Exhibits, Events, and Shows
Current and Past Events
Artist in Residence | Whiskeytown Lake NRA, CA| Juried selection for the Spring 2024 Artist Residency to continue work on my Living With Fire body of work. (Spring 2024)
The Flame Within |ACCI Gallery in Berkeley, CA | Juried metal artist show with the Metal Arts Guild of San Francisco. (October 2023)
Water is Sacred |ACCI Gallery, Berkeley CA. | Juried photography show. (September 2023).
Timescapes - Beyond Us | San Francisco Conservatory of Music | Video with live music performance. (March 2023 )
Holidays at Frank Bette |Frank Bette Center for the Arts |Alameda, CA |Juried holiday market and exhibit of art and hand-crafted goods. (December, 2022)
Holidays at Frank Bette | Frank Bette Center for the Arts |Alameda, CA |Juried holiday market and exhibit of art and hand-crafted goods. (December, 2021)
Forge the Future – ACCI Gallery |Berkeley, CA – Jur The Fire Within and From the Fire invoking various impacts of fires on nature and structures as part of a juried metal arts guild and enamel guild show. (October, 2021)
Flowing Shadows – San Francisco Conservatory of Music | San Francisco, CA – Principle creator and ensemble puppeteer. Choreographed to Lou Harrison’s The Only Jealousy of Emer in collaboration with the San Francisco Conservatory’s BluePrint ensemble production. (April, 2010)
Funky Puppet Circus Supper – Cell Space | San Francisco, CA – Played the role of Head Buffoon and puppeteer in ensemble cast dinner performance. (Spring, 2003)
EO9066 – Exit Theater | San Francisco, CA – Puppeteer on various characters in ensemble performance in found object troupe Lunatique Fantastique. Collaborator on initial blocking and storyline. (June 2003)
Wrapping Paper Caper – Zeum Theater | San Francisco, CA – Puppeteer in ensemble performance in found object troupe Lunatique Fantastique. (December 2002)
Snake in the Basement – The Marsh Theater | San Francisco, CA – Puppeteer in ensemble performance in found object troupe Lunatique Fantastique. (May 2002)
Brace Yourself – Exit Theater |San Francisco Fringe Festival | San Francisco, CA – Puppeteer in ensemble performance in found object troupe Lunatique Fantastique. Collaborator on initial blocking and storyline. (October, 2001)
The Only Jealousy of Emer - 2010
In this performance in collaboration with the San Francisco Conservatory BluePrint ensemble, a faculty led student ensemble focusing on new music, I was the visual designer and lead puppeteer. The video below is a compilation of scenes from this shadow puppet performance that included found objects, puppets I fabricated, and one of my handmade puppet masks worn by one of the actors.
Refuse and Refuge -1995
During my undergraduate degree, I collaborated on an independant project headed by a Masters in Social Work student, Amy Donovan. As part of her graduating thesis about homeless youth in San Francisco, she created a collaborative art installation. My involvement in this project was varied. I took slide photos in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco that would be later projected on the walls of the gallery, I created a sidewalk scene out of concrete slabs and a chain link fence with panhandling slogans written on the walls by the youth artists, and I helped to curate the photos for these youth took from their day-to-day lives in the heart of the city for the exhibit. The images to the right depict the postcard advertisement and my cover image shows items left behind at a youth shelter in San Francisco.
Forsaken Belongings
Black and White Photo - San Francisco 1995