Um...
Well, I recall telling someone in 2nd grade that I wanted to be a "comic book drawer". I guess I just knew "something" about what I wanted.
Oddly, I haven't done any comic books yet. But have been a graphic designer, a photographer, an animator, an oil painter, a printmaker, ... god you name it. I've probably done it. It's just in my blood.
Curriculum Vitae
Juried and Invited Exhibitions - Photography
Reenactor Moments, Solaris Film Festival, Vienna, Austria, (September 2020)
Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography (Laura Wexler, Susan Meiselas, Ariella Azoulay, Wendy Ewald , Leigh Raiford, and Sarah Fritchey, Curators), Artspace Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, (July 26 - Sept 14, 2019)
State of the Union (Jim Richardson, Juror), Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury Vermont, (January 3 - January 27, 2018)
Regarding Leisure (Alexander Diaz and Christopher W. Luhar-Trice, Jurors), University of North Florida Gallery, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida (March 5 - May 5, 2015)
9th Photographic Image Biennial Exhibition (Burk Uzzle, juror), Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC (January 22 - February 15, 2015)
Pixel and Grain Regional Photography Exhibit (Jeff Whetstone, juror), Durham Arts Guild, Durham, NC (October 3 – November 1, 2014)
Roanoke City Art Show, Show (juried), Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA (2002)
Fifth Biennial Exhibition, Show (juried), Olin Gallery, Roanoke College, Salem, VA (1998)
One Person Exhibits - Photography
Come See the Crocodile Woman, XYZ Gallery, Blacksburg, VA (2003)
Grants & Awards
Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC (2009-10)
Best Special Effects, Progeny Motion Picture Festival (juried), Blacksburg, VA (2006)
Animation Award, Highlander Film Festival (juried), Radford, VA (2006)
Special Effects Award, Highlander Film Festival (juried), Radford, VA (2006)
Film Screenings
"Playing Soldier" (feature-length documentary film)
• NH Docs Documentary Film Festival, Yale's Whitney Humanities Center, New Haven, CT (2018)
• Best Video Film and Cultural Center, Hamden, Ct (2018)
“Fishbowl” (feature-length MFA film)
Ava Gardener Film Festival, Smithfield, NC (2008)
Lyric Theater, Blacksburg, VA (2008) “Planning Ahead” (animated short)
Blue Ridge Vision Film Festival (juried), Roanoke, VA (2006)
Progeny Motion Picture Festival (juried), Blacksburg, VA (2006)
Highlander Film Festival (juried), Radford, VA (2006)“Desideratum” (animated short)
Progeny Motion Picture Festival (juried), Blacksburg, VA (2004)
Related Motion Picture Work Experience
• Invited Panelist, Animation Workshop, NHdocs, New Haven Ct, (2020)
• Cinematographer, Music Video for Thabisa Rich/Mxolisi Therealmxo Lokwe, (work in-progress)
• Animator, Where Are You Jay Bennett?, a Rock Documentary by Gorman Bechard
• Emerging Artists Grant Panel Reviewer, (Film Category) Durham Arts Council, (Fall 2014)
• Filmed interviews for the the Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education of NC. (Holocaust Speakers Bureau) (Spring 2014)
• Invited Panelist, Animation Workshop, NHdocs, New Haven Ct, (2020)
