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Recent Education

2020

• Certificate, California State University in partnership with Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA, Community Teaching Artist Certificate Program

2019

• Residency, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, L.A. Summer Residency

• Workshop, Association for Audience Marketing Professionals, Los Angeles, CA, AAMP Digital Boot Camp, Digital Audience Pro

Recent Teaching Experience

2023

• Workshop, Say It With Yarn Bombing, Social Justice Center at El Camino College, Torrance, CA

2020-Present

• Informal Online Community Engagement Meeting Series, Yarn Bombing Los Angeles Monthly Meeting on Zoom, Los Angeles, CA

2020

• Informal instruction of Basic Yarnbombing Skills, Public Yarnbombing Event for Technology and Ethics, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

2019-2020

• Community Engagement Workshop Series, YBLA Monthly Meeting at GVFAS, Grand View Fine Art Studios, Los Angeles, CA

2018

• Informal instruction of Basic Yarn Bombing Skills, 100% Festival, Otis College of Art And Design, Los Angeles, CA

2018

• Yarn Flower Workshop with Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, Remembrance, The Faces and Places, Autry's Historic Southwest Museum, Mt. Washington Campus, Los Angeles, CA

Recent Awards

2024

• Best in Show, Open Call 2024, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA

• Fellowship, Shoebox Arts Online Membership, Shoebox Arts, Los Angeles, CA

2023

• Third Place, Summer 2023 Open Call, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA

• Award, Economic Opportunity Grant for Micro-Business, Los ngeles County Department of Economic Opportunity, Los Angeles, CA

2019

• Certificate of Recognition, California Legislature, for Inclusion in Organic Synthetic Gallery Opening, Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, Forty-Fifth Assembly District

• Residency, L.A. Summer Residency, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

2018

• Prize, 100 Projects Artist, Otis Centennial, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

Recent Solo Exhibitions

2024

• Silent Bells, Shoebox Projects at the Brewery Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA

2023

• Wearing It On Our Sleeves, Social Justice Center, El Camino College, Torrance, CA

2021

• Wearing It On Our Sleeves, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2019

• Featured Artist, Stitchspace LA, Sherman Oaks, CA

2018

• Industrial Domestics, Mar Vista ArtWalk Community Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Recent Group Exhibitions

2024

• SPARTAN, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (juried by Alec Longmuir, Melissa Morgan Fine Art)

• Art of Costume Couture, Subterra Gallery, The Los Angeles Makery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by A. Laura Brody and Lisa Tomczeszyn)

• GRASSROOTS: Climate Conversations, Artopia Gallery, Creative World Art Center, Arcadia, CA (curated by Susanna Meiers)

• NOMAD III, Del Amo Crossing, Torrance, CA (invited by Max Presneill, Director/Head Curator Torrance Art Museum)

• Off The Wall, January Arts Launch, MoonHuts, Los Angeles, CA

• Spectrum Gestalt 2024, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

• Open Call 2024, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA

• “cultivate” World Art Day 2024 IAA/USA Members Group Show, International Association of Art USA in conjunction with Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition curated by Lisa Ames and Edem Elesh)

• Whereabouts, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (juried by Erica Wall, Director of the Lunder Institute for American Art, Colby College Museum of Art)

• Reputed, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Small Time, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Indistinct Chatter, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

2023

• Aurora, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Simulcrum, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (juried by James Panozzo, Launch LA)

• NOMAD II, Del Amo Crossing, Torrance, CA (invited by Sue-Na Gay, Assistant Curator Torrance Art Museum)

• The LAST CA101, presented by Friends of Redondo Beach Arts, Redondo Beach Historic Library, Redondo Beach, CA (curated by Nina Zak Laddon)

• Words On Printed Page, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Annual Summer Open Call, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA

• FULL BODIED, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Spectrum Gestalt 2023, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

• Text/Message, Shoebox Projects, A Division of Shoebox Arts, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Kristine Schomaker) (online exhibition)

• Informationary, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• non-sequitur, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Small Time, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• /reləvant/, presented by Ethos Contemporary Art, Legend Nano. Gallery, Techne, & Gen Art, Santa Monica, CA (curated by Georgeana Ireland, Ethos Contemporary Art)

• Coy, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Glossary, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (juried by Louis Stern, Louis Stern Fine Arts)

2022

• Open Show 2022, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (juried by Rebecca Lowery, Associate Curator Museum of Contemporary Art)

• The Non-Objective Moment, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (juried by Cheryl Perkey, Perkey Fine Art Advisor)

• Undisclosed Location, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Festoon, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Make Plain, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (juried by Stephen Swan, John Moran Auctions)

• RAINBOW SHIFT 2022, Art Share L.A. Los Angeles, CA

• Small Time, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Made in California 2022, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA (juried by Heather Bowling, Curatorial Staff, and guest juror Juliana Rico) (catalogue)

• “untitled” an open call, in celebration of World Art Day, International Association of Art USA, a partner of UNESCO, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Gleaming Apollo 2022, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Create Like A Woman, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition co-curated by Los Angeles City Council President, Nury Martinez and the Department of Cultural Affairs)

• Centered on the Center 2022, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA

2021

• We Are Home / Community Quilt Auction Benefit, SoLA Contemporary / 32auctions, Los Angeles, CA

• Holiday Marketplace “BLM”, Mar Vista Music & Art Walk at Alana’s Coffee, Los Angeles, CA

• Ceremonial, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Chestnut, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Ultra! / Future Tense with Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, Public Art Exhibition, Torrance Art Museum and Torrance High School, Torrance, CA (curated by Max Presneill, Sue-Na Gay, Hope Ezcurra, Jason Jenn)

• User to User, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Geographics, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (gallery exhibition juried by Chris Davies)

• OUT THERE, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (gallery and online exhibition juried by Bert Green)

• A Lovely Day, SCWCA Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition sponsored by Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art)

• We Are Home, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA (community quilt project coordinated by Shelley Heffler) (catalogue)

• Hard & Soft, Caroline S. Mark Gallery, Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, WI (gallery exhibition juried by Gerit Grimm and Emily Schlemowitz)

• FAT CITY, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• READY GO!, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Think Globally!, Southern California Women's Caucus for Art in honor of International Women's Day, SCWCA Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• GILD, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Remodeling in Process, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (gallery and online exhibition juried by Karen McLean)

2020

• Los Angeles Art Association's 2020 Open Show, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (juried by Shana Nys Dambrot)

• A Merry Vista Holiday Art Show, Mar Vista Music & Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Festoon, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Make Plain, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Alone Together: A Socially Distant Public Art Project, Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (online project)

• We Are Home, SoLa Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (community quilt project)

• Words on Printed Page, Los Angeles Art Association's Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Non sequitur, Los Angeles Art Association's Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Exalted One, Los Angeles Art Association's Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• California Sculpture SLAM, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA (online exhibition curated by Shana Nys Dambrot)

• Pulse of LA in the Time of Protest, SCWCA Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition sponsored by Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art)

• Habitual, Los Angeles Art Association's Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Field of Vision, Los Angeles Art Association's Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• indistinct chatter, Los Angeles Art Association's Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Pulse of LA in the Time of Quarantine, SCWCA Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition sponsored by Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art)

• OCCCA Today: Celebrating 40 Years, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA (invitational online exhibition)

• Gleaming Apollo, Los Angeles Art Association's Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Petite Works Sale, Los Angeles Art Association's Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (online exhibition)

• Calm, Centered, Calm, Torn, Stitched, Knotted, Chaffey Community Museum of Art, Ontario, CA (curated by Cindy Rinne)

• Technology & Ethics, George A.V. Dunning Courtyard, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA (facilitated by Yarn Bombing Los Angeles in response to the CSJ Center for Reconciliation and Justice 2020 Symposium, 21st Century Technology: Creative Possibilities and Ethical Conundrums)

2019

• 2019 Open Show, Los Angeles Art Association, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (juried by Ade Omotosho)

• Winter Solstice, MarinMOCA, Novato, CA (juried by Andrea Schwartz)

• Reused & Recycled, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (juried by Jean Shin)

• Accept, Embrace, Resolve, site-specific installation with Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

• Organic Synthetic, Embed Gallery, Chatsworth, CA (catalogue)

• Mar Vista Artwalk - The GetAround, Grand View Fine Art Studios, Los Angeles, CA

• L.A. Summer Residency Open Studios, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

• Unbound: Contemporary Rope Art, Highfield Hall and Gardens, Falmouth, MA (curated by Marcia Young)

• Street Surreal, Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA (curated by Cheyanne Sauter) (catalogue)

• One Hundred Vibrant Artists of Los Angeles, Neutra Institute Gallery and Museum, Los Angeles, CA

• Forest, For the Trees, Tom Bradley International Terminal, Los Angeles World Airport, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Julie Kornblum)

• Unfettered, sponsored by Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA

• Full Bodied - Los Angeles Art Association's Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA (juried by Erica Wall)

• The Neutra Contemporary 2019, Neutra Institute Gallery & Museum, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Dulce Stein)

2018

• 100% Festival, Otis College of Art And Design, Los Angeles, CA

• 100 Colors, a special installation in conjunction with 100 Projects, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

• One Hundred Vibrant Artists of Los Angeles, Neutra Institute Gallery and Museum, Los Angeles, CA

• Mar Vista ArtWalk, Grand View Fine Art Studios, Los Angeles, CA

• DULCEPOLLAZA, Neutra Institute Gallery and Museum, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Dulce Stein)

• UnGallery, presented by The Radical FEW, Los Angeles, CA

• Yarnbomb Redondo, Franklin Park, Redondo Beach, CA

• Mar Vista ArtWalk - Vertical - Grand View Fine Art Studios, Los Angeles, CA

• Celebrating Women, Location 1980, Costa Mesa, CA (juried by Jesse Fortune, Tracey Moloney, Kristina Rose Baker, Melody Owens) (catalogue)

• Mar Vista Artwalk - Carnaval, Grand View Fine Art Studios, Los Angeles, CA

• A PIECE OF ME in conjunction with New Threads: Perspectives In Contemporary Fiber Art, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA (with Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, curated by Karen Rapp)