I have taught Life Drawing, Life/Figure Painting, Beginning and Intermediate Drawing as well as Printmaking Processes such as monoprint, collagraph, screen printing, intaglio and lithography. This course offers me the opportunity to teach combine mediums and techniques to create interesting pictures with unexpected outcomes. I try to incorporate this experimental development in the figure gestures and drawings in my Form and Figure classes by incorporating both monoprint and other matrix driven and collage techniques. In the second semester, with a focus on personal expression, students learn to combine direct observational short and sustained figure drawings with collage and a variety of mediums. Using their sketchbook studies as inspiration, students use quick sketch figure and costume studies to develop formal, aesthetic and expressive drawings.

I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and graduated of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in General Fine Arts and a minor in Art History with the honors of Magna Cum Laude in 2014 and a Master of Arts in Teaching from MICA in 2015. In 2017 I received my Master of Fine Arts at The University of Pennsylvania, where I was also the recipient of the Christopher Lyons Memorial Grant Award for the class of 2017. My work has been exhibited across the United States as well as in Florence, Italy. My studio practice encompasses sculpture, painting, photography, performance and installation. My most recent Solo Exhibition took Place at IA & A Hillyer Gallery in Washington DC and was recently been featured in the Washington Post.

I am an exhibiting fine artist based in Southern California working in the medium of photography and digital video. My work explores themes of human emotions in experiences of life and issues of identity. My artwork has been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and internationally and is included in many collections. I am the recipient of two Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Grants, for which I created both a permanent and a temporary art installation. Press coverage of my work includes reviews and features in the LA Times, LA Weekly, Huffington Post, Time Out New York and Artillery Magazine as well as many other publications.

Currently I am a Lecturer teaching in the Foundation Department at Otis College of Art and Design. Also, I teach Photography in the Extension Department and Summer of Art Program at Otis. Previously I have also taught at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and many other visiting artist appointments. I received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from the University of Arizona.

In the courses I teach, students learn the basic formal elements of design and art. As well as experience color in analog and digital formats. They also learn basic skills of photography and how to photograph and present their classwork using analogue and digital techniques. Elements of professionalism are included n the course which assist students in preparing for their careers. Design and Art history relating to all majors is also included.