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)