Education
2017-2021 BFA Metalsmithing & Jewelry, Maine College of Art - Portland, ME
Group Exhibitions:
2025 Gallery Loupe, The Story Makers - Montclair, NJ
2024 Sidle House, Things We Lost In The: The Legacy of St. Amelia’s College of Speculative Timbre - Freeport, ME
Second Cousin, Teaser Trailer - New York City, NY
Over Here, Interwoven - Portland, ME
Cove Street Arts, Next Gen - Portland, ME
2023 Penland FOCUS Gallery, WEAR: Contemporary Jewelry - Spruce Spring, NC
Portland Public Library, SUSTENANCE - Portland, ME
2022 Cove Street Arts, Stay Black and Die - Portland, ME
UNE Art Gallery, The Lives of the Jewelers - Portland, ME
Zero Station, Art, Object and Place as SANCTUARY - Portland, ME
Salon Design, Meta/Morphosis - New York City, NY
2021 NYC Jewelry Week, Commence Jewelry Graduate Showcase - New York City, NY
2019 Maine College of Art, BenchMarks - Portland, ME
Grants, and Awards, and Residencies
2025 Winter Residency, Penland School of Craft - Spruce Spring, NC
2023 Indigo Arts Alliance + Hewnoaks Residency - Center Lovell, ME
Visiting Craft Fellow, SUNY New Paltz - New Paltz, NY
2022 Spring Pentaculum, Arrowmont School of Craft - Gatlinbug, TN
Early Career Artist - Society For North American Goldsmiths
2021 Indigo Arts Alliance Residency - Portland, ME
Windgate-Lamar Fellow, Center of Craft - Asheville, NC
Eudolia Gross Service Award, Maine College of Art - Portland, ME
2020 Resilience Week Leadership Award, Maine College of Art - Portland, ME
Social Practice and Collaborations:
2020 Maine College of Art, Co-Coordinator, Resilience Week - Portland, ME
Collaborated with the Students of Color Coalition and the Diversity Committee to organize Maine College of Art’s inaugural Resilience Week, bringing together an exhibition, reading lists, film screenings, community meals, and workshops, in the effort of providing a network of support for those committed to fostering change at Maine College of Art.
Press, Panels, and Presentations:
2024 Presenter, ECU Material Topics Symposium, East Carolina University - Greenville, NC
2023 Presenter, Metalxerx Spring Symposium, Virtual
2022 Portland Press Herald, “Art Review: Exploring the Black experience and the human condition at Cove Street.”
Panelist, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, “Conversation: Craft in the Nigerian / West African Diaspora,” Virtual
2021 Art Jewelry Forum, “Jim Bové at NYCJW21.”
Art Jewelry Forum, “The June 2021 Report, Part 2.”
2020 Maine Public, “MECA Students Hold First 'Resilience Week' To Support Students Of Color In The Community.”
Teaching Experience
2025 Instructor, Experimental Metal Weaving:Exploring the Basics, Peters Valley School of Craft - Sandyton Township, NJ
Instructor, Painting: Paint like an Artist, Brooklyn Museum of Art - Brooklyn, NY
2024 Instructor, Sculpture: All That Glitters Is Gold, Brooklyn Museum of Art - Brooklyn, NY
Instructor, Painting and Mixed Media: Beyond the Brush, Brooklyn Museum of Art - Brooklyn, NY
2023 Instructor, Over, Under, and Through: Experimental Metal Weaving, Penland School of Craft - Spruce Pine, NC
Instructor, Student Craft Institute, Haystack Mountain School of Craft - Deer Isle, ME
Instructor, Island Workshop Day, Haystack Mountain School of Craft - Deer Isle, ME
Studio Assistant, Penland School of Craft - Spruce Pine, NC
2022 Teaching Assistant, Haystack Mountain School of Craft - Deer Isle, ME
Teaching Assistant, Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft - Gatlinburg, TN
2019 Teaching Assistant, Maine College of Art - Portland, ME (Metalsmithing and Jewelry, Pre-College, Summer 2019)
2017-2018 Teacher’s Assistant/Gallery Coordinator, New York Summer State School of the Arts - Fredonia, NY
(Sculpture, Drawing Summer 2017, and Textiles, Figure Drawing, Summer 2018)