Education
2020 University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, MFA Painting
2020 Olds College, Olds, AB, Artisan Weaver Certificate (4 year program)
2013 University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, MSc Occupational Therapy
2011 Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, BSc, Majors Studio Art and Health and Exercise Science
Grants / Awards
2023 Edmonton Arts Council Major Artist-Driven Project, Sampler: Weaving beyond the grid
2022 Canada Council Explore and Create Grant, Weaving Lore
2022 Canada Council Jean A Chalmers Fund for the Crafts Grant, Weaving as Language, Code and Ritual
2021 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Project Grant, On the Grid, Icelandic Textile Residency
2021 Public Art Project Grant: Large Scale Metal Wind Screen Sculpture, Downtown Edmonton
2020 Canada Council Grant, Weaving Worlds: Digital Animation
2020 Edmonton Arts Council Creative Reserve Grant
2019 Don McColl Graduate Fellowship, University of Alberta
2018 Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research Travel Award, University of Alberta, Research travel to Morocco
2018 Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship, University of Alberta
2018 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Scholarship, Master’s
2018 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Graduate Scholarship
2018 Images of Research Competition: Second Prize, University of Alberta
2018 Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship, University of Alberta
2013 Lisa Lynn Leinweber Memorial Award, University of Alberta, Academic and extracurricular excellence
2011 Honorary Distinction for Studio Arts Major, Wake Forest University, Awarded for essay and body of artwork
2010 Wake Forest University Undergraduate Painting Award
Select Artistic Exhibitions
2024 Unmakers, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Solo Exhibition, Curated by Jessica Groome
2023-2024 Mayor’s Office Exhibition, City Hall, Edmonton
2022 Homeward, DC3 Art Gallery, September 2022, MAKE Collective
2021 The Scene, Art Gallery of Alberta, January 2021, Curated by Danielle Siemens and Lindsey Sharman
2021-2023 Never Ending Poetry, TREX Traveling Exhibition, Curated by Genevieve Farrell
2020 Schmoozy, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Curated by Michelle Schultz
2020 How to Press Flowers, Parallel Space, Curated by Stephanie Patsula
2020 Materials Hard + Soft, International Contemporary Craft Exhibition, Texas, Curated by Beth McLaughlin
2020 (IM)MATERIAL, FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, Solo Exhibition, Catalog
2019 Art in Ubiquity: The Handwoven Tea Towel, Edmonton Weavers’ Guild, Alberta Craft Council
2018 50 Years Rat Free, FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, Group Exhibition
2018 Transplanted, University of Montana MFA Exhibition, Group Exhibition
2012 Layers of Consciousness, Naess Gallery, Edmonton AB. Solo Exhibition
2011 Documenting Uncertainty: Remnants of Experiments in Oil and Wax, Hanes Art Gallery, Solo Exhibition
Publications / Talks / Residencies
2023 Weaving and Music publication in Handwoven Magazine
2023 Collage, Guest Lecture, Red Deer Polytechnic
2022 Handwoven: A search for new knowledge in old weaving stories, Artist book produced in collaboration with Penrose Press
2021 Ewart Duggan House Residency, Esplanade Gallery in Medicine Hat, AB
2021 Woven Utopia magazine feature by Lise Silva Gomes, Oakland CA
2021 Yarn - Thread - String: Making, Manufacturing, Creating, Edited by Janine Vangool of Uppercase Magazine
2020 The Bauhaus Weaving Workshop, Guest Lecture for “Modernism and Modernity: The Bauhaus” seminar with Steven Harris, University of Alberta
2020 FAB Gallery’s (IM)MATERIAL Questions the Way we Transmit Knowledge, Gateway article by Rachel Narvey
2019 Art in Ubiquity: The Handwoven Tea Towel, Editor, Documentation of 65 years of weaving at the Edmonton Weavers’ Guild
2019 Textile as Language in Fes, Morocco, Edmonton Weavers’ Guild Artist Talk, Edmonton, AB
Teaching
2020-present Founder and Owner, Gather Textiles Studio, Edmonton, AB
2020-2021 Principal Instructor, Painting 411, University of Alberta
Professional Affiliations
2020-present Society of Northern Print Artists (SNAP)
2020-present Guild of Canadian Weavers
2016-present Edmonton Weavers’ Guild (EWG)