Education
2015 Virginia Commonwealth University, MFA, Craft/Material Studies
2010 State Univ. College at Buffalo, BFA, Fiber Design
2009 Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK, Study Abroad, Embroidery
Publication, Residencies & Teaching
2020 Assistant Professor, Head of Fiber, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
Visiting Artist, Longwood University, Farmville, VA
Instructor, Penland School of Craft, Spruce Pine, NC (COVID postponed)
External Evaluator/Guest Critic, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA (COVID cancellation)
Instructor/trip leader, Italian Craft and Design; Virginia Commonwealth University, Florence, Italy (COVID cancellation)
Featured Artist, Art the Science, (Online)
Featured Artist, Le Temps de Broder, (Online)
Featured Artist, textielplus, (online)
2019 Assistant Professor, Head of Fiber, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
Instructor, Visual Art Center, Richmond, VA
Instructor/trip leader, Italian Craft and Design; Virginia Commonwealth University, Florence, Italy
2018 Adjunct Instructor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
Visiting Artist, Yasar University Annual Design Symposium, Izmir, Turkey
Instructor/trip leader, Italian Craft and Design; Virginia Commonwealth University, Sicily, Italy
Featured Artist, Plain Magazine, (online)
Featured Artist, La Foresta, (online)
2017 Artist in Residence, University of Virginia Mountain Lake Biological Station, Mountain Lake, VA
Instructor, Penland School of Craft, Spruce Pine, NC
Winter Artist in Residence, Penland School of Craft, Spruce Pine NC
Visiting Artist, Tasmeem Design Conference, Doha, Qatar
Featured Artist and Speaker, Northern Virginia Maker Faire, Reston, VA
Visiting Artist, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
2016 Teaching Assistant, Penland School of Craft, Spruce Pine, NC
Featured Artist and Lecturer, Woodlawn and Pope Leighey Historic Properties, Arlington, VA
Instructor/trip leader, Italian Craft and Design; Virginia Commonwealth University, Florence, Italy
Featured artist, Vie Magazine, May/June 2016
2015 Adjunct Instructor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
Pentaculum Artist in Residence, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Cover Artist, ‘Genome-Scale Algorithm Design’, Cambridge University Press (UK)
Featured artist, Handwerken Magazine (Denmark), January Issue
Featured artist, ‘Textile Nature’ (UK), Batsford Books
2014 Conference Attendee, Haystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, ME
Featured artist, www.thisiscolossal.com, June 26
Featured artist, www.boredpanda.com, June 27
Featured artist, www.demilked.com, June, 27
Featured artist, www.thevisualnews.com, June 30
Cover & featured artist, Buffalo Spree Magazine, January Issue,
Visiting Artist, Buffalo Artists and Teachers Collaborative Grant, Buffalo, NY
2013 Visiting Artist, Buffalo Artists and Teachers Collaborative Grant, Buffalo, NY
Selected Exhibitions
2020 Cut Up/Cut Out, Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH
Hello, There, Quirk Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
With Glittering Eyes, Indigo Gallery, Buffalo, NY (COVID postponed)
Alumni Exhibit, Czurles Nelson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2019 Above Earth, Below Sky, Quirk Gallery, Richmond VA (solo)
Art in Nature, Rainforest Art Foundation, Long Island City NY
Small Works, Sager Braudis Gallery, Columbia MO
Botanical Blueprint, Albright Knox Public Arts Commission, Buffalo, NY
Cut Up/Cut Out, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
In Flux, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
A New Leaf, Momentum Gallery, NC
Winter show, Greenhill Center for Art, Greensboro, NC
2018 Organic Form, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville NC
True/False, Sager Braudis Gallery, Columbia MO
Cut Up/Cut Out, Pensacola Museum of Art, FL & Ellen Noël Art Museum, TX
Transformation 10, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh PA
Small Works, Momentum Gallery, Asheville, NC
YUads Exhibition, Yasar University Gallery, Izmir Turkey
2017 Volume, Light Art + Design, Chapel Hill, NC & Millersville University, Millersville, PA
Cut Up/Cut Out, Belleview Art Museum, WA & Huntsville Museum of Art, AL
form(force), VCUQ Gallery, Doha, Qatar
Paper Makers, Light Art + Design, Chapel Hill, NC
Back & Around, (solo) Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA
Every Stitch Counted, Woodlawn and Pope Leighey Historic Properties, Alexandria, VA
Natural Connections, Knitting and Stitching Show, Harrogate UK
3 x 3, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Stitched, Paradigm Gallery + Studio, Philadelphia, PA
19th International Textile Exhibition, Galeria X, Bratislava, Slovakia
2016 Signs of Life, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Volume, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA
Cut up / Cut Out, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
Eye of the Needle, Feather and Bone Gallery at The Draw, Appleton WI
Continuum, Light Art and Design, Chapel Hill, NC
Permanent Collection, Capital One Galleries, Richmond, VA
2015 Arboreal (Solo Exhibition), Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens, Richmond, VA
Fallen/Lifted (MFA Thesis Exhibition), Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
2014 Hillary Fayle & Yari Ostovany, Courthouse Gallery, Lake George, NY
Where Words Are Not Enough, Artspace, Richmond, VA
Hidden Gallery Walk, Palenville Arts Commission, Palenville NY
2013 Ornantur Foliis, (Solo Exhibition), Kinetic Gallery, State University of New York at Geneseo, NY
Living Exhibition, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Art Center, Solomons, MD
Art In Craft Media, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2012 Bounty, Indigo Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Crafts National, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, KS
Uncommon Threads, Studio Hart, Buffalo, NY
100 American Craftsmen, Kenan Center, Lockport, NY (2011)
2011 Fiber Arts Initiative, Impact Artists Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art In Craft Media, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2010 Mud & Silk, (Solo Exhibition), Indigo Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Thread + Ink, (Solo Exhibition), North Creek Depot Museum, North Creek, NY
Miniature Textiles Exhibition, Galeria X, Bratislava, Slovakia
Sustainable Design Conference Exhibition, Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC, NY
Awards
2014 Mid-Atlantic Needlework Retailers Association Scholarship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA (Fall Semester)
2013 Sylvia L. Rosen Purchase Award, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA (Spring Semester)
2012 Emerging Artisan Award, 100 American Craftsmen, Kenan Center, Lockport, NY
2010 James Lombardo Award, Buffalo State College, Buffalo NY
Margaret Bacon Best in Studio Award, Buffalo State College, Buffalo NY
John Jauquet Award, Buffalo State College, Buffalo NY
2008 Hyatt Award, Buffalo State Fibers Department, Buffalo State College, Buffalo NY
2006 Best in Show & 1st Place, NYS Women’s Federation Annual Art Competition, Buffalo NY