Education
2025
UNC Charlotte
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, December 2025
UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina.
3.9 GPA
Courses: Senior Thesis 1 & 2, Abstract Painting, Figure Painting, Mixed Media, Paintings 1, Figure & Anatomy, Advanced Drawing, Illustration 1, Illustration: Visual Development, 2D, 3D Design
Art Teaching Experience
August 2025 to Present
Art Teaching Experience:
Instructor, August 2025 to present.
Holt School of Fine Art, Charlotte, North Carolina (https://www.holtschooloffineart.com/)
• Guide students aged nine to adults in handling various traditional art mediums: pastels, watercolor, charcoal, and oil.
Exhibitions
• “Explorations” Juried Exhibit, (Won 3rd Place) VAPA Center, Charlotte, NC, May-June 2026
• UNC Charlotte University Career Center Gallery, 2022, 2023
• 53 Annual Juried Student Exhibition at UNC Charlotte, 2021
• Novant Health South Park Family Physicians Exhibition in, 2021
• Private collections
Projects
“La folie du téléphone portable (Cell Phone Folly),” UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina (August to December 2025)
Senior Thesis 2 – Final Painting: A group of paintings appropriating Édouard Manet’s “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère” drawing parallels between 19th century Paris, and 21st century Charlotte, as both cities confront the complexities of “modernity.”
• Utilized varied photographic references to create a composition with oil on canvas.
• 2025 Bachelor of Fine Art 2D/3D, Studio Art, Illustration Exhibition, Rowe Arts Building,
UNC Charlotte
Animal Anatomy/Choice, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina (April 2025)
Figure & Anatomy – Final Project: Created a mixed media composition featuring a textured background, using skeletal specimens from the biology lab, and employing colored pencil drawing, watercolor painting, and Photo Lab reproduction. Took inspiration from the Claude Monet’s Gare Saint-Lazare (1877. Oil on canvas, 30” x 41” in the Musée D’Orsay, Paris).
“Modern Cave Painting,” UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina (April 2024)
Drawing 2: Completed this final panel prompted by a primal class collaborative expression.
• Pencil, POSCA paint markers, chalk pastels, & watercolor 33" x 47"
“Residual Hope,” UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina (April 2024)
Drawing 2: Use found design recorded in reference photographs, mastered photo realism to convey an abstract concept.
• White charcoal pencil on black paper, 22” x 30”
“The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, “ UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
(April 2024) Figurative Painting: A memento mori inspired by the film noir classic,
“The Maltese Falcon.”
• Oil painting on canvas, 24" x 30“
“Paint as Abstract Flesh,” UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina (October 2023)
Abstract Painting: Abstract from moving model. Captured movement and energy of the model as she turned and held prompts.
• Acrylic on canvas, 30" x 40
Skills
Microsoft Suite, Canva