Education
2026 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ceramics, Social Practice minor, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2023 Associate of Arts, Southwestern Community College, Creston, IA
Honors and Awards
2026
KCAI Endowed Scholarship, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2024
William Lee Artistry Scholarship Artistry Award, Trendspot INC, San Bernardino, CA
KCAI Endowed Scholarship, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2023 – present
President’s List, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2023
President’s Cabinet Scholarship, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2022 – present
United Methodist Women’s Scholarship, United Methodist Church, Afton, IA
Professional Experience
2026
Teaching Assistant, The Conversation Dish, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Helped students with handbuilding techniques, loaded and fired kilns, utilized wheel throwing techniques to make bisque molds for student use, and facilitated reclaiming clay materials.
2025-2026
Resident Assistant, Academic Year, KCAI Studio Apartments, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Help facilitate a safe, community oriented living environment for student artists. Organize resident life activities and events. Facilitate mediations and conflict resolution between students.
2025
Exhibition Committee Member, Scratching the Surface, Stern Ceramics Building, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Assisted with promotion of the exhibition, including the installation and handling of work. Assisted customers in the purchase of artwork.
Teaching Assistant, The Figurative Object, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Helped students with basic hand building techniques, facilitated reclaiming clay materials, assisted with firing student work.
2024
Teaching Assistant, Entrepreneurship and the Marketplace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Coached the students with beginning plaster mold making, assisted with firing student work, maintained a clean studio space.
Resident Assistant, Pre-College Art Lab, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Helped facilitate a safe, community oriented living space for student artists. Organized resident life activities and events. Facilitated mediations and conflict resolution between students.
Exhibition Committee Member, Baby I Left my Heart in the Hotbox, Stern Ceramics Building, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Assisted with promotion of the exhibition, including the installation and handling of work. Assisted customers in the purchase of artwork.
2023
Artist in Residence, Creston Arts, Creston, IA
Assisted with youth art camp programming that included creating, organizing, and facilitating workshops for various age groups.
Exhibitions
2025
Can You Dig It? Stern Ceramics Building, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Social Practice Capstone Exhibition, Emily and Todd Voth Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Scratching the Surface, Stern Ceramics Building, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Releasing Form, KCAI Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2024
Burning Down the House, Stern Ceramics Building, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Brimming: Goblet Invitational, Belger Crane Yard Gallery, Belger Arts, Kansas City, MO
Iowa State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA
Baby I Left My Heart in the Hotbox, Stern Ceramics Building, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
2023
Artist in Residence Exhibition, Historical Depot Gallery, Creston Arts, Creston, IA
Pinching, Poking, Slicing, Dicing, Stern Ceramics Building, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Student Exhibition, Historical Depot Gallery, Southwestern Community College, Creston, IA
Skills
Clay & glaze formulation, mold making, electric kiln firing, handbuilding, figure sculpting, tile relief, wheel throwing, written communication, research and research writing.