Education:
Graduate Jeweler, GIA 2016
Bachelor of Arts Applied Design, emphasis in Jewelry and Metalsmithing, San Diego State University 2014
Bachelor of Sciences Marketing, San Diego State University 2014
Glassblowing workshop with Hyunsung Cho "Small Objects with Big Stories" Penland Schhol of Craft, North Carolina 2014
Flameworking workshop with Cedric Ginart and Karina Guevin "Tempted by Fire" Pilchuck Glass School, Washington 2014
Glass casting workshop with Masahiro Asaka “Construction and Subtraction” Penland School of Craft, North Carolina 2013
Glass casting workshop with Jude Schlotzhauer “Experimental Glass Casting” Arrowmont School of Craft, Tennessee 2013
Glassblowing workshop with Jin Hongo “Material, Process, and Form,” Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine 2012
Glassblowing at Palomar College, California 2009
Honors and Awards:
GIA Graduate Jeweler Scholarship
Windgate Fellowship Grant recipient 2014
Penland School of Craft Scholarship recipient 2014
SNAG Conference scholarship recipient 2014
Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts, Friends of Arrowmont Scholarship recipient 2013
Penland School of Craft Higher Education Partners Scholarship recipient 2013
San Diego Gem and Mineral Society William Tirk Scholarship recipient 2013
SDSU/Haystack Mountain School of Craft Fellowship recipient 2012
PSFA Purchase Award at SDSU “Juried Student Award Exhibition XIII”
Lectures:
- Visiting Artist Lecture and Demo, San Jose State University 2015
Exhibitions:
- Collector's Choice, Greenhill Gallery, Greenhill, SC 2014
- Galerie Marzee International Graduate Exhibition, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands 2014
- Rule the World, Friends of Carlotta, Zurich, Switzerland 2014
- Interactive Red Carpet Exhibition, SNAG Conference, Minneapolis, MN 2014
Resolutely Ambiguous, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 2014, Juror: Masako Onodera
Open Field Running SNAG Annual Juried Student Exhibition, SNAG Conference, Minneapolis, MN 2014 Jurors: Brooke Marks-Swanson and Gary Schott
SDSU Juried Student Award Exhibition XVI, Everett Gee Jackson Gallery, San Diego, CA 2014
Refined VIII: Maker’s Choice Reavley Gallery of the Cole Art Center Austin, TX 2014, Juror: Cindi Strauss
Materials Hard & Soft Greater Denton Art Center Denton, TX 2014
Craft Forms 2013 Wayne Art Center Wayne, PA 2013, Juror: Lena Vigna
Material Witness Dalton Gallery ASC Decatur, GA 2013
Siamese Connection Brooklyn Metal Works Brooklyn, NY 2013 Jurors: Erin S. Daily, Brian Weissman
Confluence Juried Student Exhibition, SNAG Conference, Toronto, Canada 2013, Jurors: Cheryl Fraser, Robert Longyear
SDSU Juried Student Award Exhibition XV Everett Gee Jackson Gallery, San Diego, CA 2013
Faktura Winthrop University Gallery Rock Hill, SC 2013, Juror: Susie Ganch
SDSU Applied Design Exhibition Francis Parker Gallery, San Diego, CA 2013
SDSU Juried Student Award Exhibition XIV Everett Gee Jackson Gallery, San Diego, CA 2012
Free Fridays Sculpture Show Everett Gee Jackson Gallery, San Diego, CA 2011
SDSU Juried Student Award Exhibition XIII Everett Gee Jackson Gallery, San Diego, CA 2011
- Comatose in the Sculptorium Flor y Canto Gallery, San Diego, CA 2010
Publications:
Lapidary Journal, February 2016
Corning Museum of Glass New Glass Review #36
Marzee Annual Graduate Exhibition catalog
SDSU School of Art, Design, and Art History Best of the Semester catalog 2014
Craft Forms 2013 exhibition catalog
SDSU School of Art, Design, and Art History Best of the Semester catalog 2013
Material Witness exhibition catalog
Confluence SNAG Annual Juried Student Exhibition catalog
Professional Experience:
Designer/Marker at ENJI Studio Jewelry
Jeweler at Julez Bryant 2016
Galerie Marzee internship August-October 2014
Lost Wax Casting demo for SDSU Intermediate Jewelry class Spring 2013
SDSU Jewelry/Metals Studio, Lab Assistant 2012-present
Jeweliany/SDSU summer internship, May-August 2012
Apprentice for Gabriella Sarfi (SASA Glass, Hungary) 2008
Professional Affiliations
- SNAG member since 2012
- Ethical Metalsmiths member since 2016
- WJA member since 2014
- American Craft Council member since 2015