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2023 Have Your Cake and Devour It, The Loo, Philadelphia, PA
New Works, Function Coffee Labs, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Selected Works, Function Coffee Labs, Philadelphia, PA
Archive of the Now, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Constructed Realities, Galleria Tofani, Philadelphia, PA
2025 Placing the Unplaceable, The Arts League, Philadelphia, PA
Two’s A Crowd, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
2024 15 Year Birthday Show, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Perennial Visions, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Constellations: Animation Ensemble, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Salon, The Head and the Hand, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Distant Memory, Past Present Projects of Culture Trust, Philadelphia, PA
Dumb: Brute Reason, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Art-making in Pandemic Times, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Selected Works, Gallery 8, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2018 The Female Form, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN
Me Too, Marshall Arts Gallery, Memphis, TN
Art in the Park, Rust Hall Gallery, Memphis, TN
Grrl Fest, Hitone, Memphis, TN
Fort Douglass Art Salon, Fort Douglas Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
Assistant papermaker at Brandywine Workshop and Archive for NEA Grant Residencies
assisting Xenobia Bailey, Maya Freelon, and Adebumni Gbadebo
2024 Assistant papermaker for Penn Medicine public art work by Alexis Granwell
Fabrication assistance for Behind the Red Moon, El Anatsui, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Assistant papermaker at Brandywine Workshop and Archive for NEA Grant Residency assisting Syd Carpenter
2023 Contributing artist for Exquisite Corpse, Philadelphia Animation Ensemble
Run to the Light!, Tiger Strikes Asteroid
Instructor, Plant to Paper at Paper Think Tank
Instructor, Sheet Forming with Inclusions at Longwood Gardens
Instructor, Intro to Western Papermaking at Philadelphia Museum of Art
2025 Assistant Instructor, Watermarks at Historic Rittenhouse Towne
Instructor, Sheet Forming with Inclusions at Glen Foerd
2024 Assistant Instructor, Papermaking with MATTERS at Historic Rittenhouse Towne
Instructor, Intro to Sheet Forming and Pulp Painting with Da Vinci Art Alliance at Cherry Street Pier
2019 Teacher’s Assistant, Painting Composition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2023 - Present Manager, Educator and Papermaker at Paper Think Tank
2022 - Present Member at Da Vinci Art Alliance
2022 - Present Freelance Studio Assistant + Art Handler
2025 Illuminate the Arts Grant
2022 Illuminate the Arts Grant
2021 Gross McCleaf Prize
2020 J. Henry Scheidt Travel Scholarship; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Eleanor S. Gray Memorial Scholarship; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Dean’s Scholarship; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
President’s Scholarship; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2018 Portfolio Scholarship; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2017 Dean’s Scholarship; Memphis College of Art
2016 Portfolio Scholarship; Memphis College of Art
2020 BFA in Painting; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2017 Painting; Memphis College of Art