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Professional Experience
Education
Bachelors of Fine Arts, Thomas More University, 2021
Minors: Spanish & Creative Writing
Summa Cum Laude
Grants/Awards
Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, 2023
Carl B. Westmoreland Inaugural Fellow, 2022-23
ArtsWave Black and Brown Artists Grant, 2023
ArtsWave Truth & Reconciliation Grant, 2022
Cincinnati Art Club Award, 2021
Best in Show, Thomas More University, "Strange Fruit", 2021
Outstanding Senior Award, Creative & Performing Arts, 2021
Appalachian Award in Poetry, 2021
RUCA Award for Poetry, 2021
RUCA Award for Poetry, 2019
Sandra L. Cuni Award, 2020
Sandra L. Cuni Award, 2019
Kate Bilbo Aspiring Writer Award, 2020
Kate Bilbo Aspiring Writer Award, 2019
Global Perspectives Brown Grant, 2020
Western Kentucky University’s President’s List for KIIS Study Abroad, 2020
Urban Appalachian Leadership Project Grant Recipient, 2019
Outstanding English Major, 2019
Thomas More University’s Dean’s List, 2017-2021
Governor’s Scholars Program Alumnus, 2016
Solo Exhibitions/Projects
"Murmurations", National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 2023
“Sanctuaries”, Cincinnati Art Museum, 2022
"Strange Fruit", Eva G. Farris Gallery, 2021
Group Exhibitions
“The Gift”, Wave Pool, 2022/23
"Voices of Freedom", Kennedy Heights Arts Center, 2022
"The Way We See Ourselves", ArtWorks V2 Gallery, 2021
"Summerfair Emerging Artists Exhibition", Online, 2020
Performances/Speeches
"Preserving the Human Spirit", Keynote Speaker & MC, Duke Energy Convention Center, KROGER Inc./84.51 Corporate Event, 2023
“Why Beauty? Creative Empathy in Arts & Medicine”, Guest Lecturer, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, 2023
"Georgia O'Keeffe, The Power of Place & The Creative Ecosystem", Keynote Speaker, Cincinnati Art Museum, 2023
“TEDxTalk: Creative Empathy & the Power of Truth through Art”, Mainstage Speaker, University of Cincinnati, 2022
“Secret Walls Battle”, AGAR Co., Blink 2022
“Alley Jam”, Findlay Market, Blink 2022
“Student Success Summit - Council on Postsecondary Education”, Speaker, Louisville Marriot East, 2022
“”AIKCU Diversity Summit, Keynote Speaker, Virtual, 2021
“For the Love of Black Men” (With Lex Nycole), Body Painter, The Mercantile Library, 2021
“What Matters? Creative Empathy, Community Care Ethics, and Story-Listening” (With Frank X Walker, George Ella Lyon, Manuel Iris, & Others), Guest Artist/Poet, On Zoom, 2020
“Poetry Night at Sitwell's, Crossing the Event Horizon”, Featured Poet, On Zoom, 2020
“Express Urban Appalachia Showcase”, Contributing Poet, Aronoff Center for the Arts, 2019
“42nd Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference – AppalachA'ville: Engage. Sustain. Innovate.” Presenter, UNC Asheville, 2019
Publications
Inside the Writer's Head: Cincinnati Public Library’s Writer-in-Residence Podcast, 2022
Appalachian (Un)Masked - Volume 25: Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Contributing Artist, 2022
Appalachia (Un)Broken - Volume 22: Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Contributing Poet, 2019
Words Literary Journal, Contributing Artist and Poet, 2018 - 2020
Urban Appalachian Community Coalition, Contributing Poet, 2019
Artist-In-Residence
Mount St. Joseph University, September 2023 - February 2024. Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, October 2022. Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati Art Museum, January - November 2022. Cincinnati, OH
Contemporary Arts Center, March - May 2022. Cincinnati, OH
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, October 2021. Cincinnati, OH
Kennedy Heights Art Center, August 2021. Cincinnati, OH