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Exhibitions, Film Festivals, and Performances

​​Education

MFA, The University of Colorado

Studio Art: Film

 

BA, DePauw University

Studio Art: Video Magna Cum Laude

Exchange, The Glasgow School of Art

Animation and Illustration

Film Festival Judge

2024

Earth in Focus Film Festival - Finalist Judge

Jackson Wild Media Awards - Editing Category

2023 

Jackson Media Awards - Editing Category

2022

Jackson Wild Media Awards - Presenter-Led Category

 
Lecturing

2023

Wildlife Direct Safari Storylab (Nairobi, Kenya) - Post Production

Jackson Wild LatinX Media Lab (San Diego, CA) - Editing

2019

Front Range Community College (Westminster, CO) - Editing

2015-2016

Indiana University (Bloomington, IN) - Video Art and Digital Art

2011-2013

University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO) - Film History TA

Exhibitions, Film Festivals, and Performances

 

2024

  • San Souci Dance Film Festival | “(Re)Brilliancy” Official Selection | Role: Editor (Boulder, CO)

  • Jackson Wild Media Awards | “Kuishi Na Simba” | Awards: “Global Voices” Finalist | Role: Editor, Co-Producer (Washington, DC) - Upcoming September 2024

  • Wildscreen Panda Awards | “Kuishi Na Simba” | Awards: “Emerging Talent” Finalist | Role: Editor, Co-Producer (Bristol, UK) - Upcoming September 2024

  • Earth In Focus Film Festival | “The Old Bear” | Role: Co-Director, Editor, Producer (Singapore) - Upcoming November 2024

  • There Are Still Wild Places | Film and Performance | Role, Co-Director, Filmmaker | Indiana University Cinema (Bloomington, IN) - Upcoming November 2024

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2023

  • Pridelands Wildlife Film Festival | “Kuishi Na Simba” | Role: Editor, Co-Producer | Awards: Best in Festival, Best African Film, Best Storytelling (Nairobi, Kenya)

  • Wild Earth Oceania Film Festival | “Kuishi Na Simba” | Role: Editor, Co-Producer (Adelaide, Australia) 

  • Out of Africa International Film Festival | “Kuishi Na Simba” | Role: Editor, Co-Producer (Nairobi, Kenya)

  • New York WILD Film Festival Explorers Screening | “Kuishi Na Simba” | Role: Editor, Co-Producer (New York, NY)

  • Nature Without Borders International Film Festival | “Kuishi Na Simba” | Awards: Outstanding Excellence | Role: Editor, Co-Producer (Rehoboth Beach, DE)
     

2021

  • NY Emmy Awards | “Isolation To Creation” Nominated for Documentary Cultural | Role: Editor, Screenwriter (New York, NY)

 

2020

  • “Life Is A Dream” | Play Adapted For Film | By Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Directed by Shaun Patrick Tubbs | Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School | Role: Editor, Edit Producer (New York, NY)

  • “Plano” | Play Adapted For Film | By Will Arbery, Directed by Danya Taymor | Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School | Role: Editor, Edit Producer (New York, NY)

  • “Cardboard Piano” | Play Adapted For Film | By Hansol Jung, Directed by Jade King Carroll | Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School | Role: Editor, Edit Producer (New York, NY)
     

2018 

  • Colony 933 | Immersive Performance and Video | Role: Video Editor, Performer | Artistic Director Kate Speer, Commissioned by Control Group Productions (Denver, CO)

  • First, Do No Harm | Immersive Performance and Video | Role: Filmmaker, Performer | Director Tara Rynders, The Clinic Performance | Rose Memorial Hospital (Denver, CO)

 

2017

  • Southern Colorado Film Festival | “Birds of America”, Official Selection | Role: Filmmaker (Alamosa, CO)

  • The Body and Transcendence Film Screening | “Birds of America”, Official Selection | Role: Filmmaker (Bloomington, IN)

  • Birds of America | Video Art Gallery Exhibition | Filmmaker | Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)

  • Drawn by Nature | Performance and Video | Role: Co-Director with Sarah Lasley, Performer, Filmmaker | The Fuller Projects (Bloomington, IN)

  • Between The Veils | Performance With Video | Role: Director, Filmmaker, Performer | ATLAS Black Box Studio (Boulder, CO)

  • Birds Of America | Performance with Video | Role: Director, Filmmaker, Performer | Zaccho Theater (San Francisco, CA)

 

2016

  • BombArt | Performance | Popup Curated by Drea Cofield | Performance Art | Role: Artist, Performer (Brooklyn, NY)

  • 2015

  • WAXworks | Performance | Triskelion Arts | Video and Performance | Role: Artist, Performer, Filmmaker (Brooklyn, NY)

  • apARTment #2 | Group Show | Curated by Melissa Beck | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Brooklyn, NY)

  • Workroom - Lonely Collective | Group Performance Art Show | FiveMyles Gallery | Role: Artist, Performer, Filmmaker (Brooklyn, NY)

 

2014

  • Convergent Forms | Multimedia Performance | Role: Co-Director, Artist, Filmmaker, Performer | Penasco Theatre (Penasco, NM)

  • Geopoetics | Interactive Video and Performance | The Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati Performance Series | Role: Director, Filmmaker, Performer (Cincinnati, OH) 

  • Monkey Town 4 | Video and Performance | Curated by Montgomery Knotts | Role: Director, Filmmaker, Performer (Denver, CO)

  • Event Horizons | Choreographic and Video Collaboration with the Boulder Symphony and the Metro State Orchestra | Role: Director, Performer (Boulder, CO)

  • Beneath The Text | Video and Dance Collaboration | ATLAS Black Box Theater | Role: Artist, Performer (Boulder, CO)

  • Not Waving | Video and Dance Collaboration, Performance | Irey Theater | Role: Filmmaker, Performer (Boulder, CO) 2013

  • The Split Wild | Original Transmedia Opera, Creator| ATLAS Black Box Theater | Role: Director, Filmmaker, Performer (Boulder, CO) 

  • 26th Annual Dallas Video Fest | Video Screening | Video Cafe | Role: Director and Filmmaker (Dallas, TX)

  • Front Range Film Festival | Solo Screening | Firehouse Art Center | Role: Director, Artist, Filmmaker, Performer (Longmont, CO)

  • Person/Object. Time/Place | MFA Exhibition| The University of Colorado Art Museum | Role: Artist, Filmmaker  (Boulder, CO)

  • Surviving The Art Show | Performance Happening | Dream Canyon | Role: Artistic Director, Performer (Sugarloaf, CO)

 

2013

  • The King Competition | Juried Show | CU Visual Arts Center | Role: Artist (Boulder, CO)

  • Everything Must Go | Multimedia Performance Group Show| The Mercury Café | Role: Artist, Performer (Denver, CO)

  • Immortal Jellyfish | Multimedia Performance Group Show  | BOMCA | Role: Artist, Performer, Filmmaker (Boulder, CO)

  • BYOB Denver | Group Video Screening | RedLine | Role: Filmmaker (Denver, CO)

  • First Person Cinema | ATLAS Auditorium | Graduate Student Showcase | “The Intimate Words Deer Whisper To Each Other At Dusk” | Role: Director, Filmmaker (Boulder, CO)

 

2012

  • Experiments in Cinema v 8.53 Film Festival | “The Complect Voice”, Official Selection | The University of NM (Albuquerque, NM)

  • Antimatter Film Festival | “The Complect Voice”, Official Selection | The Vic  (Victoria, BC, Canada)

  • Life After Preservation | Solo Screening | Firehouse Art Center | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Longmont, CO)

  • Invasion | Multimedia Performance Group Show | ATLAS Black Box Theater | Role: Artist, Performer  (Boulder, CO)

  • Autogenesis | Multimedia Performance Group Show | BMOCA | Role: Artist, Filmmaker, Performer (Boulder, CO)

  • MIA: Strange Loop Film Screening | “The Complect Voice”, Official Selection | The Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA)

  • Automatica | Multimedia Performance Group Show | Mercury Café (Denver, CO)

  • Chaos(SIO)2Trope | Multimedia Performance Group Show | ATLAS Black Box Theater | Role: Performer, Filmmaker (Boulder, CO)

  • Now You Can Believe a Word We Say | Group Show | Counterpath Gallery | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Denver, CO)

 

2011

  • Dissolve | Video and Music Performance Created in Collaboration With Composer Jonathan Sokol | DePauw University, Peeler Arts Center Auditorium | Role: Director, Filmmaker (Greencastle, Indiana)

  • Dissolve | Video and Music Performance Created in Collaboration With Composer Jonathan Sokol | Paper Crane Gallery | Role: Director, Filmmaker (Bloomington, IN)

  • Annual Juried Show | Juried Show | Low Road Gallery | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Greencastle, IN)

  • Overneath | Group Show | CU Visual Arts Center | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Boulder, CO)

  • Time | Group Show Curated by Ben Valentine | Low Road Gallery | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Greencastle, IN)

  • National Society of Arts and Letters Emerging Artists Exhibition | Juried Show |Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts Gallery at Indiana University | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Bloomington, IN)

 

2010

  • The Twenty-Something Myth | Solo Video Art Show | Art Hospital Gallery | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Bloomington, IN)

  • Dreaming of Forests | Videos created for the play by Doug Bedwell | Produced by the Bloomington Playwrights Project | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Bloomington, IN)

  • 5th Annual Juried Show | Juried Show | Halcyon Gallery | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Terre Haute, IN)

  • Monster Art Show | Juried Show | Paper Crane Gallery | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Bloomington, IN)

  • Findlay Area Artists Exhibition | Juried Show |The Toledo Museum of Art | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Toledo, OH)

 

2009

  • You Can't Go Back | Solo Show of Video and Prints | Halcyon Gallery | | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Terre Haute, IN)

  • Menagerie | Videos in Grand Opening Duo Show | Low Road Gallery | | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Greencastle, IN)

  • 4th Annual Juried Show | Juried Show | Halcyon Gallery | | Role: Artist, Filmmaker(Terre Haute, IN)

  • Snap To Grid | Group Show | Los Angeles Center for Digital Art | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Los Angeles, CA)

  • NEVER THINK small! | Group Show | Climate/gallery | Role: Artist (NYC)

  • DePauw Art Department Senior Show | Video in BA Show | The Galleries at Peeler   | Role: Artist, Filmmaker (Greencastle, IN)

  • DePauw Juried Student Arts Show, Greencastle, IN | Role: Artist (accepted annually 2005 - 2008) 

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