CV

Professional Experience/Residencies

2021

Guttenberg Arts, Artist in Residence/Space and Time Residency, Guttenberg, NJ

Print Center New York (Formerly IPCNY), Mapping Narratives Exhibition,  Juror

2018 - Present

Fruishun Press Studio, Founder and Printmaker, Newark, NJ

2019

Guest Printmaker, Luther Print Shop/Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn, NY
Project for Empty Space Risograph Summer Program, Newark NJ

2015

Newark Print Shop, Artist in Residence III, Newark, NJ

Professional Affiliations/Memberships


2023 - 2024

Florida Printmakers Society Member, Miami, FL

2022 - Present

Board Member and Secretary, Frontline Arts, Branchburg, NJ

2021 - Present

Speedball Artist Network Member

2019 - 2021

Black Women of Print Founding Member

Mentorship/Teaching Experience


2024

Peter’s Valley School of Craft Printmaking Instructor, Layton NJ      

Newark Youth Screen Printing and Research Scholarship, Newark NJ

Parson’s School of Design / AIGA NY / Rememory Directory Workshop, NY

2022

Project for Empty Space, Teaching/Mentorship Class, Newark, NJ

2018 

My Personal Culture/Narrative on Fabric (Textile Screen Printing), Frontline Arts, Branchburg, NJ

Textile Screen Printing Workshop, EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NY

2017

Artreach Mentorship Program, City Without Walls,  Newark, NJ

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

Rooted in Spirit, Sarasota Art Center, Sarasota, FL

New Growth, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Visibility: Seeing and Being Seen, Curated by Delita Martin, Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI), Virtual

2023

Boston Printmakers North American Biennial, 808 Gallery, Boston University

Studio 18 Gallery, Florida Printmakers Society, Pembroke Pines, FL

Gallery 121, Belmont University, Nashville TN

The Contemporary Print, Austin TX

The Center of Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ

Feature Wall Exhibition, Open Studio Contemporary Printmaking Center, 

Toronto, ON

The Power of Portraiture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

2022

Women’s Printmaking Invitational (WPI), Kent State University at Stark, North Canton, OH

2020

Black Histories, Black Futures, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

The Dream Deferred Exhibition, Samford University Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL

Jacksonville State University Art Gallery, Jackson, AL

Blanc Gallery, Chicago, IL

Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsen, AL

Macalester College, Minneapolis, MN

University of Tennessee Knoxville University, Knoxville TN

Chicago State University, Chicago IL

Elmhurst University, Elmhurst, IL

Stephen Smith Art Gallery, Fairfield, AL

Women X Women: Selections from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, 

Ronald K. DeLong Gallery, Penn State Univ. State College, PA

2019

Flash Collective: Women of Print, Noise Gallery, Bloomington, IN

Print Austin, Austin TX

Link & Pin Gallery, Austin, TX 

Frontline Arts, Branchburg, NJ

Newark Print Shop, Artist in Residence III Group Exhibition

2018

East Orange is the New Black Group Exhibition, Manufacturers Village, East Orange, NJ

Publications

Pressing Matters, Issue 6

8 inches for Planned Parenthood

Womb of Violet: An Anthology

Getty Museum Spring 2022 Article

The Hand Magazine Issue 39

Pressing Matters, Issue 28

Public Collections


Du-Good in Unity Series, Woodhull Medical, NY

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Petrucci Family Foundation of African American Art, Asbury, NJ

Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Womb of Violet: An Anthology acquired: Newark Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Library of Congress, and Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Public Art

Community Mural, Miller Street Pathways to Housing Center, Newark NJ

Visiting Artist/Lectures/ Interviews

2024

Reimagining My Community - Speaker, Borough of Manhattan Community College

2021

MoMa Teens Spam Program Artist Talk

Reflections on Color Interview with Laura Berman

Black Women of Print Speaker Series, Manhattan Graphics Center, NY

Power of Print, Visible Figures: Black Womanhood in Printmaking, Black Women of Print Remote Symposium panelist, Kent State University School of Art, Kent, OH

On Creating Work in Your Own Voice, The Creative Independent

2019

Womb of Violet: An Anthology: Martha’s Vineyard Symposium

Viscosity: Women of Print Reception & Artist Talk, Frontline Arts, Branchburg, NJ

2015

Black Art with Angela Pilgrim, Philaprint 

 


Grants and Awards

2024                           

Mid Atlantic Arts Finalist, NJ Arts Council 

Newark Artist Accelerator Grant, Project for Empty Space/Andy Warhol Foundation Regranting Program

Creative Catalyst Grant, City of Newark, NJ

2023          

Newark Arts Community Grant

Peters Valley School of Craft on behalf of The New Jersey Arts and Culture, Renewal Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation

Mixed Media // Crossed Purposes Scholarship, EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

Creative Catalyst Grant, Newark Arts, Newark, NJ

2022

Rauschenberg Grant, NY
Artist Fellowship, Newark Arts, NJ

2021

Creative Catalyst Grant, Newark Arts, Newark, NJ

Newark Artist Accelerator Grant, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ

2020 

Allies in Arts Grant, Los Angeles, CA