ABOUT THE ARTIST
"Many artists specialize and focus on one skill. I want to do everything. I want to do a sketch and turn it into a painting, then I want to take the painting and turn it into a movie, then turn the cartoon into an assemblage. I want to do all of it. I don't want to pigeonhole myself into being one thing. I want to do everything."
Filmmaking Awards
Gold Key Award: Scholastic Award for the Arts 2005 for animated short WAR
Silver Award: Scholastic Award for the Arts 2005 for animated short WAR
Best Animation: 2007 West Virginia Filmmakers Film Festival, Sutton, WV for animated short The Circus
Honorable Mention: 14th Annual Jay Saunders Film Festival (2008) Auburn University, Auburn, AL for The Circus.
Best Animation: 2015 West Virginia Filmmakers Festival for animated short Death Train to Christmas Town
Official Selection: Benson Film Festival (2021) Omaha, NE for Denomination
Official Selection: Lift-Off Film Session (2020) Iver, England, United Kingdom for Denomination
Art Exhibitions
Juried Exhibition Show Della Brown Taylor Gallery, West Virginia State University (2007)
Art Show at Rival (Solo Show) Rival Cards and Games, Kanawha City, WV (2013)
2nd Annual Earth Day (Group Show) Apartment Earth Gallery, Charleston, WV (2014)
Pop Goes the Weasel (Group Show) Apartment Earth Gallery, Charleston, WV (2014)
Feathers, Fangs, and Fur (Group Show) Apartment Earth Gallery, Charleston, WV (2014)
Clifton Forge ComicCon Clifton Forge School for the Arts, Clifton Forge, VA (2015)
Pest Control (Group Show) Apartment Earth Gallery, Charleston, WV (2015)
Ann Magnuson's SurRURALism (Stage Performance) Clay Center's Walker Theater, Charleston, WV (2015)
POP Visions Art Exhibition West Edge Factory, Huntington, WV (2016)
Amalgam Apartment Earth Gallery, Charleston, WV (2016)
4th Annual Earth Day (Group Show) Apartment Earth Gallery, Charleston WV (2017)
Propaganda Extravaganza (Group Show) Hole in the Wall Studio, Charleston WV (2017)
Kitschen Drawer (Group Show) Apartment Earth Gallery, Charleston WV (2017)
Work experience
2022 - Present
St. Albans High School
Art Teacher
2014 - 2022
Riverside High School
Art Teacher
2020 - Present
Step by Step- Kanawha County
Arts and Literacy Specialist/ Tutor (Intermittent)
2013 - 2014
Stonewall Jackson Middle School (Now West Side Middle School)
Science Teacher
Education
2005 - 2012
West Virginia State University