CV

Curriculum Vitae
& Resumé

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Education

I have a top-notch education thanks to my work at two of the highest-ranked research institutions in the Southeastern United States.

 

PhD, Art History (2021)

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Dissertation: Feu à Volonté! (Fire at Will!): The Tirs of Niki de Saint Phalle, 1961–1964”
(advisor Adam Jolles)


MA, Art History (2016)

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Qualifying Paper: “The Devil Behind: Man Ray’s Monument à D.A.F. de Sade in the Service of Surrealism” (advisor Adam Jolles)


BA, Honors and Distinction in Art History (2013)

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Honors Thesis: “Sex, Sphinxes, and Stereotypes: Unpacking Androgyny in the Work of Leonor Fini” (advisor Tatiana C. String)

Professional experience

  • Art History Instruction

    I currently build the art history curriculum including designing all art history courses, and traditional, hybrid, and eLearning assets at Guilford College. I also enjoy teaching art appreciation courses in the college’s Visual Arts Program. I have also taught for Guilford Technical College, Pfeiffer University’s Art Department, Florida State University’s (FSU) Department of Art History, and FSU’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.

  • Non-Profit Work

    The American Tapestry Alliance, Foothills Arts Council, and Yadkin Valley Fiber Center have all benefited from my professional advice, marketing skills, and grant writing.

  • Museum Work

    My art historical career began in 2009 when I stepped into a Federal Work Study positon at the Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill. Since then, I have worked at the Ackland as both an employee, intern, and volunteer, and assisted the Wolfsonian-FIU’s curatorial team on the research and development of two major exhibitions in 2015: Margin of Error (2016) and The Pursuit of Abstraction (2016).

  • Administration

    Throughout my time at Florida State, I worked as a research assistant in the Department of Art History and as an administrative assistant in FSU’s Student-Athlete Academic Services.

    More recently, I have further honed my administrative skillset through facilitating professional development programming, curricula, and events for over 300 faculty at Guilford Tech.

  • Exhibitions

    Most recently, I have curated and installed the Hand Weaver Guild of America’s 2023 Small Expressions and the 2023 annual Tapestry Weaver’s South gallery exhibition. I have also curated shows at the Carrick Modern, in museum settings, and participated in several group exhibitions including the 2022 and 2023 Faculty Exhibitions at Guilford Technical College, and the Charlotte Textiles Collective Group Exhibition (Edison Gallery, Elkin, NC, 2022).

  • Education in the Fiber Arts

    I have had the opportunity to assist in courses taught at the John C. Campbell Folk School and Yadkin Valley Fiber Center (YVFC). Presently, I teach regular beginning weaving courses on the inkle, rigid heddle, and kumihimo looms at the Yadkin Valley Fiber Center. At present, I teach students at the Sawtooth School in Winston Salem, NC. Sawtooth courses include: weaving with alternative materials, innovative hand sewing techniques, soft sculpture, and installation design.

Learn about my career as an art history professor, researcher, and fiber artist via the Instruction, Portfolio, and Research pages.

Grants, Fellowships, & Awards

2024 has allowed me to participate in various professional development workshops and opportunities at Guilford College. I am the recipient of their ongoing professional development grant for non-tenure faculty.

In Spring 2023, I co-authored a successful application to the Guilford Tech Foundation’s Innovation Grant program. The funds from this grant will support ongoing work with my colleague, the co-chair of the college’s Center for Teaching and Learning. Together, we hope to facilitate a faculty symposium, offer additional training in the areas of eLearning and academic integrity, and foster continued professional development for over 300 professors at Guilford Tech.

I have been an International Dissertation Semester Research Fellow (2019–2020), Kress Foundation Fellow in Art History at Middlebury College’s Betty Ashburn ‘86 School of French (2017), Mason Dissertation Research Award recipient, Friends of Art History Award fellow, and Helen J. Beard Conference Travel awardee. I have also been a Fulbright award finalist, Daedalus Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Award Finalist, and a finalist for the Woodrow Wilson National Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies.

Languages

  • English

    Native speaker

  • French

    Fluent in reading, speaking, and writing.

  • Reading Languages

    German, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Portugese.

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