EDUCATION

2002    MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University

1999    BFA, Wichita State University

 

EXPERTISE

Accomplished in community outreach and recruitment to special projects and events. Gallery management, programming, organization, and fundraising. Proficient in Canvas and Banner online platforms.

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

 

2014-present Harvester Arts.  Wichita, Kansas.

Co-founder & COO. Shared responsibility of artist selection, event and exhibition concepts, advertising, marketing, scheduling, fundraising, grant writing, obtaining sponsorship, community outreach and programming for a new local non-profit arts organization. Harvester brings guest artists to Wichita to create new work and facilitates opportunities for local artists and community members to participate in the process. Additionally, we have partnered with Wichita Festivals to start an annual Harvester Arts/Riverfest Artist in Residence and recently partnered with Symphony in the Flint Hills to facilitate an NEA grant in support of George Ferrandi’s, JumpStar project.

 

2017 VibrantICT

Creative consultant and community organizer for VibrantICT, to help facilitate a Knight Foundation grant awarded to Connie Bonfy that will bring vibrant art events and pop-up music events to downtown Wichita.

 

2014-2016 Arts A’Maize, Chamber Music at the Barn.  Maize, Kansas.

Creative consultant and community organizer for Arts A’Maize, to help facilitate a 2-year NEA Our Town grant awarded to the City of Maize via Chamber Music at the Barn.

 

2013-present Riverfest Sundown Parade, Wichita Festivals, Inc. Wichita, Kansas.

Creative consultant assisting in the organization of the annual Riverfest Sundown Parade. Successfully recruited new participants into the parade as well as helped ensure recurring participants have entertaining entries for the 40,000 plus spectators.

 

2013 Power of the Public Library, Wichita Public Library. Wichita, Kansas.

Grant facilitator and organizer. Selected and managed artists for completion of art installations. Managed funding and secured company sponsorship allowing artists to complete installations in their windows in Downtown Wichita, Kansas. Funded through Activate Wichita via The Wichita Community Foundation, John S., and James L. Knight Foundation & the Wichita Public Library Foundation.

 

2012 Yarn Bombing, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas.

Organized and implemented a large, community-driven, collaborative project where teams of participants “yarn-bombed” several of the sculptures of the Ulrich Museum of Art’s outdoor sculpture collection at Wichita State University. The project was a great success that brought thousands of people to campus over the course of a week.  

 

2010 Art Pride Parade. Wichita, Kansas.  

Conceived, organized and implemented the Art Pride Parade in the Delano district of Wichita as a celebration of the arts in our city. Obtained sponsorships and trades that supported the implementation of the event that featured artists of every kind, and their supporters.

 

2007-2013 Founding member, Co-Director, Hack.Art.Lab. Wichita, Kansas.

A collaborative team of artists, educators, technologists and engineers, Hack.Art.Lab (H.A.L) provided an environment for learning and exploration. By connecting professional and nonprofessional artists and technologists, we created projects offering new perspectives in art and technology. We developed activities through creative engagement with science and technology.

 

2007-08   Interim Director, WSU ShiftSpace Gallery, Wichita, Kansas.

At Wichita State University, I established a new, enduring gallery structure for the University’s ShiftSpace Gallery. This included the coordination and supervision of multiple student gallery attendants as well as gallery management, exhibition installation and object handling for monthly gallery exhibitions and fundraising strategies and events. This includes Project RUNaWAY; a ticketed, annual fundraiser that continues today. My work at WSU ShiftSpace further highlighted the gallery as a priority within the College of Fine Arts and thus a priority for funding within the WSU Foundation. Under my direction, we were awarded permanent, on-going support from the WSU Student Government Association; ensuring the gallery would become a stable fixture within the University.  

 

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

2017 Public Art Panelist, City Arts, Wichita, Ks.

2016 Public Art Panelist, Wichita Festivals, Inc. City Arts, Wichita, Ks.

2014 Harvester Arts presentation, Wichita State University, Wichita, Ks.

2013 Pecha Kucha presentation, Art Chatter event, Wichita Art Museum. Wichita, Ks.

2012 Creative Rush, First Tuesday event, Wichita, Ks.

2011 Artist presentation, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo.

2011 Artist presentation, University of the Pacific. Stockton, Ca.

2010 Zero hour with Tim Bowring, radio interview. Richmond, Va.

2009 Gallery Talk, Hack.Art.Lab, Steckline Gallery, Newman University. Wichita, Ks.

2009  Artist Presentation, From Observation, WSU ShiftSpace Gallery. Wichita, Ks.

2008 Gallery Talk, Steckline Gallery, Newman University, Wichita, Ks.

2007 Artist Presentation, Artforum, Emporia State University. Emporia, Ks.

2006 Artist Presentation, Colorado State University. Fort Collins, Co.

2006 Artist Presentation, Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, Mi.

2005 Gallery Talk, Babcock Gallery, Sweet Briar College. Amherst, Va.

2005 Artist Presentation, Kansas City Art Institute. Kansas City, Mo.

2005 Artist Presentation, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Il.

2004 Gallery Talk, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Va.

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2017 Harvester Arts awarded funding for our inaugural class of Creative Fellows through

                      the Knight Foundation Fund at the Wichita Community Foundation.

2017 Ford Foundation Grant, Harvester Arts with Sharon Louden for visiting artist

panel on “Living and Sustaining a Creative Life in Kansas.”

2017 Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission Grant, Harvester Arts

With The Seedhouse-La Casa De La Semilla, Inc for visiting artist panel on “Living and Sustaining a Creative Life in Kansas.”

2016 Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission Grant, Harvester Arts

With The Fisch haus & Tallgrass Film Festival for Neighborhood Superstar Award

2015 Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission Grant, Harvester Arts with

Wichita Festivals, Inc to bring Wayne White as Riverfest Artist in Residence

2014-2017 Arts Council Grant for Harvester Arts Satellite Artists, Wichita Arts Council

2014 Arts Advocate Individual Award, Wichita Arts Council

2010 Kansas Arts Commission. Kansas Innovation Grant, Individual Artist Award

2010                Kansas Arts Commission mini project grant-via River City Biennale.

2004/2005       The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship Award.

2002                Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate Student Travel Grant.

2001-02           Virginia Commonwealth University Commonwealth Award.

2000                Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate Teaching Fellowship.

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2012 Luminous, Box 13, Houston, TX

2012 New Genre Arts Festival XIX, collaboration with Hack.Art.Lab, Living Arts, Tulsa, OK

2011 MixMasters, collaboration with Hack.Art.Lab, Greensburg, KS

2011 You Complete Me..., Hack.Art.Lab at Paragraph Gallery as part of the Urban Culture Project, KCMO.

2011 The Art of Adornment: Artists Embellish the Body, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS

2010 Dream Come True, Mulherin Pollard Projects, NYC.

2010 Indigenous Territory, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA. one-person show.

2010 Supercellica, a traveling/evolving Squirrelly Girls event, Walnut Street Gallery, Wichita, KS.

2010 River City Biennale, Wichita, KS.curated by H. McGraw

2010 Cultivating Strategy, Hack.Art.Lab, White Gallery, Butler Community College, El Dorado, KS.   

          Exhibition concept/artist selection.

2009 SCOPE: Miami, with ADA Gallery(RVA), Miami, FL.

2009 A Few Small Steps, Hack.Art.Lab, Steckline Gallery, Newman University, Wichita, KS.

          Exhibition concept

2009 A Fluid Wilderness w/Sandra Luckett, Hack.Art.Lab, CACV, Virginia Beach, VA.

2009 Cadence, Hack.Art.Lab at PDCon09, PureData Convention, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

2009 Blood Promise, live performance with Lisa Rundstrom, Fischhaus, Wichita, KS.

2009 Supercell, a traveling Squirrelly Girls exhibition. ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA.

2009 Supercell, a traveling Squirrelly Girls exhibition. Couchfire Coll., Columbus, OH.

2008 rEvolve, Hack Art Lab (H.A.L) at The Diver Studios, Wichita, KS.

2008 lumens, Steckline Gallery, Newman University, Wichita, KS. (two-person show)

2007 16th  WSU School of Art and Design Faculty Biennial, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS.             

2007 Stratification, Trish Higgins Fine Art, c/o The Frame Guild, Wichita, KS. (one-person show)

2006 Ephemera, Project Creo Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FLA.

2006 Unambiguous, a curated, printed exhibition. Artworld Digest Magazine, published by David Cohen, NYC. *

2006    Shuffle, Exhibition concept. City Arts, Wichita, KS.

2006    in/action, Exhibition concept. WSU ShiftSpace Gallery, Wichita, KS.

2006    Polite Society, Exhibition concept. RSC Gallery, WSU, Wichita, KS.

2006    Pulse 2006, co-curated with P. Baldes for 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA.

2005 Postcards from the Edge, VisualAIDS benefit c/o Robert Miller Gallery, NYC.

2005 Radius250, Artspace. Curated by John Ravenal, VMFA curator, Richmond, VA.

2005 Build-up, Babcock Gallery, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA. (one-person show)

2005 Notions of Expenditure, Initiated by A. Laurie Palmer with Gallery 400. Univ. of Ill., Chicago.

2004 Faculty Exchange, Don Bosco College, Kathmandu, Nepal.

2004 Postcards From the Edge, VisualAIDS benefit c/o Brent Sikkema Gallery, NYC

2004 Night of 1000 Drawing’s, Artists Space, NYC.

2004 Second Nature, Project Creo Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FLA.

2004 Transformers, Transformer Gallery, WDC.

2004 Indulge, 1708 Gallery Benefit Auction, Richmond, VA.

2004 Echo, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA. (three-person show)

2004    Pulse 2004, co-curated with P. Baldes for 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA.

2003 25 x 25, 1708 Gallery 25th anniversary invitational, Richmond, VA.

2003 Silent Auction, Spike Gallery, NYC.

2003 Night of 1000 Drawing's, Artists Space, NYC.

2003 Lustre, Stefan Stux Gallery, NYC.

2003 Art To Go, 1708 Gallery benefit auction, Richmond, VA.

2003 Rame Panorama, Orange Door Gallery, Richmond, VA. Curated by Heide Trepanier

2003 Reflexance, Transformer Gallery, WDC. (three-person show)

2003    Squeeze, FAB Gallery, VCU, Richmond, VA. Visiting Artist/Curator

2003    Lemons, FAB Gallery, VCU, Richmond, VA. Visiting Artist/Curator

2002 Fashion Victims with Sandra Luckett, Wearable Art, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA.

2002 Faculty Show, Bedford Gallery, Farmville, VA

2002 Landscape(detail),Thesis, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA. *

2002 Rising Visions, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA. Curated by Heide Trepanier

2002 Options 2002, Tenth biennial, WPA/Corcoran, WDC. Curated by Victoria Reis *

2001 B Hotel, PS1 MOMA, NYC.

2001 Flower Fall, Project: Video, 1000 W. Broad, Richmond, VA.

2001 Tractor Pull, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

2001    Slur, Bradford Gallery, VCU, Richmond, VA. Visiting Artist/Curator

2000 Antelope to Zebra, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA.

2000 Abstract Act, Bradford Gallery, VCU, Richmond, VA. (two-person show)

1999 Kansas Health Foundation, Wichita, KS. (one-person show)             

1999 Trish Higgins Fine Art, Wichita, KS. (one-person show)

1999 Three Painters, FE 26, Wichita, KS. (three-person show)

 

 

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