Education
2020 MFA in Interdiscliplinary Art with a focus on Embodied Place at Sierra Nevada University in Lake Tahoe
2013 BA in Anthropology + Minor in Creative Writing at Stanford
Shows, installations + exhibitions
2023 Delightful Emergence group show in Oakland, CA
2023 Blü Umi Artist Pop-Up in Hanapepe, Kauai with artist Sterling Bird
2023 Artist at Joshua Tree Music Festival
2022 Artist at Joshua Tree Music Festival
2020 The Diggins Are Alive two-person show at North Columbia Schoolhouse & Cultural Center, Nevada City, CA with artist Molly Jochem
2020 Wild & Scenic Film Festival Juried Art Exhibit Official Selection, Nevada City, CA
2019 Andy’s Screen Tests installation with Dream Logic at SFMOMA, San Francisco
2019 Burning Man Free Wifi interactive installation at Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert
2018 Immersive art installations with Dream Logic at California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco CA
2018 Magritte’s Clouds interactive LED installation with Dream Logic at SFMOMA, San Francisco
2017 Dream Logic at Future Fires Showcase, an immersive art and technology festival in San Francisco
2016 The Art of Dying immersive art show at ReImagine End of Life Festival, San Francisco
Site-specific research projects + residencies
2021-now Fire as Site: a cross-disciplinary project engaging wildfire as a “site” for creative placemaking in the wildfire-impacted west
2020 Listening In Void Space: site-specific project at Malakoff Diggins hydraulic gold mine in Western Nevada County, CA. Visit the website.
Work experience + collaborations
2016-now Freelance artist, illustrator + graphic designer
2019-now Founding Board Member + Designer for Immersive Arts Alliance, a non-profit expanding the Bay Area’s ecosystem for large-scale, immersive public art
2020-now Co-host of ROCK CLUB, an ongoing conversation series about rocks, geomorphology, and our relationships with rocks and land
2017-now Co-founder of Audio Acid Trips: audio-guided journeys through the magic dark of your imagination
2018-2020 Visual Marketing + Communications at Fat and the Moon
2015-20 Co-founder + Curator at Dream Logic, an experiential art production company that creates immersive art shows, pop-ups, and installations in partnership with Bay Area cultural institutions & museums
2013-2016 Editor, Researcher, and Illustrator at Epic Magazine
Workshops + trainings
2023 Wilderness Fast Guide Training with the School of Lost Borders at Wild Mountain, Colorado
2022 Ancestral Lineage Healing with Ancestral Medicine
2022 Re-Wilding Mythology course led by writer Sophie Strand
2022 Heal Thyself: Transformative Initiation for People Racialized as White with Reverend Brig Feltus
2021 Mirroring Training with The School of Lost Borders in Dragonback Springs, Colorado
2021 Hawaiian Mythology course with Kumu Ka’imi Summers, University of Hawaii, Kauai
2020 Great Ballcourt Initiation Fast with The School of Lost Borders, Death Valley CA
2020 Wild Pigment Foraging and Palette Remediation workshop with Tilke Elkins in Springfield, Oregon
2018 Yuba Writers’ 16-Week Workshop with Rachel Howard in Grass Valley, CA
2016 Meisner Acting Intensive with Rachel Adler, Waterfront Playhouse in Berkeley CA
Grants + awards
2024 Winner of 2023/2024 Death Valley Nails Arts + Entrepreneurship Scholarship
2021 Short-listed for Holt/Smithson Foundation Research Fellowship: Indigenous Narratives
2021 NirMānā Mentor Projects supported by a Rise to Work grant through the Garden Island Arts Council
2018 Starland Portfolio Scholarship, Sierra Nevada University
2013 Gratuated Phi Beta Kappa at Stanford with Anthropology Department Honors for undergrad thesis on Anna Tsing’s global ethnology, Friction
2013 Stanford Business School Summer Institute of General Management ‘Best Case Study Presentation’
2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Writing Award for poem about the post-Emancipation South
2010 Boothe Prize in Undergrad Writing for essay “Intertwining Art” exploring artistic mimesis and mythic allegory in Dante’s Inferno
Publications
2021 Two Doors Open in Yellow magazine by Palmwood, United Arab Emirates
2018 “Cookbook Section,” in Thread Online Literary Journal
2017 “And then something weird happened: Burning Man from 30,000 ft.,” in SixbyEight Press
2010 “Intertwining Art,” Stanford University Boothe Prize Anthology
Speaking
2022 “Deep Listening, Synesthesia & the Senses” Artist Talk for Anna Davidson’s ‘Field Research in the Ecological Arts’ class at Cornell
2021 ‘Alakai Swamp Field Expedition’ & Artist Talk for Anna Davidson’s ‘Field Research in the Ecological Arts’ class at Cornell
2020 End of Life, Grief + XR Panel Discussion presented by Barclays Eagle Labs + Immerse UK
2016 “Your Virtual Death” TedX talk, Stanford
Audio
2021 Two Doors Open, an experiential, audio-guided journey through limbo. Published in Yellow, a magazine created by the design studio Palmwood
2010 Podcast with Aliza Gazek & the Stanford Storytelling Project investigating why you can find an Aussie at any backpackers hostel in the world!
2020 MFA in Interdiscliplinary Art with a focus on Embodied Place at Sierra Nevada University in Lake Tahoe
2013 BA in Anthropology + Minor in Creative Writing at Stanford
Shows, installations + exhibitions
2023 Delightful Emergence group show in Oakland, CA
2023 Blü Umi Artist Pop-Up in Hanapepe, Kauai with artist Sterling Bird
2023 Artist at Joshua Tree Music Festival
2022 Artist at Joshua Tree Music Festival
2020 The Diggins Are Alive two-person show at North Columbia Schoolhouse & Cultural Center, Nevada City, CA with artist Molly Jochem
2020 Wild & Scenic Film Festival Juried Art Exhibit Official Selection, Nevada City, CA
2019 Andy’s Screen Tests installation with Dream Logic at SFMOMA, San Francisco
2019 Burning Man Free Wifi interactive installation at Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert
2018 Immersive art installations with Dream Logic at California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco CA
2018 Magritte’s Clouds interactive LED installation with Dream Logic at SFMOMA, San Francisco
2017 Dream Logic at Future Fires Showcase, an immersive art and technology festival in San Francisco
2016 The Art of Dying immersive art show at ReImagine End of Life Festival, San Francisco
Site-specific research projects + residencies
2021-now Fire as Site: a cross-disciplinary project engaging wildfire as a “site” for creative placemaking in the wildfire-impacted west
2020 Listening In Void Space: site-specific project at Malakoff Diggins hydraulic gold mine in Western Nevada County, CA. Visit the website.
Work experience + collaborations
2016-now Freelance artist, illustrator + graphic designer
2019-now Founding Board Member + Designer for Immersive Arts Alliance, a non-profit expanding the Bay Area’s ecosystem for large-scale, immersive public art
2020-now Co-host of ROCK CLUB, an ongoing conversation series about rocks, geomorphology, and our relationships with rocks and land
2017-now Co-founder of Audio Acid Trips: audio-guided journeys through the magic dark of your imagination
2018-2020 Visual Marketing + Communications at Fat and the Moon
2015-20 Co-founder + Curator at Dream Logic, an experiential art production company that creates immersive art shows, pop-ups, and installations in partnership with Bay Area cultural institutions & museums
2013-2016 Editor, Researcher, and Illustrator at Epic Magazine
Workshops + trainings
2023 Wilderness Fast Guide Training with the School of Lost Borders at Wild Mountain, Colorado
2022 Ancestral Lineage Healing with Ancestral Medicine
2022 Re-Wilding Mythology course led by writer Sophie Strand
2022 Heal Thyself: Transformative Initiation for People Racialized as White with Reverend Brig Feltus
2021 Mirroring Training with The School of Lost Borders in Dragonback Springs, Colorado
2021 Hawaiian Mythology course with Kumu Ka’imi Summers, University of Hawaii, Kauai
2020 Great Ballcourt Initiation Fast with The School of Lost Borders, Death Valley CA
2020 Wild Pigment Foraging and Palette Remediation workshop with Tilke Elkins in Springfield, Oregon
2018 Yuba Writers’ 16-Week Workshop with Rachel Howard in Grass Valley, CA
2016 Meisner Acting Intensive with Rachel Adler, Waterfront Playhouse in Berkeley CA
Grants + awards
2024 Winner of 2023/2024 Death Valley Nails Arts + Entrepreneurship Scholarship
2021 Short-listed for Holt/Smithson Foundation Research Fellowship: Indigenous Narratives
2021 NirMānā Mentor Projects supported by a Rise to Work grant through the Garden Island Arts Council
2018 Starland Portfolio Scholarship, Sierra Nevada University
2013 Gratuated Phi Beta Kappa at Stanford with Anthropology Department Honors for undergrad thesis on Anna Tsing’s global ethnology, Friction
2013 Stanford Business School Summer Institute of General Management ‘Best Case Study Presentation’
2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Writing Award for poem about the post-Emancipation South
2010 Boothe Prize in Undergrad Writing for essay “Intertwining Art” exploring artistic mimesis and mythic allegory in Dante’s Inferno
Publications
2021 Two Doors Open in Yellow magazine by Palmwood, United Arab Emirates
2018 “Cookbook Section,” in Thread Online Literary Journal
2017 “And then something weird happened: Burning Man from 30,000 ft.,” in SixbyEight Press
2010 “Intertwining Art,” Stanford University Boothe Prize Anthology
Speaking
2022 “Deep Listening, Synesthesia & the Senses” Artist Talk for Anna Davidson’s ‘Field Research in the Ecological Arts’ class at Cornell
2021 ‘Alakai Swamp Field Expedition’ & Artist Talk for Anna Davidson’s ‘Field Research in the Ecological Arts’ class at Cornell
2020 End of Life, Grief + XR Panel Discussion presented by Barclays Eagle Labs + Immerse UK
2016 “Your Virtual Death” TedX talk, Stanford
Audio
2021 Two Doors Open, an experiential, audio-guided journey through limbo. Published in Yellow, a magazine created by the design studio Palmwood
2010 Podcast with Aliza Gazek & the Stanford Storytelling Project investigating why you can find an Aussie at any backpackers hostel in the world!