PROJECTS:

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2022, Dreaming for Our Lives: An AfroFuturist & Astrological Pop-Up Festival, Naropa University, Virtual.  

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Workshop Presenter for Becoming Water: A Voyage Into the Liquid Gold of Dissolution.

 

2021, The Rites of Passage Project, The Whitney, Berkshires, MA

 

Cure-ator and performer in the Room of Dissolution  for the series of  performance installations which took place at the Rites of Passage House, formerly the Women’s Club of the Berkshires.

 

2014, Reproductive Awakening: Narratives of Agency, MOWRE (Museum of Women In Resistance), Brooklyn, NY

 

Served as curatorial  consultant for this multi-media exhibition featuring emerging and established artists including Elaine Hargrove, Lorraine Natasha West, Kimabe Becoat , and Deborah Singletary.

 

2014, Women’s Herstory Group Exhibition, Freecandy Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

 

Curated, performed, and composed original score for a series of short performances exploring variations of Yoko Ono's instructional pieces from “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions & Drawings”.

2012, Earth + Sky, Alley Pond Park, Queens, NY

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Authored curatorial statement while serving as artist liaison, for Fluxus-based solo exhibition.

2008, Ancient Futures: The DNA of Cultures and Civilizations, Avant Yard in Association with MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts), Brooklyn, NY

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Co-authored and coordinated educational programming for MoCADA’s historically well attended exhibition, featuring artists such as Jamel Shabazz, Danny Simmons, Jennifer Crute, and Francks Francoise Deceus. 

2007, Excavating Motherhood, Brooklyn Artist Gym

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Co-curated feminist multi-media exhibition featuring works by over 15 national and international women, including artists Marcia Jones, Kimberly Becoat and Ana Teresa Fernandez.

 

PERFORMANCE:

 

2021, The Rites of Passage Project, The Whitney, Berkshire, MA

 

Cure-ator and performer in the Room of Dissolution  for this series of  large scale collaborative performance installations which took place at the Rites of Passage House, formerly the Women’s Club of the Berkshires.

2021, [Virtual] MELT: Home Launch, Movement Research, New York, NY 

 

Presented original video collage: Storytelling for Wild Wolves: New Visions for 2021 & Beyond, for internationally active disability culture, activist, community performance artist, and Artistic Director of the Olimpia performance research collective. 

 

2019, Artists, Friends, & Lovers, Molasses Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY

 

Performed a reading of several personal letters to artists, friends and lovers against a slideshow backdrop of an originally composed video installation . 

 

2015, Summer Camp X, Poughkeepsie, NY

 

Performed  reinterpreted variations of Yoko Ono's instructional pieces from “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions & Drawings”, on private land in nature for a multimedia artist summer camp.

2014, Women’s Herstory Group Exhibition, Freecandy Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

 

Curated, performed, and composed  original score for a series of short performances exploring reinterpreted variations of Yoko Ono's instructional pieces from “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions & Drawings”.

 

TEACHING:

 

January 2016-August 2019, La Cima Charter School, Brooklyn, NY

Instructed charter school students on elementary education and restorative justice for grades K-5.

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September 2015-December 2015, EM Techniques Enrichment instructor, Brooklyn, NY

Instructed charter school students on the execution of core principles in visual art for grades 5-7.

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September 2014-June 2015, BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life) Enrichment Instructor, Brooklyn, NY

Led and managed classes focused on identifying and exploring fundamental concepts in visual art for grades K-5.

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2007-2010, Guest Lecturer, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY

Lecture undergraduate students on anthologies of the sacred feminine via the art of ritual. 

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2005-2007, Teaching Artist, the Leadership Program, New York, NY

Using a leadership-based curriculum, taught after-school enrichment classes in painting, mixed media arts, and art history to New York City Public school students.

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2001-2002, Art Teacher, Loch Raven Academy, Baltimore, MD

Taught painting, mixed media arts and art history to general and gifted and talented middle school students.

1998-2000, Docent University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park

Served as docent for Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Exhibition. Conducted research in postmodernism, African art and contemporary arts of the African Diaspora.

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1998-1999, Teaching Assistant, Art Theory, University of Maryland, College Park

Led practicum discussions, conducted research and evaluated student submissions for Dr. Katherine Kavanaugh’s Art Theory courses.

Additional Experience:

 

2011, Research Consultant/Moderator, Jean Michel Basquiat & Downtown 81 Wildseed Cultural Group Panel Discussion, Brooklyn, NY

Led research and moderated a discussion on Jean Michel Basquiat and black visibility in New York’s underground “No Wave” movement.

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2010, Research Consultant, After the Dance: Conversations on Michael Jackson’s Black America, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Led primary and secondary research for two-day forum on the impact of Michael Jackson’s public presence on the cultural experience of Africans in the Diaspora.  

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Education: 

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MFA Interdisciplinary Art Student, Goddard College, Vermont, January 2020-present.

BA Art Studio/Art History, University of Maryland, College Park, 2001

Richmond: The American International University in Florence, Italy, 1999