FX Shops
2024 NDA Award Fabrication Project
2024 Jim Henson's Creature Shop- Junior Fabricator (3 Projects)
Awards & Grants
2023 Pensacon Short Film Festival 2023 Official Selection (His Final Bow? Film)
2022 Xperimental Puppetry Theater Director Grant for His Final Bow? Film
2020 FSU College of Fine Arts Department of Art Undergraduate Area Award: Sculpture
2020 Xperimental Puppetry Theater Director Grant for Chaotic Hour Film
2019 “Rookie of the Year” at the Center for Puppetry Arts
2019 Florida State University SIX Research and Creative Grant
2018 Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge LIVE! Honorable Mention
2018 David A. & Linda Knoph Emerging Artist for the Artists' League Summer Salon
Exhibition, Competition, and Display Record
2023 Pensacon Short Film Festival Official Selection: Animation for Adults- His Final Bow? (2022)
2022 Creative Tallahassee Exhibition (Both Digital and at City Hall Art Gallery in Tallahassee, FL)
2021 Creature Concepts for Masterpiece of Puppetry: Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance at the Center for Puppetry Arts
2021 Creative Tallahassee Exhibition
2020 Split/Level -BFA Fall Thesis Exhibition at the FSU MoFA
2020 Coral Reefscape for FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory with Carolyn Henne and Dr. Sandra Brooke
2020 Assistant/Collaborator to Keith Roberson for CERN in Switzerland [Cancelled due to COVID-19]
2020 Untitled Show with Covalent Reality (VR/AR/Inventing Agency) [Cancelled due to COVID-19]
2019 Colors of Humanity Art Gallery Show: Red (Juried Show)
2018 Jim Henson’s Creature Shop Challenge LIVE! (Competition)
2018 Florida State University Artists’ League Summer Salon: Global Warning (Juried Show)
Projects (Films, Programs, Etc.)
2023-Present GHASTLY PHANTASMS Classic Horror Fanzine (Editor-in-Chief, Creative Director, Artist, and Writer)
2021 I Could Just Die, and That Would Be All Right (Film) by A.K. Espada (Creature Designer)
2021 The Late Night Puppet Slam at Dragon Con (Live Show: 900 People Audience) (Puppeteered/Performed in 3 Pieces, Co-Created and Fabricated for Hot Potato)
2021 A Game of Fate (Film) for the LA Guild of Puppetry (Director, Camera, Fabricator, Puppeteer, Composer, and Editor)
2021 Chaotic Hour (Film) for Xperimental Puppetry Theater 2020 (Director, Fabricator, Puppeteer, Composer, and Editor) [Postponed due to COVID-19]
2020 The Amygdala of Misha (Film) for Split/Level Exhibition (Director, Camera, Fabricator, Puppeteer, Composer, and Editor)
2020 Paranoimia (Film) for The Late Night Puppet Slam at Dragon Con (Director, Camera, Fabricator, Puppeteer, and Editor)
2020 Vigi’s One Hope (Film) for the LA Guild of Puppetry (Director, Camera, Fabricator, Puppeteer, Composer, and Editor)
2020 Motion Capture Puppetry Lab at Florida State University (Director) [Ended due to COVID-19]
2019 The Holiday Puckin' Fuppet Show in Atlanta, GA (Fabricator and Puppeteer for a piece with Kenny Oaster)
Curating, Consulting, Etc.
2022-Present Editor & Technical Illustrator for PCI Bridge Design Manual
2022 Official IHEEP 2022 Conference Photographer
2021 Animation Production Art Dealer for a Private Collection (Current)
2020 Curator of Jan and Her Friends Exhibition at the FSU MoFA
2018 Curator (in Team) for Regimes of Visuality: Print Culture and Haiti During the Age of Revolution at Florida State University
2017-2022 Florida Department of Transportation Graphic Designer and Consultant
2016-Present Aspire Bridge Magazine- Social Media Consultant
Publications
Classic & Foreign Horror Film Magazine Illustrator (Listed as Published):
Screem Magazine:
2022 Issue 41 Oct. 31st, 2022 (Illustration: TETSUO: THE IRON MAN)
Contributing Writer:
2024 Women Take the Conn "Logic and Love: The Two Sides of Leila Kalomi"
Calendars:
2023 Flora, Fauna, & Florida Calendar for Print St. Pete (February Page) Riso Print
Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition Research Co-Publisher:
2018 “Japanese Textiles & Prints” Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, 2018.
2017 “Broken Ground: New Directions in Land Art” Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, 2017.
2017 “Bell & Belman Education Packet” Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, 2017.
Internships
2018 Intern for Museum Directors of the FSU MoFA
2017 Intern for Art Education Department of the FSU MoFA (2 Semesters)
Exhibitions/Projects: Judy Chicago’s Birth Project: Born Again, Alphonse Mucha & Art Nouveau, Land Art- Broken Ground, New Beginnings, Cinema Judaica, Bell & Belman, Asian Works from the Permanent Collection
Guest Speaker
2022 Guest Co-Host discussing Zdeněk Liška on The Niche on WSFR, Suffolk Free Ratio (Suffolk University)
2020 Visiting Artist for Soft Sculpture at Florida State University
2020 “Art, Puppets, and Classic Horror” at Infinity Con Tally 2020 (Virtual)
2020 Visiting Artist for Puppetry Arts Day at the FSU MoFA
2019 Joseph Cashore Puppetry Workshop: Notable Participant with Jan Kaufman and Linda Hall
Volunteer Work
2023 Hollywood Heritage Museum Committee Member
2023 Museum Docent at Hollywood Heritage Museum in Los Angeles, CA
2020 St. Marks NWR- Volunteer, Full Body Character Performer, Photographer (Since 2008)
2019 Center for Puppetry Arts- Puppeteer, Museum, House Management, Outreach Events (Summer)
2019 Florida Wild Mammal Association- Volunteer & Photographer (From 2011 to 2019)
2017 Operation Migration- Volunteer & Full Body Character Performer (From 2008 to End of Program)
2015 H.A.R.T. Program- Wakulla Correctional Institution Dogs- Producer & Video Editor (1 Year)
Education
2020 BFA: Studio Art at Florida State University College of Fine Arts (Magna Cum Laude; President's List: Spring 2020, Summer 2020, Winter 2020; Dean's List Fall 2017-Winter 2019)
Programs/Skills
Multiple Years of Experience: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Concept Art, Drawing, Painting, Photography, Puppet Building, Puppeteering, Microsoft Office, Research (Historical & Contemporary), Sculpting, Storyboarding
Some Experience: 3D Printing, Acrobat Pro, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Costume Character Performing, Exhibition Curating, Isadora, Laser Cutting, Mold Making (Alginate, Plaster, Silicon Rubber) Motion Capture, Museum Installations, SculptrVR, SketchUp, Stop Motion Animation, Tinkercad, Welding, Woodwork, Writing/Publishing
*Each program and skill feeds into the knowledge I utilize for my work. Some are ones I can no longer do myself for medical reasons, but have a basic grasp of so that I may direct another person to execute the vision.