C.V.
EDUCATION
Master of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Certificate in Alternative Design, Archeworks, Chicago, IL
Associates of Applied Science in Photography (AAS), Kodak honor scholar, Media Institute, LCC, Lansing, MI
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 - Unsettled, featuring Neighboring Ear (Auricularia finitima), CORE Gallery, Seattle, WA
2025 - Breaking Ground, CORE Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022 - Equisetum Returns, Molly’s, West Seattle featured artist. Seattle, WA.
2008 - BIO, Images Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 - Self Image, Images Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 - Ukiyo-e , Images Gallery, Chicago, IL
2026
Scale, Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA
Meadow in a Box, Good Arts Building (installation). Seattle, WA.
2025
In Black & White, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, online exhibition, Juror: Alina Cohen, Brooklyn, NY
Anything but a Building, AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable Exhibition, Seattle, WA
unBound, Byproduct & Prototype, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) Gallery, Seattle, WA
New Artists, CORE Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024
Square Deal: 50 Artists for a Fair Vote, '57 Biscayne, Seattle, WA
2020
Square Deal: 50 Artists for a Fair Vote, '57 Biscayne, Seattle, WA
2019
You Are Here, Too, Good Arts, Seattle, WA
2012
Greater Measures: Portals of Geologic Time, juried honors exhibition,
Arid Lands Institute: Drylands, Design in Age of Change, A+D Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
2007
Image*n, Images Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006
Interim, Gallery Mornea, Evanston, IL
Waypoints, Images Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Oregon Art in Public Places Roster 2026-2028
ArtsWA Washington State Public Artist Roster 2025-2029
City of Bellingham Public Artist Roster 2026-2027
Creative Consultancies Grant, 4Culture, Totem Lake Urban District Major Gateway Art. 2019.
Tech Specific Artist Grant, 4Culture, for “Non-native,” art installation at Camp Long Park, Seattle. 2016.
The Lifeline Project, Seattle, WA. 2025-present. An ongoing body of work reimagining scribed property lines, which isolate neighbors and fragment habitats, as thickened stitches of abundance and spaces of collaborative care. Iterations include unBound (CoCA, 2025), Y/OUR (2025), and Neighboring Ear (Auricularia finitima) (Unsettled, CORE Gallery, 2026).
Chelsea Park Public Art, Burien, WA. 2026. Commissioned by City of Burien to develop artwork and a public art plan for grant-funded playground improvements. Leading creative community engagement to develop themes and explore integrated artwork that celebrates local stories, and fosters a sense of place.
Communities of Future-Past Permanent Art Panels, West Duwamish Wet Weather Facility, commissioned by King County, Seattle, WA. In construction. Fifteen large-scale public art panels integrated into King County’s newest stormwater facility. Perforated aluminum. Extensive public outreach and large team coordination.
Prehistoric MegaFlora (Equisetum Returns). Seattle, WA. 2026 (commissioned), 2025 (self-initiated). Temporary public art installations for Walk Don’t Run, an art marathon across downtown Seattle, that transformed city light poles into prehistoric-scale horsetails using thousands of biodegradable straws.
Whiteman Cove Interpretive Signage, Longbranch, WA. 2026. Sub-contracted through Anchor QEA for Washington Dept. of Natural Resources. Creating site-specific artwork and interpretive signage for a fish-passage estuary restoration project on Case Inlet, incorporating stories from scientists, Tribes, and community partners.
unBound, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle WA Spring 2025. Temporary, site-specific component of Byproduct & Prototype exhibit that manifests a property line in red vinyl along the sidewalk, into the gallery, up the wall, and falling into ruin at the entrance of the exhibition.
Portage Gateway, Fritz Hedges Waterway Park, Seattle Parks & Recreation, WA, 2021. Design team with Walker Macy. Permanent installation of site reclaimed timber and steel sculptures flanking entry to historic indigenous trail at new waterfront park. WASLA Merit and Waterfront Center Awards.
Kirkland Gateway Public Art. Commissioned by City of Kirkland, WA, 2020. Gateway art concepts, gateway public art plan, and public outreach for Totem Lake Urban District. Funded by grant award from 4Culture.
Non-Native. Camp Long, Seattle Parks & Rec, Seattle, WA, Summer 2016. Grant funded interactive public art installation of 1,200 custom digital LED fireflies mimicking communication patterns of Photinus pyralis.
Chatham University Garden Gates. Eden Hall Sustainability Campus, Pittsburgh, PA, 2016. Collaborative design team with Mithun Architects. Five 8'x8' panels for two sets of weathered steel gates evoking site-specific geologic and hydrologic patterns for campus sustainability demonstration garden.
Lure. Terry Maple Courtyard, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2015. Collaborative with Mithun Architects. Canopy installation of 20,000 shimmering mylar fishing lures locally fabricated into trolling lines.
Work | Play on Alaskan Way Installation, Seattle, WA. 2014. Role: Artist & Designer Firm: Mithun Collaborators: Cara Hoyler and Nick Spang of Social Scale Media. Temporary, interactive, data integrated installation exploring the transformation of Seattle's working waterfront. Time lapse by Nick Spang:https://vimeo.com/106651889
Spun Tracks. Philadelphia, PA, 2012. Time-based, temporary, interactive installation exploring industrial ruin aesthetics in urban renewal for Park(ing) Day. Collaborator Kate Farquhar.
Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education (SCEE) Master Plan. Philadelphia, PA, 2012. Role: Designer with Salt Design Studio. Client: SCEE. 325 acre landscape plan including visitor center, access, restoration, multi-modal trails and public art plan.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Designing Dialectical Landscape: It’s About Time,” article, LA+ Journal, cross-disciplinary publication; University of Pennsylvania, “Time” Issue, Fall 2018.
“Experiencing Information: Information Aesthetics + Landscape Experience,” article, RMIT Kerb Journal, Issue 23, Digital Landscapes, Fall 2015
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS, TEACHING, AND WORKSHOPS
“Lifelines—Reimagining Boundaries” Mini Mart City Park, Seattle, WA. Artivism teen workshop weaving socio-political boundaries, ecology, storytelling, and civic action into hands-on site-specific art. October 2026.
“Art + Landscape,” University of Washington College of Built Environments, Seattle, WA. Presentation to graduate and undergraduate Landscape students. March 2025.
“Drawing Dialectical Landscape: It's About Time,” University of Washington College of Built Environments, Seattle, WA. “Drawing in Design” Winter Quarter Lecture and two-day workshop. January 2022.
“Trajectories, Cycles, Data and Narratives: Information Aesthetics in Landscape Architecture,” presentation(s), Seattle Design Festival Conference, Seattle, WA. September 2014
“A New Aesthetic for the Post-Super Storm World,” Living Future Conference, Portland, OR. Panel presentation and discussion with Mithun, Scott Miles, Director, Resilience Institute, and Terry Doss of Biohabitats, May 2014.
“Project Management for Arts Non-profit Administrators”, conference presentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Center for Arts Management & Technology, October 2007.
The Block Project, Facing Homelessness, Volunteer Landscape Designer, Seattle, WA.
Forterra, Volunteer Art Installation / Designer, Seattle, WA.
Technology Access Foundation, Teaching Volunteer, Tacoma, WA.
Community Design Collaborative, Philadelphia, PA Landscape Design Volunteer
Philadelphia Association for Public Art, PennDesign Graduate Student Intern, Philadelphia, PA.
Hyde Park Art Center, Business analysis and e-commerce project plan, Chicago, IL
Green Cities Clean Waters, Philadelphia Water Department, Office of Watersheds, L.Arch Intern. PA
Business Advisor Volunteer, Arts and Business Council, Chicago, IL.
Australian Center for Photography. Volunteer. Sydney, Australia.
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