library collections:
MCA Tribute Zine is a personal project being held at the National Gallery of Art’s Library in Washington DC.
The District Almanac is a collaborative project being held by University of South Carolina’s Cooper Library; Herron Art Library, Artists’ Book Collection; CalPoly, Kennedy Library, Special Collections; Corcoran College of Art + Design Library, Artists’ Book Collection; Mills College, Olin Library, Special Collections; SCAD, Jen Library, Artist Book Collection; UCLA Biomedical Library, Special Collections; UC Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Special Collections; University of Miami, Richter Library, Special Collections; University of Michigan, Art & Architecture Library, Special Collections; University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections
Patina is a collaborative portfolio is being held by the Library of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections
major artistic work + achievements:
book installation thesis exhibit Art + the Book at the Corcoran Museum April 24–May 17th 2013
bombay sapphire artisan series semifinalist artwork chosen to showcase + compete for a show at Art Basel Miami, International Visions Gallery, Washington DC October 13th - November 2nd, 2012
collaborative book installation with Kate Hanrahan of printwork + digital photography selected to be featured at the Contemporary Arts Center exhibition NOLA NOW II: L+scape, Seascape, Cityscape, New Orleans, February/March 2012
two person open studio Narrative Geographies: Mapping Empathy printmedia installations + jewelry by Andra Aitkin, prints + print-installation work, New Orleans, August 2011
two person exhibition of print work with Pippin Frisbee-Calder at the Lost Love Lounge, New Orleans, January 2010
solo installation growing collards conceived + ran a design/build interactive folk arts installation playfully engaging food security + history of greens in New Orleans at Gris Gris Lab, New Orleans, October 2nd-December 10th 2010
growing collards kiosks, remote contribution + viewing sites for Growing Collards were accepted + run through Louisiana Artworks at Editions At Dawn Contemporary Printmaking Show; The Multispecies Salon: 3 Swarm at The Front Gallery + The Old Ironworks as part of PS 1.5; + through PhotoNOLA for their Slideluck Showcase at Generations Hall. Additionally a fourth kiosk was run at the Food Security Conference at the Shelton Hotel. All sites in New Orleans in October + November of 2010
solo window installation art piece Olneyville Tea Party, an interactive series of r+om conversations over tea, Dirt Palace Store Front Window Gallery, Nov 6th-Dec 1st 2009
lesser artistic work + achievements:
relax portfolio an exchange print portfolio of alumni, faculty, + current graduate student’s in Corcoran’s Art + The Book program. The Fridge Gallery, Washington DC November 16th-Dec 30th, 2012
exhibited work in paper making group show, White Walls Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art + Design, Summer 2012
patina portfolio a collaboration 10 Art + the Book related artists from Corcoran College of Art + Design was purchased by the Library of Congress in June 2012, Exihibited at Open Studio DC May 12-30, 2012
featured poet on [sic] Detroit’s online zine, February 2012
exhibited printwork for group show Attention at the Caos Gallery, Washington DC, February 2012
exhibited printwork for a book arts group show in window box gallery at the Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington DC, December 2011
panelist of book artists + curators in Gallery 31 for the Indie Print Library Exhibition at the Corcoran, Washington DC, November 2011
participated + exhibited in Current Events Print Exchange show at the Carpenter Gallery, Providence, November 2011
exhibited printwork on request for Trouser Houses’s Prospect 2 satellite show Salon de Refuses, New Orleans, October/November 2011
exhibited printwork, installation, + digital photography on rotation at the Contemporary Arts Center during the NOLA NOW Part I exhibit featured as part of Prospect 2, New Orleans, October 2011-January 2012
workshop facilitator with Nsumi Collective on Swarm Intelligences at the Creative Time Summit: Living as Form, New York, NY September 2011
work selected to be exhibited in Swan River Yoga on Magazine in the massage treatment room, (work has since been moved to Swan River in Mid-City), New Orleans, July 2011
exhibited + co-organized an Art Auction for the New Orleans Community Printshop, New Orleans, June 2011
participating artist contributing recipe + baked good for Artist Bake Sale: a creative fundraiser for 723 Louisa Street, New Orleans, December 2010
printwork selected + exhibited for Re-Act show at Loyola College, New Orleans, November 2010
printwork selected + exhibited for a jurored show at DuMois Gallery, New Orleans, June 2010
exhibited printwork for a wall of New Orleans based printwork for a display of local signage at Louisiana Artworks, New Orleans, April 2010
contributed text to Stephen Kwok’s piece enemy as part of his installation Denominators at Trouser House Gallery + Urban Farm, New Orleans, LA, March 2010
self published poetry book “28” December of 2009
contributor of four works to the txt mstrpc lbry, a project of Douglas Paulson at PS1, Long Island City, NY, Oct 2-4th, 2009
assisted with we build a city together, a project of Andrew Oesch + Meg Turner at RISD Museum, Providence, RI, Sept 26th, 2009
participant in art collective flux factory, contributing hand painted floor signage for their NYNYNY project Dec 16-January 19th, 2008
self printed book “Press On” with collected poetry, art, + photographs from 1999–2004, Dec, 2004
Featured in Word of Mouth Poetry Preliminary Reading 2003, + invited back in 2004 to read + their year anniversary.