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interdisciplinary artist, illustrator and educator currently based in Montana
As an artist, I aim to disrupt human/nature binary thinking. Working with watery media, glass, fabric, and video projection, I use layers and translucency to implicate the observer in the observed, creating low-tech, poetic interfaces that blur boundaries between analog and digital, feral and domestic, the environment and our bodies.
As an illustrator, I create images slowly, by-hand, informed by my own sensory participation in the world. With a decade of experience illustrating plants for the U.S. Botanic Garden, I specialize in botanical and scientific imagery, gifs and public signage. I am especially interested in animating change over time and stories about food, technology, and extractive industry from a human ecology perspective.
Education:
2024 MFA Rhode Island School of Design
2015 BA Environmental Studies, BS Geography, University of Montana
Select Exhibitions:
2025 Bloedel Reserve: 10 Years of Creative Residencies, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA
2024 Graduate Thesis Show, RI Convention Center, Providence, RI
2024 Arriving at the Exit, group show, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2024 Viewing Velocities, group show, Ladd Observatory, Providence, RI
2023 Grounded and Connected, group show, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
2023 Slow walk for you (while the planet spins), performance at Tillinghast Marsh, Barrington, RI
2023 Show Don’t Tell, group show, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2022 ABSURD DINNER PARTY, performance with Claire Alrich, Brookland home, Washington, D.C.
2021 Landscape Portraits: Color Studies from Southeast Alaska, solo show, Rhizome, Washington, D.C.
2021 Fieldwork, group show, Dance Place, Washington D.C., Online
2017 Landscape Drawings, solo show, Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, WA
2017 SHED SHOW, group show and performances, Bathtub Republic, Washington D.C.
2016 Fieldwork, group show, Dance Place, Washington, D.C.
Select Clients:
United States Botanic Garden
Golden Triangle Business District
Wild Confluence Media
Bikepacking.com
Montana Audubon
Teaching Experience:
Wild Rockies Field Institute
Rhode Island School of Design
Wilderness Institute, University of Montana
Workshops:
Brown University
Rhode Island School of Design
Wilderness Leadership Experience for Rhodes Scholars, Patagonia, Chile
RISD Museum
United States Botanic Garden
Tenekee Springs Public Library
Bainbridge Artisan Network
Residencies:
Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska
Salmon House Creative Residency, Tenekee Springs, Alaska
Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Honors:
RISD Fellowship, funding for 2 year MFA degree
Bunyan Velo Expedition Fund Grant 2,000 mi cycling/botanical illustration project, Baja California, Mexico
Botanical Artists for Environment and Education Individual Grant, U.S. Botanic Garden, Washington, D.C.
Truman Scholar, National congressional scholarship for graduate school
Udall Scholar, National congressional scholarship