CURATION
2025-26 Co-Curated, "Imprinted: Illustrating Race," Delaware Art Museum,
2022 Co-Curated, "Imprinted: Illustrating Race," Norman Rockwell Museum,
2021 "34th McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition," McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
JUROR
2026 AXA Art Prize US
2025 AXA Art Prize US
2024 Editorial Panel, 2024 “Illustration and Written by,” IAIA, A Virtual Gallery of International Research, https://www.illustrationacademics.com/2024
2024 ICON Gallery Exhibition, July 10 – 14, Minneapolis, MN
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
“Across the Seas”
Curated, Nataljia Mijatović
Roselle Center for the Arts
University of Delaware, Newark DE
International
2026 American Illustration Annual 45
Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY
2023 American Illustration Annual 41
Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY
2022. Juried, “ICON11 Exhibition,” Scott Bakal, ICON11 Exhibitions Chair,
Studio Inc. Gallery, Kansas City, MO
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
2025 Curated, “Eyelids of Wonder," Hollis King, gallery curator, Restoration Plaza Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
2022 Curated, “Black Genius: We rise Still,”
Hollis King, gallery curator,
Skylight Gallery at Restoration Plaza
Brooklyn, NY
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
2021 Curated, Robin Williams,
“Here / Now: Art & Design"
Mechanical Hall Gallery
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2021 Curated, Tia Santana, “Unapologetic Conversations: Hair and Nonconformity”
Delaware Contemporary
Wilmington, DE
2018 “Impermanence: Mystery, Transformation and Light,” Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
3D DESIGN
2025 Monument Design
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Eta Tau Chapter
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
CONFERENCE ROLES
2026 ICON 13, President
MICA, Baltimore, MD
2024 ICON 12, CO-Chair Prisms, The Education Symposium
Minneapolis, MN
PRESENTATIONS
Invited
2025 Workshop and Lecture, “Design Education for a Scrolling Society,” Design Management Institute, Arlington, VA
2025 Early College Experience Program, University of Connecticut, coordinator,
Cora Lynn Deibler
2025 “Imprinted: Illustrating Race Exhibition Plan,” Michael Lobel, Professor of Art History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, Hunter College, NY, NY, virtual lecture
2024 “Truth and Power,” Mainstage Speaker, ICON 12 The Illustration Conference,
Minneapolis, MN, https://bit.ly/40nJzSy
2023 “Illustration, Race, and Photomechanical Imagery,” FAIC Photomechanical Prints: History, Technology, Aesthetics and Use Symposium, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2023 Panel Moderator, “Excavations 2: Recovering and Recontextualizing Race and Gender in Illustration,” Blind Spots International Illustration Research Symposium, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2023 “Illustration, Adaptation, and Trans Mediations of the Uncle Tom’s Cabin Narrative,” University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE
2022 Health Union DEI Presentation Workshop, 30 employees, UX/UI design staff, NY, NY
2022 “Imprinted: Illustrating Race,” Michael Lobel, Professor of Art History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, Hunter College, NY, NY, virtual lecture
2022 Lead Speaker and panelist, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Diversity Retreat, North Chicago, IL
2022 Imprinted: Illustrating Race, Martin Luther King Day Virtual Program, Norman Rockwell Museum, Zoom, YouTube live, https://bit.ly/3JwUDDs
2019 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
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
2025 “From Mammy to Kamala: Illustrations of Black Female Identity,” The Illustrated Woman Symposium, University of Leeds, UK
2025 “The Role of Surrealism in Illustrated Narratives,” Surrealism, and Arts-Based Research: Bridging the Imagination and Reality Divide, The London Arts-Based Research Centre
September 8 - 9, 2025, Virtual
2024 Accepted – Did not attend, Illustration Research Organization, 14th International Illustration Research Symposium: Illustration & Heritage: Sharing Histories to Draw Out Futures, University of the Arts London
2024 “The Role of Printing History, Archives, and Research in the Imprinted: Illustrating Race Exhibition,” “APHA @ 50: Printing History Past, Present and Future,”
New York, NY, Berkeley, https://printinghistory.org/2024-conference/
2022 “Illustration, Adaptation, and the Transmediations of the Uncle Tom’s Cabin Narrative.” Paper Presentation, Illustration Research Symposium, Falmouth University, UK
2022 “Race and the Education of Future Illustrators,” ICON11 Educators Symposium,
Kansas City, MO https://icon11.theillustrationconference.org/speakers
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
2022 Curator’s Introduction, “Race and Perception in Illustration,” Imprinted: Illustrating Race Exhibition Catalog, The Norman Rockwell Museum, pp. 14 – 33
2021 Curator’s Introduction, “34th McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition,” Lake Charles, LA
https://mcneesevis.art/34thworksonpaper/
2019 “Race, Perception, and Responsibility
in Illustration,” Chapter 24 Contributor,
A Companion to Illustration, Alan Male, Editor, Wiley Blackwell Publishers
INTERVIEWS, PRESS ARTICLES & QUOTES
2025 Broad Street Review, Gail Obenreder, https://bit.ly/4rKXlek
2025 Delaware Online / News Journal, https://bit.ly/4qXChzT
2022 Berkshire Eagle Art Review, “REVIEW: Representation matters: Race and perception are center stage in 'Imprinted: Illustrating Race' at the Norman Rockwell Museum,” bit.ly/4agnWI2
2022 Boston Globe, “Eyes of the Artists Examine Race, Then and Now,” bit.ly/3PC24xC
2021 “Phillips-Pendleton Co-curates Exhibition for Norman Rockwell Museum,” University of Delaware CAS News online https://bit.ly/4jdP2no
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
GRANTS
2023 College of Arts & Sciences Fellowship, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2021 Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw’s Hearthland Foundation Grant for
“Imprinted: Illustrating Race” exhibition, Norman Rockwell Foundation
2020 Center for the Study of Diversity Grant, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2019 Creative Capital Grant - Advanced to second round – Mississippi Black Farmers – Proposed creating a series of large-scale narrative portrait drawings and paintings based on research attained from Black farms in the state. Co-writer, Alex Bostic, associate Professor of Art at Mississippi State University.
2016 University of Delaware Faculty Travel Grant – Illustration Research Symposium,
Edinburgh, Scotland