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EDUCATION
2020 MFA Stanford University in Art Practice
2016 BFA Rhode Island School of Design in Film/Animation/Video, with honors
2016 BA Brown University in Modern Culture and Media, magna cum laude
AWARDS and RESIDENCIES
2024-25 Fulbright Research Fellow
for the proposal “Veiling and Unveiling: Spinoza”
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017 Yaddo
Artist in Residence
Saratoga Springs, NY
2017 I-Park Foundation
Artist in Residence
East Haddam, CT
2016 Kenneth Baker ‘69 Memorial Prize
graduation award for an outstanding and original honors thesis in Modern Culture and Media
Brown University - Providence, RI
GRANTS
2021 Part-Time Faculty Development Grant, Rhode Island School of Design
to support sound-based work with midi-instruments
2020 Pauline Brown Fund for Advanced Research in American Art, Stanford University
to conduct archival research at the Huntington Library, Los Angeles C.A.
2019 Pauline Brown Fund for Advanced Research in American Art, Stanford University
to conduct archival research at the National Museum of American History, Washington D.C.
2019-21 Arthur Bridgman Clark Memorial Fund Fellowship, Stanford University
full scholarship to attend Stanford’s Interdisciplinary MFA program
2018 Rhode Island State Council for the Arts
Fellowship in Film & Video
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2021 Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation - Labor of Love
Montréal, Canada
2020 Artists’ Television Access - Labor of Love
San Francisco, CA
2020 aCinema: Tectonic Breaths - ourself
Wisconsin, USA
2017 INVIDEO Festival - Venus Hum
Milan, Italy
2017 Alchemy Film Festival- ourself
Hawick, Scotland
2017 Holland Animation Film Festival - Venus Hum
Utrecht, Netherlands
2017 Screen Dance Film Festival - ourself
Stockholm, Sweden
2017 Two Short Nights, Exeter Phoenix - ourself
Exeter, England
2017 Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation - Boneyard Angel
Montréal, Canada
2017 La Fabrique culturelle, Télé-Québec - Boneyard Angel
Canadian Television
2017 Locomocion / Experimental Animation Festival - ourself
Mexico City, Mexico
2017 Moving-Image-Arts International Short Film Festival - ourself
Toronto, Canada
2016 London Experimental Film Festival - Venus Hum
London, England
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Ten Thousand Movements, KANNSKI Gallery
Reykjavík, Iceland
2022 Unbound, Stanford Art Gallery
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2022 Under The Sun and The Moon, Humble Arts Foundation
Humble Arts Foundation, online gallery
2021 RISD Faculty Exhibition and Forum, Chace Center/RISD Museum
Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI
2021 Group Show, Shrine NYC online
New York, NY
2020 Unbound, online MFA thesis highlights
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2019 Venus Hum, CCRMA WAVE at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2019 MFA Now 2019, Root Division
San Francisco, CA
2019 Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Warwick Center for the Arts
Warwick, RI
2019 Easy to Love : Stanford MFA First Year Exhibition, Coulter Gallery
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2017 The Sussex Contemporary : Inaugural Group Show, The Sussex Contemporary
Ottawa, Canada
2015-7 F/A/V Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery - RISD
Providence, RI
2014-6 Annual Brown-Rhode Island School of Design Dual Degree Exhibition, Granoff Center
Providence, RI
TEACHING
2024-2025 University of Groningen, Faculty of Philosophy
Guest Researcher
Groningen, Netherlands
2021-2024 Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Film/Animation/Video
Critic
courses taught : Animation Practices, Film Practices, Intermedia Studio: Open Media, Intermediate Studio: Animation
Providence, Rhode Island
2021 University of Rhode Island, Department of Art and Art History
Instructor
courses taught: Video and Multimedia
Kingstown, Rhode Island
2019 Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History
Instructor
courses taught: Interdisciplinary Animation
Stanford, California
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Researcher: for Cunningham, Alla Kovgan, NYC, 2014
archival research in the Merce Cunningham Trust and New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
Puppeteer: assistant to Janie Geiser, Brown University, 2014
puppetry performance, live animation, and fabrication during her residency at Brown University
Dancer: professional training in ballet, modern dance, and folk dance, 1998-2011
Ballet - Vaganova technique
Modern dance - Graham, Ailey, and Cunningham techniques
Folk dance - including traditinoal dances from Hungary, Poland, Spain, and Kazakhstan
Providence, RI - Boston, MA - New York, NY