A huge thank you to editor Yiorgos Anagnostou and interviewer Artemis Leontis for the profile in Ergon, a magazine highlighting the Greek diaspora in American through arts and letters.
You can read the piece here.
It’s a pleasure to be a part of the Newcomb’s group exhibition Unthinkable Imagination: A Creative Response to the Juvenile Justice Crisis. It’s been an honor to work alongside 20+ other artists, creating a piece in response to a respective oral history with a formerly incarcerated young person in New Orleans. My large scale photograph printed on aluminum is accompanied by a vocal track artist Renee Benson created to sing with my piece.
Opening Reception at Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University
Saturday January 21, 2023, 2-6:30 pm
I’m greatly appreciative to have received research funding from the Frison Institute as well as the Slater Fund for Linguistic Anthropology. These grants will fund my research in Superior, Wyoming as I dig into the town’s cultural and labor heritage through the interpretative signage at the former United Mine Workers of America union hall while conducting oral histories of community members.
Under the Shade I Flourish has an opening reception free and open to the public on September 15 from 5:30 to 7:30pm at the Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center. The exhibition includes photography, video, interviews, and collected sound from conservation educational sites in Belize’s Cayo and Stan Creek regions. This multimedia installation explores and documents the crucial conservation practices developed over the past 40 years.
I am incredibly thrilled to be a member of the upcoming Democracy Lab cohort, a year-long academic, interdisciplinary and intergenerational project of the Wyoming Institute for Humanities and Research. There is a crucial role that the arts and humanities bring to a healthy community and democratic society, excited to be in community while strengthening best practices for my community-rooted work.
I just spent a week in Northeastern Pennsylvania with University of Maryland’s anthropology professor Paul Shackel, interviewing and filming Latinx community leaders in the region to bring their voices and lived experiences into The Anthracite Heritage Museum. This work will be launched as an online exhibition winter 2022.
As a deep public lands enthusiast, I am thrilled to be the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Bureau of Land Management’s Alabama Hills National Scenic Area in the California wilderness this month. I will be creating an online audio and visual guide to the layered uses of the land through time, utilizing photogrammetry of objects and land features and centering the voices of local stewards and community members.
What a treat to be welcomed on as the newest board member of the Laramie Public Art Coalition. I’m incredibly excited to work in service to my new community through the arts.
Thanks to the American Heritage Center for funding my spring mapping and oral history project—Elected Roles: Visualizing (Under)Representation of Women in Wyoming Politics—centering around the women who have historically held elected roles in the state, and visualizing the deep, continued underrepresentation of women in those roles. Looking super forward to digging through their suffrage archives and exploring the women who broke a whole lot of structural barriers to be elected in the first state that gave women the right to vote. The mapping project comprising archival materials will be accompanied by oral histories of women holding office today, so we can learn from their lived experience as to why women are so deeply underrepresented in elected roles in The Equality State.
It’s lovely to have three pieces—comprising vinyl, textiles and photographs— in the 47th Annual Juried exhibition at the UW Art Museum, juried by Natalia Ángeles Vieyra, Maher Curatorial Fellow of American Art at the Harvard Art Museums specializing in the art and material culture of the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean. The show runs February 26th-May 14, with an opening reception February 25th 6-8pm.