RESIDENCIES

Metropolitan Museum of Art - Artist Residency, New York, NY,                                                                                                                                                                   he Ruth & Harold D. Center for Education and Select Galleries

ICELAND Artist Residency - partially sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Iceland.  Explored Icelandic culture, through exploration of time, empathy, compassion and the Icelandic welfare system.  Alongside a cohort of international artists, worked with the local prison, Litla-Hraun, and the local school to conduct a painting workshop concluding in an art festival.

Work & Volunteering

Teaching Assistant - (forthcoming) New York Academy of Art, Sculpture Department during the Summer Residency Program

Wall Curator - Wooster & Grand, selected works to be displayed at different events such as walls rented at the Tribeca Art Show and Hamptons Fine Art Fair through independent collaborations.

Social Media Curator for New York Society of Women Artists (2020-2024) - curated the social media feed during the organization's exhibitions.   The organization does not curate their shows, they have no curator as they strive to allow freedom of expression to all their members.  Curating the Social Media feed ensured the quality and visual flow of the images on the feed.

Board Member - New York Society of Women Artists - (2020-2024)

Painting Music - Collaborated with Suarez-Paz Tango during the Arts & Music Festival on Roosevelt Island, New York

ArtWorks NYC - Museum Guide at the Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for groups of Public School children 3rd-5th grades as part of the ArtWorks NYC art history comprehensive curriculum, when children would visit the pieces they had been studying at school through the arts program.  This program followed a set of images and curriculum for each grade level.

AWARDS 

• Scholar Award toward MFA studies at The New York Academy of Art
• Susan Wasserstein Patron of the Arts Scholar Award
• New York Foundation for the Arts 
• Leonard Rosenfeld Award in Abstract Painting
  
• Honorable Mentions, James Little Salon Exhibition
• Merit Scholarship, The Art Students League of New York
• NAWA Juried Show best in Abstract Painting
• Milken Family Foundation Juried selection juried by Benedict Leca, PH.D., Executive Director, Redwood Library & Athenaeum, Norah Diedrich, Executive Director, Newport Art Museum, Qianni Zhu, Mirlen Family Postbaccalaureate Fellow in Museum Practice, Colby
  College Museum
• National Association of Women Artists - Best Abstract Work Award
• Awarded Recognition as an Art Donor to Special Citizens, Bronx, New York