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Education
2020 MFA, Visual Arts | Washington University | St. Louis, MO
Teaching Artist Institute | Regional Arts Commission Center | St. Louis, MO
2015 Community Arts Training | Regional Arts Commission Center | St. Louis, MO
2013 BA, Arts Management | Columbia College | Chicago, IL
Selected Experience
2023-24 Director | Chicago Justice Gallery at University of Illinois | Chicago, IL
2022-23 Curator & Exhibitions Manager | South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) | Chicago, IL
2020/21 Assistant Professor | 2D Design Concepts | Webster University | St. Louis, MO
2019 Teaching Assistant | Art + Feminism | Washington University | St. Louis, MO
Awards, Grants & Residencies
2023 Artist in Residence | NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University | Alfred, NY
2022 Esteemed Artist Award | DCASE Cultural Grants Program | Chicago, IL
SPARK Grant | Chicago Artist Coalition | Chicago, IL
BOLT Residency | Chicago Artists Coalition | Chicago, IL
2021 Creative Worker Assistance Program Grant | DCASE Cultural Grants Program | Chicago, IL
Coney Family Fund Award | Chicago Artists Coalition | Chicago, IL
Arts + Public Life & Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture UChicago | Chicago, IL
Ceramic Apprenticeship Residency at Hyde Park Arts Center | Chicago, IL
Ox-Bow Summer MFA Residency | Saugatuck, MI
ACRE Residency | Steuben, WI
Individual Arts Program Grant | DCASE Cultural Grants Program | Chicago, IL
2020 Zenobia Award | Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts | Newcastle, ME - CANCELED
Franconia Sculpture Park Artist Residency | Shafer, MN - CANCELED
2019 Artist Support Grant | Regional Arts Commission | St. Louis, MO
The Futures Fund Grant | The Luminary | St. Louis, MO
Travel Grant | Sam Fox School of Art at Washington University | St. Louis, MO
2018 Artist Support Grant | The Puffin Foundation | Teaneck, NJ
Graduate Scholarship | Sam Fox School of Art at Washington University | St. Louis, MO
Artist Support Grant | Regional Arts Commission | St. Louis, MO
2017 Cross Currents Multicultural Fellowship | 52nd Annual NCECA Conference | Pittsburgh, PA
Paul Artspace Artist Residency | St. Louis, MO
2016 Artist Support Grant | Regional Arts Commission | St. Louis, MO
Selected Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2022 Hues of Black + Blue | Hyde Park Arts Center | Chicago, IL
Split My Sides | The Luminary | St. Louis, MO
2020 Pleasure is All Mine | Kranzberg Art Center | St. Louis, MO
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 I’ve Been Here Before | Sibyl Gallery | New Orleans, LA
2023 Contours of the Interior | Kaplan Gallery | Rockville, MD
Conflicts of Freedom | Povos | Chicago, IL
Viewing Room | Kristen Lorello Gallery | New York, NY
Skin + Masks III | Kavi Gupta Gallery + EXPO Chicago | Chicago, IL
2022 All That Light: A Ten Year Retrospective | Logan Center & Arts + Public Life | Chicago, IL
Joy & Other Feats of Strength | Charlotte Street Foundation | Kansas City, MO
The Universe Within | Mindy Solomon Gallery | Miami, FL
2021 Arts + Public Life CSRPC 2021 AIR Exhibition: New Witness | Arts Incubator | Chicago, IL
Multicultural Fellowship Group Exhibition | Meyers Gallery at University of Cincinnati, OH
Fairyland | Mindy Solomon Gallery | Miami, FL
2020 Three Myths | Gallery 210 at University of Missouri St. Louis | St. Louis, MO
Black August | Crenshaw Dairy Mart | Los Angeles, CA
20/20 | Cecille R. Hunt Gallery | St. Louis, MO
2019 Femme Noires | Contemporary Arts Center | New Orleans, LA
2018 Works from the Studios | Craft Alliance Gallery | St. Louis, MO
Defining Form | The Untitled Space | New York, NY
Me, Myself, and I | Clay Art Center | Port Chester, NY
2017 Paul ArtSpace Year in Review | Bermuda Projects | St. Louis, MO
The Importance of Delicacy | Jill A. McGuire Gallery | St. Louis, MO
No Ceiling, Only Sky | SOHA Studio + Gallery | St. Louis, MO
2016 19th International Open | Woman Made Gallery | Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist Engagements, Panel Discussions & Lectures
2023 Haus: An Introspection of House Music… | Chicago Architectural Biennial | Chicago, IL
Freedom’s Muse | Logan Center for the Arts | Chicago, IL
Black Visual Culture / Black Visual Life Symposium | University of Rochester | Rochester, NY
Visiting Artist Lecture | Alfred University | Alfred, NY
Black Space: Architectural Historiographies & Spatial Landscapes | SSCAC | Chicago, IL
A Promised Land on the Horizon | South Side Community Arts Center | Chicago, IL
2022 Hues of Black & Blue Artist Talk | Hyde Park Arts Center | Chicago, IL
Light Work: Black Art Practice in Contemporary America | Logan Center | Chicago, IL
2021 Moments In Between Artist Talk | Hyde Park Arts Center | Chicago, IL
Blackness and Belonging… | Neubauer Collegium University of Chicago | Chicago, IL
In Conversation: Fast Forward | Mildred Lane Kemper Museum | St. Louis, MO
Visiting Artist Lecture | Washington University Seattle | Seattle, WA
DADAH Film + Art Lecture Series | Webster University St. Louis, MO
2019 If It Wasn’t for the Woman: Reimagining Portraiture… | St. Louis Art Museum | St. Louis, MO
Selected Curatorial & Programming
2024 Guest Juror for Artadia Grant | Artadia | Chicago, IL
2023 Black Light Cinema Project | South Side Community Arts Center | Chicago, IL
where the light corrupts your face | South Side Community Arts Center | Chicago, IL
Communion, Care & Comfort IV | Blanc Gallery | Chicago, IL
Guest Juror for IAP Grant | DCASE Cultural Grants Program | Chicago, IL
The Promised Land | South Side Community Arts Center | Chicago, IL
2022 of the land: acts of ratification and refusal | South Side Community Arts Center | Chicago, IL
isinmi: a performance of rest practice | The Luminary | St. Louis, MO
2021 Communion, Care & Comfort I, II + III | University of Chicago | Chicago, IL
Artists in the Room w/ Jordan Weber | AIR + Pulitzer Arts Foundation Collaboration | Virtual
2019 Juror | The Future’s Fund | The Luminary | St. Louis, MO
State of the Black Arts | Artists in the Room | St. Louis, MO
Collector’s Chat with Adrienne Davis | Artists in the Room | St. Louis, MO
The Black Supper | Artists in the Room | St. Louis, MO
2018 Artists in the Room with T.J. Dedeaux-Norris | Artists in the Room | St. Louis, MO
Artists in the Room with Sanford Biggers | Artists in the Room | St. Louis, MO
Artists in the Room with Larry Ossei-Mensah | Artists in the Room | St. Louis, MO
2017 Artists in the Room with Mickalene Thomas | Artists in the Room | St. Louis, MO
Collections
2022 Collection of South Side Community Arts Center | Chicago, IL
2021 Collection of Forrest & Cynthia Miller | San Antonio, TX
Collection of Don Mullen | Miami, FL
2020 Collection of Adrienne Davis | St. Louis, MO
Collection of Basil Kincaid | Accra, Ghana
Collection of Shelton Boyd | St. Louis, MO
The Kranzberg Art Foundation | St. Louis, MO
Bibliography / Press
2024 Mark Jenkins | Multimedia show explores the nuances of Black life | Washington Post | January 5
2023 S. Nicole Lane | ‘Black Light Cinema Project’ Brings Film to the Forefront | Chicago Reader | September 8
isra rene | Poetry of Promise | Ruckus Journal | March 22
Lynnea Domienik | Movement and history coalesce in exhibit highlighting The Great Migration(s) | WBEZ | February 20
2022 Kerry Cardoza, Megan Bickel, Annette LePique, Jacqueline WayneGuite | Art 50: Directors &
Administrators | New City | September 6
Kerry Cardoza | Breakout Artist: Chicago’s Next Generation of…. | New City | April 4
Annette LePique | when the sun fills your throat… | Sixty Inches from Center | July 6
2018 Sarah Thiele | Censorship | Glamour Magazine Germany | Issue 12
2017 Priscilla Frank | A Free Lady-Led Zine... | Huffington Post | February 23
2016 Willis Ryder Arnold | Art show Presents Bodies of People of Color and LGBT People to Show
Variety of Human Form | St. Louis Public Radio | July 27