EDUCATION
2009-2012 The San Francisco Art Institute
Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts, History & Theory of Contemporary Art
2005 University of Alaska Anchorage
Bachelor of Arts, Art
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022 – 2022 Jefferson Museum of Art & History, Visitor Services Coordinator
2012 – 2015 University of Alaska Anchorage, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art
I taught in the Foundations Program, Three-Dimensional Design and Color Design. The foundations program introduces students to a variety of artistic mediums and prepares them for continued education in university’s National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) accredited program.
2011 Strength in Courage Project, Curator and Performance Artist, California
2010 San Francisco Art Institute, Teaching Assistant, Ceramics, California
2008-2009 California College of the Arts, Administrative Assistant, Oakland, California
2007 Artworks Foundry, Wax Mold Dept. and Shipping Manager, Berkeley, California
2005-2006 Alaska State Council on the Arts, Administrative Clerk II, Anchorage, Alaska
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2012 -2005
San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Fellowships, Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2012-2005 Assistant Curator for Warm Baby and Linda Trunzo “Storied: Sites: Architecture, Politics & People” The Mid-Market Art Project, United Nations Plaza, San Francisco; ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael, California; Assistant to Ayokunle Odeleye, Alaska Psychiatric Institute
RESIDENCIES
2009 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
EXHIBITION AND TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
2013 Curator at AWAIC, Youth Arts Exhibition, Alaska; Curator at Out North Contemporary Art House, Youth Arts Exhibition
2012 Storied: Sites: Architecture, Politics & People presented by The Mid-Market Art Project, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, California
2010 We Were There: A Lesbian Response to the AIDS Epidemic, Co-Curated by: Tamara Lowenstien and Melonie Green, Documentary by: Emmanuelle Antolin, American Art and Culture Complex, San Francisco, California; Vernissage: Masters of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California
COMMUNITY SERVICE EXPERIENCE
2013-2005 Curator at AWAIC, Youth Arts Exhibition; Curator at Out North Contemporary Art House, Youth Arts Exhibition; Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland: Artist in Residence Program; We Were There: A Lesbian Response to the AIDS Epidemic; Headlands Center for the Arts, Event Volunteer; International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Event Coordinator
MEDIA
2015 KTVA Channel 11, Studio Visit, interviewed by Eric Ruble, August 22, 2015; KTUU Channel 2, Late Night Edition, “Woman plans to create art with rubble left behind in Motherlode Lodge Fire” interviewed by Caslon Hatch, August 17, 2015
2013 -2005 I Am UAA, Feature Profile Article, University of Alaska Website; F Magazine Statewide Writing Competition, Third Place Award; Art For Healing April Newsletter, San Francisco, California; Juxtapoz Magazine, Seattle Erotic Arts Festival; Curve Magazine, Open Studio Art Review; Northern Light Newspaper, Art Review and Essays
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Novotny, Maria and Walker, Elizabeth, Infertility: A Curation. Wayne State University Press.
2014/12 Volatile Traversal: Explorations of Home and Body Bound by Recollection; F Magazine, Alaska’s Arts and Culture Magazine, Volume VI Issue 1 Spring; San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Catalog; Storied Sites: Architecture, Politics & People, Mid-Market Art Project, Master of Arts Collaborative Project, San Francisco, California
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
2017 Curvature, Solo Exhibition, Crush, Anchorage, Alaska
Wood/Work, Solo Exhibition, Point Richmond, California
2016 All Alaska Biennial, Anchorage Museum at Rassmuson Center, Anchorage, Alaska
Solo Exhibition, Alaska Pacific University, Carr Gottstein Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska
Solo Exhibition, Blue Holloman Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska
2015 7E Studio, Anchorage, Alaska, South Coffeehouse + Restaurant, Anchorage
2014 Katie Sevigny Studio and Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska; University of Alaska Anchorage, Kimura Gallery, Faculty Biennale; Object Runway, Bear Tooth Theater, Anchorage, Alaska, Side Street Espresso Café, Anchorage, Alaska
2013 Out North Contemporary Art House, Solo Exhibition; Indigo Tea Lounge, Familiar Proximity; International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Object Runway; International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Members Exhibition, Anchorage, Alaska
2012 University of Alaska Anchorage, Kimura Gallery, 8th Annual Faculty Biennale; University of Alaska Anchorage Student Union Gallery, 27th Annual National Juried Juried Exhibition: No Big Heads (Juror: David Kassan); International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cuptemporary Exhibition, Anchorage, Alaska; San Francisco Art Institute, Master of Art Symposium, Volatile Traversal: Explorations of Home and Body Bound by Recollection, A Performance; Diego Rivera Gallery, Mid-Market Art Project - Storied Sites: Architecture, Politics and People; Anne Bremer Memorial Library, 29th Annual Artist Book Contest, San Francisco, California
2011 Diego Rivera Gallery, Archive Machine, San Francisco, California, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Revamp/Recycle, Anchorage, Alaska; University of Alaska Anchorage, Student Union Gallery, 26th Annual National Juried Exhibition: No Big Heads (Juror: Beth Cavener Stichter); Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, Seattle, Washington; The Winery San Francisco, Vernissage: Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Treasure Island, California; Swell Gallery, Society of 23 Prize, San Francisco Art Institute, California; Diego Rivera Gallery, Haptic Visually, San Francisco, California
2010 Lush Life Gallery, San Francisco, California; Femina Potens Gallery, Busted, San Francisco, California; Diego Rivera Gallery, Emergence, San Francisco, California; University of California Davis, California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Arts, Davis, California; San Francisco Art Institute, Graduate Open Studios, Caverns of Seduction: An Installation, San Francisco, California; Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, California, San Francisco Art Institute, Relief: A Benefit Show for Haiti
2009-2005 San Francisco Art Institute, Requiem: Journal Project, California; Artworks Foundry Gallery, Employee Exhibition, Berkeley, California; Artworks Downtown Gallery, San Rafael, California; Abco ArtSpace, Live/Work, Oakland, California; Anchorage Museum, Earth, Fire, Fibre XXVI Finalist, Alaska; Kaladi Brothers Café, Wasilla, Alaska; Just Create; Members Only, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Alaska; Student Juried Exhibition, 3D Student Invitational, Student Union Gallery, 19th Annual National Juried Exhibition: No Big Heads; Foundations Invitational, Miniature Print Exchange; 18th Annual National Juried Exhibition: No Big Heads Student Union Gallery, University of Alaska Anchorage; First Friday Solo Show, Indigo Home Furnishings; Interior Featured Artist Open House, Barrow Building; Annual Art Exhibition, Botanical Gardens, Alaska; Benefit: Because It Had To Be Done, Alyeska Prince Hotel, Alaska