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PRESS

Meet Morgan Street - Voyage LA (digital magazine)

Nebraska Stories (PBS) - featuring Cloud Pavilion in progress

GRANTS + RESIDENCIES

Home of the Brave Residency - Cisco UT / 2020

Art Farm Residency - Marquette NE / 2019, 2020

City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Grant recipient / 2018-2019

EDUCATION

Pratt Institute / Bachelors of Industrial Design (BID) / class of 2010

Bread and Puppet / Apprentice / Summer 2012

Center for Craft in America / Pomo Basket Weaving / January 2019

Penland School of Craft / Contemporary Black Ash Basketry / August 2019

Arcosanti / Silt Casting Intensive / November 2019

AEOE Environmental Educator Certification / June 2024

SELECT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Co-Founder / Dawn Chorus / 2024-present

Program Director / Camp Augusta / 2024-present

Program Director / Woolman at Sierra Friends Center / 2022-2023

Project Director / Beam Center / 2013-2021

Lead Designer, Fabricator & Educator / Morgan Street Studio / 2010-2021

Model Shop Instructor / Art Center College of Design / 2017-2020

Site Manager & Teaching Artist / Side Street Projects / 2014-2017

Artist Mentor / New Urban Arts / 2013-2014

Lead Fabricator / Michael Whitney Studio / 2010-2013

Lead Fabricator / MAKE / 2010-2013

Fabricator / Furry Puppet Studio / 2012

Prop and Costume Builder / Jim Henson Studio / 2010

Creature Shop Intern / Jim Henson Studio / 2009

Creature Intern and Performer / Big Nazo Puppets / 2004-2007

EXHIBITIONS + SPECIAL PROJECTS

2020

Shop Class on Disney+ / Contestant, S1:E4 + S1:E7

Residency Exhibition / Cisco, UT

2019

Art Harvest / Art Farm - Marquette, NE (collaboration with Evan Murphy)

Central City Auction - An Interactive Performance / LA Art Core - Los Angeles, CA (collaboration)

2017-2018

Display Collection / Freehand Gallery - Hollywood, CA

2015

The Artist as Provocateur / The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery - Brooklyn, NY

Line Attack Four / The Hive Gallery and Studios - Los Angeles, CA

2014

Dear Diorama / Craftland Gallery - Providence, RI

Nightlight / Flux Factory - Queens, NY

Modern Spin / The Narrows Gallery - Fall River, MA

Wood Camp / Beam Center - Brooklyn, NY

2013

The Artist Loop / Dryden Gallery - Providence, RI

Mentor Exhibit / New Urban Arts - Providence, RI

Automata and Mechanical Sculpture / Moses Brown School - Providence, RI

2012​

Shadow Box Theater / public roaming performance - Brooklyn, NY (collaboration with Hannah Dunne and Zibby Glass)

Cosmos Dome / FMLY Fest - Brooklyn, NY (collaboration with Nick Engel)

2010

Making Meaning / Pratt Design Center - Brooklyn, NY