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Selected Exhibitions
2025Public Works and Collaborations
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2021
- Brooklyn Hi-Art Machine collaboration with Blade of Grass
- Prospect Park Bandshell
- Month2 Month
- Crown Heights Mediation Center, Art for Community Change
- Shirley, A Monthly Reading Series, Questions on Gentrification, Brooklyn, NY
- Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine
- Stop-biting
Global Fence weaving project, The Song that I Sing is Part of an Echo curated by Yvonne Mwpo.
2020Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine public art installation, Inspired by "What is Left" organized by BRIC and Prospect Park Alliance.
2016Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine held a Gentrifiers Anonymous Meeting, a performance on gentrification as part of an event series organized by William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton.
Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine held a community discussion on gentrification and poster making workshop.
2015Performance and discussion with Oasa DuVerney as the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine.
2010-PresentCo-founder of an ongoing and constantly evolving public art project in collaboration with Oasa Duverney exploring community through art-making on Brooklyn sidewalks. As part of this project we have created 4 fence weavings, public works that exhibit for a year each. We have published The Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine presents a guide to Tenant Rights and Community Activities, a book that is distributed for free. We are currently working on a second edition of that book which will include interviews with low income Brooklyn residents about the impact of gentrification on their lives.
2000Self-published artist book made in collaboration with artist Scott Dolan.
Grants, Internships and Residencies
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2024
- Fabric Workshop and Museum Mini Residency
- Koda Lab Residency
- Metropolitan Museum Civic Practice Partnership Artist
- 2023
- Metropolitan Museum Civic Practice Partnership Artist
- NYU Latinx Project Residency
- 2022
- Koda Lab Residency
- 2021
- Queen Sonja of Norway Foundation (Print Award Nominee)
- 2020
- Joan Mitchell Grant, Nominee 2019
- Apex Art Travel Fellowship 2018
- BRIC Media Arts Fellow, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY. Awarded a ten month fellowship. 2017
- Santa Fe Arts Institute, Santa Fe, NM. Awarded a two month Water Rights themed residency. 2016
- NYU, Faculty Resource Network, Grimes Scholar-in-Residence.
- Rema Hort Foundation, Artist Community Engagment Grant. 2015
- Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Crown Heights Grant for the Brooklyn Hi-Art Machine. 2013
- Citizen’s Committee Grant for the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine.
- Lattie Coor Grant research grant, University of Vermont, for the Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine. 2011
- Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Awarded a one month residency.
- BAC Regrant Program, awarded a grant to continue The Brooklyn Hi Art! Machine, a community- based public art project. 2010
- Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Awarded a one month residency.
- New Yorkers for Better Neighborhoods Award/Grant from the Citizens Committee, awarded a grant to launch The Brooklyn Hi Art! Machine, a community-based public art project. 2003
- New York Foundation for the Arts, Grant recipient in Printmaking and Drawing.
Artist Talks/Panels & Curating/Jurying
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2017
- Happy Lucky No. 1
- Vermont College of Fine Arts
- Vermont College of Fine Arts
- Amherst College, Mildred Beltré, Recent work.
- Celebrating Prints 2015
- Art and Activism
- Open Engagement 2014: Live/Work, Queens Museum, Queens, NY.
- On Message Exchange Print portfolio, Organizer.
- Cooper Union, New York, NY.
- Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY.
- Albright College, Reading, PA.
- City Limits (online news/magazine).
- New Museum, New York, NY.
- Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
- 215 College Gallery, Burlington, VT. Guest Juror, Drawn.
- Bailey/Howe Library, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
Co-Curated Maybe Tomorrow with DJ Hellerman.
Visiting critic. Invited to give a talk and facilitate dialogues and conduct critique during the 10 day winter meeting of this low residency program.
2016Visiting critic. Winter session.
2015Gave a talk in conjunction with exhibit.
Juror for exhibition of prints by Eastern European artists, BBLA Gallery, Bohemian National Hall, New York, NY.
Panel discussion at AS 220, Providence, RI.
2014Participant on a panel entitled “Family life and Socially Engaged Art.”
Organized a portfolio of prints featuring artist from across the United States inviting them to participate in the history of printmaking as a means of dissemination of information.
Artist Talk.
2013Artist Talk.
2011Visiting Artist.
Interviewed on City Limits for video segment: Art When the Picture Changes: Race, Gentrification. City Limits video reporter Rae Gomes talked with Brooklyn artists about the role they play in capturing the complexity of race, the 1991 riots, and modern-day neighborhood change in Crown Heights. Produced by Don Mathisen. Watch video.
Invited participant for reading group in conjunction with a museum exhibition titled, Museum as Hub: Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet!, which was an exhibition, reading room, and discussion space inspired by the energy and politics of radical, independent African American periodicals published during the first half of the twentieth century. Participated in a public reading of selected readings from the exhibition as part of Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet!
2010Visiting Artist.
Curated a show of drawings by twenty artists.
2009Friends Of Special Collections Lecture Series 2009-2010. Artist Talk with artist Jane Kent.
Collections
- The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH.
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. Special Collections.
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Special Collections.
- University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
- Winona State University, Winona, MN.
- Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ.
- Johnson and Johnson Corporation.
- Carleton College, Northfield, MN. Special Collections.
- University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
- University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. Special Collections.
- Projecto ’ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Special Collections.
- Permanent Collective Richard R. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY.
- Southern Graphics Council Archives.
- Columbia College, Permanent Collection, Chicago, IL.
- University of Akron, Akron, OH.
Teaching Experience
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2016
- Teaching Artist, Vermont College of Fine Arts
- Associate Professor, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
- Adjunct Drawing Instructor, Cooper Union, Summer Outreach/Summer Intensive
- Teaching Artist, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
- Part Time Assistant Professor, Long Island University Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY, Bridge Program
- Full Time Lecturer, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
- Part Time Assistant Professor, Long Island University Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY, Bridge Program
- Adjunct Faculty, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
- Part Time Assistant Professor, Long Island University Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY
- Part Time Assistant Professor, Long Island University Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY
- Adjunct Faculty, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
- Citywide Arts Coordinator, New York City Housing Authority, NY
- Teaching Artist, Harborview Visual Arts, New York City Housing Authority, NY
- Artist/Educator, Classroom Connections, Museo Del Barrio, NY
- Teaching Artist, Urban Family Center, Henry St. Settlement, NY
- Visiting Artist, Henry Street Settlement, NY
- Artist/Educator, Museo Del Barrio, NY
- Color Woodcut workshop with Karen Kunc, Academy of Fine Art, New York, NY. 2006
- Water-based Silkscreen class with Roni Henning, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY. 2004
- Hanga Woodcut class with April Vollmer, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY. 2000
- Plate Color Lithography class with Devraj Dakoji, Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY. 1995
- Intaglio and bookmaking, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy.
- Multiple Plate Color Intaglio workshop with Warrington Colescott, Davenport Museum, Davenport, IA.
- Policing Motherhood Workshop in collaboration with Incite! National
- Another Politics is Possible Delegation Planning group
- Sisterfire, local New York chapter of INCITE! National Organization of Women of Color against Violence
- Escuela Popular Norteña, Valdez, NM, and New York, NY
- University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, MA & MFA degrees in Printmaking
- Carleton College, Northfield, MN, BA degree in Studio Art and Anthropology
Mentor graduate students attending the low residency program at VCFA.
2008-2016Teach a variety of courses: Drawing 1, Intermediate Drawing, Advanced Drawing, Relief Printmaking, Color Relief Printmaking, Etching, Projects in Printmaking, and 2D Design, created curriculum for all (promoted to Associate Professor in 2015).
2013-2016Teach 6 week drawing course for high school students assisted by current Cooper Union students, culminating in the installation of an exhibit.
2012(Summer) Taught 4-day Introduction to Woodcut Workshop courses.
2009(Summer) Designed and taught a printmaking course for an intensive for high school students taking courses for college credit. Developed print projects exploring the history of Brooklyn.
2008(Fall) Drawing 1 and 2D Design, created curriculum.
(Summer) Designed and taught a printmaking course for an intensive teen program linking projects with the history of Brooklyn.
(Spring) Designed curriculum for a Printmaking I class focusing on color relief printmaking.
Printmaking I class focusing on monotype, black and white woodcut, and intaglio.
2007(Fall) Printmaking I class focusing monotype, black and white woodcut, and intaglio.
(Spring) Designed curriculum for a Printmaking I class focusing on color relief printmaking.
2003-2006Designed and implemented new programs: provided training for NYCHA Center staff and consultants in printmaking, computer graphics, knitting and video programs. Supervised over twenty-five art consultants teaching in over fifty Community and Senior Centers in Brooklyn housing developments. Oversaw preparation of consultant teaching curricula. Participated in all aspects of the Annual Resident art show competition: coordinated collection of art work from over 100 community and senior centers, interviewed and hired jurors, arranged for framing of accepted works and return of rejected works, found locations for exhibitions and oversaw installation of show.
1995-2003Organized toursand workshops with artists and Community Centers at Metropolitan and Brooklyn Museums. Developed art classes for children ages 6-12 at various community centers in the five boroughs. Designed and conducted Latino Heritage art projects for children in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island centers.
1999Designed and conducted a two month long mural project in Lower East Side elementary school using the Santos exhibit as a basis for a lesson plan.
1998-2002Taught Family Arts: evening art class for adults and children. Coordinated and supervised teen staff assistants. Created, and twice a week conducted, an art program within a pre-existing after-school program.
1998Conducted a 10-week quilt-making project in a Brooklyn elementary school.
Conducted a 10-week workshop for adults and children based on current exhibition.
Professional Development
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2007
Community Organizing/Activism
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September 2008
Developed a workshop with women in Austin and New Mexico to be presented at the Critical Resistance conference in San Francisco. Workshop deals with the multiple ways in which poor and women of color are policed and how to work towards creating revolutionary alternatives and mutual support. Designed a zine containing stories of dealing with obtaining social services from the mothers who developed the workshop for distribution at the conference and other venues. Created plan of action for how to further the work.
March 2007-August 2007Worked with over 10 new York City based groups to organize delegation of activists, artists and community organizers and community members to attend the United States Social Forum in Atlanta. Raised over 35,000 through grants and grassroots fund-raising to send 60 adults and 13 children to the Forum to attend and coduct workshops. Designed Logo for delegation t-shirt.
September 2005-2008Brought together individual activist, artists and people in community to work collectively. Development of the Bartering Network that sought to create social change by creating new social relations, emphasizing skills-sharing, and popular education.
July 1992-2006Developed and conducted Popular Education based workshops for adults and youth on art as well as community issues for youth and adults. Participated in all aspects of organizing conferences such as scheduling, arranging travel and accommodations. Coordinated Children’s Art Program.