CV
Experience
Freelance Artist
Self-Employed • AUG. 2015-Present
> Offers commissions, prints, and other projects through a self-designed website.
Selected Keynote Speaker for the LENYIS Latinx Youth Conference
LREI • New York, NY • APR. 2020
> Conference for Latinx youth from New York independent schools
> 120+ students, teachers, and faculty in attendance
> Canceled due to COVID-19 (LENYIS Website)
Book Signing at the Gordon School
Gordon School • East Providence, RI • DEC. 2019
> Visiting author-illustrator at the Gordon School Book Fair
> Included a virtual return visit to speak with 2nd-grade students (Held through Zoom due to COVID-19)
RISD Museum Guild
RISD Museum • Providence, RI • NOV. 2019-JAN. 2020
> Responsible for planning and executing Third Thursday family events held at the museum
Installation with a Professional Artist
Brown University • Providence, RI • OCT. 2019
> Helped artist Consuelo Jímenez Underwood install “The Brown-Violet Borderline” as part of the Exposing Unseen Boundaries exhibit in the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender at Brown University
Children’s Book Author and Illustrator
Self-employed • Washington, DC & Brooklyn, NY • JUN. 2019
> Wrote, illustrated, and self-published a children’s book
> Over 350 books sold since June 2019
> Online orders are individually packaged, labeled, and shipped by the artist
RISD Summer Pre-College Sculpture Intensive
Rhode Island School of Design • Providence, RI • JUN. 2018-JUL. 2018
> Attended the 6-week program which included classes in 2D design, drawing, art history, and sculpture
Education
BA in Visual Arts and Psychology
Brown University
Providence, RI / 2019-Present
High School Diploma
Georgetown Day School (GDS)
Washington, DC / 2015-2019
Awards
First Prize Winner at the Annual Juried Student Exhibition at Brown University (2020)
Scholastics National Gold Medal [Sculpture (2019)]
Recipient of the GDS Director’s Award (2019)
"A senior who best exemplifies the ideals and values of GDS.”
YoungArts National Merit Winner in Visual Arts (2017)
GDS Debbie Haynes Award for Excellence and Achievement in Painting (2017)
2 Scholastics National Silver Medals [Painting (2016, 2017)]
18 Scholastics Regional Awards (2015-2019)
Exhibitions
Solo
Annual Delbarton School Black History Month event
Delbarton School • Morristown, NJ • FEB. 2020
Group
RAW Brooklyn Presents Holiday RAWk
Warsaw • Brooklyn, NY • DEC. 2019
Freer Sackler Teen Takeover Exhibition
Smithsonian Freer Sackler Museum • Washington, DC • MAY 2019