Experience
2024
Founder of Old Friends
contemporary art gallery in Rosco Village.
2020 - present
Co-Founder of The Digs Chicago
501c3 ceramics studio in West Town, Chicago
EDUCATION
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Bachelors in Fine Arts with an Emphasis in Ceramics, 2020
Fellowships & Awards
Forbes 30 Under 30 Local Chicago List, 2023
Center for Craft Windgate-Lamar Fellow Recipient 2020
Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellowship Finalist 2017
School of the Art Institute, Merit Scholarship 2016
Press
Block Club Chicago, Old Friends Gallery Brings Ceramics, Paintings And More to Roscoe Village
Forbes 30 Under 30 Local, 2023
Block Club Chicago, With Interest in Ceramics Spiking, 2022
“10 Questions for 10 Fellows”, Center for Craft, 2021
Windgate Lamar Fellowship, Center for Craft, 2020
Grant Recipient Announcement, Center for Craft, 2020
Union League Club of Chicago, “Club Life”, Vol. 7, July 2017, Artist Spotlight (2017)
MAM Magazine, Milwaukee Art Museum, Work Featured in Article (Feb 2017 edition)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Burrow, Povos Gallery, Chicago IL
Interplay, T.Mari, Chicago, IL
Bloom, Povos Gallery, Chicago IL
2022
A Pot is a Home, Roots & Culture Chicago IL
FABLES, Povos Gallery, Chicago IL
10th Annual Art Competition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago IL
Belonging to You / to Me / to Us, 1922 Gallery, Chicago IL
2021
45th Annual Exhibition, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Mud Dwellers, Povos Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020
BFA Thesis Show, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
SILT, Gallery 1922, Chicago, IL
Celebrating the Arts, Friedman Place Center for the Blind, Chicago, IL
Flora, Fauna & Fascination, Ice House Gallery, Evanston, IL
Lectures
Artist Talk, T.Mari Gallery, Chicago IL — 2023
Guest Lecturer for Professional Practices Seminar,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago — 2022 & 2024