Curriculum vitae

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EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, with Distinction, Mount Allison University — 2015

Exhibitions & Events

“Spell for Spotting Invisible Things,” Struts Poster Series, Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB — 2021
“Lullabies,” Solo show, Atelier Presse Papier, Trois-Rivières, QC — 2021
Festival Branding and “Things I Saw,” Public Art Installation, CAFKA.20, Kitchener, ON — 2021
“The Mail Exchange,” solo show, ARTsPLACE Artist-Run Centre, Annapolis Royal, NS — 2019
“Terrestrial Beings,” group show, Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, AB — 2019
Two-person show, S.A.I.L., University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON — 2019
“Near and Far,” mail art print exchange, facilitated by Atelier Imago, Moncton, NB — 2020
“My Back Pages: The Art of Zines and Indie Publishing,” Centre3 Zine Club Installation, group show, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON — 2019
“Literary Variety Show,” performance, Flourish Festival, Fredericton, NB — 2019
“Emerging Artist Residency,” two-person show, Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts, Hamilton, ON — 2019
“Press,” group show, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, ON — 2019
“Collector,” solo show, Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener City Hall, Kitchener, ON — 2018
“Nonesuch Art of Paper Awards,” group show, Main & Station, Parrsboro, NS, and The Paper Factory, Montreal, QC — 2017
“Sorry Sister,” installation, Flourish Festival, Fredericton, NB — 2017
“Miscellany,” solo show, Charlotte Street Arts Centre, Fredericton, NB — 2017
“Correspondences,” solo show, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, NB — 2016
“Sackville Special Mail Exchange,” solo project, OK QUOI?! Contemporary Arts Festival, Struts Gallery and Faucet Media Arts Centre — 2016
“Proud of You,” group show, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB — 2015

“Drawings and Things,” solo show, Thunder and Lightning Pub, Sackville, NB — 2015
“Collections,” solo show, START Gallery, Sackville, NB — 2014

“Caerimonia,” group show, pop-up show, Sackville, NB — 2014

“Selfie: Graduate Self-Portrait Show,” group show, Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts, Sackville, NB — 2014

“Locally Grown: Back to the Landscape,” group show, Helson Gallery, Georgetown, ON — 2014

“Emerging Artists Exhibition,” group show, Williams Mill Visual Arts Centre, Glen Williams, ON — 2013
“Locally Grown,” group show, Helson Gallery — 2013

Residencies

France-New Brunswick Comic Artist Residency, (virtual residency presented by the Frye Festival, ArtsLink NB, the AAAPNB, and the French Embassy in Canada) — 2021
The Dawson Award Residency, Spark Box Studio, Picton, ON — 2019
Residency, ARTsPLACE Artist-Run Centre — 2019
Emerging Artist Residency, Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts — 2018
Visiting Artist Residency, St. Michael’s Print Shop, St. John’s, NL — 2017

Events With The Society of Anonymous Drawers

The Society of Anonymous Drawers was a 3-person collective that organized open community drawing events and online publication of anonymous submissions.
Community drawing event, Flotilla, ARCA and Atlantis, Charlottetown, PE — 2017
“The Society of Anonymous Drawers Present a Special Afterdark Drawing Extravaganza,” drawing event, Third Shift festival, Saint John, NB — 2016
“The Owens Art Gallery Presents The Society of Anonymous Drawers,” drawing event, Bordertown Festival, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB — 2016
“The Society of Anonymous Drawers Archive on View,” group show, Thunder and Lightning Pub — 2016
“The Society of Anonymous Drawers at Flourish,” drawing event, Flourish Festival, Fredericton, NB — 2016
“The S.A.D.dest Little Thing” drawing event, OK QUOI?! Contemporary Arts Festival, Struts Gallery and Faucet Media Arts Centre — 2015

Grants & Awards

“Research and Create Grant,” Canada Council for the Arts — 2022
”Research and Create Grant,” Canada Council for the Arts — 2021
Artist book micro grant, Atelier Imago & Linda Dornan/MarshWindsSmithy — 2021
“Research and Create Grant,” Canada Council for the Arts — 2020
“Digital Originals: Micro Innovation Grant,” Canada Council for the Arts (partnership with CAFKA: Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area) — 2020
“Creation Grant, Multidisciplinary Arts,” The New Brunswick Arts Board — 2020
“Dawn Watson Memorial Prize for Poetry: Third Place,” Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick — 2020
“Best Literary Zine: Shortlist,” Broken Pencil Zine Awards — 2020
“Craft Projects Grant,” Ontario Arts Council — 2019
“Recommender Grant for Writers,” Ontario Arts Council — 2018
Region of Waterloo Arts Fund grant — 2018
“Literary Creation Grant,” Ontario Arts Council — 2018
“Exhibition Assistance Grant,” Ontario Arts Council — 2018
“Career Development Grant, Artist in Residence,” The New Brunswick Arts Board — 2017
“Creation Grant, Multidisciplinary Arts,” The New Brunswick Arts Board — 2017
“Best Literary Zine,” Broken Pencil Zine Awards — 2017
“Best Zine: Shortlist,” Expozine Alternative Press Awards, ARCMTL — 2017
“Creation Grant, Visual Arts” The New Brunswick Arts Board — 2016
“Imago Bursary,” Imago Artist-Run Print Shop, Moncton, NB — 2015

Publications

The Lightning Circle, Tundra Books, illustrations for novel by Vikki VanSickle — 2024
“Spell for Learning How to Float,” The Dalhousie Review, poem — 2021
“Asking Spell,” “Unlacing Spell,” and “Spell for Alternatives,” The Sappy Post, illustrated poems — 2021
“Sane Reminders for the End of the World,” Shorelines (published by Third Space Gallery and ACAP), illustrated prose — 2021
“Dear Correspondent” and “Dear Futile Hope,” Harbour (published by Amy Ash Art & Engagement), illustrated poems — 2020
“Small Consolations,” Fifteen Dreams (published by Sappyfest), four illustrated poems — 2020
“Lineage Spell” and “Luxury Spell,” Contemporary Verse 2, poems — 2019
“Flesh Spell,” Call Out Comics 4, illustrated poem — 2019
“Dear sister” and “Dear fly in the apartment,” Egress Mag Issue 3, illustrated poems — 2017
Joypuke III, cover design — 2017
“Growth Spell,” DASH Literary Journal, illustrated poem — 2017
“After the Service,” 7 Mondays vol. 22, poem — 2016
“Pale,” 7 Mondays vol. 21, poem — 2015

Reviews

“Conversations with the Mute Chapter 2: Correspondences,” Broken Pencil Magazine, review by Joshua Barton — 2019
“Best Litzine: Spell Book for an Attic Gardener,” Broken Pencil Magazine, review by Broken Pencil Magazine — 2018
“Big Art in a Small Town: A report on Sackville’s Ok. Quoi?!,” Canadian Art, review by Geordie Miller — 2016