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SCHOOL

2026
Cranbrook Academy of Art 
2D MFA Candidate
 
2020
Maine College of Art & Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design with Honors


WORK

2023
Adjunct Faculty in Graphic Design
Bookbinding & alternative print process
Maine College of Art & Design 

2022—2024
Graphic Designer, full time
Maine College of Art & Design 

2021—2023
Risograph Instructor
Risograph poster and zine-making workshops 
Maine College of Art & Design 


PUBLICATIONS

2024
FULL TIME JOB
Collaboration with Poet, Michaela Bean—Self-published

2023
i can do it too.
Collection of trucks and truck performance—Self-published

Fruits & Nuts
Archive of life—Self-Published

The Last Season On Earth
Exhibition Catalog
Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine

Got Blow?
Archive of Y2K Clapback T-Shirts —Self-published

2022

Working Waterfronts
The First Coast—The Island Institute, Camden, Maine

Can I Touch it?
Archive of 1970’s Porn Staches —Self-published

Poetics of Process
Exhibition Catalog—Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine

2015—2017

WMEB Art & Music
Annual community arts magazine
Archived, Raymond H. Fogler Library



RESIDENCIES




2023

Design Inquiry—Around Work
Vinalhaven, ME

2022

Design Inquiry—Bewilder
High Meadow & Frank Llyod Wright’s Falling Water, PA



SOLO SHOWS


2023

Rolling Coal
82 PARRIS GalleryPortland, ME





SELECT GROUP SHOWS

2023


House Warming
82 PARRIS—Portland, ME

ARTPM
BOUY Gallery—Kittery, ME

The Last Spin
New Systems Exhibition—Portland, Maine

2020

SPLAY
Able Baker Contemporary—Portland, ME

[ON] Now
Center for Maine Contemporary Art—Rockland, ME

Send Nudes
Moisturizer Gallery—Gainsfield, FL

Art of Protest
Engine Gallery—Biddeford, ME



ARTIST TALKS

2023


Seven Minutes in Heaven
Luce Spirits—Rockland, ME

2020

The Happening Series
Virtual