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✩ education ✩
2022 | MFA in Studio Art, Focus in Metals | SUNY New Paltz | New Paltz, NY
2018 | BFA in Studio Art, Focus in Metals | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
✩ teaching and workshops ✩
PACE at UTSA | San Antonio, TX
Instructor | Current
Metals 1: Section 1; Metals 1: Section 2; Advanced Wax Carving; Intermediate Metals; Soldering Bootcamp
Museum of Arts and Design | New York, NY
Instructor | February 2025 – August 2025
Family Workshop: Wax Casting; Adult Workshop: Pewter Casting; Teen Workshop: Pewter Casting
Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
Per Course Lecturer | January 2024 – December 2024
Intermediate and Advanced Metals; Core II Foundations; Beginning Metals
Metalwerx | Waltham, MA
Instructor | August 2024 – October 2024
CampFIRE! LGBTQIA+ Youth Camp; Metalsmiths Greenthumb: Growing Copper 101
Brooklyn Metal Works | Brooklyn, NY
Instructor | July 2024 – July 2025
Color it, Scratch it, Form it; Pressed to Impress: Exploration of Dieforming Metal; Carve Diem: Seize the Wax
Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft | Columbia, NC
Online Instructor | 2023 – 2024
Color it, Scratch it; CL0UD_NiN3_S0_DiViN3: Color on Metal
Contemporary Craft | Pittsburgh, PA
Workshop Instructor | December 2023
$P4RKL3_$P4RKL3: Color on Metal
University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Lafayette, LA
Visiting Artist Workshop | October 2023
Color on Metal
University of North Carolina Wilmington | Wilmington, NC
Visiting Artist Workshop | March 2023
Zine Workshop at LGBTQ Center
Mendocino Art Center | Mendocino, CA
Resident Artist Workshop | November 2022
Intro to Metals
SUNY New Paltz | New Paltz, NY
Graduate Instructor | Spring 2021
Intro to Studio Art
✩ residencies ✩
2026
Metals AiR | University of Texas | San Antonio, TX
2025
Metals AiR | University of Texas | San Antonio, TX
Artist Studios Resident | Museum of Arts and Design | New York, NY
2023
Marzee Residency | Invited | Galerie Marzee | Atelier Ravary | Belgium
Metals Fellowship | Invited | Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft | Columbia, NC
2022 – 2023
Metals AiR | Juried | Mendocino Art Center | Mendocino, CA
2020
Pentaculum | Invited | Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts | Gatlinburg, TN
2018
3-Month Residency | Juried | Baltimore Jewelry Center | Baltimore, MD
✩ awards ✩
2025
Bavarian State Prize | Talente | Bavarian Government | Munich, Germany
2023
Best in Metal | Materials Hard + Soft Craft Competition | Denton, TX
GEMZ | Emerging Artist Program | Current Obsession Magazine | Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022
Marzee Graduate Prize | International Graduate Show | Galerie Marzee | Nijmegen, Netherlands
Emerging Artist Cohort | Top 10 in the USA | American Craft Council | Windgate Foundation
2019
Accessory Vogue Vanity Fair Award | Artistar Jewels | Milan Jewelry Week | Milan, Italy
Best in Show | Offbeat Bijou | Florida CraftArt | St. Petersburg, FL
2018
One for the Future | NYC Jewelry Week | New York, NY
Top 5 Emerging Artists to Watch | Training Wheels | Myers Street Gallery | Richmond, VA
Third Place: Best in Show | REFINED Biennial | Cole Arts Center | Nacogdoches, TX
✩ collections and archives ✩
R & Company | Archives | 2025
Brooklyn Metal Works | Private Collection | 2024
Brooklyn Metal Works | Private Collection | 2024
The Jewelry Library | Private Collection | 2024
Museum of Arts and Design | Permanent Collection | Barbara Paris Gifford | 2023
Marzee Collection | Galerie Marzee | 2023
Private Collection | Rachel Rearick | Contemporary Craft Pittsburgh
✩ representation ✩
INTRO | Amsterdam, Netherlands
Galerie Marzee | Nijmegen, Netherlands
Sifuentes Metalsmith | Equinox Collection | San Antonio, TX
Kendal Reiss Gallery | Bristol, RI
Freehand Gallery | Los Angeles, CA
✩ stockists ✩
The MAD Store | Museum of Arts and Design | New York, NY
Metal Museum | Memphis, TN
The Jewelry Library | New York, NY
✩ exhibitions ✩
✩ SOLO ✩
2027
A3TH3RiUM | Galerie Marzee | Nijmegen, Netherlands | Forthcoming
2024
makeshift[G4RDENZ] | Brooklyn Metal Works | Brooklyn, NY
2023
::iRiD3SC3NT[dreamz_____]:: | Contemporary Craft | Pittsburgh, PA
PLZ_B3_BR4VE[angel] | Fried Fruit Gallery | Wilmington, NC
2022
$P4RKL3_FiLTH_CL0UD_NiNE: queerness of the inbetween | MFA Thesis | Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art | New Paltz, NY
2018
Noxa Dissipo, Mortuous Laudo | Baltimore Jewelry Center Residency Exhibition | Baltimore, MD
Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure | BFA Thesis | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
✩ INVITED ✩
2026
Read My Brooch; Secret Language of Jewelry | Enamelist Society | SNAG | Detroit, MI
Sharp Shooter | Golden Rose Gallery | San Antonio, TX
ABSTRACT | SMART Gallery | Contemporary Art Month | San Antonio, TX
TEXTURED | Golden Rose Gallery | San Antonio, TX
2025
WE WANT CAKE! | UrbanGlass | New York City Jewelry Week | Brooklyn, NY
GARDEN | Sienna Patti Contemporary | Lenox, MA
TRANSnavigation | Rough Gems | rae richards | Union Hall | Denver, CO
Objects USA Triennial | R & Company | New York, NY
2024
Objects USA Triennial | R & Company | New York, NY
Material Revelation | Cabarrus Arts Council | Concord, NC
OUT of the Jewelry Box | Museum of Arts and Design | New York, NY
Everybody’s Bolos | University of North Texas | Denton, TX
2023
Rizoma | Colectiva Tilde | FL3X Space Gallery | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
Shared Pasts, Divergent Futures | Emerge Gallery and Art Center | Greenville, NC
2022
EXHUBERANCE | Sienna Patti and Bella Neyman | NYC Jewelry Week | New York, NY
What’s Precious? | The Jewelry Library | NYC Jewelry Week | New York, NY
Diamonds on the Toes of Your Shoes | Industry City | NYC Jewelry Week | New York, NY
International Graduate Show | Galerie Marzee | Nijmegen, Netherlands
True Colors | Troppus Projects | Kent, OH
ARTEsania | Latino Art Weekend: Somos Libres | _OFCOLOR | Austin, TX
Spectral Matter: Tender Presence | Traveling Exhibition
Gallery 2052 | Chicago, IL
ALMA’S RVA | Richmond, VA
Penland Gallery | Penland, NC
2021
Día de los Muertos – La Catrina | Equinox Gallery | San Antonio, TX
2020
Here We Are | NYC Jewelry Week | Online
The Exhibitionist | NYC Jewelry Week | Online
All Decked Out | Towson University | Towson, MD
2019
Placement | NYC Jewelry Week | New York, NY
Pattern Play | Curated by Brice Garrett | E.R. Butler & Co. | NYC Jewelry Week | New York, NY
Street Art Pop Up | Craft Alliance of Art and Design | St. Louis, MO
Untamed | Gallery Route One | Point Reyes Station, CA
Training Wheels | Myers Street Gallery | Richmond, VA
✩ GROUP ✩
2026
ERROR 404[sidequest] | DUNGEONDWELLERcult! | Munich, Germany
2025
FTW//NTJV | DUNGEONDWELLERcult! | New York, NY
2024
Anonymous | Brooklyn Metal Works | NYC Jewelry Week | Brooklyn, NY
GEMZ: Unpacked | Current Obsession Magazine | Nieuwe Instituut | Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023
GEMZ: Unpacked | Current Obsession Magazine | Nieuwe Instituut | Rotterdam, Netherlands
2022
Handwerk & Design Fair | Munich Jewellery Week | Galerie Marzee | Amsterdam, Netherlands
PAN Amsterdam | Art Fair | Galerie Marzee | Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anonymous | Brooklyn Metal Works | NYC Jewelry Week | Brooklyn, NY
Sheltered in Place | Adorned Spaces | SNAG Conference | Providence, RI
2021
denizen: Meltdowns and Mixups | SUNY New Paltz | NYC Jewelry Week | Online
Anonymous | Brooklyn Metal Works | NYC Jewelry Week | Brooklyn, NY
2020
denizen | SUNY New Paltz | NYC Jewelry Week | Online
2019
Anonymous | Brooklyn Metal Works | NYC Jewelry Week | Brooklyn, NY
2017
Over Medium | FL3X Space Gallery | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
2016
Sweet Peach Collective | K23 Gallery | San Antonio, TX
✩ JURIED ✩
2026
SPARKLE/ECLAT | Alliages | Contemporary Jewellery Museum Espace Solidor | Cagnes Sur Mer, France
2025
REFINED | Stephen F. Austin University | Nacogdoches, TX
Talente: Masters of the Future | Munich Jewellery Week | Munich, Germany
Materials Hard + Soft | Greater Denton Arts Council | Denton, TX
2024
Earrings Galore | New York City Jewelry Week | New York, NY
Materials Hard + Soft | Greater Denton Arts Council | Denton, TX
Earrings Galore | ZONAMACO Art Week | Mexico City, Mexico
2023
Earrings Galore | New York City Jewelry Week | New York, NY
2022
Dream Machine | Industry City | NYC Jewelry Week | New York, NY
Hope is Resiliency | Society of North American Goldsmiths | NYC Jewelry Week
WE ARE SNAG Anthology | Society of North American Goldsmiths | Online
Dialogues of Form: Sculptural Conversations | MFA Sculpture Exhibition | SUNY New Paltz | New Paltz, NY
Earrings Galore | Traveling Exhibition
Ombré Gallery | Cincinnati, OH
Arch Street Studios | Providence, RI
Material Alchemy: Metal and Color | Athens Institute for Contemporary Art | Athens, GA
Charmed | Galerie Lewis | Quebec, Canada
2021
Internal Expression | Splop Design | Online
Charmed | Galerie Lewis | Quebec, Canada
Voltage | Society of North American Goldsmiths | NYC Jewelry Week | Brooklyn, NY
Jewelry Off the Grid | Adorn Axis Jewelry | NYC Jewelry Week | New York, NY
Earrings Galore | Heidi Lowe Gallery | NYC Jewelry Week | New York, NY
Outside the Lines | Monique Rancourt Gallery | Waltham, MA
WE ARE SNAG Anthology | Society of North American Goldsmiths | Online
NYCxDesign | Adorn Axis Jewelry | Online
Metals Exhibition | The In-Art Gallery | Online
Assembly Art Journal | Unison Arts | New Paltz, NY
Artificial Intelligems | Munich Jewellery Week | Online Project and Exhibition
Jewelry Phone | Munich Jewellery Week | Online
Ware/Wear | Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft | Columbia, NC
2020
Jewelry Phone | NYC Jewelry Week | Online
Amend | Secret Identity Projects | San Diego, CA
Guidelines 2 | Baltimore Jewelry Center | Baltimore, MD
Newfangled | Splop Design | Online
Show Us Ur Rona | Temp Contemp Gallery | Australia | Online
Metal and Mud | Edwardsville Art Center | Online
As Good as Gold | Society of North American Goldsmiths | Online
All Decked Out | Holtzman Gallery | Towson University | Towson, MD
2019
Slippery and Subversive | Wellington B. Gray Gallery | Greenville, NC
Dream Machine | NYC Jewelry Week | New York, NY
Earrings Galore | Traveling Exhibition
Heidi Lowe Gallery | New York City Jewelry Week | New York, NY
Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference | Chicago, IL
GLOSSY | Ombré Gallery | NYC Jewelry Week | New York, NY
4 Ring Circus | Icons at Play | NYC Jewelry Week | New York, NY
Artistar Jewels | Milan Jewelry Week | Milan, Italy
Front of House, Back of House | Gallery 2052 | Chicago, IL
GLOSSY | Ombré Gallery | JCK Las Vegas | Las Vegas, NV
Adorned Spaces | SNAG Conference | Chicago, IL
Mad for Hoops | Gallery 2052 | Chicago, IL
[Play]Ground | Port Moody Arts Centre | British Columbia, Canada
Ware/Wear | Pocosin Arts Center | Columbia, NC
Schmuck/Shmock | Temp Contemp Gallery | Brunswick, VIC, Australia
HIP POP | American Craft Council | Atlanta, GA
Offbeat Bijou | Florida CraftArt | St. Petersburg, FL
Front of House, Back of House | Heidi Lowe Gallery | Rehoboth Beach, DE
2018
Craft Forms | Wayne Art Center | Davenport Gallery | Wayne, PA
REFINED | Cole Arts Center | Nacogdoches, TX
Earrings Galore | Traveling Exhibition
Parasol Projects | NYC Jewelry Week | New York, NY
Heidi Lowe Gallery | Rehoboth Beach, DE
Cold Connections | Benedum Fine Arts Gallery | Waynesburg, PA
THREE | Attleboro Arts Museum | Attleboro, MA
Deconstruct/Reconstruct: Digital Presentation | Material Topics Symposium | Greenville, NC
Ware/Wear | Pocosin Arts Center | Columbia, NC
2017
Verisimilitude | HxWxD Gallery | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
War and Conflict | Gaillardia Gallery | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
2016
Third Thursday Walkabout | 218 Gallery | San Marcos, TX
Third Thursday Walkabout | Dahlia Woods Gallery | San Marcos, TX
2015
Student Exhibition | Sayers Hall-Falls | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
Metals Guild Valentine’s Day Exhibition | FL3X Space | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
Fine Arts Student Association Show | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
The One and Only | Lady Base Gallery | San Antonio, TX
✩ curatorial experience ✩
2026
ERROR 404[sidequest] | DUNGEONDWELLERcult! | Munich, Germany
2025
FTW//NTJV | DUNGEONDWELLERcult! | New York, NY
2024
[queerphoria] vol.4: connection | UrbanGlass | NYC Jewelry Week | Brooklyn, NY
[queerphoria] vol.3: transition | Silver Fern Gallery | Cookeville, TN
In Focus: LGBTQIA+/BIPOC Digital Exhibition | Society of North American Goldsmiths
2023
[queerphoria] vol.2: Adorned Serenity | Queer Metalsmiths | Online | NYC Jewelry Week
2022
[queerphoria] vol.1 | Queer Metalsmiths | Online | New York City Jewelry Week
In Focus: LGBTQIA+/BIPOC Digital Exhibition | Society of North American Goldsmiths
2018
Pink Rat | Adorned Spaces | Society of North American Goldsmiths | Online
2017
Over Medium | FL3X Space | Texas State Galleries | San Marcos, TX
2016
Sweet Peach Collective | K23 Gallery | San Antonio, TX
✩ lectures and panels ✩
2025
Keynote Speaker | Worldbuilding: Queering the Process | East Carolina University
2024
Panelist | Jewelry Without Bounds | R & Company | NYC Jewelry Week | New York, NY
Host | [queerphoria] vol.4 | UrbanGlass | NYC Jewelry Week | Brooklyn, NY
Visiting Artist | University of Texas at San Antonio | Santikos Building | San Antonio, TX
Artist Lecture | Brooklyn Metal Works | Brooklyn, NY
Artist Lecture | Greater Denton Arts Council | Denton, TX
Speaker | Coloring Outside the Lines: Queerness and the Bolo Tie | University of North Texas
2023
Panel Moderator | [queerphoria] | Virtual | New York City Jewelry Week
Art Jewelry Forum Live | Art Jewelry Forum | Online
Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer | Visual Arts | University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Artist Speaker | We Are Here Exhibition Lecture | Metal Museum | Memphis, TN | Online
Juror Speaker | Society of North American Goldsmiths Student Juried Exhibition | Online
Guest Lecture | Invited by Kristin Beeler | Long Beach Community College | Long Beach, CA
Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer | Art Department | University of North Carolina Wilmington
2022
Identity Adorned: The Intersection of Jewelry and Queerness | Museum of Arts and Design | New York, NY
[queerphoria] | Virtual | New York City Jewelry Week
Invited Guest Lecturer | Metals Department | Texas State University
Invited Guest Lecturer | Design in Color | Professor Rena Leinberger | SUNY New Paltz
2021
Gender in Jewelry Panel Discussion | Women’s Jewelry Association | NYC Metro Chapter
Gender in Jewelry Panel Discussion | Women’s Jewelry Association | Miami Chapter
Invited Guest Presenter | Metalwerx Spring Symposium
2020
Invited Guest Lecturer | Metals Club | Syracuse University
2019
Invited Guest Lecturer | Metals Department | Texas State University
✩ publications, press, and reviews ✩
2024
Objects USA: 2024 | Publication | Angelik Vizacarrondo-Laboy and Kelli Riggs | R & Company | NYC
makeshift[G4RDENZ] | Self-Publication | Brooklyn Metal Works | Brooklyn, NY
OUT of the Jewelry Box | Publication | Essay by Rebekah Frank | Museum of Arts and Design | NYC
2023
[queerphoria] | Curatorial Review | Ashley Callahan | Ornament Magazine
2022
OMG Have You Heard? | Art Jewelry Forum | Online
Material Alchemy: Color Coding | Ashley Callahan | Ornament Magazine
Material Alchemy Exhibition Catalogue | Athens Institute of Contemporary Art | Print
On Offer Part 1 | Art Jewelry Forum | Online
On Offer Part 2 | Art Jewelry Forum | Online
2021
With Jewelry: Meeting Lions & Dragons | matt lambert | Klimt02 | Online
NYCxDESIGN: AdornAxis International Curated Jewelry Exhibition Catalog | Adorn Axis Jewelry
Amend | Exhibition Catalog | Secret Identity Projects
2020
Spotlight on Pride – LGBTQ+ Histories in Jewelry Design | Cooper Hewitt Learning Lab | Online
The July Report | Art Jewelry Forum | Online
The December Report | Art Jewelry Forum | Online
A Taste of Blue | Italian Accessory Vogue Vanity Fair | Spring/Summer Edition | Print
2019
Artistar 2019 | Artistar Jewels | Milan Jewelry Week | Print
SNAG Celebrates | Celebrating SNAG Members | Society of North American Goldsmiths | Online
ON OFFER | Art Jewelry Forum | Online
2018
Jewelry and Metals Survey | Society of North American Goldsmiths | Print
2016
Get to Know San Antonio: Sweet Peach Collective | Raquel E. Alonzo | The Paisano | Online
Sweet Peach Collective | Bryan Rindfuss | SA Current Magazine | San Antonio, TX | Print
10 Things You Have to Do This Weekend | Bryan Rindfuss | SA Current | Online
2015
Women Who Dare: Reflections from an Artist’s Perspective | Kat Schevchenko | Online
Sweet Peach Collective | Bryan Rindfuss | SA Current Magazine | San Antonio, TX | Print
✩ grants, funding, and scholarships ✩
2025
Bavarian State Prize | Bavarian Government | Talente | Munich, Germany
2023
GEMZ | Emerging Artist Funded Work | Current Obsession Magazine | Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022
Travel Grant | Donation by Mendocino Art Center Board Members | California
Emerging Artist Cohort | American Craft Council | Grant | Windgate Charitable Foundation
David ’05 and Sara ’10 Walton Metal Thesis Support Fund | SUNY New Paltz | New Paltz, NY
2021
RCPA Grant | SUNY New Paltz | New Paltz, NY
Foundation Teaching Assistantship | SUNY New Paltz | New Paltz, NY
2020
MFA Scholarship | SUNY New Paltz | New Paltz, NY
2019
Work Study Scholarship | Haystack Mountain School of Craft | Deer Isle, ME
Work Conference Exchange | Society of North American Goldsmiths | Chicago, IL
2018
Conference Student Scholarship | Society of North American Goldsmiths | Portland, OR
Travel Grant | For SNAG Conference: MAKE | Awarded by Director Michael Niblett | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
2017
Travel Grant | For ECU Symposium: Material Topics | Awarded by Director Michael Niblett | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
Travel Grant | For ECU Symposium: Material Topics | Awarded by Dean Dr. John Fleming | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
Work Conference Exchange | SNAG Conference | New Orleans, LA
Rising Star Travel Grant | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX
2016
Conference Student Scholarship | SNAG Conference | Asheville, NC