Resumé

Education:

California College of the Arts BFA (ceramics/drawing) & MFA (glass/sculpture)

San Diego Mesa College, Architecture & Interior Design

Social Practice & Community Engagement through Art

• Vote Poster Campaign 2024, San Diego City College, San Diego, CA 
• California Arts Council Review Panelist, Impact Projects (PRJ) for 2024-25. Reviewed and ranked 40 applications for CAC.
• FREE ART 2024 San Diego CA; Health & Healing Summerfest Educational Cultural Complex; East Village downtown; Market & Uclide; front yard North Park
• Public Art/Public Sphere intensive workshop 2024, San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, San Diego, CA.
• Kumeyaay Design Exhibition Advisory Committee 2023-2024, San Diego City College Art Gallery. In conjunction with the San Diego/Tijuana World Design Capital
• Practice/Practica 2024, co-curated with Terri Hughes-Oelrich, was an exhibition conceived in conjunction with the San Diego/Tijuana World Design Capital 2024-25. It highlights practitioners whose design work synthesizes the material and social dimensions always present in architecture.
• FREE ART 2023 San Diego CA; San Diego Public Libraries (Paradise Hills, Logan Heights, Oak Park, College-Rolando & City Heights); Chollas Lake Park; front yard North Park
• Electrification, Equity, and Efficiency, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA 92104 2023. EEE provided information and resources about electrification and energy efficiency at the gallery through a month-long series of events with activities for all ages of the community.
• Map Project: 60 maps & 60 artists, curator, and participant, 2023. An art auction, & fundraiser. Raising close to $6000 for Earthlab San Diego
• Purifoy Detail Polaroids, five pieces accepted into the Noah Purifoy Tribute Artwork Archive, Culver City CA, 2023
• FREE ART 2022 San Diego CA; at Social Security & Immigration offices downtown; Old Town Transit area San Diego, front yard North Park
• Forces of Nature, temporary installation collaboration with Terri Hughes-Oelrich, San Diego International Airport 2020-2021
• Invisible Borders co-curator, 2019. Kim MacConnel’s The Beach Collection and small works by local artists were auctioned. The art auction raised over $3000 for Surfrider San Diego and Ocean Discovery Institute San Diego
• FREE ART (during the pandemic 2020 shut-down), Craiglist
• FREE ART 2019 San Diego CA; San Diego neighborhood libraries (Allied Gardens/Benjamin, Central downtown, Cairmont, Mission Valley; front yard North Park
• Dear Mister President, postcard campaign 2017-2019. Postcards printed with Dear Mister President on the front, the address of the White House, and a postage stamp on the back, with space for people to write and/or draw a message. Distribution was at community and art events.
• The Billboard Art Project 2010-2012; Quincy, IL; Atlanta, GA; Savannah, GA; Chicago, IL; Baton Rouge, LA. The project repurposed digital billboards into roadside galleries.
• FREE ART 2017 San Diego CA; community boards,  art cart, and art bag (various locations); Allied Garden/Benjamin Branch Library community event;  Figment art event @ Chicano Park; The Garden Party of the Century, Balboa Park centennial celebration event
• FREE ART 2016 San Diego CA; Encanto trolley station; Figment art event @ Chicano Park
• 2837 University Project, cooperative art project, interventions within North Park San Diego
• Vacancy 1, 2 & 3, 2008-2012 Artists were invited to participate in creating temporary installations in a one-bedroom apartment for one evening while the apartment was empty.
• Art Around Adams 2013, Sidewalk Relationship: Adams, installation/performance San Diego, CA
• Summer Salon Series 2012: Inspiration Framed, participatory/performance piece, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

Exhibitions

• The Last Group Show 2023, Bread & Salt, San Diego CA
• VAPA Larry T. Baza Art Scholarship Auction 2022 & 2023, Bread & Salt San Diego CA
• Posters of Optimism 2022, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA  
• LA Artcore (2008 & 2010), Solo Exhibition, Union Center for the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
• Art Pic 2010-2019, North Hollywood, CA
• Love No Love 2016, Mixed Media Gallery, San Diego, CA
• What Women Want, 2011, Femenist Image Group, Lyceum, San Diego, CA
• Canyon Shadow Play, Solo installation 2010, Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
• Global Warming: Artists Speak, 2007 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

Series

• Daily Affirmations 2003-2007. Four books, six 32”X48” drawings, fifty-five 8’X12” drawings
• Paper Wax Ribbon 2004-2008. PWR 1-5 fifty archival digital prints of various sizes 122”X132” - 24’X36”
• yaya 2010-2013. One thousand three hundred & ninety-seven photos, one hundred and sixty archival digital prints of various sizes
• sq sq 2014-2015. Three hundred & ninety-nine photos, twenty archival digital prints 24”X24” & 12’X12”
• FREE ART, 587 pieces, polaroids, and repurposed drawings & prints

Residency

• Desert Diary Residency, 2020, Twenety-nine Palms, CA

Work experience:

• I co-owned a small construction company specializing in wall finishes, Adobe restoration, and interior design, which gave me extensive experience in project management, contracting, budgeting, and collaborating with industry professionals.
• At Ikea San Diego, I was responsible for interior design, adapting roomsets to fit the store, implementing visual merchandising directives, project management, and collaborating with teams at the store location and headquarters.
• At REI in San Diego, I led visual merchandising and opened new stores, implementing HQ directives for floorsets, sales setups, fixture placement, and product placement, while collaborating with vendors and serving as the new store opening Team Lead. After the early 2020 shutdown, I reorganized the store layout to meet COVID-19 protocols in 10 days.