Exhibitions and Awards

Exhibitions

Buffalo State University  Spring 2025 Student Exhibition - Czurles-Nelson Gallery

Breathing In and Out (2024), Forget Me Not Tapestry (2024)

Slovak Textile Artists Association TXT 23rd Annual Mini Textile Exhibition - Galéria Umelka & ÚĽUV Design Studio - 2024

Burst (2024)

Buffalo State University 27th Annual Student Art Sale at the Burchfield Penney Art Center -2024

Sold needle felted and wet felted small art pieces

Buffalo State University  Fall 2024 Student Exhibition - Czurles-Nelson Gallery

An Urn for the Earth (2024)

Hallwalls 50th Annual Members Exhibition

Thinking with the Heart (2020)

Live on Five 2024 - Buffalo Arts Studio

Pouring Out (#1-3) (2024); displayed in gallery March 22-April 12; sold at auction with proceeds benefiting Buffalo Arts Studio

Runway 2024 - True Delusion - Buffalo State University Sports Arena - 3rd Place Fiber Arts

Cicada Shawl and Dress (2024) - modeled by Julia Anderson; Luna Moth Cape and Dress (2024) - modeled by Sydney Monroe; won 3rd Place in Fiber Arts category 

Buffalo State University  Spring 2024 Student Exhibition - Czurles-Nelson Gallery

Obsession and Destruction (We Never Learn) (2023), Cicada Shawl (2024), Luna Moth Cape (2024)

Buffalo State University 26th Annual Student Art Sale at the Burchfield Penney Art Center

Sold uterus and rainbow needle felted pins; Sold shibori and burnout velvet scarves 

Buffalo State University  Fall 2023 Student Exhibition - Czurles-Nelson Gallery

New Beginnings (2023), Woven Spring Scarf (2023), Water Ripples Scarf (2023)

Buffalo State University  Fall 2022 Student Exhibition - Czurles-Nelson Gallery

Out of the Darkness (2022) 

2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards - Regional Portfolio Gold Key Recipient 

Melancholic (2021), Surrounded by Shadows (2021), Thinking with the Heart (2020), Reaching Out (2021), Morphed Reality (2021), Warmth (2021)

2021 Albright-Knox Teens Future Curators Exhibition - Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology

Thinking with the Heart (2020)

2021 Albright-Knox Teens Future Curators Exhibition - Buffalo Book Arts Center

Fractures (2020)

Private Art Commissions

Personal commission for a small business owner in Williamsville; oil on canvas board

Designed program mockups for a concert; pencil, ink, marker

WISP Williamsville South Art and Literary Magazine Cover - 2021 and 2022

The Descent to Earth (2020); Melancholic (2021)

Congressional Art Competition 2019 (NY-26) - Larkin at Exchange Building

Untitled (2019) Portrait in charcoal pencil 

SUNY Buffalo State High School Invitational (2019)

Oliver (2019)

Awards

Dr. Margaret E. Bacon Best in Studio Award - May 2025

Award accompanied by Across the Visual Arts: Dean’s Creative Associate’s Award exhibition in the Czurles-Nelson Gallery, opening August 25

R. Steven Janke Memorial Award - May 2025

Allowed me to further my research on medieval tapestry weaving techniques from the 14th-16th centuries through funding travel to meet with members of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Ratti Textile Center

Nancy Belfer Fiber Design Scholarship - May 2025

Financial assistance for independent creative work in fiber arts

Dorothy Zautner Buley Weaving Fellowship - May 2024

Supported research and creation of a project focused on late Medieval tapestry weaving and the development of tapestry techniques in 14th-16th century Flanders and the Southern Netherlands

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards 2022 - Regional Portfolio Gold Key Recipient 

Melancholic (2021), Surrounded by Shadows (2021), Thinking with the Heart (2020), Reaching Out (2021), Morphed Reality (2021), Warmth (2021)