EDUCATION
Pacific NW College of Art, Willamette University, Low-Residency MFA Visual Studies 2024
Lewis & Clark College Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Theatre 1994
Focused studies in vocal music and contemporary dance.
EXHIBITIONS
Now it's a Party: LRVS MFA Thesis Exhibition, Pacific NW College of Art 2024
Outer Voice: Kinds of Time, Oregon Contemporary 2024
Walk Work: Mall at chimaera.site/AFK: exhibition 2023
WRITING
Imagined Theatres: Online Issue: Curation “The Fellowship” 2020
Curating People Arts Research Center US Berkeley 2011
RESIDENCIES
Outer Voice Alliance 2023-2024
Reykjavik Dance Festival Global City/Local City Lab 2021
SELECTED WORK HISTORY
Artistic Director & Curator of Performance
PICA (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art) 2017 - current
Direct, curate and produce programs with Co-Artistic Directors Roya Amirsoleymani and Kristan Kennedy
Assistant Professor, PNCA, Willamette University 2017 - current
Mentor, PNCA, Willamette University 2008 - current
Teach studio Performance and Professional Practice.
Mentor BFA and MFA candidates working in performance and multidisciplinary forms.
Performing Arts Program Director, PICA 2005 - 2017
Associate Curator of Performing Arts, PICA 2001 - 2004
Co-curated and produced annual 10-day Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) as well as PICA’s year-round program of artist residencies, performances, workshops and public events, working with Artistic Directors Angela Mattox, Cathy Edwards, Mark Russell and Kristy Edmunds.
Programs Assistant, PICA 1997 - 2001
Managed PICA’s annual exhibition, residency and performance programs working with PICA’s founding director Kristy Edmunds.
Education Outreach Coordinator, Portland Art Museum/NW Film Center 1994 - 1996
Coordinated state-wide program placing filmmakers in residence with schools and community organizations to produce original films. Coordinated Young People’s Film and Video Festival.
SELECT PUBLIC SPEAKING/PANELS
New Curatorial Perspectives; Supporting Artistic Practice
PuSh Festival, Vancouver BC virtual panel + podcast 2022
Norway Now Virtual Panel 2021
Western Arts Alliance Conference Decolonization Workshop 2021
THE NEXT STAGE: Essential Issues in Performing Arts Creation 2021
Western Arts Alliance in partnership with the Taiwan Academy in
Los Angeles and the Taiwan Ministry of Culture.
Meet the Presenter Pecha Kucha APAM Brisbane, Australia 2014
WESTAF (Western States Arts Federation)
Performing Arts Directors Meeting, Speaker 2012
“Curating People” Symposium UC Berkeley, Panelist 2011
Keynote Address “Portland: Creative City” Yokohama, Japan 2011
BOARD SERVICE
First Nations Performing Arts Working Consortium 2020 - current
New Expressive Works Advisory Board, Portland 2012 - current
National Dance Project Hubsite Advisor
New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston 2010 - 2012
National Performance Network, New Orleans Board of Directors 2007 - 2009
NPN Performing Americas Curator (Latin American Exchange) 2006
SELECT ARTIST GRANT AND CURATORIAL PANELS
Western States Arts Alliance 2021
Charlotte Street Arts Foundation Generative Artist Award 2017
Curatorial Panel NW New Works Festival, On the Boards Seattle 2002 - 2017
Panelist Risk/Reward Festival 2011 - 2020
Native Arts and Culture Foundation Dance Fellowship Panel 2012
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation International Festivals Panel 2013, 2015
Creative Capital 2005, 2021
Regional Arts and Culture Council
Individual Artists Grants, Public Arts Grants 1999 - ongoing
RECENT CURATORIAL/PRODUCING HISTORY (see www.pica.org)
Allie Hankins The Ache 2023
Anthony Hudson & Pepper Pepper’s GLOOP 2023
ASUNA’s 100 Keyboards 2022
Faye Driscoll’s Come On In 2021/2022
devynn emory’s deadbird/can anybody help me hold this body 2021
Will Rawls’ [siccer] co-commission and residency, premiere 2023 2020 - 2023
Taka Yamamoto’s NOTHINGBEING co-commission and residency 2021 - 2022
Anthony Hudson’s Clown Down 2 co-commission and residency 2021 - 2022
TBA Festival Co-Artistic Director & Curator of Performance 2018 - 2022
References available upon request