Education

2025                 MFA (3rd year candidate) Metalsmithing + Jewelry Design, Eskenazi School of Art,

Architecture + Design, Indiana University, Bloomington IN

2022                BFA Studio Art: Jewelry, Metals and Enameling, College of the Arts,

Kent State University, Kent OH

Professional Experience

2024-2025      Associate Instructor, Introduction to Metalsmithing + Jewelry Design, Indiana University,

Bloomington IN

2024. Remote Substitute Instructor, Art II - Wrapped and Coiled Vessels, Chieftain Christian Academy, Derwood MD

2023-2024     Associate Instructor, Creative Core: 3D-Design, Indiana University, Bloomington IN

Administrative Liaison, Tangent Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington IN

2024 Exhibitions Curator, The Little Things, Tangent Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington IN

2022-2023     Graduate Assistant, Department of Metalsmithing + Jewelry Design, Indiana University, Bloomington IN

2022             Private Art Instructor, Damascus MD

2021-2022     Storeroom Clerk, Jewelry, Metals, & Enameling, Kent State University, Kent OH

Student Art Leader and Tour Guide, Kent State University, Kent OH

2018-2021    Studio Monitor, Jewelry, Metals, & Enameling, Kent State University, Kent OH

Custom Framer, Michael’s, Gaithersburg MD

Juried Exhibitions

2024               National Society of Arts and Letters Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition, FAR Center for

Contemporary Arts, Bloomington IN

2023               Elegant Threads, Lighthouse ArtCenter, Tequesta FL, Curator: Janeen Mason

  Big Softies, BCAT Gallery, Brockway Center of Arts and Technology, Brockway PA, Curator: BCAT Staff

2022               Inaugural Opening, Tangent Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, Curator: Tangent Curatorial Committee

GAR Foundation Student Art Show, Andrew Jackson House, Akron OH, Curator: Anderson Turner

Student Annual Art Exhibition, CVA Gallery, Kent State University, Kent OH, Curator: Merijn van der Heijden

2021                Small Works-Big Talent, Online Exhibition, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach CA, Curator: Lori McBride

Group Exhibitions

2024             Radical Jewelry Makeover, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA

  Objects That Serve, Tangent Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington IN

  Radical Jewelry Makeover – Midwest Edition, Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington IN

 2023            The Little Things, Tangent Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington IN

                        Salon Exhibition at PlySpace, Ball State, Muncie IN

2022             Familiar Patterns, Thesis Exhibition, CVA Gallery, Kent State University, Kent OH

2019             Foundations Show, School of Art Galleries, Kent State University, Kent OH

2018             Blossom, CVA Gallery, Kent State University, Kent OH

Foundations Show, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent OH

Service and Memberships

2023-2024    Co-Treasurer, Master of Fine Arts Organization, Indiana University, Bloomington IN

                        Administrative Liaison and Committee Member, Tangent Art Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington IN

                        Member, Ethical Metalsmiths, Cincinnati OH

2022-2024    Member, Metalsmithing and Jewelry Guild, Indiana University, Bloomington IN

                        Member, Society of North American Goldsmiths, Eugene OR

2019-2021     President, Jewelry, Metals, & Enameling Co-op, Kent State University, Kent OH

2021                President, Junior Board of Directors, Montgomery County Agricultural Center, Gaithersburg MD

2020                 Vice President, Junior Board of Directors, Montgomery County Agricultural Center, Gaithersburg MD 

2018                 Secretary, Junior Board of Directors, Montgomery County Agricultural Center, Gaithersburg MD

Workshops and Symposiums

2023             Radical Jewelry Makeover Midwest, Indiana University, Bloomington IN

  Damascene, Workshop by Thomas Madden, Indiana University, Bloomington IN

Forging Ahead, Material Topics Symposium, East Carolina University, Greenville NC

2018              Kent Blossom Art Intensive - Saw and Solder Champlevé and Cloisonné,

Workshop by Andrew Kuebeck and Marissa Saneholtz, Kent State University, Kent OH

Honors, Awards and Scholarships

2023                 Friends of Art Program Harrison Memorial Award, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN $1750

2023                 Junior Board of Directors Scholarship, Montgomery County Agricultural Center, Gaithersburg MD $1500

2022                Caldwell Fine Arts Scholarship, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN $1650

  Nominee for the Windgate Fellowship and Award for Emerging Artists Advancing Sustainability, Kent State University, Kent OH

 2022                 Montgomery County Agricultural Center Scholarship for Secondary Education, MCAC, Gaithersburg MD $3500

 2018-2022   Presidents Scholarship, Kent State University, Kent OH $4438

  Trustee Scholarship, Kent State University, Kent OH $2500

University Award, Kent State University, Kent OH $4438

2019                Hazel Staley Memorial Scholarship, Montgomery County Agricultural Center, Gaithersburg MD $2350

 2018-2019     Outstanding Student: School of the Visual Arts Awards, Kent State University, Kent OH

2018                Montgomery County Fair Scholarship, Montgomery County Agricultural Center, Gaithersburg MD $1000

Publications

2024                Metalsmith Magazine’s 2023 Editorial Photo Call, Society of North American Goldsmiths,         

2023                Big Softies - Exhibition Announcement, Brockway Center for Arts & Technology

  WE ARE SNAG: Anthology Ed. 3, Virtual Catalogue, Society of North American Goldsmiths

 2022               Hope is Resiliency: New York Jewelry Week, Virtual Catalogue, Society of North American Goldsmiths

                         Familiar Patterns: BFA Thesis Exhibition Review, Luna Negra Literary Arts Magazine, Olivia Watchel