Education
2020 MFA in Interdiscliplinary Arts with a focus on Embodied Place, Sierra Nevada University, Lake Tahoe
2013 BA in Anthropology + Minor in Creative Writing, Stanford
Select exhibitions
2023 (upcoming) Delightful Emergence group show in Oakland, CA
2023 Blü Umi Art Pop-Up in Hanapepe, Kauai
2023 Artist at Joshua Tree Music Festival
2022 Artist at Joshua Tree Music Festival
2020 The Diggins Are Alive site-specific exhibition, North Columbia Schoolhouse and Cultural Center, Nevada County CA
2020 Wild & Scenic Film Festival Juried Art Exhibit Official Selection, Nevada City CA
2019 Andy’s Screen Tests installation at SFMOMA Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2019 Burning Man Free Wifi interactive installation at Burning Man, Black Rock Desert
2018 Repeating VR installations at California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco CA
2018 Magritte’s Clouds interactive LED installation, SFMOMA, San Francisco
2018 747 Project at Burning Man
2017 Future Fires Showcase, an immersive art and technology festival in San Francisco
2016 The Art of Dying immersive art show; ReImagine End of Life Festival, San Francisco
Organizations
2019-now Founding Board Member and Designer for Immersive Arts Alliance, a Bay Area non-profit expanding San Francisco Bay Area’s culture of large-scale, immersive public art
2017-now Co-founder of Audio Acid Trips - audio-guided journeys through the magic dark of your imagination
2015-2020 Co-founder of Dream Logic, an experiential art production company that partners with Bay Area cultural institutions & museums
Site-specific research projects + residencies
2021 Nirmānā Project: onoing collaborative mural projects with Kauai island youth
2021 Fire as Site: 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, Northern California. Site pilgrimages over six months engaged deep listening, an experimental composition method for listening in and with landscape.
Workshops + trainings
2023 Guide Training with the School of Lost Borders, Wild Mountain, CO
2022 Ancestral Lineage Healing course 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
2022 Tarot for the Wild Soul course with Lindsay Mack
2021 Mirroring Training with The School of Lost Borders, Dragonback Springs, CO
2021 Hawaiian Mythology course with Kumu Ka’imi Summers, University of Hawaii, Kauai Community College
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, Springfield OR
2018 Yuba Writers’ Workshop with Rachel Howard, Grass Valley, CA (16 weeks)
2018 Women’s Fast with The School of Lost Borders, Death Valley CA
2018 Volunteer farmer at Soil Sisters Farm in Nevada City CA
2016 Meisner Acting Intensive with Rachel Adler, Waterfront Playhouse, Berkeley CA
Grants + awards
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 Stanford Phi Beta Kappa
2013 Stanford Anthropology Department Honors for undergrad thesis on Anna Tsing’s global ethnology, Friction
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, Cornell
2021 Alakai Swamp Virtual Field Expedition & Artist Talk for Anna Davidson’s ‘Field Research in the Ecological Arts’ class, Cornell
2020 End of Life, Grief + XR Panel Discussion presented by Barclays Eagle Labs and Immerse UK
2016 “Your Virtual Death” TedX talk, Stanford
Audio
2021 Two Doors Open, an experiential, audio-guided journey through limbo. Created for and published in Yellow, a magazine created by the social impact design studio Palmwood
2010 Podcast made in collaboration 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 Arts with a focus on Embodied Place, Sierra Nevada University, Lake Tahoe
2013 BA in Anthropology + Minor in Creative Writing, Stanford
Select exhibitions
2023 (upcoming) Delightful Emergence group show in Oakland, CA
2023 Blü Umi Art Pop-Up in Hanapepe, Kauai
2023 Artist at Joshua Tree Music Festival
2022 Artist at Joshua Tree Music Festival
2020 The Diggins Are Alive site-specific exhibition, North Columbia Schoolhouse and Cultural Center, Nevada County CA
2020 Wild & Scenic Film Festival Juried Art Exhibit Official Selection, Nevada City CA
2019 Andy’s Screen Tests installation at SFMOMA Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2019 Burning Man Free Wifi interactive installation at Burning Man, Black Rock Desert
2018 Repeating VR installations at California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco CA
2018 Magritte’s Clouds interactive LED installation, SFMOMA, San Francisco
2018 747 Project at Burning Man
2017 Future Fires Showcase, an immersive art and technology festival in San Francisco
2016 The Art of Dying immersive art show; ReImagine End of Life Festival, San Francisco
Organizations
2019-now Founding Board Member and Designer for Immersive Arts Alliance, a Bay Area non-profit expanding San Francisco Bay Area’s culture of large-scale, immersive public art
2017-now Co-founder of Audio Acid Trips - audio-guided journeys through the magic dark of your imagination
2015-2020 Co-founder of Dream Logic, an experiential art production company that partners with Bay Area cultural institutions & museums
Site-specific research projects + residencies
2021 Nirmānā Project: onoing collaborative mural projects with Kauai island youth
2021 Fire as Site: 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, Northern California. Site pilgrimages over six months engaged deep listening, an experimental composition method for listening in and with landscape.
Workshops + trainings
2023 Guide Training with the School of Lost Borders, Wild Mountain, CO
2022 Ancestral Lineage Healing course 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
2022 Tarot for the Wild Soul course with Lindsay Mack
2021 Mirroring Training with The School of Lost Borders, Dragonback Springs, CO
2021 Hawaiian Mythology course with Kumu Ka’imi Summers, University of Hawaii, Kauai Community College
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, Springfield OR
2018 Yuba Writers’ Workshop with Rachel Howard, Grass Valley, CA (16 weeks)
2018 Women’s Fast with The School of Lost Borders, Death Valley CA
2018 Volunteer farmer at Soil Sisters Farm in Nevada City CA
2016 Meisner Acting Intensive with Rachel Adler, Waterfront Playhouse, Berkeley CA
Grants + awards
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 Stanford Phi Beta Kappa
2013 Stanford Anthropology Department Honors for undergrad thesis on Anna Tsing’s global ethnology, Friction
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, Cornell
2021 Alakai Swamp Virtual Field Expedition & Artist Talk for Anna Davidson’s ‘Field Research in the Ecological Arts’ class, Cornell
2020 End of Life, Grief + XR Panel Discussion presented by Barclays Eagle Labs and Immerse UK
2016 “Your Virtual Death” TedX talk, Stanford
Audio
2021 Two Doors Open, an experiential, audio-guided journey through limbo. Created for and published in Yellow, a magazine created by the social impact design studio Palmwood
2010 Podcast made in collaboration with Aliza Gazek & the Stanford Storytelling Project investigating why you can find an Aussie at any backpackers hostel in the world