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(Re)Building a Mandolin
Two weeks ago I undertook a project of passion and spite centered around a small obscure instrument made in Catania Sicily a hundred years before I was born. I first saw the fellow online for 15 dollars, the bird called to me, I think its a nightingale but I’m not sure. What really sold it was the red and white paint splotches. Whoever accidentally spattered these on was a genius. I promised myself the nightingale would again sing. Officially it is a mandola - an instrument that exists somewhere along the genealogical progression from the ancient al’ud to the lute, to the mandola and finally to the mandolin.
2024
Junior Show Carleton College: Exhibition of student works
2023
Declaration of Double Major: Environmental Studies and Studio Art; class of 2025
Great Books Summer Program - Amherst College: Selected to be a Program Assistant (PA), facilitating seminar discussions, collaborating with students on electives and organizing activities. Led Bookbinding elective.
Carleton College: Studio Art in the South Pacific - Off-campus study January - March: Intensive drawing and printmaking integrated with exploration of social and environmental issues, indigenous | post-colonial art and artists, and narrative work in response to travel.
2022
Awarded Presidential Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Highest college merit scholarship; full tuition; awarded based on review of academic history, portfolio and statement of intent.
2021
Bronze medal winner: Northern Illinois Art Show: “Praetor Gets His Last Fix and Leavens the Bonds of the Earth” (acrylic)
International Baccalaureate Senior Visual Arts Exhibition, Beacon Academy: Thematic collection of acrylic and digital works
ARTconnectED Art Throwdown competition: Represented Beacon Academy in photography challenge
2020
Illinois High School Art Exhibition (IHSAE) Early College Program Scholarship Award: Participation in School of the Art Institute of Chicago Summer Program; awarded for “Dancing Monk” (acrylic)
Selected for participation in Carleton College Summer Liberal Arts Institute Pre-College Program: “Art in a Changing Landscape” (program cancelled due to COVID-19)
“Atherton Gardens Towers, Fitzroy, Melbourne”
Final project: Off-campus study: Studio Art in the South Pacific - March 2023
“Praetor Gets His Last Fix and Leavens the Bonds of the Earth”
Bronze medal in 2021 Northern Illinois Art Show (Illinois High School Art Exhibition)
“Dancing Monk”
Award-winning acrylic at 2020 Illinois High School Art Exhibition (IHSAE)
“Ghost of the City Series”
School of the Art Institute 2020 Summer Program: Advanced Drawing and Painting Final Project
The impetus for this project was the term "Anti-Monument," an idea and visual crusade against glorification of "the pedestal." Traditional monuments are ghosts in our cities, often dead upon creation. They exist only to be eventually torn down or forgotten. For this series, the artist photographed structures that are not often glorified, or even noticed, in day-to-day life, but that better define the word "monumental" than most statues. Whether a citywide telephone system, an abandoned power plant or a smokestack with a spiritual aura, these places and objects endure, and better define, humanity than most intentional monument structures.
I: GHSTTWN
II: The Godz communicate above, send it down below
III: My sentinel, my cherubim, my Ghost of the City
IV: ANTI-MONUMENT