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Hello
Thank you for hopping over here to my website. I've been a writer since high school and that evolved into performance and spoken word, which evolved into collaborating with other artists around the country, which evolved into designing arts-based community engagement projects, which evolved into producing multi media events and founding an arts non-profit organization, which evolved into a visual art practice. In short, I believe we're born to create, not destroy. So, I make things and encourage other humans to make things.
Artist CV
Select Exhibitions + Commissions + Projects
Des Moines Arts Festival; juror – Des Moines, IA 2023
enuf; solo exhibition – Cedar Rapids, IA 2023
Consider the Meaningful; art installation (commissioned by Ballet Des Moines) – Des Moines, IA 2023
The Remoir Project; solo exhibition – Ames, IA 2022
Prompt for the Planet – Iowa City, IA 2022
Octagon Exhibition; juror – Ames, IA 2022
In Living Color: Black Art in Iowa – Cedar Rapids, IA 2022
Freedom’s Daughters – Cedar Rapids, IA 2022
Pocket Park Poetry Project – Marshalltown, IA 2021
POP of Color – Cedar Rapids, IA 2021
Red Cedar Chamber, Love and Life Residency – Cedar Rapids, IA 2021
Cey Adams, Live from the Studio (Virtual) – New York, NY 2020
Homebound; solo exhibition CSPS – Cedar Rapids, IA 2020
Iowa State University Student Exhibition; juror – Ames, IA 2020
JFK Center for the Performing Arts; performance – Washington, DC 2020
Artists for Biden; poetry – Cedar Rapids, IA 2020
Clinton Foundation + Her Flag; poetry – New York, NY 2020
Women Lead Change; poetry – Cedar Rapids, IA 2019
Englert Theatre + Strengthen. Grow. Evolve; poetry – Iowa City, IA 2019
HER Flag + Marilyn Artus; poetry – Des Moines, IA 2019
In Search of Homeland and Security; poetry – Petaluma, CA 2018
Red Cedar Chamber; Love and Life with Composer Stephen Cohn – Iowa City, IA 2017
Moberg Gallery + Larassa Kabel’s UpSpeak; poetry – Des Moines, IA 2016
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art + ArtLOUD!; theatrical production – Cedar Rapids, IA 2016
Iowa Arts Summit; poetry – Des Moines, IA 2016
Mission Creek Festival; poetry – Iowa City, IA 2016
Professional Appointments + Fellowships
Arts Midwest; Artistic Director, We the Many – Perry, IA 2021
Arts Across America; Partner and Curator – JFK Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC 2020
Arts Midwest; Advisor, Regional Arts Resilience Fund – Minneapolis, MN 2020
Arts Midwest; Advisor, We the Many – Perry, IA 2019
Iowa Arts Council Fellow -- Des Moines, IA 2016
Select Invited Lectures + Workshops + Keynotes
The Remoir Project – Mt. Vernon, IA 2022
Octagon Business of Art Conference – Ames, IA 2022
Iowa Department of Public Health, Keynote – Cedar Rapids, IA 2021
TRIO, keynote – Cedar Rapids, IA 2021
Visiting Artist & Workshop Instructor, Iowa State University – Ames, IA 2020
Iowa Youth Writing Project, Workshop Facilitator – Iowa City, IA 2020
Iowa Youth Writing Project, Keynote – Iowa City, IA 2020
Visiting Artist & Workshop Instructor, Grinnell College – Grinnell, IA 2019
Visiting Artist & Workshop Instructor, Mount Mercy University – Cedar Rapids, IA 2019
Visiting Artist & Panelist: Seeing, Making, Doing: Social Capital, Iowa State University – Ames, IA 2019
Planned Parenthood of East Central Iowa, performance – Cedar Rapids, IA 2017
United Way Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration, Keynote – Cedar Rapids, IA 2017
Women’s Power Luncheon Series , Speaker – Cedar Rapids, IA 2017
Cedar Rapids Public Library; OUT LOUD! Author Series, Host – Cedar Rapids, IA 2016
The University of Iowa’s Center for Diversity & Enrichment Speaker Series – Iowa City, IA 2016
Board Memberships
Brucemore, Board of Trustees 2022 – Present
Iowa Arts Council 2019 – Present
Legion Arts 2016-2017; 2019
NewBo Market 2016
Cedar Rapids Public Library Foundation 2016