CV/resume
Residencies & Workshops:
CURRENT / UPCOMING:
-The Athenian School Queer Leadership Camp (Workshop): solidarity quilt-making. Danville, CA. (June 2024)
-Ice Cream Acres (Residency): Sculptural Quilt-Making as Queer Arts Practice. Lockhart, TX. (July 2024)
-Richmond Art Center (Workshop): Poem Quilts. Richmond, CA. (Summer 2024)
-Makeshift Center for Material Studies (Workshop): Poem Quilts. Oakland, CA. (Fall 2024)
PAST:
-Berkeley High School / Kala Institute Artist-in-Schools (Residency): Immigration Quilts. Berkeley, CA. (2023-Present)
-El Cerrito High School (Residency): ESL Student Quilts Group. El Cerrito, CA. (Feb-April 2024)
-Sou’wester Arts (Residency & Workshop): coastal crazy quilts. Seaview, WA. April 2023
-Pacific Center for Human Growth (Residency & Workshops): 50th anniversary quilts. Berkeley, CA. 2022-23
-Fiberhouse Collective (Residency & Workshop): invasive plants as fibers and dyes. Asheville, NC. April 2022
-Bioneers Conference: Queer Arrivals, Queer Survivals (Workshop): youth quilting. San Francisco, CA. Spring 2022
Exhibitions & Grants & Publications:
CURRENT / UPCOMING:
-East Bay Heritage Quilters (Grant): partnership with Kala Art Institute. East Bay, CA. (2024)
PAST:
-The Poets (Solo Show): Orinda Public Library. Orinda, CA. (April 2024)
-Creating Together (Group Show): Kala Art Institute. Berkeley, CA. (Feb 2024-Mar 2024)
-Here to There: Immigration Narratives (Group Show): Kala Art Institute. Berkeley, CA. (2023-2024)
-East Bay Heritage Quilters (Grant): partnership with Pacific Center for Human Growth. East Bay, CA. (2023)
-Running Threads (Group Show): Museum of Northern California Art. Chico, CA. (February-April 2022)
-Wings in Art (Group Show): Museum of Northern California Art. Chico, CA. (January 2022)
-Bait/Switch “Relate” Issue (Publication): braided rugs and corresponding interview. Virtual. (Fall 2021)
-Free Your Mind and Soul (Publication): “Chosen Family” issue. Virtual. (Summer 2021)
-From the Land Fiber Arts (Group Show): Flag Wool and Fiber Festival. Flagstaff, AZ. (Spring 2021)
2nd place award for braided rugs
-6th Annual Waterscapes (Group Show): Fusion Art. Palm Springs, CA. (May 2021)
-7th Annual Crow Show (Group Show): Studio Door. San Diego, CA. (April 2021)
-Deep Times: A Journal for the Work that Reconnects (Publication): (Fall 2020)
https://journal.workthatreconnects.org/2021/03/01/youth-issue-october-2020/
Fundraising Shows:
CURRENT / UPCOMING:
-Pal-Dyes: dyes fundraiser for Bay Area Palestinian mutual aid. 2024
PAST:
-THIRST: Artists for Humanitarian aid: fundraiser for southern border crossers. 2021-2023
-Access RJ: fundraiser for CA abortion funds. November 2021
-Art Funnel: fundraiser for Hurricane Ida Relief. Fall 2021
-Stop Line 3: various fundraisers. Summer 2021
-Raymains Blanket Company: fundraiser for NAYA PDX. October 2019
EDUCATION-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Bachelor’s Degree
Hanover, NH ♦ Major: Psychology ♦ Minor: Human Centered Design Graduated 2016
Additional Coursework:
Beginning Drawing and Composition (Berkeley City College. Berkeley, CA 2020)
Revising the Poem (The Attic Institute. Portland, OR 2019)
Oral Histories Research Methodologies (Off the Beaten Track Anthropology Field School. Gozo, Malta. 2018)
ARTS EXPERIENCE--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Restoration Technician Oakland, CA
Claremont Rugs Spring 2023-Winter 2024
♦ Restored antique woven rugs at a 35yo specialized rug company
♦ Worked alongside other craftspeople in painting, knotting, weaving and hand-sewing rugs for purchase and display
♦ Collaborated with various departments (Sales and Transport) and interfaced with clients as needed
Artist-in-Residence Berkeley, CA
Pacific Center for Human Growth (PCHG) Sept 2022-2023
♦ Led the celebration for the 50th anniversary of a Berkeley queer-cultural resource center
♦ Offered mixed media workshops to PCHG clients and staff culminating in community blanket, quilt and audio projects documenting PCHG’s history as well as client stories
♦ Administered $3,000 of grant funding to pay collaborators and facilitate community programming
♦ Taught sewing and hand-quilting to local youth and seniors as an exploration of queer intergenerationality
Studio Assistant Oakland, CA
Mira Blackman Studio Spring 2021-Fall 2022
♦ Hand-dyed organic, locally made clothing and homegoods in small batches at an Oakland home studio
♦ Coordinated the business while Mira was out on maternity leave, including individual and whole-sale account shipments, art documentation, social media and in-person marketing and community-based events such as studio sales and craft markets
EDUCATION EXPERIENCE----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Teaching Artist East Bay, CA
Various public and private high schools 2019-Present
♦ Facilitate classroom, after school and summer arts programming for middle and high school aged students
♦ Work primarily in the fields of textiles, oral histories and literary arts with an emphasis on art-making for self realization with an additional focus on social-emotional support for queer youth
Emotional Support Coach Berkeley, CA
Roberson-Goldsteins & Nastich-Kettlers July 2021-Present
♦ Supporting families with queer neurodivergent teens in carpooling and after school activities focused on socialization and emotional-regulation
VOLUNTEER WORK-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HomeCooked Care: cook and deliver with a mutual aid group that makes food for people organizing for Palestine (present)
BAWAR: offered sexual assault crisis counseling through Bay Area Women Against Rape after completing their 3mo 66hr training (2020-2021)