EDUCATION: PROGRAMS/CERTIFICATIONS
2024 MFA Fiction: Landscape, Ecology, Community track, Eastern Oregon University
2017 BFA Textiles, Book Arts minor, Oregon College of Art and Craft
2012 BA Literature, University of Central Florida
2010 AA Studio Art, Valencia College
EDUCATION: SELECTED CLASSES/PROGRAMS
2023 Herbalist Training Program, Elderberry School of Botanical Medicine
2022 Nature Writing Intensive with Daniela Molnar
2021 Strange Architecture, short fiction, Thea Chacamaty
2020 Herbalism and Ecology program, Arctos School of Herbal and Botanical Studies
2020 Creative Forms of Art Criticism, NODE Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin
2020 Everything is Medicine, Mastra Olivia Chumacero, School for the Ecocene
2020 The Alchemical Imagination, Eliza Swann, the Golden Dome School
2020 Metamorphoses: New Forms from the Body and Language, Leigh Hopkins / Lidia Yuknavitch, Corporeal Writing
2020 Turning Toward the Flower, flower essence intensive, Liz Migliorelli / Sister Spinster
2020 Dark Forest/Light Forest, poetry, Catie Hannigan
2020 Dislocations: Writing as Body, Brigid Yuknavitch / Corporeal Writing
2019 Daily Attendance, poetry, Catie Hannigan
2019 Scent and Hollow-Cast Forms, Emily and Michael Endo, Pilchuck Glass School
SELECTED GROUP and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 What Else is Here?, with Erika Callihan, Sou’wester
2021 The Alchemical Imagination, Golden Dome School
2020 INTERWOVEN: an outside art show set in a field of kiwi vines
2019 Flowers are Dogs Smiling, Waving, Boathouse Microcinema
2019 MIRROR, Womxn House
2019 F*ck Film School Fest, Third Room
2017 Fulcrum, 321 NE Davis
2017 May Day, Oregon Contemporary (formerly Disjecta)
2016 Knot Happening, Centrum Gallery
2016 Fibers Juried Show, Hoffman Gallery
2016 Matrix to Multiples, Flux: The Edge of Yesterday and Tomorrow, Southern Graphics Council International Conference
CHAPBOOK/ZINE PUBLICATIONS
2020 night sea crossing
2018 Bloomswelling
2017 So What if I'm Unfolding?
SELECTED WEB FEATURES
2024 Four Sacred Plums, interview
2021 Regarding Dew, interview
2021 Journal.fyi, visual response to Mohammed Murshed’s “Patterns do Furnish a Life”
2021 Women Read podcast
2020 Lyeberry HQ Instagram takeover
2020 Journal.fyi, experimental response to Kalaija Mallery’s “Virtuous Beasts”
2019 Reality Hands
2019 Pom Pom
2018 SUSAN / The Journal
2018 Summer Field Guide, Meadow residency
2017 Estranged.love, digital exhibition
PRINT FEATURES
2024 It’s Important that the Bug Undulates: Interview with Anida Yoeu Ali, The Stranger
2020 Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Art Papers
2020 Sorority Mansion
2019 Safe Spaces, issue 2
2019 SAND: Berlin's English Literary Journal, issue 19
CURATORIAL & EDITING PROJECTS
2023-present Co-Founder/Editor, The People’s Wetland Project
2019-20 Co-Founder/Editor, Critical Viewing
2019-21 Founder/Editor, soft surface
2017-18 Co-Founder/Editor, PAL
2016 Co-Curator, Knot Happening, Centrum Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECTED CULTURAL WRITING / INTERVIEWS
2024 Exhibition text: A Place Between, Amy Bay, Shiela Laufer, Sherise Lee, and Anya Roberts-Toney, La Loma Projects/Nationale
2024 Laughing Matter: An Interview with Laraaji and his Frog Puppet, Dr. Love, The Stranger and Portland Mercury
2021 Faith in nature and one another: Hannah Krafcik and Emily Jones at TBA
2021 Weaving the Future: Jovencio de la Paz, Oregon Artswatch (sponsored by Ford Family Foundation)
2021 A More Hopeful Apocalypse, Oregon Artswatch
2021 Rami George: and one day will tell you so many stories, Art and About PDX
2020 Anya Roberts-Toney: Summer’s Eve at Nationale, Art and About PDX
2020 Nature-Inspired Artworks Tap Into the Dark Side of the Psyche, Hyperallergic
2020 Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Art Papers
2019 “Working It” Zine Showcases Multiple Narratives..., Art Discourse
2019 In Portland, An Annual Exhibition by and for Sex Workers, Hyperallergic
2019 Sarah Wertzberger: Color Vision, Art Discourse
2019 How Performance Art Leans Into the Unknown, Hyperallergic
2019 A Poetic Feast Conjures Familial Immigrant Histories, Hyperallergic
2019 Heidi Schwegler and Quayola: Plane of Scattered Pasts, thisistomorrow
2019 The Exciting Native American Film Program at This Year’s Whitney Biennial, Hyperallergic
2019 We are Shapes: Meredith Hamm at Erickson Gallery, Textile: Cloth and Culture
2019 Immaterial: An Interview with Emily Endo, 60 Inch Center
2019 Tenacious Repose: Lilian Martinez’s Contemporary Serenity at Nationale, Art Practical
2018 Francesca Capone: Think of Seashells at Nationale, 60 Inch Center
2017 In the Studio: Bukola Koiki, Duplex Gallery
2016 In the Studio: Melina Bishop, Duplex Gallery
(Full archive of all critical writing here.
I also wrote the monthly art calendar for Oregon Artswatch from 2020-2023, which you can find here.
Since 2022 I have written about arts and cultural events for the Portland Mercury and The Stranger.)
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2023 Sou’wester art residency, curated by Nikki Cormaci
2019 Resident, New Words for Wings: Wide Open Studios Writing Retreat, Signal Fire
2019 Klaus Moje scholarship
2017 Oregon Mensa Foundation scholarship
2017 American Craft Council scholarship
2016 Artist-in-Residence, PNCA Print department
2016 Jean Vollum Fibers award
2015 OCAC President's scholarship
2015 OCAC Commitment to Craft scholarship
WORK & RELATED EXPERIENCES
2022-present Arts Calendar Editor, The Stranger and Portland Mercury’s EverOut
2020-2023 Arts Columnist, Oregon Artswatch
2019-2022 Managing Editor, Art & About PDX
2019-20 Research Fellow, Institute for Conceptual Studies
2017-20 Scheduling Specialist/Social Media Coordinator, Portland Children's Museum
2016-17 Interviewer/Editor, Duplex Gallery
2015 Exhibition Intern, Portland Museum of Modern Art
2024 MFA Fiction: Landscape, Ecology, Community track, Eastern Oregon University
2017 BFA Textiles, Book Arts minor, Oregon College of Art and Craft
2012 BA Literature, University of Central Florida
2010 AA Studio Art, Valencia College
EDUCATION: SELECTED CLASSES/PROGRAMS
2023 Herbalist Training Program, Elderberry School of Botanical Medicine
2022 Nature Writing Intensive with Daniela Molnar
2021 Strange Architecture, short fiction, Thea Chacamaty
2020 Herbalism and Ecology program, Arctos School of Herbal and Botanical Studies
2020 Creative Forms of Art Criticism, NODE Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin
2020 Everything is Medicine, Mastra Olivia Chumacero, School for the Ecocene
2020 The Alchemical Imagination, Eliza Swann, the Golden Dome School
2020 Metamorphoses: New Forms from the Body and Language, Leigh Hopkins / Lidia Yuknavitch, Corporeal Writing
2020 Turning Toward the Flower, flower essence intensive, Liz Migliorelli / Sister Spinster
2020 Dark Forest/Light Forest, poetry, Catie Hannigan
2020 Dislocations: Writing as Body, Brigid Yuknavitch / Corporeal Writing
2019 Daily Attendance, poetry, Catie Hannigan
2019 Scent and Hollow-Cast Forms, Emily and Michael Endo, Pilchuck Glass School
SELECTED GROUP and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 What Else is Here?, with Erika Callihan, Sou’wester
2021 The Alchemical Imagination, Golden Dome School
2020 INTERWOVEN: an outside art show set in a field of kiwi vines
2019 Flowers are Dogs Smiling, Waving, Boathouse Microcinema
2019 MIRROR, Womxn House
2019 F*ck Film School Fest, Third Room
2017 Fulcrum, 321 NE Davis
2017 May Day, Oregon Contemporary (formerly Disjecta)
2016 Knot Happening, Centrum Gallery
2016 Fibers Juried Show, Hoffman Gallery
2016 Matrix to Multiples, Flux: The Edge of Yesterday and Tomorrow, Southern Graphics Council International Conference
CHAPBOOK/ZINE PUBLICATIONS
2020 night sea crossing
2018 Bloomswelling
2017 So What if I'm Unfolding?
SELECTED WEB FEATURES
2024 Four Sacred Plums, interview
2021 Regarding Dew, interview
2021 Journal.fyi, visual response to Mohammed Murshed’s “Patterns do Furnish a Life”
2021 Women Read podcast
2020 Lyeberry HQ Instagram takeover
2020 Journal.fyi, experimental response to Kalaija Mallery’s “Virtuous Beasts”
2019 Reality Hands
2019 Pom Pom
2018 SUSAN / The Journal
2018 Summer Field Guide, Meadow residency
2017 Estranged.love, digital exhibition
PRINT FEATURES
2024 It’s Important that the Bug Undulates: Interview with Anida Yoeu Ali, The Stranger
2020 Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Art Papers
2020 Sorority Mansion
2019 Safe Spaces, issue 2
2019 SAND: Berlin's English Literary Journal, issue 19
CURATORIAL & EDITING PROJECTS
2023-present Co-Founder/Editor, The People’s Wetland Project
2019-20 Co-Founder/Editor, Critical Viewing
2019-21 Founder/Editor, soft surface
2017-18 Co-Founder/Editor, PAL
2016 Co-Curator, Knot Happening, Centrum Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECTED CULTURAL WRITING / INTERVIEWS
2024 Exhibition text: A Place Between, Amy Bay, Shiela Laufer, Sherise Lee, and Anya Roberts-Toney, La Loma Projects/Nationale
2024 Laughing Matter: An Interview with Laraaji and his Frog Puppet, Dr. Love, The Stranger and Portland Mercury
2021 Faith in nature and one another: Hannah Krafcik and Emily Jones at TBA
2021 Weaving the Future: Jovencio de la Paz, Oregon Artswatch (sponsored by Ford Family Foundation)
2021 A More Hopeful Apocalypse, Oregon Artswatch
2021 Rami George: and one day will tell you so many stories, Art and About PDX
2020 Anya Roberts-Toney: Summer’s Eve at Nationale, Art and About PDX
2020 Nature-Inspired Artworks Tap Into the Dark Side of the Psyche, Hyperallergic
2020 Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen, Art Papers
2019 “Working It” Zine Showcases Multiple Narratives..., Art Discourse
2019 In Portland, An Annual Exhibition by and for Sex Workers, Hyperallergic
2019 Sarah Wertzberger: Color Vision, Art Discourse
2019 How Performance Art Leans Into the Unknown, Hyperallergic
2019 A Poetic Feast Conjures Familial Immigrant Histories, Hyperallergic
2019 Heidi Schwegler and Quayola: Plane of Scattered Pasts, thisistomorrow
2019 The Exciting Native American Film Program at This Year’s Whitney Biennial, Hyperallergic
2019 We are Shapes: Meredith Hamm at Erickson Gallery, Textile: Cloth and Culture
2019 Immaterial: An Interview with Emily Endo, 60 Inch Center
2019 Tenacious Repose: Lilian Martinez’s Contemporary Serenity at Nationale, Art Practical
2018 Francesca Capone: Think of Seashells at Nationale, 60 Inch Center
2017 In the Studio: Bukola Koiki, Duplex Gallery
2016 In the Studio: Melina Bishop, Duplex Gallery
(Full archive of all critical writing here.
I also wrote the monthly art calendar for Oregon Artswatch from 2020-2023, which you can find here.
Since 2022 I have written about arts and cultural events for the Portland Mercury and The Stranger.)
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2023 Sou’wester art residency, curated by Nikki Cormaci
2019 Resident, New Words for Wings: Wide Open Studios Writing Retreat, Signal Fire
2019 Klaus Moje scholarship
2017 Oregon Mensa Foundation scholarship
2017 American Craft Council scholarship
2016 Artist-in-Residence, PNCA Print department
2016 Jean Vollum Fibers award
2015 OCAC President's scholarship
2015 OCAC Commitment to Craft scholarship
WORK & RELATED EXPERIENCES
2022-present Arts Calendar Editor, The Stranger and Portland Mercury’s EverOut
2020-2023 Arts Columnist, Oregon Artswatch
2019-2022 Managing Editor, Art & About PDX
2019-20 Research Fellow, Institute for Conceptual Studies
2017-20 Scheduling Specialist/Social Media Coordinator, Portland Children's Museum
2016-17 Interviewer/Editor, Duplex Gallery
2015 Exhibition Intern, Portland Museum of Modern Art