and sculpture gardens.
Intern at Fine Concrete
(summer 2022)
Assisted in the fabrication of custom concrete elements for landscape design applications, involving measuring and mixing UHPC (Ductal) concrete, modifying mold formwork to meet design specifications, as well as demolding and moving cast pieces. Gained experience finishing, fitting, and polishing cast concrete elements, and learned to operate a crane and forklift.
Volunteer for the Virginia Tech Landscape Architecture Annual Dick Gibbons Charrette
(spring 2021, fall 2022)
Offered pro-bono design work envisioning redesigns for public open space in the towns of Danville, VA, and Stuart, VA. Worked with faculty as well as graduate and undergraduate students to generate preliminary programming and site analysis diagrams and landscape design renders useful to these towns in applying for grant funding to revitalize their parks and public spaces.
Researcher for Rice University’s Racial Geography Project
(summer 2020)
Performed archival research informing print and digital publications to document ongoing racial disparities at Rice, culminating in recommendations to Rice’s administration regarding recontextualizing our founder’s statue in the main academic quad. Students, faculty, administrators, and design professionals worked together to re-envision Rice’s iconic main quad based on the Racial Geography Project’s recommendations. Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects have been selected for the redesign, with renovations scheduled for completion in the summer of 2024.
Co-Curator for Rice Arts Exhibition: On/Off
(fall 2020)
Coordinated and executed a weeklong outdoor sculpture garden show and scavenger hunt with virtual components including livestreams, social media posts, and 360-degree video for hybrid/remote student access during opening and closing receptions.
Installation Technician - Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing
(November 2019)
Worked with a team of students and faculty over five days to (re)create Sol LeWitt’s wall drawing 869A at Rice’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies.
Volunteer with Houston Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts (MECA)
(2019)
Undertook grant and fundraising research for a nonprofit organization serving disadvantaged Houston Latinx youth through providing afterschool theater, music, and visual arts programming. Responsibilities included organizing and preparing for board meetings, staffing the front desk and phone lines, and interacting directly with community members to answer questions and register students.
Conservation Student at the Balkan Heritage Field School
(summer 2018, summer 2019)
2019 - Learned physical and chemical conservation techniques for restoring corroded copper, bronze, and iron artifacts such as those found in underwater archaeological sites and shipwrecks at a weeklong workshop in Zakynthos, Greece.
2018 - Worked for three weeks to document and conserve ancient Roman mosaics in-situ at the Theodosian-era palace at the archaeological site of Stobi, Macedonia, using historically accurate materials and processes. These mosaics are being restored in preparation for a publicly accessible exhibition for visitors to the site.
Intern at the Texas Innocence Network
(summer 2018)
Provided pro-bono legal services for convicted death-row inmates for the Texas Innocence Network through the University of Houston’s Law Center, which entailed examining law enforcement evidence files and transcripts of court proceedings and compiling these findings to inform and assist with the creation of amicus curiae briefs used to appeal for retrials. This work involved cold-call-interviewing jurors who served on conviction trials to assess their perceptions of whether our clients’ defense attorneys offered aedaquate legal services, whether jurrors felt any pressure by law enforcement to deliver a guilty verdict. Texas currently executes more people annually than any other state in the US.