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 and repetitive craft practices and their impact on learning, community, 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
Interdisciplinary design professional with 25+ years of combined experience in Visual Communication and Design/Build.
Design thinking, information design, and spatial reasoning are used to transcend disciplines, audiences, and environments.
Leadership and dynamic collaboration with varied industries, trades, fabricators, and installers contribute to
sourcing and production knowledge, robust systems thinking, and material problem-solving.