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CURATION

2022   "Imprinted: Illustrating Race," Norman Rockwell Museum,

Stockbridge, MA

 

2021   "34th McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition," McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA

EXHIBITIONS

International

2022     American Illustration Annual 41

Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY

2022    "TL;DR Zine Archive & Exhibition," Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

2022    "Seeking Vision,"Virtual Exhibition of 25+ International Illustration Academics as a part of the Sixteenth Conference on Design Principles and Practices, The University of Newcastle, Australia

2021    "Unapologetic Conversations: Hair and Nonconformity," The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE

 

2019     American Illustration Annual 38 

Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY

2019    Norman Rockwell  Museum's  

Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt,

and the Four Freedoms,” traveling exhibition

2018      The Decriminalization of Ornament: The Pleasures of Pattern, Cambridge, UK

2018       "ICON10," exhibition, Red Bull House of Art, Detroit, MI

                 

2016    “Shaping the View,

Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK 

                  

2015    Illustration as Public Intellectual,”

ISB Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI 

                             

2012    50th Illustration West, Society of Illustrators Los Angeles, Gallery Nucleus,

Los Angeles, CA

2007     Aphrodisia II - Art of the Female Form, by Graig Elliot, Aristata Publishing, USA

National

2016    Art of HERstory,” Skylight Gallery

at Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, NY

     

2010    National Air Force Museum,

Wright Air Force Base, Dayton, OH

2008    The Commercial Woman,”

Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

2002    Prevailing Human Spirit,”

Society of Illustrators, New York, NY

Regional 

2018    Impermanence:  Mystery, Transformation and Light,” Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

PRESENTATIONS

Invited

2019    Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Visiting Lecturer: “Race in Early Twentieth Century American Illustrations,”

Winston Salem, NC

2016    Norman Rockwell Museum, Summer Visiting Speaker Series Presentation: “Race, Perception, and Responsibility in Illustration,” Stockbridge, MA

Conference Papers

2022    “Illustration, Adaptation, and the Transmediations of the Uncle Tom’s Cabin Narrative.” Paper Presentation, Illustration Research Symposium, Falmouth University, UK

2021    “The Discussion of Race in the Education of Future Illustrators," 11th Illustration Research Symposium 2021, Kingston University, London, UK

 

2019    “The Role of Illustrators, Engravers, and the Printing Press in the Discussion of  Race in America,” American Printing History Association Conference,

College Park, MD

2019   “The Role of Illustration, Adaptation, and the Transmediations of the Uncle Tom’s Cabin Narrative.” Paper Presentation, Illustration and Adaptation Conference, Université de Bourgogne,

Dijon, France

2019    “The Persuasive Power of Illustration on Race and Cultural Identity in America,” “Illustration Across Media: Nineteenth Century to Now” Symposium. Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies/Norman Rockwell Museum with D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library/Washington University in St. Louis, MO                       

2018    Building Narratives Using Ornament,” Paper Presentation, The Decriminalization of Ornament: The Pleasures of Pattern, 9th Illustration Research Symposium, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

2018    Analog Processes in a Digital World,” ICON10 Educators Symposium, Detroit, MI

2017    “Three Black Illustrators, and Their Influence on Cultural Identity,“ Paper Presentation, 8th Illustration Research Network Symposium, “Illustrating Identity/ies: Illustration and the Construction of Identity/ies,“ Université of Loraine, Nancy, France

2016    Landscapes, Where Stories Begin,” Paper Presentation, 7th Illustration Research Network Symposium, “Shaping the View: Understanding Landscape Through Illustration,” Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

2015    “Diversity, Perception and Responsibility in Illustration,” Paper Presentation, 6th Illustration Research Symposium, “Illustrator As Public Intellect,” ISB Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

PUBLISHED

WRITTEN WORK

2019    Race, Perception, and Responsibility

in Illustration,” Chapter 24 Contributor,

A Companion to Illustration, Alan Male, Editor, Wiley Blackwell Publishers

INTERVIEWS, PRESS ARTICLES & QUOTES

 

2017  Beauty Shop Project, Portraits of Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, 

Wilmington, DE

2016     WAMC Radio Interview North East            Public Radio, Albany, NY

2014    thereview, Apr. 2014

2013    Delaware Today Magazine, May 2013

2013    Inauguration Art,” UDaily, 

              Jan. 18, 2013

2010    Artist Depicts Air Force Mission to Haiti," UDaily, Nov. 18, 2010

2010    Soldiers Armed with Pencil and

Paint,” The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 11, 2010. Exhibition Review                  

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