b. 1991, USA
Education
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
PhD Candidate, Intermedia Art, Writing, and Performance
Advised by Laura Devendorf
Computational Fashion Master Class, Eyebeam, New York City, NY 2015
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, (SAIC), Chicago, IL
MFA Fiber & Materials Studies 2015
Maryland Institute College of Art, (MICA), Baltimore, MD
BFA Fibers Major, Creative Writing Minor, Sound Concentration
Cum Laude 2013
Awards & Grants
2020
Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant, University of Colorado Boulder
2018
Nominee, Best Costume Design, Jerry Herman Awards
2017
Nominee, BLOOOM Award by WARSTEINER
Renegade Fiber Juror Award
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Alumni Micro-Grant
2016
DCASE Individual Artist Program, Creative Projects Grant
2015
Macktez Summer Stipend
DCASE Individual Artist Program, Professional Development Grant
Honorable Mention, Graduate Leadership Award
Spoonflower Emerging Designer Grant
Nominee, Edes Fellowship
Idea Generation Grant
2014
Nominee, Gelman Trust Scholar Program
SAIC Grant
2013
SAIC Enrichment Award
Deans Scholarship
MICA Dean’s List, 2010-13
2012
MICA Fibers Departmental Recognition Award
2011
The Barbara L. Kuhlman Foundation Scholarship
2009
MICA Scholastic Award Scholarship
MICA Presidential Scholarship
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, American Visions Award, Apparel Design
Residencies
2018
Paillard Centre d’Art Contemporain & Résidence d’Artistes, Poncé sur le Loir, France
2017
Studios at MassMoCA, North Adams, MA
2015
TextielLab, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2013
Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2012
STEIM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lectures & Workshops
2019
History of Wearable Technology, Guest Lecture, Approaches to Historical Media Practices, University of Colorado, Boulder
Soft Controllers, Teen Hackathon, New Roads School, Santa Monica, CA
2018
Cyanotype Textiles, Paillard Centre d’Art Contemporain & Résidence d’Artistes, Poncé sur le Loir, France
Block Printing, Paillard Centre d’Art Contemporain & Résidence d’Artistes, Poncé sur le Loir, France
Thermo Printing Demo with Pauline Vierne, eTextile Spring Break Social, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Learn to Weave!, eTextile Spring Break Social, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Weaving Intensive: Rigid Heddle Looms, eTextile Spring Break, The Wassaic project, Wassaic, NY
Unraveling E-Textiles: Reveling in Storytelling, Sustainability, and Sharing, Brooklyn
Fashion + Design Accelerator, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Crafting Impossible Textiles, eTextile Summer Camp, Paillard Centre d’Art Contemporain Résidence d’Artistes, Poncé sur le Loir, France
2016
Getting Hands On with Soft Circuits: Capacitance, Marwen, Chicago, IL
Getting Hands On with Soft Circuits: Switches, Marwen, Chicago, IL
Getting Hands On with Soft Circuits: Buttons, Marwen, Chicago, IL
Outputs: Metamorphic Color, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Inputs: Responsive Materials, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Conversation: "use", "usefulness", "uselessness", Shapiro Center Research Week, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Getting Hands on with Soft Circuits, Shapiro Center Research Week, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2015
Closer than Your Skin: Networked Wearables Workshop, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Dynamism of a Hand Waving, 2015 World Conference on Mass Customization,
Personalization, and Co-Creation, Montreal, QC
Garments for Uncomfortable Social Situations, International Symposium on Electronic Art, Vancouver, BC
Responsive Material, Cultural Multitudes, and Cosmic Imagery: Textile Research and
Collaboration, Shapiro Center Symposium, Fashion Resource Center, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2014
It Worked A Minute Ago: Navigating a Practice in Unstable Media, Graduate Lecture, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Make it Work: Soft Circuit Workshop, Graduate Lecture, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions & Performances
2020
beMused, Museum of Boulder, Boulder, CO upcoming July
No Longer in Existence, S3026, Boulder CO
Brutal Realities, Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, CO
2019
eTextile Spring Break Exhibition, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
HANDS-ON: A Collective Haptic Perspective, Pancake House, Minneapolis, MN
2018
Textiles: A History of Expression, Greenville Center for Creative Art, Greenville, SC
eTextile Spring Break Exhibition, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2017
SOUND / IMAGE 2017, University of Greenwich, London, UK
2017 International Juried Exhibition, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
PUMP: Public Urban Multisensory Presentations, Long Beach, CA
Mechanization, Material and the Matrix, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
INTERSECTIONS: Collaborations in Textile Design Research, Loughborough University London, UK
Cuvée 2017, Paillard Centre d’Art Contemporain & Résidence d’Artistes, Poncé sur le Loir, France
Sightlines, South Bend Century Center, South Bend, IN 2017-19
Wear It Festival, Kulturbrauerei Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Renegade Fiber, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
Glitch: An Exploration of Digital Media, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA
2017 Digital Fabrication Symposium Exhibition, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
45th International Art Show, Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, Brownsville, TX
2016
Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
code/switch, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Show #1, Nook Gallery, Oakland, CA
New Expressions: Women in Music Technology, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
All Together NOW, New Roads School, Santa Monica, CA
2015
DWT Download Conference, Convene 730 Third Ave, New York, NY
World Maker Faire, New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY
Re-Making Patterns, The Seaport, New York, NY
Electronic Workshop Concert, Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practices, New England
Conservatory, Boston, MA
MFA Show, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2014
The ‘F’ Word: Feminism Now, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
Small Expressions, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Waveforms, Columbus Auditorium, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2013
Typhoon Haiyan Philippine Benefit Art Show, LaunchPad, Brooklyn, NY
If As Now Known, Rymer Gallery, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Fiber Optics, 1310 Gallery Fort Lauderdale, FL
Exquisite Uterus Project, Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Commencement Exhibition, Leidy Atrium, MICA, Baltimore, MD
United, Coward Shoe, Baltimore, MD
Materials Hard & Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
Unravel The Code, Roodkapje, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2012
Stitches & Switches, Station 101, MICA, Baltimore, MD
SoundBox, City Arts Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Power Hour, Station 101, MICA Baltimore, MD
USA Science Fair and Engineering Expo, Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C.
The Vigil, Cohen Plaza, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Garment Workers, Middendorf Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
STEIM Concept-Stage, STEIM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011
B-MORE SOUNDBOX, The Wind-Up Space, Baltimore, MD
Conglomerations of Infinite Possibilities, Brown 2 Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Calibration, InFlux Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2011 Entrepreneur Expo, BWI Marriot, Linthicum, MD
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
RobotFest, National Electronic Museum, Linthicum, MD
Final Class Exhibition, InFlux Gallery, Baltimore, MD
The Vigil, Cohen Plaza, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Not Your Father’s Trousers, Middendorf Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2010
Foundation Show, Fox Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2009
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Scholastic/Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, New York, NY
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2008
SWAG, See Line Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Experience
Costume Designer
12 Angry Jurors, Sierra Canyon School
Muscle Memory, Sadie Yarrington
eTextile Spring Break, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Co-Organizer + Active Participant, 2017-
eTextile Summercamp, Paillard Centre d’Art Contemporain & Résidence d’Artistes, Poncé sur le Loir, France
Co-Organizer, Summerfest 2017
New Roads School, Santa Monica, CA
Teacher
Conscious Clothing Workshop, 2018-19
Getting Hands On With Soft Circuits, 2018- 19
Advanced Conceptual Clothing, 2018-19
Conceptual Clothing, 2016-19
Sculpture, 2016-18
Drama Department: Production Design, Costume Design, Wardrobe, 2016-19
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
In The Heights
Saint Joan
Once On This Island
Sweet Charity
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Shrek The Musical
New Roads Literary Journal: Layout, 2017-19
Marwen, Chicago, IL
Assistant Teaching Artist, Fashion Lab: Dream It, Draw It, Make It, Wear It, 2016
Christopher Baker, Chicago, IL,
Research Assistant, 2015-16
Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practices, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
Visiting Artist, 2015
ITP Camp, New York University, New York, NY
Instigator, 2015
Textile Technology Research Group, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Research Fellow, 2014-15
Fiber and Material Studies, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Lab Monitor, 2014-15
MSP Fashion Studio , Continuing Studies SAIC, Chicago, IL
Classroom Assistant, Spring - Fall 2014
Exhibitions and Events, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Graduate Production Assistant to J Morgan Puett, Fall 2014
MSP Fashion Camp, Continuing Studies, SAIC, Chicago IL
Classroom Assistant, Summer 2014
Digital Jacquard Weaving: Zeroes and Ones, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Teaching Assistant, Spring 2014
Digital Sound 1, SAIC, Chicago, IL
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2013
Intro to Smart Textile Techniques, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Spring 2013
FLUCT, Baltimore, MD
Intern, 2012
Gallery KM, Santa Monica, CA
Intern, 2011
Press
Hackaday, Be The Electronic Chameleon, 2018
Berliner Zeitung Nummer 138, 16. Juni 2017
In the galleries: Digital and traditional media join forces
What to do for free in D.C. this June
Torpedo Factory gets technical with 'Glitch'
Announcing the 2017 Alumni Microgrant Recipients
Review of All Together NOW in the Santa Monica Daily Press, 2016
Re-Making Patterns Review on 3D Print 2015
Dynamism of a Hand Waving in New York Hall of Science coverage of Maker Faire 2015
Dynamism of a Hand Waving on Core 77
Re-Making Patterns in Tech Times (2015)
Re-Making Patterns in HyperAllergic(2015)
Re-Making Patterns in the Creators Project (2015)
Macktez Summer Stipend (2015)
"Unconventional Spaces" Baltimore City Paper (2013)
FOX45 Baltimore "Hometown Hotspot" (2012)
STEIM Project Blog (2012)
"Futuristic Fashion: Stylish and Smart." Voice of America (2011)
Publications
2017
Klett, Lena, and Shannon Luddington. Mechanization, Material & the Matrix. Blurb, 2017
Intersections Exhibition . Loughborough University , 2017.
2016
Textiellab Yearbook 2015. Idea Books Amsterdam, 2016.