EDUCATION 

2008 BFA, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC             

2005 Cultural Exchange Program, Seoul Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea

2005      Malaspina University, Visual Arts Degree, Nanaimo BC

FEATURES AND AWARDS

2026-2022 ArtWA Art in Public Places Roster

2026-2024 City of Seattle Public Art Roster

2024 Sparking Creativity Artist Documentary, Portland Winter Lights Festival

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

2023               Downtown Seattle Association, Art Activation Grant, Freeway Park, Seattle WA

2023 People's Choice Award, Whatcom Housing Alliance, ADU Design Competition

2022 Greater Seattle Business Association, Ready for Business Grant Recipient  

2022 Artist Feature, Present Movement: Performing Art Documentary, Vancouver BC

2021 Artist Trust, WA Artist Grant

2021 PATH, Performing Artist Grant

2018   Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) Award, WA Artist Trust

2016   Adbusters Magazine, Photography feature

2015   International Recipient, Burning Man Global Arts Grant for Interactive Public Art

2015   Grant Recipient, Kapow! Place-making, Sustainable Connections, Bellingham WA

2013   Grant Recipient, BC Creative Communities

2012   Artist in Residency, Penasco Theatre, Penasco NM

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2024 Port Angeles Fine Art Center 

Featured Artist with Femme Metal Collective, Gallery Exhibition

2024 PDX Winter Light Festival, Downtown Pearl District, Portland OR

Sparking Creativity Featured Public Artist

              16' Nautilus - Stainless steel and prismatic glass public art sculpture 

2024 Indigiversal Collective Mural, Noisy Waters Mural Festival, Bellingham WA

2024 Oneiro Spectra, Circus Acts, Capitol Theater, Nelson BC

Shadow and light live performance projections

2024 Fire & Story, Bellingham WA

Large scale light sculptures and lantern walk

2024 Bass Coast Music Festival, Merritt BC

Shadow and light live performance projections

2024 Tropism Festival, Bellingham WA

Shadow and light live performance projections

2024-2023 Pachena Bay Music Festival, Pachena Bay BC 

  Light art installations

2024-2019 Tiny Lights Festival, Ymir BC

Shadow and light stage design

2024-2019 Woodstove Festival, Cumberland BC

Shadow and light stage design

2024-2011  Vancouver International Children’s Festival

           Interactive installations for 1000+ kids

2024-2011   Sh’bang! A Festival of Ideas, Bellingham WA

             International Artist Liaison, Shadow and light installations

2023 Spirit Chief Names the Animal People,  Bellingham WA

Shadow and light live projections

WWU Symphony, Composed by Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate 

2023 The Forest has Wings, the Forest Sings, Freeway Park, Seattle WA

Plasma cut metal public art installations

2023 The Clouds are Lifting, Freeway Park, Seattle WA

Public art installations

2023 13 Moons, Children of the Setting Sun, Lummi Nation

13 Hand cut paper on lightbox stop motion animations

In collaboration with Lummi and Swinomish Nation Artists

2023 Mass Culture Artist Talk, Shifting Arts Governance through Biomimicry

2023              Dreamland, Whitney Ann Fliss, France

           Music Video, Hand cut paper stop motion animation

2023 Bass Coast Music Festival, Merritt BC

                        Light art installations

2023-2022 Ignite the Arts Festival, Penticton BC

Shadow and light installation design

2023-2021 Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA

Outdoor sculpture garden, light based installations

2023-2021 Wintertide, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA

Interactive shadow installation

2023/2021    Celebrate the Night, Pitt Meadows, BC

  Interactive shadow installation

2023-2019 Luna Arts Fest, Revelstoke, BC

Interactive light based installations and digital murals

2023-2018     PDX Winter Light Festival, Portland OR

                        Public light art installations

2022 Lantern City, Asian-Canadian Special Events Association, Vancouver BC

           Public light art installation celebrating the Lunar New Year

2022 Theater Bizarre, Detroit, MI

Immersive Set Design in a 1000 room Masonic Temple

2022 Canopy Art and Iron, Bellingham, WA

Feature Sculpture Artist

2022              Ma, Yochu Theater, Vancouver BC

                        Cut paper and light live performance art

2022              Shine on Seattle, Seattle WA

  Light based window display, reviving empty storefronts in Belltown

2022-2021 Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA

Outdoor sculpture garden, light based installation

2022-2021 Wintertide, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA

Interactive shadow installation

2022-2019  Nutcracker, Opus Performing Arts, Mount Baker Theater, Bellingham WA

           Ballet performance w/ live shadow & light design

2022-2019 Tiny Lights Festival, Ymir BC

Shadow and light set design

2022-2019 Luna Fest, Revelstoke, BC

Site specific digital murals, Interactive light based installations

2022-2011  Vancouver International Children’s Festival

           Interactive installations

2022-2011  Winter Solstice Lantern Festival, Vancouver BC

           Interactive shadow installation

2021               Celebrate the Night, Pitt Meadows, BC

  Interactive shadow installation

2021               Dreamland, Whitney Ann Fliss, France

           Music Video, Hand cut paper stop motion animation

2021 Lusio Light Festival, Auburn WA

           Interactive shadow installation

2021               The Cave, Primal Wound, Oakland CA

Music Video, Hand cut paper stop motion animation 

2021    Old Whiteaker Firehouse, Eugene OR

Stage Design

2021  Kiki Dream Sequence, Aspandhand Glass Studios, Bellingham WA

    Promotional Video, shadow & light media

2021 UpUpUp Inc., Circus Crane Truck Show, Touring

Crane truck set design

2021  Dandelion Organics, Bellingham WA

Mural and sign painting

2021 Lookout Arts Quarry, Bellingham WA

Studio mural

2020  Children of the Setting Sun & Bellingham Symphony, Mnt. Baker Theater

           Live lighting design, Lummi Nation Theater

2020 One from the Heart, Children of the Setting Sun, Lummi Nation

Hand cut paper animations, live circus and shadow performances 

2020 Tekera Foundation, Tekera Uganda, 

Hand cut paper stop motion animation

2020  Beginnings, Children of the Setting Sun

Live lighting design, Lummi Nation Theater

2020 Vermillion Skies, Tell Adeline, Vancouver BC

          Hand cut paper live lighting design

2020 Howlin, High Step Society, Eugene OR

Music Video, Hand cut paper stop motion animation 

2020 DjKookum, Vancouver BC

          VJ projections, hand cut paper stop motion animations

2020 Platform Festival, Harmonics Laboratory, Eugene, OR

          Hand cut paper stop motion animations

2020 Street Scenes, C.Diab, Vancouver BC

          Music Video, Hand cut paper stop motion animation

2020 House of the Rising Sun, Simon Bridgefoot

          Music Video, Hand cut paper stop motion animation

2019  Coast Salish Dance Festival, Bellingham WA

           Lummi Nation theater produced by Children of the Setting Sun Productions

           Graphic design with Phillip Solomon, Lummi Nation

2019  Shadow String and Other Things, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver BC

           Interactive shadow installation

2019  Woodstove Festival, Cumberland BC

           Shadow set design, live performance lighting

2019   Flotsum River Circus, Boat tour, OR, WA

            Set design

2019   Yochu Theatre, Bass Coast & Shambhala Festival, Merritt / Nelson BC      

2019   Artist Feature, Rural, SLAG Magazine, Shenandoah Valley, VA    

2019  Habitats, Canada Tour

            Shadow pop-up book set design

2019  Shadow String and Other Things, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver BC

           Interactive shadow installation

2019   Desert Hearts Festival, San Diego, CA

The Fwomb, Interactive kinetic art sculpture

2019  Perception, High Step Society, Gravitas Records, Eugene OR

Music video, live lighting design

2019 Redmond Winter Light Festival, Redmond WA

Interactive shadow installation

2019 Luna Festival, Ragmop Theatre, Revelstoke BC

Lighting/Production tech for “A Can of Worms” and “Hotel Vortruba”

2019 Luminata Light Festival, Seattle WA

Interactive shadow art installation

2019 Full Moon Festival, Gibsons BC

Interactive Shadow Art Installation

2019 Shambhala Music Festival, Nelson BC

Lighting Designer for Yochu Theatre, Roving Performance

2019 Dazzle Camo Tour Bus, High Step Society, Eugene OR

Lead Designer, Lead Painter

2019 Bass Coast Festival, Merritt BC

Interactive Shadow Art Installation

Lighting Designer for Yochu Theatre, Roving Performance

2019   Electric Lantern Festival, Bellingham WA

Illuminated sculptures

2019   High Step Society, Mcdonald Theater, Eugene OR

Lighting Designer

2019 Bellingham Arts and Music Festival, Bellingham WA

The Fwomb, Interactive Kinetic Art Sculpture

2019    Bellingham Puppet Festival, Bellingham WA

Lighting Designer for Déchets

2019 Neoglyphic Media Variety Hour, Old Whiteaker Firehouse

Lighting Designer

2019 Corvallis Experiments in Noise, Corvalis OR

Lighting Designer

2019  Love: A Fair of the Heart, Eugene OR

Stage Designer, Lighting Designer for High Step Society

2019 Flow State Summit, Bellingham WA

Lighting Designer

2019   Ink, Canada / USA tour

Lighting Designer

2019-2013   Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival, Vancouver BC  

Finale shadow performance, created through workshops with youth

2019-2017 Artswells Festival of all Things Art, Wells BC

          Shadow and light set design, hand cut paper stop motion animations

2019-2017  Ragmop Theatre, Luna Festival, Revelstoke BC

           Lighting/Production tech for “A Can of Worms” and “Hotel Vortruba”

2019-2013   Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival, Vancouver BC  

            Shadow stage design and shadow theater production

2019-2012  Vancouver International Children’s Festival

           Interactive shadow installation

2019-2011   Sh’bang! A Festival of Ideas, Bellingham WA

             Event Production: Stage build and design, Artist Liaison, Graphic Design  

Lighting Design, Visual Arts Coordinator, International Arts Coordinator

2018   Subatomic Pop Opera, Devon Moore, Canada tour

            Shadow photography, media and lighting design

2018   24 Hour Performance Festival, Alternative Library, Bellingham WA

2018   Yochu Theatre, Copper Owl, Victoria BC

2018   Dubelevay Circus, Eugene OR

2018   Karla Mi Lugo, Headwaters Theater, Portland OR

2018   Solstice: The Longest Night, Maya Concept Co, Bellingham WA

2018   Hooves and Beak, Spanel Planetarium, Bellingham WA

2018   Richmond Maritime Festival, Richmond, BC

Interactive shadow installation

2018   The Magic Party, Vancouver BC

Interactive shadow installation

2017   Oregon Eclipse Festival, Big Summit Prairie, OR

            The Fwomb, Interactive kinetic art sculpture

2017   Imagined Landscapes, Winterupption Festival, Vancouver BC

            Interactive installation facilitator

2017   Falling Awake, Ragmop Theatre, Canada /  USA tour

Set Design

2016               Red House, New Orleans, LA

                        Immersive set design and performance

2017   Kapow! Pop up Plaza, Bellingham WA           

Interactive shadow installation   

2016   Artist talk, Roundhouse Radio, Vancouver BC              

2016   Celebrate the Night, Maple Ridge, BC     

Interactive shadow exhibit     

2016   The Field Gathering, White Crow Farm, Winlaw BC   

Set and lighting design

2016   The Currency of Belief, USA / Tel-Aviv Israel    

Set and lighting design

2015  Lightcatcher Museum, Bellingham WA

Interactive shadow installation                                                                                           

2015   Transformational Puppetry, OSU Library Fund, Accra, Ghana

            Workshop Lead for youth, large scale puppets, at OSU Public Libraries

2015   Keynote Speaker, PechaKucha, Bellingham WA

2015   Artist Interview, Maverick Wisdom, Vancouver BC

2015    Emergency Circus, Syrian Refuge Camp, Nuremberg Germany

2014  Tin Horse, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Gardens, Chinese Cultural Centre, Vancouver BC

2014   University of British Columbia and Community Arts Council of Vancouver

            Facilitator of public tin smithing workshops, Tin Horse Sculpture                    

2014   Lululemon SeaWheeze Festival, Vancouver BC

100’ plasma cut wave sculpture

2014   Caldera Arts, Sisters OR

2014   Keynote Speaker, Creative Mornings, Vancouver BC

2014 / 2012   Hyatt Regency Hotel, Vancouver BC

Immersive light sculptures

2014   Transformation Projects, Rocky Mountaineer Station, Vancouver BC

2014-2011   Parade of Lost Souls, Vancouver BC

Immersive alley way set design

2013   Illuminaries Lantern Festival, Vancouver BC

2013   Sufi Journeys, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver BC

Textile and lantern set design

2013   Artist Talk, University of British Columbia & Community Arts Council, Vancouver, BC

2012   Bicycle Arpeggio, Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, Nevada

Interactive kinetic sound sculptures

2012   Envision Festival, Costa Rica

Metal sculpture art

2012   Obstructions: A Place Called Whisper, Pi-Theatre, Vancouver BC

Immersive set design

2011   Hard Times Hit Parade, Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret, Vancouver BC

Immersive set design

2010   Soon the Space Will Be Too Small, Cultch Theatre, Vancouver BC

Immersive set design

2010   Bobs and Lolo’s Musical Adventures, T.V. Series, Vancouver BC

Set design

2010   A Most Peculiar Machine, ArtStarts Artists In Classrooms, BC

2009   The Village Project, Dusty Flowerpot Co, Ukranian Hall, Vancouver BC

Immersive set design

2009   Dying City, Late Show Productions, Mount Pleasant, Vancouver BC

Set design

2009   The Listening Jar, Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret, Ukranian Hall, Vancouver BC

Immersive set design

SELECT BUILD AND DESIGN COMMISSIONS

2023 Tiny Home ADU, Bellingham WA

2021 Crescent Moon Recessed Lighting, David Wight Glass Studio, Bellingham WA

2021 Plasma Cut Fire Barrel, Camellia Nieh Clay Studio, Portland OR

2021 Dandelion Organics, Bellingham WA

Produce Processing Addition with Custom Built Doors

Shou Sugi Bon preserved deck

2020 Sculpted Ceiling, Creek Stone Studio, Bellingham WA

2020 Venetian Plaster Bathhouse, Lummi, WA

2019   Fiddlehead Tiny Homes, Bellingham WA

2018 Treehouse with Suspended Bridge and Multi-tiered Platforms

Design, Rigging and Engineer support by Sparks Designs

2017   Cedar Stage, 26’x 45’ Bellingham WA

2016   Glass Deck, David Wight Glass Arts, Bellingham WA 

2016   “Fwomb”, Kinetic Tree Pod, Bellingham WA

2016 Sprinter Van Tiny Home Conversion, Seattle WA

2015   BoxBox, Portable Artist Studio, Box Truck Conversion, Bellingham WA

2014   The Cloud, Portable Tiny Home, Spark Design, Bellingham WA                                

2012   Circus Arts Dance Studio, Lookout Arts Quarry, Bellingham WA

Radiant heat, sprung floor, aerial rigged

PERFORMANCE TRAINING

2021 Yochu Theater, Butoh Training, Vancouver BC

2019   Master Clown Class,  Stefan Haves, Bellingham WA

2018   Water in the Desert, Butoh College, Haruko Crow Nishimura

2018   Bouffon Intensive, Nathaniel Justiniano of Naked Embire Bouffon Company

2018   ShadowBody, Butoh Intensive, Adam Koan

2016/2017   Deanna Fleysher, Naked Comedy

2016   Action Theatre Improvisational Training, Ruth Zaporah

2011   Creative Character Development and Personal Transformation through Clown, 

         David MacMurray Smith, Vancouver BC

ARTIST TALKS / WORKSHOPS

2023 Mass Culture Artist Talk, Shifting Arts Governance through Biomimicry

2019   Artist Feature, Rural, SLAG Magazine, Shenandoah Valley, VA

2016   Artist talk, Roundhouse Radio, Vancouver BC

2015   Keynote Speaker, PechaKucha, Bellingham WA

2015   Artist Interview, Maverick Wisdom, Vancouver BC

2014   Keynote Speaker, Creative Mornings, Vancouver BC

2013   Artist Talk, University of British Columbia & Community Arts Council, Vancouver, BC