EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND OUTREACH EXPERIENCE
2025-present: Arts Program Specialist, JCDS Emerging Artists (Overland Park, KS)
2023-2025: Arts Specialist, JCDS Emerging Artist (Overland Park, KS)
2022-2023: Educator, Johnson County Museum (Overland Park, KS)
2019-2022: Education Liaison, Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area (KS and MO)
2017-2022: Lead Educator, Watkins Museum of History (Lawrence, KS)
2017-2019: Scenic Painting and Stage Make-up Instructor, Lyric Opera Camp of Kansas City
2017-2019: Scenic/Properties Painting Instructor, Camellott Academy Fine Arts Camp
2016-2017: Full-time Studio Educator, Stark Museum of Art (Orange, TX)
2015-2016: Instructor/ Curriculum Developer, TeachArt2Me (Glastonbury, CT)
2015-2016: Teaching Artist/Designer, The Contemporary Theater Company (Wakefield, RI)
2011-2015: Instructor/Resident Artist-Scenic Painting, Johnson County Community College
2014-2015: Program Developer, Kids with Crayons (partnered with reStart Inc. KC)
2012-2015: Marketing/Instructor, Tippi Toes Dance- (Kansas City Metro)
2012-2014: Program Developer, Westport Center for the Arts (Kansas City Metro)
2008-2011: Teaching Artist, StoneLion Puppet Theatre (Kansas City Metro)
PROFESSIONAL/PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE
2023: Guest Scenic Charge: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Coterie Theatre (KCMO)
2018: Guest Artist, The Village Open Spaces, Kansas City
2010-2013, 2017-2019: Charge Scenic Painter, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival
2009-2014: Show Producer/Event Planner, Kansas City Fringe Festival (Fashion Division)
2007-2012: Costume Management, Kansas City Repertory Theater
2008-2012: Charge/Journeyman Scenic Painter, The American Heartland Theater
2008-2011: Puppeteer/ Designer and Builder, StoneLion Puppet Theatre
2006-2007: Gallery/Office Intern, Monarch Gallery, Kansas City
RESIDENCY
2012: Playwright/Resident Artist, Westport Center for the Arts(WCA)
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Measure of Great Men
SERVICE
2018 + 2019: Speaker, Women of the 1920's Old ShawneeTown 1929
2017: Board of Directors, Orange African American Museum
2017: Facilitator, Party-cipation: Community Art Exhibition, Art Studio Inc.
2016-2017 Community Facilitator, Stark Museum Public School Program
2009-2014: Board Member, Fashion on the Fringe, Kansas City Fringe Festival
2013: Board of Directors, RAW: Natural Born Artists, Kansas City Division
2009-2011: Honorary Civilian Member, Student Veterans Organization
PRESS
'Art is a language that can be spoken by anyone.' In this studio, artists are fluent. The Star, (2024)
Go, See, Do: Holiday fun at the Watkins Museum... Lawrence Journal-World (2019, Dec.)
Episode 32.11: Heritage Tourism. KTWU Sunflower Journeys. PBS affiliate. (2019, Dec.)
A View from the Top. Greg Bucheme. Issue Magazine (2017, March).
Branding the American West Stark Museum of Art. KOGT.com (2017, Mar.)
Collaborative, Creative. Andy Coughlan. Issue Magazine (2017, Feb.)
Students Helping with Museum Mural. KOGT.com (2017, Jan.)
EDUCATION
2010 Bachelors of Fine Arts and Art History, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY