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Curriculum Vitae

Objective

  • Clay and a passport equal happiness in this world

Education

Bachelor of Fine arts | may 2020 | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

  • August 2017-May 2020, Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL 62026

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors

associate of Fine arts | may 2017 | Lewis and Clark community College

  • August 2012-May 2017, Lewis and Clark Community College, Godfrey, IL 62035

  • Associate of Fine Arts with Honors

High school Diploma | May 2012 | Civic Memorial High school

  • August 2008-May 2012, Civic Memorial High School, Bethalto, IL 62010,

  • High School Diploma. 

Exhibitions

2021

  • Ball State University Faculty Student and Alumni Exhibition, Arts Place. Portland IN 

  • Playing With Fire: Altered Atmospheres, Saratoga Clay Art Center, Schuylerville, NY

  • Cheers! Drink Up!, Commonwheel Artist Co-op, Colorado Springs CO

  • Last Call VI, Companion Gallery, Humboldt TN

2020

  • Traveling the World, The IN Art gallery, Online exhibition

  • BFA Thesis, , Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville IL

  • Metal and Mud, Edwardsville Art Center, Online exhibition

  • Expressions, Online exhibition

  • 2020

  • Last Call V, Companion Gallery, Humboldt TN

  • 7th Central Time Ceramics, Bradly University, Peoria IL

2019

  • Edwardsville Art Fair, Edwardsville IL

  • Raise a Toast, Edwardsville Art Center, Edwardsville IL

  • Art is… Giving, Jacoby Art Center, Alton IL

  • Cheers! Drink Up!, Commonwheel Artist Co-op, Colorado Springs CO

  • Student Art Show, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville IL

2018

  • Small Works Show, Wood River Museum, Wood River IL

2017

  • Small Works Show, Wood River Museum, Wood River IL

  • Student Art Show, Lewis and Clark Community College ,Godfrey IL

2016

  • Student Art Show, Lewis and Clark Community College, Godfrey IL

2015

  • Student Art Show, Lewis and Clark Community College, Godfrey IL

2014

  • Student Art Show, Lewis and Clark Community College, Godfrey IL

Awards/ Publications

2020 

  • Companion Gallery, Last Call V,  March

2019 

  • Award of Excellence, Edwardsville Art Fair, Edwardsville IL

  • Honorable Mention, Cheers! Drink Up!, Commonwheel Artist Co-op, Colorado Springs CO

2018

  • Merit Award, Small Works Show, Wood River Museum, Wood River IL

2017

  • Honorable Mention, Student Art Show, Lewis and Clark Community College, Godfrey IL

Service

Vice president | Wagner Potters Association | 8/20/19 – 5/20/20

  • Assisting with details of all fundraisers, visiting artists, trips, and extra curriculars activities

  • Helped President with bi-weekly meetings and scheduling.

Student Member | NCECA | 2018-2019

  • Monitored university table, answered questions, and relayed information about SIUE’s programs and benefits.

Apprenticeships

Worked under Ceramic master Giovani Battista Rea | Capena, Italy | May-2019 – Aug 2019

  • Assisted Battista with traditional raku firings, raku dolce, mosaic making, and teaching classes.

  • Assisted with teaching children and adults with wheel throwing, hand building and other technical skills.

  • Assisted with building public mosaic trees, through Happy Coaching and Counseling throughout Rome city. This includes working with children with creating beautiful works of art, along with teaching social and technical skills.

  • Assisted in creating mosaic benches, and trees in a small artist town called Tuffo

  • Assisted in creating mosaic goats for commissions.

  • Worked on developing my own skills with raku and raku dolce firings, low temperature firings, mosaic painting, and mosaic making.

Worked under Ceramic master Giovani Battista Rea | Capena, Italy | May-2018 – Jun-2018

  • Assisted Battista with traditional raku firings, and mosaic making.

  • Assisted with building public mosaic trees, through Happy Coaching and Counseling throughout Rome city. This includes working with children with creating beautiful works of art, along with teaching social and technical skills.

  • Assisted in creating a mosaic tree in a small artist town called Tufo

  • Assisted in creating mosaic goats for commissions.

  • Worked on developing my own skills with raku, low temperature firings, and mosaic making.

Private Collections

  • Ted Neal, Muncie, IN

  • Mike Stumbras, Edwardsville, IL

  • Joe Page, Edwardsville, IL

  • Matthew Wallace, Key West, Florida Keys

  • Giovanni Battista Rea, Capena, Italy

  • Riccardo Betti, Capena Italy

  • Rosina Wachtmeister, Austria

  • Joseph Mcfarlane, Godfrey, IL

  • Angela Hung, Alton, IL

  • Jessica Moore, Alton IL

  • Steven Heggem, Colorado Springs, CO

  • Aaron Wooten, Alamogordo, NM

  • Abby Peacock,Vincennes, IN

Public Collections

  • Mosaic leaves, Monterotondo Train Station, Rome Italy

  • Mosaic leaves, Tufo piazza, Tufo Italy

Artist Skills

  • Ceramic technical skills: Wheel throwing, coil building, slab building, mold making, textural design, slip trailing, inlay techniques, mosaic tile making, mosaic making, and some glaze chemistry.

  • Firing Skills: Cone 10 soda and salt, cone 10 wood, raku, raku dolce, luster, reduction gas, and electric.

  • Sculpture: Figure modeling and some wire building.

  • Metals: Riveting, soldering, patina, and etching.  

  • Printmaking: Intalgio, reductive wood cut, reductive linoleum cut, mono type, aquatint, dry point, soft ground, and acid etching,

  • Drawing: Pen and ink, charcoal, pencil and colored pencil, conte crayon, pastels, and drawing/image transfer.

  • Photography: Black and white film, film development, traditional image development, hand photo dying, and hand photo coloring.

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