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Attrition 01, woven during a residency on the TC2 digital loom at Praxis Fiber Workshop was awarded first place in the Textiles/Fiber Division at the MN State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition by juror Tia Keobounpheng.

August 2024

Exhibition

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April 2024
Exhibition

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Field Notes 02, woven during residency in Iceland, is now showing online in Surface Design’s A Line, a Link, a Web curated by Hanna Washburn and is heading to Melbourne as a finalist for the Kate Derum Award for Small Tapestries.

April 2024
Award

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Thrilled to receive the 2024 Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Awards from Washington University, St. Louis—an award that will fund my next year of growth and experimentation.

August 2023

Residency

Spent an incredible month in residency weaving at the Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture and Fine Art in Hafnarborg.

December 2022-January 2023

Exhibition

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Picnic at Dead Horse Bay, accepted into Forecast//Recast by juror artist Tanya Aguiñiga with Surface Design Association. Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, Oregon.

November - December 2022
Exhibition

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Anymore, representing the 1970s in 50 Years of Fiber Art at the Kelso Art Center, University of The Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX. Curated by Paula Owen, president emerita of Southwest School of Art.

October - November 2022
Small Group Exhibition

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Down Canyon, one of a number of pieces hanging in What Binds Us Together alongside the work of Jennifer Anderson, K. Daphnae Koop, and Kat Nottingham at ArtReach St.Croix, Stillwater, MN.

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June 2023
Residency

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Three dimensional objects woven during the Haystack Open Residency in beautiful Deer Isle, ME.

January 2023
Exhibition

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Ruinous Ravishment at the Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA with Jamie Vasta and Christopher Miles.

August - September 2022
Solo Exhibition

May - August 2022
Exhibition

April - June 2022
Exhibition

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Of Burden and Strand 03, hanging in Remnants at Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN.

The Weight of It in Materials Hard+Soft
in Denton, TX, with juror artist Tanya Aguiñiga.

Strand 03,at Yeiser Art Center in Fantastic Fibers, Paducah, KY. Juried by Matt Collinsworth of the National Quilt Museum.

Winter 2022
Publication

Anymore from the exhibition Yarn, Rope, String, published in the 2021/2022 Winter issue of Fiber Art Now.

January - May 2022
Exhibition

The Weight of It in Manufactured Narratives: Chronicles of Textile Artists, curated by Juana WIlliiams, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI.

December 2021 - January 2022
Exhibition

Places We Might Have Been, solo show at The Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI.

October 2021
Exhibition

Strand 03 at the Watermark Art Center,
Bemidji, MN in Earth Matters, curated by Nnenna Okore, with Surface Design Association.

September - October 2021
Artist Residency

Strand 04 a few weeks into the Al and
Mickey Quinlan Artist Residency at the Dome House, through the Miller Art Museum in Door County, WI.

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