Education
2018-2022
Ball State University - Honors College
Class of 2022 | Cumulative GPA: 3.96
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation | Minor in Art History
Work and Fellowships
2022-2023
Museum of Wisconsin Art
Curatorial Engagement Fellow, West Bend, WI
2019-2022
Drawings and Documents Archive
Student assistant to the archivist, Muncie, IN
Summer 2021
Ball State University -Honors Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Researching African American artists Archibald Motley Jr., Laura Wheeler Waring, Amy Sherald, and Kehinde Wiley and how their portraits are used as a mode of racial uplift and social protest from the 1920s to the 21st century.
Projects and Commissions
2021
Short Film Production (The Moonlight Escape)
Visual Development and Looks Lead, Muncie, IN
2021
Short Film Production (Motus Theater)
Visual Development and Looks Lead, Muncie, IN
2020-2021
Lauren's Eventful First day with Kobe
Children's book Illustration: commission - 3 character designs, and 20 full-page digital illustrations
2018 - 2020
Factions Battlegrounds
Boardgame illustration: Commission 12 digital illustrations, Milwaukee, WI
Exhibitions
March 21, 2022
Parking in Reverse While Going Forward: Works from Intermediate and Advanced Drawing
Muncie Makes Lab, Muncie IN. Group Exhibition
February 16 -March 17, 2022
87th Annual Student Art Show, Ball State University Griner Art Gallery
Muncie, IN (curated by Iris Williamson)
March 2-March 24, 2021
86th Annual Student Art Show, Ball State University Griner Art Gallery
Muncie, IN (curated by Eli Craven)
February 8-March 18, 2020
85th Annual Student Art Show, Ball State University Griner Art Gallery
Muncie, IN (curated by Shaunta Marsh)
January 6-February 27, 2020
New Perspectives: Ball State Painting, Blackford County Arts Center
Hartford City, IN
May 3-August 23, 2019
Beginnings 2019 Extended, Ball State University Griner Art Gallery
Muncie, IN
Awards
2018 - 2020
Fine Focus Student Organization 2021 Outstanding Service and Leadership Award
2018 - 2022
Whitinger Scholar, Ball State University - Full tuition, room, and board four-year scholarship
2019 - 2022
Presidential Scholarship, Ball State University
2018 - 2022
Deans List, Ball State University