CV
EDUCATION
MFA Visual Art | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts | Washington University in St. Louis (2024)
BFA Graphic Design | The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (1992), Yale Brissago (1991)
AWARDS + ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
2024 - Luminary Futures Fund Grant supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation | St. Louis, MO
2024 - Recipient of the Institute for Materials Science and Engineering Research Grant | Washington University in St. Louis
2024 - Student Marshal 2024 Commencement | Washington University in St. Louis
2024 - International Sculpture Center | Outstanding Student Achievement Award Nominee | Washington University in St. Louis
2023 - Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship Nominee | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2023 - Recipient Dean's Office Research Travel Grant | Washington University in St. Louis | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2023 - Fine Arts Work Center Award | Washington University in St. Louis | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2023 - International Sculpture Center | Outstanding Student Achievement Award Nominee | Washington University in St. Louis
2022 - Ambassadors Graduate Fellowship | Washington University in St. Louis | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2022 - HB and MB Simon Scholarship | Washington University in St. Louis | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2022 - California Regional Open | Uncommon Threads, Juried by Jeanne Medina Le | Second Place
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 - Pond: A Symphony (four movements) | National Building Arts Center | Sauget, IL (through 2025)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS + COLLECTIONS
2026 - Tether, STNDRD Exhibitions | Granite City, IL (forthcoming)
2025 - Archive Fever, Accent Sisters | Curated by Yanbin Zhao, New York, NY (current)
2025 - Field Guide | St. Louis International Airport | St. Louis, MO (current)
2024 - Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum | Slingshot, MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition | St. Louis, MO
2024 - Intersect Art Center | Field Guide | 2/01/24 - 6/28/24 | St. Louis, MO
2024 - ARC Gallery | Beautiful and Strange Fragmentation, Curated by David Reif | 2/01 /24 - 2/22/24 | Chicago, IL
2023 - Red Gate | CARE, Curated by Adrienne Outlaw | St. Louis, MO
2023 - Des Lee Gallery | So Long Summer, MFA Summer Exhibition | Washington University in St. Louis
2023 - NON-STNDRD | Lived-In, Inaugural Invitational Group Exhibition | National Building Arts Center, Sauget, IL
Curated by STNDRD Exhibitions: Bruce Burton, Sage Dawson, and Allison Lacher
2023 - Lemp Brewery Complex | The Buoyancy Show, Curated by Abby Flanagan and Anika Todd | St. Louis, MO
2023 - City Foundry | Watch Your Head, Candidacy Exhibition, St. Louis, MO
2023 - Lemp Brewery Complex | Circumference Bias Curated by Levi Gentry and Jackson Hescock | St. Louis, MO
2023 - St. Charles Community College | MFA Invitational, Curated by Brian D. Smith | St. Louis, MO
2023 - Des Lee Gallery | Parabola, Jurors: Pete Callahan and Dryden Wells | St. Louis, MO
2022 - Southern California Open Regional Exhibitions | Uncommon Threads, Juror: Jeanne Medina Le
2022 - Show Me, First-Year MFA Group Exhibition, Washington University in St. Louis | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2022 - Tieton Arts + Humanities | 10 x 10 x 10, Tieton, WA
2022 - Regional Arts & Culture Council | Permanent Public Art Collection | Portland, OR
2021 - Bainbridge Art + Craft | Fresh Talent | Bainbridge Island, WA
2021 - Stay Home Gallery | Spectrum, Paris, TN
2021 - Elizabeth Jones Art Center | Sequoia, Portland, OR
PROJECTS + PROGRAMMING
Pond: A Symphony | National Building Arts Center, Sauget, IL (2023 - ongoing)
Mesh and Mend | Weaving and stitching for embodiment and connection (ongoing)
Quiltscapes | Fiber landscapes for connection and community-building
TEACHING
2026 - 3D Design | Instructor of Record | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts | St. Louis, MO
2026 - Digital Studio | Instructor of Record | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts | St. Louis, MO
2025 - 3D Design | Instructor of Record | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts | St. Louis, MO
2025 - Digital Studio | Instructor of Record | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts | St. Louis, MO
2025 - Studio Art | Instructor of Record | Pre-College Program | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts | St. Louis, MO
2025 - 2D Design | Instructor of Record | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts | St. Louis, MO
2025 - Interdisciplinary Instructor | Art + Design Thinking (Volunteer) | Building Futures | St. Louis, MO (ongoing)
2025 - Fox Friday Weaving Workshop | Instructor | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2024 - Digital Studio | Instructor of Record | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts | St. Louis, MO
2023 - Fox Friday Weaving Workshop | Instructor | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2024 - Studio Art | Instructor | Portfolio Plus Pre-College Program | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts | St. Louis, MO
2024 - Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum | Instructor / Facilitator | Knit Together with Hazelwood North High School | St. Louis, MO
2024 - Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum | Curriculum & Instruction for Mesh & Mend (Weaving/Mending) | St. Louis, MO
2024 - 3-D Design | Assistant in Instruction for Jack Risley | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2023 - Fox Friday Visible Mending Workshop | Instructor | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2023 - Fiber Manipulation | Assistant in Instruction for Mary Ruppert-Stroescue | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
Lecture on Textile Histories and Weaving in Contemporary Art; Led unit on spinning and weaving
2023 - Extra-Dimensional Printmaking | Assistant in Instruction for Sage Dawson | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2023 - Methods & Contexts | Assistant in Instruction for Sage Dawson | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2022 - Sculpture: Material & Culture | Assistant in Instruction for Arny Nadler | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
SOCIAL PRACTICE + COMMUNITY
2026 - Workshop for Rockwood School District | Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (forthcoming)
2025 - Stitching Meditation | Workshop development and facilitation for University City High School | Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
2025 - Provisional Vessels | National Great Rivers Research and Education Center | Water Festival | Educational Exhibitor | Alton, IL
2025 - Audible Insects | Art + Citizen Science Workshop | Design + Facilitation with collaborator Fowler Finn Lab | National Building Arts Center
2025 - Module to Monumental | Building Futures | St. Louis, MO
2025 - Provisional Sculptures | Building Futures | St. Louis, MO
2025 - Introduction to Weaving | Building Futures | St. Louis, MO
2025 - Quiltscapes | Collaborative fiber workshop designed and facilitated for the Mildred Land Kempter Art Museum and offered to:
- St. Louis City Public Schools Art Educators (60 participants) | St. Louis, MO
- Webster Groves Public Schools K-5 Art Educators | St. Louis, MO
2025 - Brick Anything | Clay-based grade 3-8 student Workshop | Co-Taught with Abby Flannagan | NBAC, Sauget, IL
2025 - National Building Arts Center | Volunteer | Brand Communication, Design + Consulting | Sauget, IL (ongoing)
2025 - WashU Environmental Working Group (ongoing)
2024 - Foundations "Mesh" Community weaving event | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts | Washington University in St. Louis
2024 - National Portfolio Day | Charlotte, Seattle | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts | Washington University in St. Louis
2023 - Lot 49 Annual Fundraiser | The Luminary, St. Louis, MO | Event Volunteer
2023 - Digital Assistant for William Villalongo and Shraddha Ramani | Island Press, St. Louis, MO
2023 - National Council Meeting | Student Attendee | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2022 - St. Louis Weaver’s Guild | Member, 2022 - Present
2022 - Visiting Artist Committee | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2022 - Visiting Artist + Freund Fellow Lecture Series Communication Design | Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
2022 - Digital Assistant for Shaun O’Dell | Island Press, St. Louis, MO
2022 - Handweaving Workshops | North Pole Studios, Portland, Oregon
2022 - Fiber Arts Instruction & Enrichment | George Middle School | Weekly Volunteer, instruction delivered in Spanish
2007 - 2022 - Portland Public Schools | Art Enrichment & Instruction | Volunteer
PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING
2024 - Faculty Reading Community (Cross-disciplinary) Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto by Kevin Gannon | WashU
2024 - Teaching Citation | Professional Development in Teaching Program | Washington University in St. Louis
2024 - Course Design Institute | Center for Teaching and Learning | Washington University in St. Louis
2024 - Graduate and Post Doctorate Reading Community | Power Dynamics in the Classroom | Washington University in St. Louis
2023 - Facilitating Engaging Discussions | Center for Teaching and Learning | Washington University in St. Louis
2023 - Increasing Student Participation | Center for Teaching and Learning | Washington University in St. Louis
2023 - Fostering an Inclusive Classroom Environment | Center for Teaching and Learning | Washington University in St. Louis
2023 - Facilitating a Teaching Demo | Center for Teaching and Learning | Washington University in St. Louis
2022 - Asking Questions to Improve Learning | Center for Teaching and Learning | Washington University in St. Louis
2022 - Efficient, Effective, Reflective Strategies for Grading | Center for Teaching and Learning | Washington University in St. Louis
2022 - Incorporating Active Learning During Class Time | Center for Teaching and Learning | Washington University in St. Louis
RESIDENCIES + WORKSHOPS
2025 - Artist in Residence | Third Degree Glass, St. Louis, MO
2023 - Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2021 - Atelier Meridian | Solar Plate Etching, Barbara Mason | Portland, OR
2018 - Independent Research and Publishing Center (IPRC) | Letterpress | Portland, OR
PRESS + PUBLICATIONS
2026 - Cement Land Archive (upcoming)
2026 - Ply Project - St. Louis–based fiber artists, their practices, and their stories. Developed by Taylor Yocom, Erin Luna, and Grant Benoit
2025 - Cultbytes, "Archive Fever’s Poetics of the Past" by Annelie Hyatt, December 2, 2025
2024 - Midwest Artist Quarterly, Vol. II, Apr. - June 2024 "Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Slingshot: 2024 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition" by Troy Sherman, July 16
2023 - Artist Panel and Discussion 'Lived-In" NON-STNDRD, National Building Arts Center, Oct 28.
Led by co-curators Bruce Burton, Sage Dawson, and Allison Lacher (also including artists Grant Benoit, and Abby Flannagan)
2023 - St. Louis Magazine, "STNDRD and the National Building Arts Center partnership launches with "Lived-In",
by Sam Barrett, Aug. 8
2023 - Sam Fox School, Washington University in St. Louis, "Two MFA-VA Candidates Awarded Scholarship for Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshop", by Caitlin Custer, February 15
RESEARCH
Post-disciplinary, New Materialism, infrastructures, systems, boundaries, landscape, color field, sand, glass, weaving,
material agency, matter, detritus, junk
Post-industrial sites and ecologies; Post-humanism; Entangled systems; Ruderal species, methodologies, and aesthetics
Hunter/gatherer activities; tactile craft practices for community-building and health
Interdisciplinary education + delivery of art/science curriculum in collaboration with the Fowler-Finn Lab, Saint Louis University
Weaving as landscape, language, and architecture
PROCESSES / SKILLS
Drawing, painting, and printmaking (intaglio, collagraph, wood/linocut, monotype)
Sculpture: welding, woodworking, glass-blowing, and fused/slumped glass
Ceramics: experimental mixed media, hand-building, wheel-throwing, kiln programming, glaze making
Fiber: weaving, felting, stitching (hand and machine), natural dying, spinning, and coiling
Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Audition, Acrobat), Audacity, Autocad, Figma
RELATED PROFESSIONAL
Visual Communication, Design/Build