Other Skills : Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva, felting, hand and machine sewing, exacto cutting, acrylic/ oil/ water color painting, resining, book making, mixed media sculpting, miniature making.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Center for visual arts
2009 – 2010 Commissioned to build a sculpture with 15 other teenage students from different schools. This project involved a lot of consensus building on the creative idea and problem solving skills to resolve different media attachment issues.
Eagle Rock School
2019 - 2020 Visual arts fellow working for AmeriCorps and Public allies. Lived on campus to help students at the school. Taught metalsmithing and other mixed media. Volunteered to help around the community with students, was an advisor to six students, supervised and helped run study hall with other instructional fellows.
Art Spark
2022 Helped lead and co- teach art classes in an art studio for kids of all ages. Set up, restock and cleaned all activities in all three classrooms. I assistsed in the fibers classroom, sculpture classroom, and painting classroom for afternoon classes and birthday parties.
Denver Botanic Gardens
2022 - current Creating and teaching science through art activities and lesson plans to teach K - 12 students about the environment.
EXHIBITIONS
2018 Center for Visual Arts, Santa Fe Drive, Denver, Colorado
2017 MSUD Hall Gallery, Metropolitan State University of Denver
2016 MSUD Hall Gallery, Metropolitan State University of Denver
2015 MSUD Hall Gallery, Metropolitan State University of Denver
2014 MSUD Hall Gallery, Metropolitan State University of Denver
2013 MSUD Hall Gallery, Metropolitan State University of Denver
EDUCATION
B.F.A 2018 Jewelry and Metalsmithing Metropolitan State University of Denver
Teaching Certificate 2020 Eagle Rock School
Botanical Illustration Certificate at the Denver Botanic Gardens 2023 -currently ongoing
AWARDS
GRANT AWARD
Spring 2018 Undergraduate Research Program
CONFRENCES
April 27, 2018 7th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference
April 2019 8th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference
July 2019 CoMA Conference
FEATURED ARTWORK
2018 Applied Learning Center Success Stories Magazine
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE or LEADERSHIP
United Ways: (Winter 2016, 2017)
Painted children’s faces for Christmas events.
Fiserv Investment Support Services: (winter 2009)
Organized and led the arts and crafts section of the company’s Christmas Party. Recognized for my ability to deal with children of different skill levels and their families.