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EXHIBITIONS and performances

2025

Thrust Bearing, solo, This and That, Minneapolis, MN

Kiln to Crop: Midwest Ceramic Exhibition, Cream of the Crop Artists Gallery, Hudson, WI

Poet Artist Collaboration, Red Wing Arts, Red Wing, MN

dont be careful with me im normal, Signed & Numbered, NCECA Clay Around Town, Salt Lake City, UT

INSIST on gathering, performance, Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, MN

Early Career Artist Grant Recipients, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN

2024

Call and Response, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA

Teaching Artists of NCC, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN

Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA

Northern Clay Center Conference Popup, NCECA, Richmond, VA

April Featured Artists, Northern Clay Center Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2023

It’s Only Clay, 18th Annual Juried Exhibit, Watermark Art Center, Bemidji, MN

Bad Artist and Friends, Brian Snapp Retirement Show, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

3rd Annual 406 Cup Show, Wildfire Ceramic Studio, Missoula, MT

Hyperlink and The Land Report Collective: Re-Activate, Shirley Basin, WY

Daily Specials, Phillip J. Steele Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Lakewood, CO

[DYS]FUNCTIONAL Juried Show, Wildfire Ceramic Studio, Missoula, MT

Pots and Plants, The Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

24th Annual Cup Auction, Carbondale Clay Center, CO

2022

“Museumification,” Indigo Cook’s Performance Calendar Series, Salt Lake City, UT

A Balmy Elsewhere: Restorative Materialisms, solo, Studio Elevn, Salt Lake City, UT

Ah, Never to Escape, The Gateway, Salt Lake City, UT

Juried Show, Alvin Gittins Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

Throwed, performance, Aktionskunst Park Gruppe, Volkspark Rehberge, Berlin, Germany

2021

Cede, performance, Film & Media Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Paper & Clay, Tippetts and Eccles Galley, Utah State University, Logan, UT

2018

Statewide Annual: Craft, Photography, and Video/Digital, The Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

2017

Art.Write.Now.2017 National Exhibition, Pratt Institute’s Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York City, NY

Emerging Artists 7th Juried Exhibition, Art Source Gallery, Boise, ID


RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS 


2025    Kate Cheney Chappell Fellowship in Graphics, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

               Studio Assistantship, “Diving Into Authenticity,” Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC

2023-2024 Early Career Artist Residency, Anonymous Artist Fellowship, Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN

2023     Education Fellowship, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT


AWARDS & GRANTS


2025    New Wave Scholarship Award, A-B Projects, Portland, OR

2023     Honorable Mention, [DYS]FUNCTIONAL Juried Show, Wildfire Ceramic Studio, Missoula, MT

2022     Ethel Armstrong Rolapp Endowed Award for Excellence, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

              Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher, College of Fine Art, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

              Outstanding Sculpture Student Nomination, International Sculpture Center

              Small Research Grant, Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2021     Individual Travel Grant, Office of Undergraduate Research, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

2017     The Eccles Distinguished Scholarship, University of Utah Honors College, Salt Lake City, UT

2017     Lucy Roy Memorial Scholarship, The National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition, NCECA, Portland, OR


CURATORIAL PROJECTS


2025    Independent organizer and curator, dont be careful with me im normal group exhibition, Signed & Numbered, NCECA Clay Around Town, Salt Lake City, UT

2024-present Co-curator and steward, The CheLLF microgallery, Minneapolis, MN


LECTURES


2025    Visiting Artist Talk, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

2024    Visiting Artist Critique, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

              Visiting Artist Talk, South High School, Minneapolis, MN

2022    “A Balmy Elsewhere: Fringes of Restorative Materialism,” The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2022 Conference, Los Angeles, CA

               “Relational Aesthetics,” University of Utah Honors College, Salt Lake City, UT



CONTINUING EDUCATION


2025     “Collage to Screenprint Workshop,” Carlos Hernandez, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

               “Diving Into Authenticity,” Christina Shmigel, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC

               “Artists' Books: Examples and Methods with Ben Denzer,” Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

               “Work of Walls,” Rosa Glaessner Novak, A-B Projects Studio Session, virtual

2024      “Improvisation,” Phoebe Cummings,  A-B Projects Studio Session, virtual

2023      “Pedestal Problems,” Takming Chuang, A-B Projects Studio Session, virtual

                “Playful Characters,” Janina Myronova, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT

MEMBERSHIPS

2023-2025    Associate Member, Hyperlink Artist Collective

2024               Guest Artist, Tandava Ceramics, Glencoe, MN

2014-2025    National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
(intermittent)