EDUCATION
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Master of Fine Art
Rutgers University | Mason Gross School of the Arts | 2024
Bachelor of Fine Art
The Cooper Union| New York, NY | 2018
HONORS/SCHOLARSHIPS/AWARDS
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2024 Carol Barlow LGBTQA Graduate Scholarship Award, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art
2023 Young Audiences Arts for Learning of New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania Artist Grant
2022 Carol Barlow LGBTQA Graduate Scholarship Award, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Art
2022 NYFA Artist As Entrepreneur Fellowship, Bronx Council of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2022 Full Tuition Fellowship, Rutgers University , Mason Gross School of the Arts
2018 The Irma Giustino Weiss Prize, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2018 The Service to the School Award, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
2017 The Vincent J. Mielcarek, Jr. Award for Photography, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2014 Gold Medal in Painting, The NAACP ACT-SO Competition, Las Vegas, NV
2014 Full Tuition Scholarship, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
TEACHING/PUBLIC SPEAKING EXPERIENCE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2024 Professional Development Workshops(Multiple) at Spring Festival at Mason Gross School of Art
2024 Black History Month Drawing/Collage Workshops at New Brunswick Cultural Center, New Brunswick, NJ
2023 Instructor for Drawing+Digital Photography Course at The Cooper Union Summer Art Intensive
2022 Figure Drawing Open Model Sessions Coordinator at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts
2022 BFA Design Thesis Advisor to BFA Design Thesis Class at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts
2022 Teaching Assistant for Visual Thinking 1-A w/Michael Caudo at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts
2022 Instructor for Drawing+Digital Photography Course at The Cooper Union Summer Art Intensive
2018 “GROUNDS LECTURE” Visting Artist Lecture at The Cooper Union’s “Exhibition as a Medium” course with Raffaele Bedarida
2017 Student Panel on Racial Justice for Minorities and Women, organized by National Education Association (NEA)
2017 Teaching Assistant to Seth Cameron for Intradisciplinary Seminar at The Cooper Union
2016 Panel at Conference on Racial Justice and Education, Opening Plenary, broadcast on C-span organized by NEA
2016 Teaching Assistant to Walid Raad for Interdisciplinary Seminar at The Cooper Union
EXHIBITIONS /CURATORIAL WORK
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2024 Windows of Understanding Satellite Exhibition, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ
2024 Annual Cooper Union Black Student Union Group Show, The Cooper Union, NY
2024 Home Soil, Group Exhibition, Bowery Art Collective, Curated by Sandra SK Amoabeng, Metuchen, NJ
2024 Polychrome: Beyond a Silhouette, MFA Thesis, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, NJ
2023 Windows of Understanding Satellite Exhibition , American Hungarian Foundation NJ
2023 Paper Trail Group Show, Carbon Copy Gallery, Louisville, KY
2023 Annual Cooper Union Black Student Union Group Show, The Cooper Union NY
2022 On Going, MFA First Year Exhibition , Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts
2022 Rough Cuts, Mass Gallery, Austin, TX, Curated by Material Girls
2022 Cooper Union Black Student Union Group Show, 5th Floor Lobby Foundation Building, Curated by Avia Hurley
2021 “Pre-Celestial; Access Express” , Tuesday Tuesday, Richmond, VA, Curated by Damien Ding and Martha Glenn
2014-2018 Cooper Union End of the Year Show, Foundation Building, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
-Curated Drawing from 2017-18 along with Yurie Masnyj
2018 FOREGROUND 19, 3rd of Thesis Curatorial Project of Works by Black Alumni and Students, 41 Cooper Gallery
2017(Fall) MIDGROUND 19, 2nd of Thesis Curatorial of Works by Black Alumni and Students, 41 Cooper Gallery
2017(Spring) BACKGROUND 19, 1st of Thesis Curatorial of Works by Black Alumni and Students, 41 Cooper Gallery
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