EDUCATION
2016 Parsons School For Design, BFA, Fashion Design, New York, NY, GPA: 3.94
Dean’s List, Dean’s Scholarship, Designer of the Year Nominee, Valedictorian Nominee
RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2024 Platteforum, Artist in Residence, Denver, CO (forthcoming)
2023 American Craft Council, Emerging Artist Cohort
Aquarium Gallery and Studios, Artist in Residence, New Orleans, LA
Krumville Artist in Residence, Artist in Residence, Krumville, NY
Vermont Studio Center, Artist in Residence, Civil Society Institute Fellowship Recipient,
Johnson, VT
2022 The Wassaic Project, Artist in Residence, Education Fellow, Wassaic, NY
2021 The Sable Project, Artist in Residence with Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theater,
Stockbridge, VT
Elsewhere Museum, Artist in Residence, Greensborough, NC
Art Farm, Artist in Residence, Marquette, NE
2020 Arte Sumepaz, Artist in Residence, Cundinamarca, Colombia
Museo de Juguetes, Artist in Residence, Mexico City, Mexico
2019 AIRIE: Artist in Residence in Everglades, Artist in Residence with Agile Rascal Bicycle
Touring Theatre, Everglades National Park, Florida
Aloha Redland, Artist in Residence, Homestead, Florida
2018 ARoS Museum, Artist in Residence with Flux Factory, Aarhus, Denmark
Children's Museum of the Arts, Teaching Artist in Residence, New York, NY
2017 - 18 Museum of Arts and Design, Van Lier Fellow, New York, NY
Flux Factory, Artist in Residence, Queens, New York
2017 The Watermill Center, Artist in Residence, Water Mill, NY
TEACHING + VISITING ARTIST
2023 Hewlett-Woodmere School, Visiting Artist, Woodemere, NY
2022 Abrons Arts Center: Summer Camp, Visual Arts Teaching Artist, New York, NY
St. John’s Kilmarnock School, Visiting Artist, Breslau, ON, Canada
PS197 with Groundswell, Collaborative Mural Project, Lead Artist, Brooklyn, NY
2021 PS295 with Groundswell, Collaborative Mural Project, Lead Artist, Brooklyn, NY
(virtual)
2020 Street Lab at Queens Museum, Visiting Teaching Artist, Queens, NY
PS19 with Art Bridge, Collaborative Mural Project, Lead Artist, Queens, NY (virtual)
Museum of Arts and Design Drawing and Sewing Summer Camp, Lead Instructor,
New York, NY (virtual)
Bank Street School, Visiting Artist, New York, NY (virtual)
2019 William Floyd School, Visiting Artist, Brookhaven, Long Island, NY
PS106 with Big Green Theatre, Costume and Set Design Teaching Artist, Brooklyn, NY
British International School, Visiting Artist, New York, NY
2018 San Francisco Day School, Visiting Artist, San Francisco, CA
Phillip Brooks School, Visiting Artist, San Francisco, CA
Parsons School for Design, Professor, Soft Sculptures: An Introduction to Sewing,
Pattern-making and Draping, New York, NY
PS 188x with Groundswell, Collaborative Mural Project, Assistant Teaching Artist,
Bronx, NY
Sunnyside Community Center for Seniors, Volunteer Teaching Artist, Queens, NY
2016 - 18 Children’s Museum of the Arts, Teaching Artist, New York, NY
2016 Sweet Generation Bakery, Collaborative Mural Project, Lead Artist, New York, NY
New England Fashion + Design Association, Sewing and Pattern-Making Instructor,
Southfolk, CT
2015 - 18 Accessible Art: Adaptive Art program for Disabled Youth at PS811x, Co-creator,
Co-Founder and Teaching Artist, Bronx, NY
2014 Brooklyn Free School, Weekly Volunteer Art Teacher, New York, NY
Muskoka Woods Summer Camp, Fashion Design Instructor, Muskoka, ON
2013 - 14 Free Arts: After School Art Mentorship, Volunteer Teaching Artist, New York, NY
WORKSHOPS
2024 Make a Mini Monster, Artists for Kids Gordon Smith Gallery, Professional Development
Workshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Monster Mask Making, Audacious Project at TED, New York, NY
Share Your Pledge: CommUNITY Flag, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Brooklyn, NY
2023 Wave Your Flag, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Brooklyn, NY
Creative Riding Workshop, Co-Facilitator with Agile Rascal Theater, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, NY
2022 Scrappy Puppet Making, Groundswell Professional Development, Brooklyn, NY
Scrappy Puppet Making, Villa Maria School, Stamford, CT
Art in the Park, Maria Hernandez with Groundswell, Brooklyn, NY
Monster Play!, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Wave Your Flag, BAM - Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Eco-Theater Design + Puppetry, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Scrappy Puppet Making, Academy for Teachers (virtual)
Mask-Making, Hayground School, Bridgehampton, NY (virtual)
Scrappy Puppet Making, Youth Artists Initiative, New York, NY (virtual)
2020 Scrappy Puppet Making, Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY (virtual)
Scrappy Puppet Making, Rise Life Services, Waterhead, NY (virtual)
MAD Digital Drop In: Mask-Making, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
(virtual)
Scrappy Puppet Making, Giant Room, New York, NY (virtual)
MAD Digital Drop In: Puppet-Making, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
(virtual)
Mascaras y Ingles - Masks and English, Pilares Community Center, Mexico City, MX
2019 Mascaras, Akumal Mural Festival, Akumal, MX
Embodiment: Costume Making, Youth Arts Initiative, New York, NY
2018 What is Home? CommUNITY Quilt Workshop, ARTogether Workshop with Refugee
Families, San Francisco, CA
Kreate Your Own Kooker, Museum of Arts and Design, Studio Sunday, New York, NY
Giant Upcycled Textile Puppet, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
CommUNITY Flag, Springs School, East Hampton, NY
Kreate Your Own Kooker, Sag Harbor Arts Center, Sag Harbor, NY
2017 Kreate Your Own Kooker, MAD Makes, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Kreate a Kollaborative Kooker, Museum of Arts and Design, ArtsLab: Teens Workshop,
New York, NY
Kreate Your Own Kooker, Head Start Family Program (Ages 3-5), The Watermill
Center, Water Mill, NY
Kreate Your Own Kooker, Sag Harbor School, The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY
2016 Kreate Your Own Kooker, Load Out! Fourth Arts Block, New York, NY
Bodies are Beautiful, Parsons School for Design, New York, NY
Makerspace: Bike Accessories, Youth Bike Summit, St. Paul’s, MN
This is Not_____: Anti-Cat-Calling Cards, The Lowline, New York, NY
GRANTS
2021 Queens Council for the Arts, $3000 New Works Grant
2018 - 19 Create NYC Disability Forward Fund, $20 000 Grant for TALK BACK, The NYC
Department of Cultural Affairs
2015 New Challenge Grant for Social Justice, $5000 for Accessible Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Futurescaping, The Giant Room, New York, NY
Unforgotten, MUJAM, Mexico City, MX
2019 A World Built from Scraps, FabScrap, New York, NY
2018 Fellow Focus: Kookerville, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Welcome to…, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Interwoven, Bob’s Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 The Art of Conversation, Artists for Kids & Gordon Gallery of Canadian Art, Vancouver,
BC, Canada
2022 Garmenting: Costume and Contemporary Art, Museum of Art and Design, New York,
NY
2019 Wicket Leeks, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
Happy Family Night Market, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
Sunday Painter, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
2018 Anything! Flux Factory, Queens, NY
Sincerely Yours, Little Berlin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2017 In Process, The Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY
2016 Meet the Kookers!, Fourth Arts Block, New York, NY
Talent, New York Textile Month, New York, NY
Construct, Wanted Design, New York, NY
Saks Fifth Avenue Window Display, New York, NY
The Future Now, Kellen Gallery, New York, NY
Kookerville, Destination Moon Music and Art Festival, Wurtsboro, NY
Mural Mural, Prince of Bronze Warehouse, New York, NY
Parsons Store-y Pop-Up Shop, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York, NY
2015 Maker’s Display Case, 2 West 13th Street, New York, NY
CURATORIAL AND ORGANIZING
2022 I’m a Monster, I’m a Flower, I’m Everything at Once, Visiting Teaching Artist, featuring
the work of disabled artists from Youth Arts Initiative, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2020 Nobody’s Fashion Week, Exhibition that reimagines the fashion industry from the
bottom up, Co-curator with Jaime Iglehart, Dew Igworia-Onwuko and Johanna
Schwab, Flux Factory, Queens, NY (virtual)
Drink + Draw, Organizer, Monthly Virtual Event (Ongoing)
2019 TALK BACK, An exhibition for artists and organizers with disabilities, Co-curator with
moira williams, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
2014 - 18 Blissful Bedrooms for Disabled Youth, Volunteer Core Organizer, Bronx, NY
INSTALLATIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2024 Ghost Bike, Visual Designer, Agile Rascal Theater, Philadelphia, PA (forthcoming)
2023 The Poetic Line, Costume Design + Performer for Ama Codjoe, Guggenheim Museum,
New York, NY
Manifesting Monsters, Puppet Designer + Fabricator for Chris Ignacio, The Exponential
Festival
2022 Mammelephant, Visual Designer, Superhero Clubhouse, New York, NY
Invitation to Monster, Performance in collaboration with Jenny Hipscher, Garmenting:
Costume and Contemporary Art at Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
RA: Voices of the Past, Songs of the Future, Puppet Designer, Metropolitan Opera
Education Program, New York, NY
Other Orbits: Real PlaNet Life, Puppet Designer, Applied Mechnaics, Philadelphia, NY
2021 Somewhere, Puppet Designer, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Plushies!, Pop-up installation with Street Lab, New York, NY
Other Orbits: Youth, Visual Designer, Applied Mechnaics, Philadelphia, NY
2020 Big Green Theater: The Movie, Illustrator, Puppet Designer and Puppeteer, Superhero
Clubhouse and Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn, NY (virtual)
2019 To Hunt a Wild Utopia, Prop and Puppet Designer, Agile Rascal Bicycle Touring Theatre,
Bethlehem, PA
Big Green Theatre, Prop Designer, Superhero Clubhouse and Bushwick Starr,
Brooklyn, NY
Good Time Pedalers' Preservation Carnival, Puppet and Set Designer, Agile Rascal Bike
Touring Theater, Miami, FL
2018 River Alive! Interactive Theatre, Puppet Designer, Permanent Exhibition produced by
Habitheque, Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Harold of Good Ideas, Prop and Costume Designer, Superhero Clubhouse, Brooklyn, NY
The High Line Summer Festival, Installation Designer, New York, NY
Zaubernaucht! Prop Designer, Jody Oberfelder Production, New York, NY
2016 - 17 Major Parade in Tokyo, Assistant Costume Designer, Irina Kruzhilina, New York, NY
MURALS AND PUBLIC ART
2022 Take Care of the Earth and Each Other, Collaborative Mural at PS197, Lead Artist,
Brooklyn, NY
2021 Your Silence Will Not Protect You, Collaborative Mural at PS 295, Brooklyn, NY
A Playful Resistance, Permanent Installation at Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC
2020 Hop! Jump! Play! Mural at PS 109, Queens, NY
2019 Siempre Amor, Mural at Cielo Tostado, Medellin, Colombia
Sky Weaver, Mural as part of Akumal Mural Festival, Akumal, Mexico
Celebrating 100 Years in New York, Mural Artist with Groundswell and Canadian
Council in New York, New York, NY
Glaggly Glog, Sculpture at BernART Maze, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
2018 The Harbor School, Collaborative Mural at PS59, Lead Mural Artist, Staten Island, NY
Left Brain / Right Brain, Public Art Piano with Sing for Hope, Unisphere, Queens, NY
Our Dreams, Collaborative Mural at PS188x, Assistant Mural Artist, Bronx, NY
Rising Skies, Mural at Villa Anita, Death Valley, NV
2017 Gathering and Grown, Mural at Sure We Can (Recycling Center), Brooklyn, NY
Splattering Art, Storefront Mural at The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Let’s Play! Public Art Piano with Sing for Hope, Green Belt Nature Center, Staten Island,
NY
It's Showwwtime! Mini-Golf Hole, Figment Arts Festival, Governor’s Island, NY
2016 NYC Parks: Bridgewater Park, Assistant Mural Artist, Brooklyn, NY
The Sky is Not The Limit, Collaborative Mural at Sweet Generation Bakery, Lead Mural
Artist, New York, NY
2015 Fabric Playground, Figment Arts Festival, New York, NY
What Else? Mural at Buffalo Backpackers, collaboration with Jerad Kew, Pristina,
Kosovo
Welcome! Mural at Joyce N’ Fun, Skiathos, Greece
SELECT LECTURES
2024 Visiting Lecturer, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY (forthcoming)
2023 Visiting Lecturer, Morivian University, Bethlehem, PA
2022 Visiting Lecturer, Unruly Images, New York University, New York, NY
Visiting Lecturer, Artists Now! Lecture Series, University of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
Visiting Lecturer, The Oxbow School, Napa, CA
Keynote Artist Speaker, National Art Education Association Convention, New York, NY