C.V.
- Communities of Future-Past Permanent Art Panels, West Duwamish Wet Weather Facility, Commissioned by King County, Seattle, WA. 100% Design complete, slated for construction 2026. Fifteen large-scale public art panels integrated into King County’s newest stormwater facility that will reduce overflows and pollution into the Duwamish River. Perforated aluminum with extensive public outreach and large team coordination.
- 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.
- Totem
Lake Urban District Major Gateway Art, Kirkland, WA Role:
Artist & Arts Consultant, Outreach and Planning Client:
City of Kirkland, Funded by grant award from 4Culture. Public art
for gateways of the Totem Lake Urban District, including creation of
artwork, district plan for artwork installations, and public
engagement.
- Non-Native, Temporary site-specific installation, Seattle, WA. Role: Artist Client: Seattle Parks and Recreation, Camp Long Park. Funded by Tech-Specific grant award from 4Culture Creation of 1,200 digital LED ‘fireflies' programmed to mimic male and female communication of photinus pyralis.
- Fritz
Hedges Waterway Park, Seattle, WA Role: Associate Designer, Artist. Firm: Walker Macy, prime Client:
Seattle Parks and Recreation. 2020 WASLA
Public General Design Merit Award.
New park design through construction
administration for new urban waterfront park; including landmarks
process, public outreach, interpretive design/art integration, wayfinding, planting design, and shoreline remediation and reconstruction.
Featured on a Seattle Channel video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB4wC-KKrAw&feature=youtu.be (note, artwork and interpretives not yet installed at time of video).
- Chatham University Garden Gates. Eden Hall Sustainability Campus, Pittsburgh, PA. Role: Artist & Designer Firm: Mithun, prime. Five 8'x8' weathered steel gates evoking site-specific geologic and hydrologic patterns for campus sustainability demonstration garden.
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Galaxy Glow
Garden. Festival of Flowers temporary installation in
Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, OR 2020.
Galaxy inspired nighttime garden comprised of 20,000 plants for the 2020
exhibition. Project completed through plant ordering and then rescheduled due
to Covid. Collaborative design team with
Walker Macy.
- Lure, Terry Maple Courtyard, University of Washington, Seattle,
WA. Temporary
installation. Role:
Artist & Designer
. Firm: Mithun, prime.
Catenary canopy comprised of thousands of mylar fishing lures
locally fabricated into lines.
- Work | Play on Alaskan Way Installation, Seattle, WA. 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
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Spun
Tracks Installation, Philadelphia, PA. Role:
Artist.
Collaborator: Kate Farquhar. Temporary time-based interactive
installation for Park(ing) Day of string and dimensional lumber
exploring Philadelphia's industrial ruin aesthetics in contrast with
planned urban renewal.
-
Pioneer
Square Historic District Parks & Gateways Plan, Seattle, WA. Role:
Associate Designer with Walker Macy, prime. Client: Alliance
for Pioneer Square. Design and management oversight public open space and art opportunities plan. Project advanced and ongoing for two nationally landmarked parks from the plan: Pioneer Square Park & King Street Station.
- Framing
Pioneer Square Temporary Installation.
Role:
Artist & Designer Firm: Walker Macy Client: Alliance for Pioneer
Square. Three temporary public engagement installations for
Park(ing) Day. Materials were reusable and donated to local artists
after the installation.
- Schuylkill
Center for Environmental Education (SCEE) Master Plan Role:
Designer with Salt Design Studio. Client: SCEE. 325
acre landscape plan including visitor center, access
improvements, restoration areas, multi-modal trail nodes and public
art planning.
- Beeber
School Annex Community Center Conceptual Design, Philadelphia, PA Role:
Designer (pro-bono) with Community Design Collaborative Client:
Wynnefield Overbrook Revitalization Corporation. Concept design
vision for repurposing a 33,000 SF site and vacant school annex into
a community center for a neighborhood facing economic and crime
challenges.
- Mt.
Moriah Historic Cemetery Preservation Corporation, Philadelphia, PA
Role: Site Planning and Board Member. Strategic
planning and landscape analysis for 200 acre historic cemetery in
low-income urban neighborhood.
- Association
for Public Art, Philadelphia, PA Role: Intern.
Site
analysis for existing public art installations plus digital archive
reorganization.
- Green Cities Clean Waters, Philadelphia Water Department, Office of Watersheds, Philadelphia, PA Role: Intern. District analysis and site concept design for schoolyard in city-wide green infrastructure planning effort.
GRANTS
• 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.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
“Art + Landscape,” Professional Practice presentation to graduate and undergraduate Landscape students at the UW College of Built Environments. March 2025.
“Drawing Dialectical Landscape: It's About Time.” Drawing in Design, Winter Quarter Lecture and Workshop: University of Washington College of Built Environments, Department of Landscape Architecture. January 2022. Class had record attendance from both students and faculty.
“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
“Trajectories, Cycles, Data and Narratives: Information Aesthetics in Landscape Architecture,”presentation(s), Seattle Design Festival Conference, September 2014
“A New Aesthetic for the Post-Super Storm World,” panel presentation and discussion with Scott Miles, Director, Resilience Institute, and Terry Doss of Biohabitats, Living Futures Conference, May 2014
“Project Management for Arts Non-profit Administrators”, invited presenter, Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Arts Management & Technology, October 2007
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
(**Solo)
**2025 Breaking Ground, CORE Gallery, Seattle, WA
2025 unBound, Byproduct & Prototype, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA) Gallery, Seattle, WA
2025 New Artist Group Exhibition, CORE Gallery, Seattle, WA
2024 Square Deal, 50 Artists for a Fair Vote, '57 Biscayne, Seattle, WA
**2022 Equisetum Returns, Featured artist West Seattle Q1 2022, Seattle, WA
2021 Rue de Cerise, Good Arts, 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, Drylands Design in Age of Change, juried honors exhibition, A+D Museum, Los Angeles, CA, in collaboration with the Arid Lands Institute.
**2008 BIO, print works and gallery installation, Images Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Image*n, Images Gallery, Chicago, IL
**2006 Self Image, Images Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Interim, Gallery Mornea, Evanston, IL
2006 Waypoints, Images Gallery, Chicago, IL
**2004 Ukiyo-e , print works, Images Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECT SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS
The Block Project, Facing Homelessness, Seattle, WA, volunteer Landscape Designer
Forterra, Seattle, WA., Volunteer Art Installation / Designer
Volunteer, Technology Access Foundation, Tacoma
Community Design Collaborative Philadelphia, Landscape Design Volunteer
Philadelphia Association for Public Art, PennDesign Graduate student work-study
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. Business analysis and e-commerce project plan
Green Cities Clean Waters, Philadelphia Water Department, Office of Watersheds, Philadelphia, PA Role: Intern
Business Advisor Volunteer, Arts and Business Council, Chicago
EDUCATION
Masters of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelors of Fine Arts
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
LEED & SITES AP (Sustainable Sites) certified educated
Certificate in Alternative Design
Archeworks, Chicago, IL
Associates of Photography (AAS), Kodak honor scholar
Media Institute, LCC, Lansing, MI
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