• February 12: Monument Lab Re:Generation

    It is an incredible honor to partner with Monument Lab! Learn more about our project here.

    Monument Lab Re:Generation supports a 2024 cohort of ten teams working to create new or to expand existing public art, public history, or public humanities projects.As a central part of Monument Lab’s commitment to expanding the American commemorative landscape, Re:Generation emphasizes the selection of projects with creative representation and interpretation of erased, suppressed, or threatened stories and histories, particularly in states which have passed legislation limiting the teaching of accurate and diverse American history. Major support for Re:Generation is provided by the Mellon Foundation.

  • DECEMBER 10: TEACHING WITH PATHWAYS FROM PRISON

    I am thrilled to be teaching an American Studies Visual Culture course with Pathways from Prison. The project is a trans-disciplinary and trans-professional statewide collaborative that supports currently and formerly incarcerated people in navigating the waters of higher education and earning their bachelor’s degree.

  • NOVEMBER 19: JENTEL FOUNDATION RESIDENCY

    What a gift to be in a winter residency with Jentel. I’m incredibly grateful for the time and space in the foothills of the Big Horn Mountains. I’ll be creating work centering Greek labor during westward expansion, to be shown at the Nicolaysen Museum for the Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship biennial in 2024.

  • OCTOBER 12: SHEPARD SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL JUSTICE

    I will be presenting on Youth Voice/Youth Action at this year’s Shepard Symposium. I will be passing my mic—literally—to three of the young leaders I have been working with this year, giving them the platform as I support. Read more about the symposium below.

    This year's symposium theme, Social Justice Literacy, intends to give communities the skills to shape the environments they live in through narrative. How can we collectively impact the world by empowering silenced voices? We aim to discuss historic forms of resistance, explore illiteracy as a form of oppression, and offer awareness around social justice.

  • SEPTEMBER 14: YOUTH JUSTICE INSTITUTE CELEBRATION

    The Youth Justice Institute co-creates spaces with young folks where they can discuss issues that affect them in their communities, explore these issues with adult community leaders, and envision their futures through artmaking.

    YJI parterend with the Laramie Public Art Coalition and the Laramie Plains Civic Center. With support from these organizations, participants spent the week exploring issues, while designing a large-scale art installation under the guidance and support of public artist Conor Mullen. They identified two major themes for their piece: celebrating diversity in Laramie by making queer and BIPOC people visible through the work, and celebrating the things in their community that bring them joy.

  • SEPTEMBER 2: DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY IMPACT COOPERATIVE

    Super stoked to be hired to this position to bring together individuals - especially young people- organizations, and resources to promote and improve the overall wellness of our community through education, collaboration, and advocacy to envision Laramie and create change in our community.

  • AUGUST 9: VISUAL ARTS FELLOW

    It is an honor to receive Wyoming Arts Council’s Visual Arts Fellowship for 2023. And, it’s an honor to be among an incredible cohort of visual, performing, and writing creatives in the state.

  • JULY 10: ANTHROPOLOGY INSTRUCTOR

    I was hired to teach cultural anthropology at Laramie County Community College. Excited to share this discipline with my community.

  • JULY 6: WYOMING HUMANITIES COUNCIL FUNDING

    Thank you for to the Wyoming Humanities Council, awarding me the Crossroads Digital Preservation Grant. This funding will directly support all field work in Kemmerer-Diamondville Wyoming this summer, where I am working alongside the community to preserve coal identity and heritage amidst the backdrop of a transition to nuclear power.

  • JULY 1: ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

    I will be creating at the UW-NPS Research Station in Grand Teton National Park in July- creating 4×5 images tracing the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871. Very thankful for these opportunities, created work up end of summer.ere

  • JUNE 12: ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

    I am very grateful to have just completed a residency at BLM’s Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey, where I spent time photographing in the largest raptor nesting area in North America along Idaho’s Snake River…and during fledgling season.

  • MAY 1: OPENING AT GORGON GALLERY

    I am showing three pieces from the Tracing an Atrocity series at the grand opening of Laramie Plains Civic Center Gorgan Gallery. Show will be up through the fall.

  • APRIL 15: LAUNCH OF WE ARE ANTHRACITE

    It is with incredible joy to announce the launch of We Are Anthracite. A project very near to my heart, and years in the making alongside University of Maryland’s Paul Shackel and the Anthracite Heritage Museum.

    From the press release:

    The Anthracite Heritage Museum in partnership with the University of Maryland recently completed phase one of a new digital exhibit titled “We are Anthracite” to collect and share the stories of people not represented in the museum. To share the stories of new immigrants in real time and to understand these cyclical patterns of behavior. To share the stories of people who have been in our region for centuries but whose stories weren’t presented.

  • MARCH 4: ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE AT HOMESTEAD NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK

    Thrilled to the May artist-in-residence at Homestead National Historical Park out on the prairies of Nebraska. I’ll be creating a quilt comprising archival imagery printed on cotton, profiling and bringing visibility to women homesteaders who are often left out of historical narrative. Looking forward to researching some incredible folks like Lucretia Marshbanks and Mary Forgal Lowell.

  • JANUARY 16TH: ERGON MAGAZINE PROFILE

    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.

  • JANUARY 11: OPENING AT NEWCOMB ART MUSEUM

    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