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PROFILE

I am a multidisciplinary artist currently in residency at the 26th Street Project, a nonprofit arts studio in Milwaukee, WI. My role there includes designing public art installations with an emphasis on community engagement, as well as mentoring young artists and their families. In addition, I have been involved in the local zine community doing independent archival research, facilitating, tabling and education. My practice ranges from printmaking, illustration, zine-making, poetry and story-telling, to sculpture, 4-D, post-digital and web design.

WORK

26th STREET PROJECT

  • Artist in Residence working to bring opportunities to a grassroots community arts studio
  • Mentor teaching fundamental art theory to inner-city youth and their families
  • Networking and project management to realize public arts projects
  • RICK'S HOME REMODELING

  • Completed paid apprentice work under a professional remodeling service
  • Utilized creative focus to detail painted trim across mutliple apartment units
  • Served as part of a team to realize a community-sponsored renovation on a deadline
  • JOELUC JEWEL

  • Lead graphic designer for print packaging, marketing, web design for small business
  • Social media coordinator, influencer outreach, stockist communications
  • Order fulfillment, web management, customer communications
  • HB LABELS

  • Designer for large-scale product hangtags and packaging
  • Order fulfillment, spreadsheet management, internal relations communication
  • Stock management, warehouse management, secretarial communications
  • ACTIVISM

    QUEER ZINE ARCHIVE PROJECT

  • Compiled an artist biography on G.B. Jones and the Queercore movement from archival research
  • Featured in an interview about the QZAP by Mayaan Silver for WUWM
  • PUBLIC ALLIES

  • 10-month service apprenticeship centered around social justice leadership training
  • BLACK+PINK & IWOC ZINE COLLABORATION

  • Joined and recruited talents to create a series of zines from B&P penpal David Hehn
  • Distribute them at local events to support transformative justice
  • EDUCATION

    MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN

  • New Studio Practice major, Arts Management & Natural Sciences Minor
  • Organizer and promoter for MIAD Print Club, printed school spiritwear during live workshops
  • Managed fundraising efforts for 2018 Mid America Print council in Laramie, WY
  • SKILLS

    CREATIVE

  • Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere and After Effects
  • Ability to create designs and illustrations traditionally and digitally for print and web
  • Experience in mixed media work, including ceramics, printmaking, painting, collage
  • OFFICE

  • Content creation, web building and marketing design for small business
  • File managenment, data input and communications for design firm
  • Outreach and networking for non-profit and small business partners
  • COMMUNITY

  • Participant in social awareness trainings and direct service as a Public Ally
  • Facilitator and educational advocate and direct mentor to youth
  • SKILLED TRADES

  • Completed Accuplacer-oriented tutoring in preperation for a skilled trades career
  • Acquired certification relevant to skilled trades in coordination with WRTP BigStep
  • SHOWS

    SYMBIOSIS AND SYNCHRONICITY, 2018

  • Featured artist in an exhibition centered around sustainability in fine art
  • DIMENSIONS, 2019

  • Featured artist in local LGBT+ video collective
  • MIDWEST QUEERITIVITES, 2020

  • Featured in exhibition surrounding queer identities of the Midwest showing two collagraph prints
  • ZINEFEST MILWAUKEE

  • Featured vendor for 2019 & 2020
  • Team member for 2020 Zinefest MKE & contributor for collaborative Risograph publication

    LIFE IN LAVENDER, 2020

  • Featured artist in local LGBT+ video collective

  • TAKE ME BACK!!!!!!!!!