Circum Vitae

 E D U C A T I O N

2024 Masters in Museum Studies

City University of New York School of Professional Studies, New York, NY

2018   Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics

               State University of New Paltz, New Paltz, NY

                Cum Laude

2015   Associates of Science: Curriculum in Art Studies

     Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY

P R O F E S S I O N A L   E X P E R I E N C E

2021-2024 Studio Assistant, Workshop Workshop, Middletown, NY

  • Responsibilities include: Finishing greenware to be bisque fired, glazing, making glazes, weighing clay, breaking down reclaim. 

    Ceramic Instructor, Fallkill Creative Works, Poughkeepsie, NY

    • Taught basic wheel throwing and a lidded vessel class; consisting of hand building and altering forms for intermediate students.

2022 Admin/ Studio Assistant, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

  • Responsibilities include: Editing photos for online sale, creating systems to organize inventory of bowls (in production and finished) and supplies needed for the event. Managing community engagement and community outreach for the Annual Fundraising event. 

2021  Ceramic Instructor, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

  • Taught basic wheel and intermediate wheel throwing classes. 

2019   Ceramic Instructor, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

  • Taught a wheel throwing course and a surface decoration course for multiple skill levels.

2018  Featured Artist, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

  • Created a body of functional work for donation toward the Chili Bowl Fiesta Fundraiser and time to develop one’s own body of work.

Internship, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

  • Created a series of bowls for the Chili Bowl Sale for Women’s Studio Workshop’s annual sale, assisted in mixing glazes and casting slip, gone through not only prototyping and production based work.

Teaching Assistant, Basic Ceramics, SUNY New Paltz, NY

  • Demonstrations and lectures, assisted in the assessment of student project grades and assisted students on an individual level with exercises and projects.

E X P E R I E N C E

2025 Recipient of the NCECA 2025 Helene Zucker Seeman Curatorial, Research, and Critical Writing Fellowship for Women

This Fellowship will allow me to create educational programming associated with the exhibition, giving us funding towards paying our artists for workshops or an artist panel.

2024 Guest Curator, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

“You Deserve Your Flowers” is an exhibition featuring female, and nonbinary artists of color who’s work explore themes of identity, fantasy and healing. Collaborating with Women’s Studio Workshop to grant emerging artists of color more opportunity to be recognized, opening in May 2025.

2023 Panelist, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Cincinnati, OH

For this panel, a group of presenters and I organized a panel to discuss diversity, accessibility, and opportunity for emerging artists of color. An article was created to further explain our narrative was published through NCECA.

2022 Residency, Watershed, Newcastle, ME

A residency designed to meet participates of the mentorship program provided by the Color Network funded by the National Endowment of the Arts.

2019   Volunteering, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosedale, NY

While volunteering I specifically had acquired the skills to help with kiln maintenance and other studio responsibilities toward the annual Chili Bowl Fiesta Fundraiser. I helped mixed necessary glazes to get through the season, created production work, glazed unfinished work, work with silk screen transfers on work, and collected the total number of bowls for the chili bowl event.  Recently, I participated in helping during the event by serving food and helping people to navigate through the fundraiser. I have volunteered over 200 hours and continue to do so.

2018   Private Lessons, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

I taught private lessons to a student at WSW who was interested in combining silk screening techniques with ceramics. I went through the steps on how to coat a screen with photo emulsion, how to prepare the images onto transparent paper, how to expose the images with UV light and how to creates ceramic silk screen ink.

          Commission Work for a Local Artist, Accord, NY

A local artist, Thomas Albrecht had commissioned a set of non-fired pseudo rocks made from clay for a performance piece he was conducting. By using dry materials and textures I had created 30 pseudo rocks.

E M P L O Y M E N T

2021-2024

Studio Assistant, Workshop Workshop, Middletown, NY

Ceramic Instructor, Fallkill Creative Works, Poughkeepsie, NY

2022 Admin Assistant, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

2019-2021   

Ceramic Instructor, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

2018   Ceramic Summer Intern, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

E X H I B I T I O N S

2023 Useful Spaces

Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

Project M

Mason Gallery, Cincinnati OH

2022 Nine to Five: A Staff Show

Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

2021 Strictly Functional National Pottery Show

Lancaster Creative Factory, Lancaster, PA

Sip: A Ceramic Cup Show

Savannah Clay Community, Savannah, GA

Cheers! Drink Up!

Common Wheel Artist Co-Op, Manitou Springs, CO

Open Studio

Fallkill Creative Works, Poughkeepsie, NY

2020 Dirty South Cup Competition

River Oaks Square Art Center, Alexandria, LA

Sip: A Ceramic Cup Show

Savannah Clay Community, Savannah, GA

Mug Madness

Salt Stone Ceramic, Seattle, WA

2019 Arts Westchester Gift Shop,

Arts Westchester, White Plains, NY

· Featured local artists of the Hudson Valley in the Museum Gift Shop

Objects May Be Closer Than They Appear,

Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale NY

  • Curated group show of Women’s Studio Workshop Interns

2018   Collective Matter, Art Centro, Poughkeepsie, NY

  • Curated group show of SUNY New Paltz Ceramic students

M E M B E R S H I P S  &  S E R V I C E S

2021-2024 The Color Network

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Member

2018   National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Member

2017           Clay Club Member SUNY New Paltz Ceramic Department, New Paltz, NY

2016            Student Art Alliance (SAA) Member, New Paltz, NY