CARIBBEAN MATERIAL CULTURE: TEXT & TEXTILES

Awards/Grants/Fellowships

2023 Cohort, Caribbean Digital Scholarship Institute (Summer Intensive)
2023 Cohort, ICA Knight Foundation Art + Research Center (A+RC) Semester on Haitian Art
2022 DEAR Grant Recipient, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, NY
2022 Cohort, Museum Educators Practicum, Studio Museum of Harlem (Virtual)
2022 Residency, Peter Bullough Foundation, Winchester, VA
2021 Cohort, ICA Knight Foundation Art + Research Center (A+RC) Semester on Oceanic Archives

Research and Publications
2021 Decolonizing Madras; Wovenutopia, Summer Issue
2020 Salt and Aloes; An Online Archive of Caribbean Material Culture (ongoing)

Panels / Presentations
2022 Moderator, Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, A Conversation w/ author Dr. Samantha Noel & artist La Vaughn Belle
2022 Moderator, Studio 18 Gallery: Culture Caribana
2022 Panelist, Black Portraitures Conference: Mas Movements
2021 Facilitator, Wicked Flesh, A Conversation with author Dr. Jessica M. Johnson and Shivanee Ramlochan
2020 Presenter, Masquerade as Resistance; Textile Arts LA

Selected Exhibitions 
2022 Group Exibition, Green Space Foundation, Miami, FL
2022 Group Exhibition, Culture Caribana, Studio 18 Art Complex, Miami, FL
2020              Live Presentation , Ouroboros Players, The Golden Calf St. Croix, U.S.V.I 
2018               Group Exhibition, Animism and the Colonial Imagination, St. Croix, U.S.V.I 
2017               Live Presentation , Ouroboros Players, The Land Belongs to the Land, St. Croix, U.S.V.I 

Education

MA in Textile Studies & Material Culture, University of Nebraska, Lincoln