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