LENSCRATCH is an online platform dedicated to supporting and celebrating the photographic arts since 2007. In 2022 my project Groundswell was featured in a series of top work discovered at Photo NOLA portfolio reviews. The feature included an artist statement and 11 images from Groundswell, and an introduction by submissions editor and contributing writer Daniel George.

I was accepted into a competitive 3-month studio residency with ISCP in New York based on my work-in-progress on Groundswell. While in residence I installed a studio mock-up of the work for display during a public Open House, which welcomed some 350 guests to resident studios in one day.

The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, NE hosts a competitive residency for over 50 national and international artists, writers, and composers each year. The center’s gallery hosts approximately six exhibitions per year primarily showcasing original works by Nebraska-based and regional artists. I was invited to launch a first solo show of my project Groundswell which was largely born out of two residencies I was awarded at KHN.

Eight artists were chosen from a pool of 98 applicants to participate in the Tallgrass Artist Residency in the Kansas Flint Hills, followed by the Tallgrass Artist Exhibition and Symposium. I was juried into the program based on work-in-progress on my project Groundswell. After the residency I contributed two new works to the group exhibition, made during my time in residence in and around Matfield Green, Kansas and the Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve. I also presented my work in a public artist talk and discussion at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan.

A limited edition, handmade accordion photobook from One Day Projects featuring the work of 52 artists photographing across the United States on August 21, 2017, the day of the total solar eclipse. I was invited by book co-editor and designer Eliot Dudik to photograph for the collaborative project; my image, “After” is included in the book’s pullout zine.

Juried by April M. Watson, Curator of Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, for Filter Photo’s annual spring open call for lens-based work. The 2018 exhibition featured 30 artists selected from a pool of nearly 300 submissions. My image “Up” was chosen from my in-progress series Groundswell.