Selected Exhibitions
| 2019 | (Beyond) Redemption, Backspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2018 | Heat of the Moment, Eastside International, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2017 | Sharpener, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA |
| 2016 | Overloaded, Rythmix Cultural Works, Alameda, CA |
| 2015 | Setting Forth, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA Pedagogic Clay 2, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA |
| 2014 | Ink and Clay 40, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA Mas Aattck, Torrance Art Museum, CA Kilnopening.edu, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA |
| 2013 | In Two Places At Once, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA A LOT, Arts Council for Long Beach, Long Beach, CA |
| 2012 | Community Creates, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA Arguments For and Against, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA Art and Diversity, San Francisco University High School, San Francisco, CA |
| 2011 | Working Conditions, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Materiality, Laverne Krause Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR Craft Forward Exhibition, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA At Bay II, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA Ouroboros, CCA Writers Studio, San Francisco, CA |
| 2010 | Boom, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA California Clay Competition, The Artery, Davis, CA -ennial, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2009 | CRV: Collaborative Re-creation Vehicles w/ Abraham Cruzvillegas, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA Without, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2008 | Conveyances, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA Latino Ceramists, The Folk Tree, Pasadena, CA Diversity in Clay, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA Anything Goes, The Folk Tree, Pasadena, CA |
| 2007 | Don’t Fence Me In, Little Bird Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Open Call LA, LA Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 | The Cornerstone, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA |
| 2003 | everything in-between us, BFA Gallery, Chico, CA Coming and Going: Portraits, Cal Java, Chico, CA Trial by Fire, Humanities Center Gallery, Chico, CA CSU Summer Arts Student Culmination, Conley Gallery, Fresno, CA CSU Chico Ceramics: Now, Davis, CA 8th Annual Student Printmakers Invitational, Janet Turner Print Gallery. Chico, CA Divergence, Atlas Clayworks, Chico, CA |
Professional Experience
Instructor, 2022-Present, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2012-2022, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
Adjunct Faculty, 2021, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
Coordinator and PCC Representative, 2012-Present, Art and Design Open Market, Pasadena, CA
Lecturer, 2016-2018, California State University, San Bernardino, CA
Instructional Assistant, 2012, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, CA
Ceramics Instructor, 2012, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Ceramics Instructor, 2011-2012, Berkeley Art Studio, Berkeley, CA
Preparator, 2011-2012, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Teaching Assistant, 2010, Ceramics, California College of the Arts, CA
Project Assistant, 2010, Ano Neuvo Restoration Project, Rebar and California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Teaching Artist Assistant, 2010, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Department Lab Technician, 2005-2009, Ceramics, Pasadena City College, Pasadena CA
Lectures and Presentations
Auction Artist, Eureka, American Museum of Ceramic Art, 2017
Visiting Lecturer and Demonstrator, Woodbury University, 2014
Auction Artist, The Silver Era, Southern Exposure’s Annual Fundraiser, 2012
Auction Artist, MEGA MEGA MEGA, Southern Exposure’s Annual Fundraiser, 2011
Presenter, “Student Pecha Kucha”, Craft Forward Symposium, California College of the Arts, 2011
Presenter, “Post Nature”, Mark Thompson’s Sculpture class, California College of the Arts, 2011
Awards
Dennis Leon and Christin Lelson Scholarship, California College of the Arts, CA, 2011
Murhpy and Cadogan Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation, CA 2010
Brooks Fellowship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO, 2010
Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts, CA, 2009
Diversity Scholarship, California College of the Arts, CA, 2009
CCA Scholarship, California College of the Arts, CA, 2009
Jeanie Ward Grant, Pasadena City College, CA, 2007
Janet Turner Print Collection, CSU Chico, CA
Ellice T. Johnston Memorial Scholarship, Clayfolk, OR, 2003
CSU Summer Arts Scholarship, 2003
Mary Ahlquist Memorial Scholarship, CSU Chico, CA, 2003
Marion Epting Purchase Prize, CSU Chico, CA, 2003
Shimpo Scholarship, 2003
Sara Frisbee Hamilton Scholarship, CSU Chico, CA, 2002
Workshops
Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO, 2010
Harrell Fletcher and Michael Bravo, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, CA, 2010
CSU Summer Arts, CSU Fresno, CA, 2003