Femme Salée works with writers, artists, art historians, activists, curators, educators, & other outstanding people whose value cannot be expressed in list form. We are extraordinarily grateful to them.
Kameron Ackerman
Kameron is a non-binary person living in upstate New York with his spouse Cal & their two cats. He is a janitor at an elementary school as well as a writer, DJ, drag king, & collage artist.
Drew Austin
Drew Austin (he/him) is a an interdisciplinary artist living & working in Denver, Colorado. He moved here from Montana for school, where he graduated as valedictorian from Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. His work changes medium quite often, most likely taking form through sculpture, painting/drawing, & light-based installation work. He likes to think of his work as a visual explanation of things that people often overlook or seldom understand; things like the human connection to the natural world, quantum theory, cosmic phenomena, religion, & especially love. He loves the outdoors & spending long periods of time in nature while things exist around him.
Bryce Armijo
Bryce Armijo is a Philadelphia-based copywriter, editor, & general politico. In between his work on political campaigns, Bryce maintains an interest in Black modern art movements & dedicates himself to the art historical & curatorial process that helps connect art-making to spatial theory, identity, & the Other. He graduated from the University of Denver in 2019 with degrees in History & Political Science.
Lilly Barrientos
First-generation Cuban-American Lisbet “Lilly” Barrientos is an Art Historian & story-teller. In 2018, she received a bachelor’s degree from Florida International University & will obtain an M.A. from the University of Denver in 2020. An intersectional feminist, Barrientos draws from visual culture to amplify the stories of historically silenced communities.
Mary Grace Bernard
Mary Grace (MG) is the Founder & Director of Femme Salée. She is an artist & scholar living with cystic fibrosis, a chronic illness that informs her daily art & writing practice. In an effort to combine art theory & art practice, Mary Grace analyzes contemporary performance artists through performances of her own. In an attempt to break down binaries, she makes the invisibility of chronic illness visible & advocates the importance of bringing the (dis)abled community to the forefront of art historical & theoretical conversations.
Madeleine Boyson
Madeleine Claire Boyson is an artist, independent curator, writer, & lecturer located in Denver, Colorado. Her photography centers on the process of natural decay as seen in Bad Health’s “Quadriptych: Meditations on the Earth Cycle of Death,” 2020, which catalogues the decomposition of Asarum canadense (Wild Ginger) in a family garden. In her scholarship, Madeleine focuses on modern American art from the early to mid-20th century, particularly changes in creative styles & the effects of location on artistic success. Her personal experiences with (dis)ability & chronic illness inform her artistic, scholarly, & writerly practices, all of which explore the visual elements of (dis)ability studies, issues of care & dependency, & the wholeness of the Body. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art History & History from the University of Denver.
Jessica Lynne Brown
Jessica Lynne Brown is a New Orleans based artist from St. Louis, MO. My work adds a metaphysical & ontological perspective to the themes of childhood, vulnerability, & intimacy by using simple line drawings—described by Hyperallergic as, “…achingly kinetic and spindly…”—as blueprints to convey highly personal content involving the unconscious, desire, & the body. Influenced by reoccurring dreams & memories, she uses these imaginative references to build large-scale stages & miniature rooms.
Brandyn Busico
Brandyn Busico is an interdisciplinary artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, who received his BFA from Watkins College of Art, Design & Film. He shifts mediums between photography, videography, & installation. Busico’s work(s) tend(s) to dance with themes of the psyche, the human experience, illness, & symbolism. By marrying these themes with his love for horror & science fiction aesthetics, Brandyn continues to create a body of work that questions the world through a surrealist lens. When relaxing, he enjoys hanging out with his cat & organizing his insect collection.
Jeffery Byrd
Jeffery Byrd is a performance artist who has worn weird outfits all over the world.
Sam Carlson
Sam Carlson (they/them) grew up in Atlanta & moved to Denver from Nashville, TN in 2017. They are a visual artist, curator, & digitization archivist finishing their graduate degree in library & information science at the University of Denver.
Mary Aparicio Castrejón
Mary Aparicio Castrejón is the editorial page editor for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin. Artistically, she aims to pair unlikely subjects & concepts with recycled &/or thrifted materials. In general, she tries to make the best out of whatever she’s been given.
Jenna Clark
Jenna Clark, mezzo-soprano graduated from the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver with a dual concentration Masters degree in Vocal Performance & Choral Conducting, studying voice with Sara Bardill & conducting with Dr. Catherine Sailer. She received her undergraduate degree from Taylor University in Upland, Indiana where she studied voice with Dr. Patricia Robertson & served as assistant director of the choir under Dr. JoAnn Rediger. Ms. Clark has been seen as the Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (2011), Dorabella in Mozart’s Così fan tutte (2016), Prince Orlofsky in J. Strauss’s Die Fledermaus (2017), Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (2018), & Suzuki in a futuristic adaptation of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (2019).
Dannielle Cunningham
Danielle is a mentally ill person living in Denver, CO. Influenced by mysticism, science fiction, & fantasy imagery, she creates art that re-contextualizes science fiction tropes while subverting mainstream ideas of gender, sexuality, & (dis)ability. She often pursues collaborations because her practice lies in DIY/punk & Marxist feminist methodologies. As a member of Hexus Collective, Danielle has curated exhibitions, performed, & created installations using Magick to de-stigmatize mental illness. Since 2018, she has studied Art History & Museum Studies at the University of Denver, where she was awarded a Graduate Teaching Assistantship at the Vicki Myhren Gallery.
Michelle Dawn
Cal Duran is an artist who grew up in Colorado. His mother was adopted & his father was not quite in the picture. He has roots that bridge India & the natives of this land. He finds himself exploring parallels between his hybrid identities found in myth, religion, & ritual. He works with clay & sculpture through ancient traditional processes.
Michael Espinoza
Michael Espinoza (they/them) is an emerging artist working in performance, video, fiber, installation & ritual. The major themes in their work include ancestors, queer identity, Latinx heritage, healing, sex & the body. Their work revolves around the concept & practice of altar-making as a performative act, exploring the relationship between living & dead, between grief & joy, & between mourning & celebration.
Margeaux Feldman
Margeaux Feldman is a writer, educator, & community-builder from Toronto now living in Treaty 7 Territory in Calgary, AB. She identifies as a femme witch, trauma bb, & sick babe living with fibromyalgia. Margeaux is currently completing her PhD in English Literature & Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of numerous self-published zines including Soft Magic & Poor Girl Trauma.
Lucia Garzón
Lucia Garzón is an interdisciplinary artist working in a range of media including, but not limited to, wood, textiles, print, & video. She graduated from Tyler School of Art in 2018 with a BFA in printmaking. In the summer of 2021, she attended the ACRE residency, was in residence at Grizzly Grizzly gallery, & created a printed publication with the Philadelphia collective FORTUNES. She currently works & resides in Philadelphia.
Lizzie Goldsmith
Lizzie Goldsmith is a Denver-based writer, producer, & sound designer dedicated to telling fiction & nonfiction stories in innovative ways. Spiritual journeys & deconstructions are of particular interest to her, given her own deconstruction from evangelical Christianity over the last several years.
Todd Edward Herman
Todd Edward Herman is a visual artist & founding director of east window exhibition space in Boulder Colorado. His films & photographs deal with themes of the body & transience, representational taboos & spectatorship, difference & the historic consequences of othering. His work has generated collaborations with artists on books, films, performances & exhibitions around the world. Herman is an ally of the disability justice movement & long time collaborator with Sins Invalid, a performance project that incubates, celebrates & centralizes artists with disabilities, artists of color, queer & gender-variant artists.
Matthew Hilyard
Matthew Hilyard is an artist, curator, & educator. He creates drawings, paintings, mixed media two- & three-dimensional works, & photographs. His primary interest is abstraction, though his work also draws on contemporary & historic art of all kinds. In his photographs, he also explores gay identity & culture. Based in Andover, Kansas, his work has been included in numerous national & international juried exhibitions. In 2015, New American Paintings selected his paintings for their West Coast issue number 120. Matthew has curated a number of exhibitions & he teaches at Mark Arts in Wichita, Kansas.
Mahalia Hunt
Mahalia Hunt (they/she) is a Sugpiaq/Kass’aq (settler) beadworker, born on Dena’ina land (Anchorage, Alaska) & currently living on Cheyenne, Ute & Arapaho land (Denver, Colorado). Mahalia made their first piece of beadwork at age five, a beaded wire sculpture, which she still has today, floating around her bead box. They were encouraged to pick up beads by their father, also a beadworker, but have honed & challenged their craft over the past two decades.
Rowan Hynds
Rowan (pronouns she/they/he) is a Two-Spirited multidisciplinary artist of Anishinaabe, Irish, & Scottish descent. They currently reside on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen-speaking people. Rowan believes above all that the relationship between artist & audience is one of mutual vulnerability, often challenging themself to share instances of trauma & healing at their rawest points. For Rowan, the goal is to find a space where artistic abstraction distills the personal into a shared feeling & experience. Whether it’s poetry, song, painting, or sketch, they can be found at their most Human when engaged in some form of storytelling.
Karissa Johnson
Karissa Johnson is currently a graduate student at the University of Denver working towards an MA in Art History with a Museum Studies concentration. She obtained her BA in Art History with minors in English & Business from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln & graduated with Distinction in 2017. For over three years, Johnson worked at Kiechel Fine Art in Lincoln, Nebraska as the Gallery Associate of Curatorial & Acquisitions. She currently works as a Graduate Museum Assistant at The Madden Museum of Art & a Collections Assistant at the Hampden Art Study Center in Denver.
Joshua Jauregui
Joshua is an American designer & artist living in Denver, Colorado. He received his BFA in Graphic Design from Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, where he specialized in web design & typography. Joshua’s design practice explores the balance between organic & mechanical, the influences of the natural & digital worlds, & how memories & emotion influence our ways of meaning-making. Johsua works as a full-time freelance artist & designer, where he explores these ideas.
Chelsea Kaiah
Carly Koch
Carly Koch lives in Denver where their full-time gig is a first grade teacher. They have always deeply valued the presence of poetry in their life & have been writing it down since they were eight years old. They believe in expressing themselves in vulnerable, messy ways & poetry is the perfect outlet for that. When they are not writing, they are typically yelling over a glass of wine with friends. They are a lover of cooking, sleepy park days, playlist making, & doing their best to live in a culture of community healing.
Katie Kut
Katie is (mostly) a self-taught oil painter. She grew up in the Pacific Northwest but has been residing in New Orleans, Louisiana since 2008. Her body of work is a kaleidoscope of color, dimension, & shape, brought to life through various techniques, media, & thematic explorations.
Halo Lahnert
Halo Lahnert is an artist living & working in Philly. Their work explores the intersection of faith & the internet & has been shown in the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the American Mountaineering Museum, & Lighthouse Writers Workshop, among other places.
Joseph Lamar
In this universe, Joseph Lamar {he, him, his but also she/they} comes in many forms. A being that creates across numerous mediums, he is a singer, songwriter, producer, writer—a creator of narratives & paradox. Joseph’s work unites the cerebral & the visceral, the secular & the spiritual, the micro & the macro. It emerges from the void—an evolving mystery of complex thoughts & theses. Joseph recently released SIN. [act I], the first in a series of genre-defying concept albums.
Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers
Iako’tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers (Seneca, Six Nations of the Grand River) is an emerging self-taught artist & graphic designer currently based in Montreal, Québec, in Kanien’keha:ka territory. She is building her practice across digital illustration, street art, & screen printing mediums.
Lisa Jungmin Lee
Lisa Jungmin Lee is a print-based artist interested in architectural forms & their impacts on our lives & beyond. She explores the relationship between the structures & visual lines we experience in daily life through various shapes & aspects of industrial buildings. She received my MFA in printmaking from Tyler School of Art & Architecture at Temple University & a BFA in printmaking from Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea. She has exhibited her work nationally & internationally, & she teaches printmaking & studio art at various institutions across the region.
Robin Lovett-Owen
Robin Lovett-Owen is a queer woman, Lutheran pastor, & environmentalist from Tennessee. She uses art to explore spirituality & find the Divine in this world. She draws inspiration from the Bible, many different traditions of mysticism, & from the natural world.
John-Michael Maakestad
John-Michael Maakestad lives & works in Philadelphia with his partner of (almost) 3 years. They live with their cat, Moonee. In his free time, he enjoys drawing, exploring the city, & taking in the vast array of cultures surrounding him. He looks forward to graduating from Temple University with his degree in English.
Carly Mandel
Carly Mandel’s practice considers how objects & people are medicalized within late capitalism. Her sculptures focus on how survival is represented through commodities; by re-representing these objects, she illustrates how we are all unable to thrive independent of their consumption.
Cherish Marquez
Cherish Marquez (she/they) (b.1989 El Paso, Texas) spent her childhood in Sierra Blanca, Texas, & her adult life in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Currently, she lives & works in Denver, Colorado. She holds a BA in Fine Arts & Creative Writing from New Mexico State University & an MFA in Emergent Digital Practices from the University of Denver. She is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on digital media. Her work explores environmental justice, mysticism, mental health, queer identities, & healing from generational trauma. Her work operates from a queer Latinx perspective & is heavily subjected to speculative futurism.
Suchitra Mattai
Suchitra Mattai received an MFA in painting & drawing & an MA in South Asian art, both from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited in Sharjah, UAE, Bentonville, AR, Philadelphia, New York City, Washington, DC, Minneapolis, Denver, Austin, London, & Wales & has appeared in various publications such as Hyperallergic, Document Journal, Cultured Magazine, Harpar’s Bazaar Arabia, Entropy Magazine, The Daily Serving, & New American Paintings. Suchitra recently completed a residency at RedLine Contemporary Art, & lives & works in Denver, CO.
Danielle McCullough
Danielle McCullough is an occupational therapist, disability advocate, & artist in Los Angeles, CA.
Cristina Molina
Cristina Molina is a visual artist who hails from the subtropics of Miami & currently lives & works in New Orleans—two precarious terrains that have thematically influenced her practice. Spanning performance, video installation, photography, & textile design, Molina’s artwork is set amongst vulnerable landscapes both real & imagined. Using the language of magical realism, her artworks reshape & centralize little-known narratives to upend dominant histories. Molina’s projects have been supported by the National Association for Latino Arts & Culture, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts & the National Endowment for the Arts. Molina was one of 61 artists selected for the national exhibition State of the Art 2020 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. From 2014-20 Molina was a member of the New Orleans artist-run project, The Front where she regularly curated artwork, & co-organized The Front’s annual juried film festival. Cristina Molina is Associate Professor & Gallery Director at Southeastern Louisiana University where she received the 2018 President’s Award for Excellence in Artistic Activity & is the current recipient of the Viola Brown Endowed Professorship in Visual Arts & Dramatic Arts.
Maria Molteni
Maria Molteni is a multi-media & performing artist, educator, organizer, & mystic. Their practice has been based in Fort Point for eight of the twenty years they’ve lived in Boston. Molteni’s work is conceptual, formal, socially engaged, deeply researched & contemplative. From fiber to found-object sculpture, textile to movement, performance to publication, they choose media per its ability to intersect conceptual rigor, formal satisfaction & spiritual depth. Exploring seemingly separate fields like athletics, craft, entomology, feminism, urban planning, Spiritualism, & queerness, they seek to interrupt binary thinking, crossing otherwise siloed communities & research. Their work pulls from a well of historical contexts, reimagining traditional narratives for visionary revolution. The artist often imagines they are the P.E. Coach of visionary communities like the Shakers, Bauhaus or Black Mountain College.
Sumer Mohsen
Sumer Mohsen is a daughter of an Indigenous mother from Oklahoma & an Arab father who emigrated from Saudi Arabia. Raised with a complex identity, her work revolves around the work of our subconscious behaviors rooted in lineage & trauma. She has experimented with all things functional, from nail art & adornments to co-creating a spirit message deck.
Holly Nordeck
Holly Nordeck is a Golden, Colorado-based artist who grew up in Littleton, Colorado. She graduated in 2016 with BFA in drawing & a minor in arts business at Colorado State University. Her work has been shown at group shows at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, RedLine Contemporary Art Center in Denver, & has had a solo show titled Suburban Paradise at Bas Bleu Gallery in Fort Collins. She has experience in working in institutions like the Denver Art Museum & Boulder Contemporary Art Museum with focus on art facilitation, as well as coordinating and supporting artist driven programming.
Natani Notah
Natani Notah is an interdisciplinary artist working in a range of media, such as sculpture, collage, & installation. She received her BFA with a minor in Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies from Cornell University & an MFA from Stanford University. She has exhibited her work nationwide & she is currently a 2021-2023 Tulsa Artist Fellow.
Daisy Patton
Born in Los Angeles, CA & currently residing in western Massachusetts, Patton has a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Oklahoma with minors in History & Art History & an Honors degree. Her MFA is from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University, a multi-disciplinary program. Patton received the Montague Travel Grant for research in Dresden, Germany, & she was also awarded a position as an exchange student at the University of Hertfordshire, UK while an undergraduate. Patton has completed artist residencies at Minerva Projects, Anderson Ranch, the Studios at MASS MoCA, RedLine Denver, & Eastside International in Los Angeles. She has exhibited in solo & group shows nationally, including her first museum solo at the CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado. K Contemporary represents Patton in Denver, CO, & J. Rinehart Gallery represents her in Seattle, WA.
Eileen Roscina Richardson
Eileen Roscina Richardson is an artist, experimental filmmaker & naturalist from Denver, Colorado. She earned a BFA from Emerson College in Boston, MA & trained at the School of Botanical Art & Illustration in Denver. Through biomimicry & the study of biophilia, her work examines human’s spiritual & social (dis)connection with nature, & seeks to raise questions about realizing a radically different metaphoric mapping of time, space & human’s place in the world. She has exhibited film internationally, was the 2019 Resident Artist for the National Western Stock Show, & is a current resident at RedLine Contemporary Art Center. She is represented by Walker Fine Art Gallery in Denver, CO.
Keysha Rivera
Keysha Rivera is am a textile & media artist of Taino Indigenous ancestry living and working on Chitimacha, Houma, & Choctaw land, also known as New Orleans. Her work revolves around cultural preservation & the configuration of displaced histories. Her familial research acts as a guide for the creation of her works. By centering Puerto Rican liberation, my art functions as a contemporary form of resistance to the present-day realities of existing under neocolonialism and U.S occupation.
Carmen Salem
Carmen Salem is a multi-disciplinary artist working in printmaking, painting, & clay in addition to being a traditional tribal artist in the fields of weaving & beadwork. Her work explores the relationships between living on & off of the reservation & how these relations influence her way of life. She tends to use iconography & popular culture as a tool to delve deeper into the untold indigenous history of America. Her art is a reflection of living in contemporary society as a Yakama-Comanche woman.
Maggie Sava
Maggie Sava is based in Denver, Colorado, where she was born & raised. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Art History & English, Creative Writing from the University of Denver & a master’s in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. Writing is her main artistic engagement, which she pursues through research, art writing, & poetry.
Ashten Scheller
Ashten Scheller (she/her) is an art historian, writer, & researcher currently located in Kansas City, Kansas. Her scholarship focuses on the interdisciplinary nature of art & its intersection with (inter)national politics, canon creation, accessibility, display, restitution, mythology, & otherness. In 2019 she completed her bachelor’s degree in Art History & International Relations from the University of Denver, & in 2020 she completed her master’s degree in the History of Art, Theory, & Display at the University of Edinburgh.
Natalie Sharp
Natalie Sharp (she/her) is a Black queer writer, dancer, & educator hailing from Savannah, GA & based in Denver, CO. She completed her MFA in poetry at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her poetry & nonfiction have previously appeared in Foglifter Journal, BOAAT Journal, Bodega Magazine, & elsewhere. If you propose to her in a Waffle House, she will probably say yes.
Michael Sperandeo
Michael Sperandeo uses new media as a platform that allows his work to escape the confines of the real & venture into the surreal. Current technologies, such as: augmented reality, virtual reality, 3D scanning & 3D rendering tools, facilitate his love for creating interactive & other worldly experiences. His work is narrative focussed & draws reference from mythology, numerology, & symbolism.
Lexi Stone-Wick
Lexi works in integrative healthcare education, is an amateur herbalist, & a climate justice activist. She grew up in Morrison, Colorado, & now lives in Baltimore, Maryland with her husband & dog-ter (dog daughter!). When she’s not dwelling in the past or obsessing over the future, she enjoys home improvement projects, weeding her garden, & watching reruns of “Survivor.” She’s currently in the process of figuring out what it means to be an artist without any formal artistic skills, per se.
Taryn Trussell
Taryn Trussell is a Denver based artist currently pursuing a B.S. in Industrial Design at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Parallel to her studies, working at the Center for Visual Art gallery has sparked her interest in Digital Art. Engaging in art & design allows her to approach both fields with a lens from the other. The fluidity of animation makes connections between forms & the themes they carry. Taryn utilizes this fluidity to better define complex themes in her work.
Mesel Tzegai
Mesel is a graduate student at the University of Denver pursuing an MA in Art History with a Museum Studies concentration. She graduated with a BA from Creighton University in 2017, majoring in Classical & Near Eastern Civilizations & minoring in Anthropology, Art History, & Latin. She expects to graduate in Winter Quarter 2021 with a Master’s Research Paper topic on Afrofuturism. A former Madden Fellow at the University of Denver, Mesel hopes to enter the museum field in curating after graduating.
Vanessa Viruet
Vanessa Viruet is a fiber artist of Puerto Rican descent. She creates monumental scale artworks to examine the complex histories rooted in textiles such as identity, cultural heritage, gender, & class. Viruet currently serves as an art instructor for Chicago Public Schools & teaches in the Fiber & Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Someday she hopes to have her own college scholarship for artists of color.
Genevieve Waller
Genevieve Waller is an artist, writer, historian, & curator. She creates photograms (cameraless photographs), sculpture, drawings, & videos that deal with excess, substitution, transparency, & the status of everyday objects. She researches & writes about the aesthetic of camp, the history of gay culture, film, modern & contemporary art, & popular music. Originally from Wichita, Kansas, she received an undergraduate degree in Art History at Wichita State University, an M.F.A. in Photography & Art History at Ohio University, & an M.A. in visual & cultural studies at the University of Rochester. She spent a year in Berlin, Germany as a Fulbright grantee & for many years has been a college radio DJ. Currently, she resides in Denver, Colorado where she is a member of Secret Love Collective & the Founder of the art journal DARIA: Denver Art Review, Inquiry, & Analysis.
Victoria Wick
Victoria has continued to deconstruct her religious upbringing & heal from religious trauma by becoming an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denomination. She lives in Hagerstown, Maryland, where she serves a congregation as a Minister of Congregational & Community Care. In her spare time, she enjoys walks with her dog-ter, Maisie, who simply refuses to poop in the yard.
Ryn Wilson
Ryn Wilson is a photography & video artist working in New Orleans. She takes a cinematic approach to narratives with an emphasis on feminism, mythology, the environment, & mysticism. She is a member of the Crystal Efemmes, a quartet of interdisciplinary artists that create immersive installations retelling myths & histories from a perspective that honors marginalized populations. Ryn also co-founded the Wading Room with Peter Hoffman in 2021, a six-month art gallery project. Her work has been featured at the Ford Foundation Gallery in NYC, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Kunsthall Stavanger in Norway, & the Oslo International Video Art Festival.
Parker Yamasaki
Parker Yamasaki is a graduate student at the School for the Art Institute in Chicago, where she is working on a degree in New Arts Journalism. She was raised in Southern California. When she is not studying or freelancing she is outside looking for the sun.
Eren Yazzie
Eren Yazzie (she/they) recently graduated from the University of Denver with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Emergent Digital Practices. Along with a strong interest in art & emerging art practices, she has taken courses in sustainability, theatre, & gender & women’s studies. She has been working with Coding with Kids since 2019 as a computer programming instructor for K-5th grade students. Upon completion of her undergraduate studies, she intends to continue teaching, as well as, apply to art residencies to further her development & work as a 21st century media artist & director.