EDUCATION

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
BFA with an emphasis in glass blowing and foundry - 2017

TEACHING/WORK EXPERIENCE

2014- 2022   

  • Lead Artist/Instructor, Ignite Glass Studios, Chicago, IL

  • Lead Instructor, Ignition Community Glass, Chicago, IL (Nonprofit Fostering Youth Development)

Ox-bow School of Art & Arts Residency, Saugatuck MI

Teaching Assistant with Glass Artists for the following glassblowing classes

2019 ·  Victoria Ahmadizadeh, Beginning Glass Blowing I

·  Hiromi Takizawa, Joanna Roche, Finding Nature; Words + Glass

·  Ben Wright, Weird Works; Strategies for New Glass

·  Deborah Adler, Beginning Glass Blow II

·  Helen Lee, A Body in Motion

·  Leo Tecosky, Multi-Level Glass

2018 ·   Bohyun Yoon, Beginning Glass Blowing

·   Mert Ungor, Multi-Level Glassblowing

·   Tim Belliveau, Goo,Chunks and Sometimes Vases: Glassblowing for Maestros.

·   Arlo Fishman & Lancelot Fraser, Expression in Glass

·   Megan Biddle, Beginning Glass

·   Deborah Adler, Experiments in Glassblowing

2017  ·   Jeremy Scidmore, Beginning Glass Blowing

·   Emma Stein, Multi-Level Glassblowing

·   Leo Tecosky, Beginning Glass

·   Ben Wright, Organic Mechanix:Systems-Based Approaches to Glass

2016 ·   Lancelot Frasier and Arlo Fishman,  Multi-Level Glass Blowing

·   Jeremy Scidmore, The Hot Glass Amalgamate