Education
2013 Bachelor of Fine Art: Glass
Minor: German and Art History
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, College of Liberal Art
Work Experience
2016 - Present Instructor – Shatter Glass Studio – Chicago, Illinois
2015 - Present Shop Monitor – Lillstreet Art Center – Chicago, Illinois
2015 - Present Shop assistant – Fire Arts Center – Chicago, Illinois
2015 - Present Shop technician – Chicago Hot Glass – Chicago, Illinois
2012 - Present Glass Assistant for Robert Lee Fritz, Villa Park, Illinois
2015 Glass Assistant for Matt Urban – Bloomington, Illinois
2016 Production worker – Three Switch LLC – Chicago, IL
2015 Internship – STARworks, Star, North Carolina
2015 Glass Assistant for Aaron Beiglman, Chicago, Illinois
2013 - 2015 Team member/Artist – Ignite Glass Studio – Chicago, Illinois
2014 Internship – Salem Art Works, Salem, New York
2014 Instructor – Glass 101 – Salem Art Works, Salem, New York
2014 Team member - Affinity studio – Naperville, Illinois
2014 Internship – Ignite Studio, Chicago, Illinois
2013 Public glassblowing demonstrations – Highland Art in the Park, Highland, Illinois
2013 Shop Technician – Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois
2013 Teaching Assistant for Beginning Glass – Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois
2012 Public glassblowing demonstrations - Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
2012 Glass Assistant for Alexis Silk - St. Louis, Missouri
2012 Make Your Own Glass – Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
2011 - 2013 Production glass blowing for Southern Glass Works – Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois
Workshops Taken
2014
Devin Cole, Neon Sketchbook Glassblowing and Neon Fusing
Salem Art Works, Salem, New York
Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen and Jason Johnsen, Hot Glass Sculpting
Ignite Studio, Chicago, Illinois
2013
Arthur Hash, And Now for Something Completely Different
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine
Richard Marquis, Nick Mount, Dante Marioni, 3M Survey of Glass Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington
Tim Edwards, Hot glass sculpting
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois
Jin Won Han, Lampworking demonstration
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois
Kim Cridler, soldering steel
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois
2012
Alex Stisser, Hot glass demonstration
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois
Harlan Butt, Enameling
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois
John Haley III, SIMS Conference
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois
Charlie Cohan, Printing on Glass
Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois
Associations
2013 - 2016 Crafthaus
2013 - 2016 Society of North American Goldsmiths
2012 - 2016 Glass Art Society
2011 - 2013 Southern Glass Works
2010 - 2013 Alpha Lambda Delta
2010 - 2012 Industrial Design Society of America