Education
Louisiana State University
Master of Fine Arts in Digital Arts (In Progress)
Master of Arts in Philosophy (In Progress)
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Media Art
Graduated Summa Cum Laude 3.7 GPA, May 2020
Experience
Instructor of Record for Digital Art I and Digital Art Toolkit (2026)
Louisiana State University
Student Gallery Worker (2024-2026)
Louisiana State University
Resident Fellow and Programs Assistant – assist with day to day resident needs and plan resident workshops and gallery programming (January 2023 – December 2023)
Stove Works
Figure model for painting and drawing classes (2021 – 2024)
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Art Department
Freelance Photographer and Graphic Designer (2016 – 2024)
Portraits, graphic design, copy writing
Programs Intern – assist with teen curators program, general gallery needs (May 2022 – July 2022 )
Internship at Stove Works
Gallery Assistant – install work, painting, inventory, file organization (January 2020 – May 2020)
Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Gallery Assistant – install work, social media (2019
Apothecary – University of Tennessee at Chattanooga student run gallery
Volunteer Art Instructor – art teaching assistant for disabled children and adults (2015 – 2017)
H’ART Gallery
Exhibitions
Cashio Box (2026) Pop-Up Exhibition, Baton Rouge, LA
Queerfest (2025) Queer Arts Initiative, Greenville, SC
It’s Cookietown (2025) Cookietown, Knoxville, TN
One of These Things is Not Like the Others (2024) St. Andrews Center,
Chattanooga, TN
First Year Exhibition (2024) Barnes Ogden Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
Transitions (2024) Dispatch Gallery, Online Exhibition
Red Dot (2023) Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
Pride Show (2023) ClearStory Arts, Chattanooga, TN
Sex Ecologies (2023) Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
Psychedelic Queens (2023) Liminal Space, San Francisco, CA
Something Beyond – Solo Exhibition (2022) Dry Ice Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
What Freedom? – Curatorial Project (2022) Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
Can You Hear Us Now?: Revolutionary Art of the Next Generation (2022) Dalton Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Commodity Form (2021) Gallery Sabine, Chicago, IL
Vaccine Education & Messaging (2021) Chattanooga, TN
CGI Fridays (2020) Streamed Online Exhibition
National Council on Aging Photography Award Contest (2020)
Online Exhibition
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Senior BFA Exhibition (2020)
Online Exhibition
Society of Ink and Paper (2020) Online Exhibition
Marginal Gains (2020) Apothecary Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
Catacombs (2019) Fine Arts Center, Chattanooga, TN
Command Z (2019) Apothecary Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
The Social Policing of Gender and the Criminalization of Queerness (2019) Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Inside the Studio (2017) Apothecary Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
Publications
Book Cover for “First, A Crisis” by Jesse Eikmann (2023)
Sensitive Content Magazine (2023)
Lemonboy Magazine (2023)
The Activist Art Magazine (2020)
Residencies
309 Punk Project (Forthcoming July 2026)
Stove Works (January – December 2023)
Mineral House Media Digital Residency (June 2023)
Sarasvati (July 2021)
Awards and Scholarships
Graduate Student Scholarly & Creative Activity Support Fund (2025)
UCF Jane & Thomas Duff Jr Scholarship (2019)
UTC Achieve Scholarship (2017)
Talks and Performances
Clown Dinner Party – Cashio Box (March 2026)
Guest Lecture on Zines – LSU (September 2025)
Guest Lecture on Performance – LSU (March 2025)
Blah Blah Blah Artist Talks – Stove Works (Monthly 2023)
Object (Performance Piece) – Art-A-Nooga Tonight (April 2023)
Untitled (Performance Piece) – Art-A-Nooga Tonight (November 2022)
Press
Burnaway: “A Different Approach to Pride: The Third Annual Queer Arts
Initiative Showcase at Good Art Co., Greenville”
June 7, 2025
Chattanooga Times Free Press: Stove Works Gallery Open House
August 1, 2023
Resident Spotlight: Rainn Jackson, Residency Fellow
February 8th, 2023
Affiliations
Bea Hurd
Art collaborator since 2021
Experience Cult Research Group
Paratheatrical art group