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Education

2025 BFA in Studio Art, with Honors, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL (expected graduation: May 2025)

2025 Minor in Art History, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL


Grants/Awards/Scholarships

2024

School of the Arts Student Collaboration Grant

2024

Studio in Burl Ives Graduate Studio

2024

First Place Award in Printmaking, Undergraduate Art Exhibition

2024

Printmaking Recognition Award

2024

Ruth C. Boyd Cook Memorial Award

2024

FAVE: Feminist of Artistic Vision Award

2023

Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities (URSCA) Grant Recipient

2024, 2023, 2022

Talented Student Award

2024, 2023, 2022

Dean’s List

2024, 2023, 2022

GIA in Art Award


Exhibitions

2024 80th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition, Swope Museum, Terre Haute, IN (curated by Clifford Tresnor, artist, Monroe, LA)

2024 Memento Mori, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

(curated by Manda Remmen, Preparator, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, and Travis Lawrence, artist, St. Louis, MO)

2024 2024 EIU Undergraduate Art Exhibition, Professionally curated by three outside jurors, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, IL.

2024 Double Booked, Doudna Fine Arts Center, Charleston, IL

2024 Blue Room Magazine Exhibition, Glenn Hild Student Gallery, Charleston, IL 2023 Solo Adjunct Gallery, Locked in the Print Shop, Glenn Hild Gallery,

Charleston, IL

2023 Figure It Out, Doudna Fine Arts Center, Charleston, IL

2022 Drawing Exhibition, Doudna Fine Arts Center, Charleston, IL


Work Experience

2024 – Gallery Attendant, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, IL 2024 – Art + Design Intern, The Vehicle, Charleston, IL

2024 Student Department Representative, School of the Arts Committee, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL.

2024 Curator, Double Booked, Doudna Fine Arts Center, Charleston, IL

2023 Assistant to the Gallery Director, Glenn Hild Student Gallery, Charleston, IL 2023 Panelist, Student Research and Creative Activity Conference, Eastern Illinois

University, Charleston, IL

2023 Graphic Design Intern, Urban Butterfly Initiative, Charleston, IL

2024 Student Collaboration Grant, Audio Visual Performance, Charleston, IL (in collaboration with Jason Farias)


Print Media

<3, for Blue Room Magazine, Spring Issue, March 2024

Canine, for Blue Room Magazine, Spring Issue, March 2024

Contending with Envy, for SMK Mag, Issue 1, pg 6, September 2023

From Exceptionalism to Humility, for SMK Mag, Issue 1, pg 9, September 2023

Online Publications

2006, The Vehicle, Spring Issue, 2024 https://www.vehiclejournaleiu.com/spring-2024-toc

Toy Room, The Vehicle, Spring Issue, 2023 https://www.vehiclejournaleiu.com/vehicle-art-2023

Mary, On My Computer, Issue 1, ‘Submersion’, February 2023 https://onmycomputer.neocities.org/x/alexa

State of the Union, On My Computer, Issue 1, ‘Submersion’, February 2023 https://onmycomputer.neocities.org/x/alexa

Publications as Author

“777”, On My Computer, Issue 1, ‘Submersion’, February 2023 https://onmycomputer.neocities.org/x/alexa


Commissions

2024

Private Art Commission, Band Logo Designer, Kill The Drummer, Jacob Wilcoxen

2024

Private Art Commission, Band Logo Designer, Midwest BMO, Ian Palacios and Jason


Farias

2023

Private Art Commission, Journal Cover Artist, Prairie Skies, Cameron D. Craig


Technical Abilities

2024 – Site Building, Graphic Design, and Social Media Management

(Website design for The Vehicle’s online literary magazine, social media management for Tarble Arts Center)


2024 – Advanced Sculpture Student, Doudna Fine Arts Center Wood Shop,

Charleston, IL

(extensive operational and safety knowledge of a variety of power tools, such as; drills; radial-arm, jig and band saws; as well as cnc machines, sanders, and skills such as plaster mixing, moldmaking, mig welding, soldering, and bronze casting.)


2023 – Advanced Printmaking Student, Doudna Fine Arts Center Print Shop,

Charleston, IL

(extensive operational and safety knowledge of a variety of printmaking techniques and equipment, such as; uv light box operation, chemical processing for screen printing, chemical processing for lithography, grinding limestones, use of printing presses, chemical processing for etching, paper making, and book binding. training completed in a non-toxic printmaking studio.)