Resume
EDUCATION
Boston University, College of Fine Arts
2009 - Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Art, Painting Major
2004 - Cal Arts Scholar - California State Summer School for the Arts - Visual Art, Painting Major
EXPERIENCE
Pangeaseed - Seawalls Mural Festival - Artists for Oceans
2022 - Emeryville - Ground Operations Team
2021 - Santa Cruz - Lead Ground Operations, Ops Team Mural Lead
SELF-EMPLOYMENT
2017-PRESENT - Muralist, Installation Artist
2009-PRESENT - Freelance Artist - Portraiture, Landscapes, Oil Paint, Metal Sculpture, Illustration, Graphic Design
2012 - PRESENT - Private Art Tutor
INSTALLATION ARTIST - LIGHTING DESIGNER
2023
UnSCruz Regional Burn - Precompression, Santa Cruz Burners, Lighting/Decor Lead
2022
UnSCruz Regional Burn - Precompression, Santa Cruz Burners, Lighting/Decor Lead
Into the Deep - Decompression, Santa Cruz Burners, Lighting Lead
Northern Nights Music Festival - Grove Stage Scenic Art
2021
Camp Send It - Truckee, CA - Stage build
2020
Camp Send It - Mendocino, CA - Stage Build
2019
Northern Nights Music Festival - Grove Stage Designer
UnSCruz, Rainbow Trike Track - Scenic Art Installation
Beyond the Rabbit Hole, Santa Cruz Burners Fundraiser, SC County Fairgrounds, Lighting Designer
2018
Scales & Tales Monsters Benefit Ball, Regional Burn, Decompression w/ SC Burners @ SC County Fairgrounds, Monster Trike Track
UnSCruz, Regional Burning Man Precompression @ SC County Fairgrounds, Rainbow Trike Track
MOUNT MADONNA SCHOOL, THEATER & VISUAL ARTS DEPT.
2014 - PRESENT - Set Designer, Tech Director
2021 - PRESENT - Assistant Producer
2012 - PRESENT - Scenic Artist, Assistant Theater Director
2015 - 2017 - Art Teacher
2014 - Theater Director
2012 - 2014 - Assistant Choreographer
SCULPTURE IS - PAJARO VALLEY ARTS
In collaboration with Pajaro Valley Arts, the two acre exotic and native gardens of Sierra Azul Nursery host a summer long sculpture exhibition with 100+ pieces & 50+ artists.
2013 - Exhibitor
2010 - Juror
2009 - Event Coordinator
2006 - Exhibitor & Workshop Leader
2005 - Exhibitor
ROSENDALE NURSERY
2013-2021 - Plant Propagator, Sales Representative
SIERRA AZUL NURSERY & SCULPTURE GARDENS
2013 - 2015 - Assistant Landscape Design, Plant Sales
2003-2006 - Welder, Maintenance
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
2006 - 2008 - Media Group
SOLO SHOWS
Cruz Kitchen & Taps, Santa Cruz, CA
2023-24 - Three Month Show
Epitome Gallery, Eureka, CA
2023 - August Featured Artist
Boston University, Warren Towers Dormitory
2008 - 2019 - Semi-Permanent Public Art Display
Three story tall windows art installation on Commonwealth Avenue.
Cafe Gratitude, First Friday Exhibition
2013 - "Intimacy, A Different Sort Of Portrait Exhibition", two month run.
GROUP SHOWS
Lost and Found, Mission District, San Francisco, CA
2023 - Method Made Gallery, The Method Makers
Member Show, Downtown Santa Cruz, CA
2023 - The Vision Sanctuary
Curated by the Sea Gallery, Downtown Santa Cruz
2022 - Street Smarts - Made Fresh Crew
Treehouse Dispensary
2019 - First Friday - Santa Cruz
Kind Peoples Dispensary
2019 - First Friday - Santa Cruz
Natural Motion Creations
2019 - First Friday - Santa Cruz
Boston University, College Of Fine Arts, 855 Gallery
2006, 2007 - Undergraduate Visual Arts Exhibition - Sculpture, Painting, & Drawing
2008 - Junior Studio Exhibition - Painting, Drawing
2009 - Senior Studio Exhibition - Printmaking, Drawing, Painting
Boston University, BU Central Gallery
2008 - Junior Studio Exhibition - Painting
LAB, Boston, Artisan Clothing & Gallery
2008 - Junior Studio Exhibition - Painting
Boston University, Stone Gallery
2009 - Senior Thesis Exhibition, Painting
Mount Madonna Center, Community Building
2010, 2014 - Painting
LIVE ARTIST
2023
Rampart Skatepark, Eureka, CA - Arcane Artists - August Performance Event
Northern Nights Music Festival - Live Painter, Main Stage
Northern Nights Music Festival - Live Painter, Grove Stage Mural Installation
2022
Into the Deep - Santa Cruz Burners Fundraiser - Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, Live Painter & Artist Coordinator
Northern Nights Music Festival - Live Painter, Grove Stage Mural Installation
2021
Camp Send It
2020
Camp Send It
2019
Northern Nights Music Festival - Grove Stage Live Painter
Beyond the Rabbit Hole - Santa Cruz Burners Fundraiser - Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, Live Painter and Artist Coordinator
California Roots - Main Stage VIP Lounge - Portrait Painting Booth
Serenity Gathering - Main Stage
2018
MO-Flow @ Planet Gemini, Monterey
Rise from the Ashes, Fire Relief Fundraiser @ Planet Gemini, Monterey, CA
The Top, w/ Luvlab Productions, Big Sur, CA - Portrait Painting Booth
Scales & Tales Monsters Benefit Ball, Regional Burning Man Decompression w/ Santa Cruz Burners Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds - Live Artist, Artist Coordinator
Camp Send It, Mendocino
California Roots Festival, Monterey County Fairgrounds
UnSCruz, Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds
2017
Big Surreal, w/ Luvlab Productions, Big Sur, CA
2016
Big Surreal,w/ Luvlab Productions, Big Sur, CA
Lafa Taylor w/ Euphonic Productions @ the Catalyst Club, Santa Cruz, CA
PUBLIC ART
2024
DOMO Walls - Best Western, Town House Lodge - Modesto, CA
350 sq. feet, sidewalk wall downtown. Invited onto the roster for the 2024 festival; for four days I painted the sidewalk wall of the downtown Best Western with macro pollinators and almond blossoms.
Wide Open Walls - Planet Fitness - North Highlands, Sacramento, CA
2000 sq. feet. Invited to participate in Wide Open Walls on a multi-wall week long project, depicting macro beneficial insects, dewdrops, and peach blossoms.
Live Art Walls - Cannafest - Eureka, CA
~150 sq. feet. Weekend street art contest with 40+ artists. Awarded 3rd place by crowd vote for a figurative piece surrounded by bees, depicting a queen bee figure fusion.
Paint Louis - Few and Far & Friends - St. Louis, MO
~ 300 square feet. Invited to participate at one of the longest running and largest weekend street art jams with Few and Far Women, sponsored by Monster Music. The crew of 43 women painted alongside many crews from all over the world, and ours broke the record not only for most women on one production, but most artists on one production, and will be in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Spray Latino - SurFest Colombia - Bogotá, Medellín, Calí, Colombia
Accepted into a street art tour with a traveling group of 50-100 artists, painting in public locations around the major cities of the country - four murals, 100-200 square feet for 1-2 days each. Won First Place for Best Character/Portrait in Medellín.
Cheltenham Paint Festival - Cheltenham, United Kingdom
~ 300 sq feet. Accepted onto the roster of the annual weekend-long festival, held in various locations around the city, figurative mural painted at Arle Court Underpass.
Noisy Waters Mural Festival - Natural Systems Design, Bellingham, WA - Port of Bellingham
2200 sq. feet, double wall corner mural depicting a wild rapid scene with salmon jumping and a big grizzly produced by Paper Whale Arts.
Elwood Apartments - Bellingham, WA
~ 800 square feet. Assisted Gretchen Leggett on a seven story mural, visible from highway 5 in Washington State. Painting a giant Pacific Red Octopus and background seaweed.
University of California Santa Cruz, Stevenson College - Santa Cruz, CA
~ 300 square feet. Painted two tribute portraits of Rosa Parks and Gloria Anzaldúa with a native wildlife background for a collaboration with Made Fresh Crew.
Watsonville Preparatory School - Watsonville, CA
600 sq. feet of a multi-subject shark tank interior mural, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Freedom.
Circus Church - Watsonville, CA
~1500 sq. feet of faux rocks, flora/fauna, and gargoyles painted over an old church facade and garden wall.
Smiley Artworks - Santa Cruz, CA
200 sq. feet of cave entrance and cave people for the door to studio workshop.
Santa Cruz Parkour Gym- Santa Cruz, CA
~350 sq. feet, dynamic figurative landscape.
2023
Flodburg Park - Sponsored by Freedom Rotary Club, Watsonville, CA
600 sq. feet, fence mural in a busy neighborhood park depicting children flying over a series of local landscapes.
UnSCruz Regional Burn - Sol Stage - San Benito County Fairgrounds, CA
~200 sq. feet, top panel of main stage at county fairgrounds, depicting native wild-life
Yeti-land - Angel’s Camp, CA
Multiple mural installations & backdrops for stage builds and immersive art experiences, ~4000 sq. feet, including neon jellyfish, leopard sharks, whales, a giant octopus, & other sea creatures.
Scotts Valley Gym - Scotts Valley, CA
Comic and super hero mural installation above mirrors in 80’s style body-builder gym, intermixing with previous graphic text, approx 1300 sq. feet.
The Warfield, Greenroom/Backstage Lounge - San Francisco, CA
(2) 8’x8’ hallway murals: portrait of Robin Williams & a blue grizzly bear, ~150 sq. feet.
Noisy Waters Mural Festival - Paper Whale Arts, Bellingham, WA
8’ x 8’ mural contest, 1st Place Voters Choice Award, two native salmon jumping from splashing water.
Talking Walls - Art Battle - Sand City, CA
4’ x 8’ mural contest, Voters Choice Award and Judges Award, leopard sharks underwater.
Natural Motion Creations - Santa Cruz, CA
Retaining wall in parking lot, ~200 sq. feet, great white sharks underwater.
Natural Motion Creations - Santa Cruz, CA
8’x8’ freestanding mural panel, big panda head.
Northern Nights Music Festival - Mendocino CA
Main Stage Live Artist, 8’ x 8’ panel, depicting cicadas with flora and fauna.
Northern Nights Music Festival - Mendocino, CA
Grove Stage Mural, 200 sq. feet depicting a rabbit between life and death, collaboration.
Circle Church - Rooftop Murals - Santa Cruz, CA
Part of Liminal Space Collective takeover of a former church, painted two murals on either side of the rooftop peak, depicting local sea life and a figure swimming, ~200 sq. ft each.
2022
Taqueria Michoacán - Santa Cruz, CA
Two wall mural installation, ~600 sq feet, local beach & agave native to Michoacán.
Sand City Mural Festival - WE Create Art, Sand City, Monterey Bay, CA
900 sq. feet, heavy corrugated areas, depicting water tigers. Collaboration with Kyle Sanders, end of Orange Avenue.
Sierra Azul Nursery & Gardens - Watsonville, CA
13 feet tall, 10, 000 gallon water tank, ~500 sq. feet, underwater area depicting steelhead trout leading to an above water section depicting other native animals.
Northern Nights Music Festival, Mendocino, CA
Grove Stage Design - Duo collaboration with Kyle Sanders depicting tigers jumping through water, ~200 sq. feet.
Midtown Postcard Collaboration - Good News Restaurant Supply, Midtown Santa Cruz, CA
Two letter fills in a big group mural spelling MIDTOWN, skate figure, underwater marine scene, ~150 sq. feet.
Lady Luck Skate Shop, King’s Beach, Tahoe, CA
Two life-size anatomical figures in action, ~100 sq. feet.
Scotts Valley Gym, Scotts Valley, CA
Larger than life full-figure anatomical portrait of Dave Draper, famous body-builder.
Seawalls - Artist for Oceans, Emeryville, CA
Part of the operations production team for the week long international mural festival with Pangeaseed.
2021
Watsonville Wetlands Watch, Pajaro Valley High School, Watsonville, CA
Large solo sidewalk mural with native animals and wildlife, pointing in the four directions with water and a compass motif, ~250 sq. feet.
Seawalls - Artists for Oceans, Santa Cruz, CA
Lead Ground Operations for the international mural festival with the Pangeaseed Foundation. Duties consisted of two plus weeks of preparations including scissor/boom lift certification, cleaning, buffing, and base-coating 20 large walls, then artistic assistance and coordination during the week long festival.
Link to Seawalls - SC video - https://youtu.be/rvbOoS27r3w
Seawalls - Artists for Oceans, Santa Cruz, CA
Made Fresh Crew - Ops Team Wall, Downtown, SC . Team lead for a huge three story underwater mural, rich with wildlife, showing a hopeful narrative for a cleaner sea. ~1800 sq. feet.
Protect What You Love, Westside, Santa Cruz, CA
Letter fill for a collaborative typography production spelling “Protect What You Love” with Made Fresh Crew for the final Seawalls Santa Cruz mural. 8’x8’
Pacific Point Market, Downtown Santa Cruz, CA
Underwater anatomical transparent skeletal sharks bringing awareness to our impact on the ocean, ~300 sq. ft.
River Dragon Studios, 124 River St. Downtown Santa Cruz, CA
Large solo mural depicting cosmic water dragon painted on an art studio warehouse, ~800 sq. ft.
Bill's Wheels Skateshop, Midtown Santa Cruz, CA
Multi-story memorial portrait wall for the oldest Santa Cruz skate shop, on the infamous mural alley, ~500 sq. ft. Voted as best mural in Santa Cruz Waves Magazine - Swellies Awards 2021.
Pleasure Point Apartments, Eastside Santa Cruz, CA
Collaboration with Kyle Sanders on the sidewall of old former motel, depicting a local surf break and classic vista, ~450 sq. ft.
Messa Farm - Soquel, CA
5000 gallon watertank, ~100 sq. feet, depicting native wildlife.
2020
Redwood Pizzeria, Felton, CA
Multi-wall solo project on large back patio and side walls, depicting cosmos, redwoods, and creek life, ~1000 sq. ft.
2019
Fresh Walls Project - Clean Oceans Mural, Mission St. Santa Cruz, CA
One story x 600 feet long collaboration with Made Fresh Crew depicting sea life from the shallows to the deep, encouraging ocean stewardship. Individually painted ~2500 sq. ft. worth of large native animals, background, and swimming figures picking up trash. Voted Best Of - Public Art in the Good Times Santa Cruz - 2020
Northern Nights Music Festival - Grove Stage Design
Design and execution of the forest stage for NNMF, with twin dragons forming a heart.
UnSCruz Regional Burning Man Decompression, Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, CA
Two story dragon for stage build.
2018
Day's Market, Seagright, CA
Large marine wildlife collaboration with three other local artists, donated for the Seabright neighborhood, ~600 sq. feet. Voted Best Of - Public Art in Good Times Santa Cruz - 2018 & 2019
2008
Warren Towers Dormitories, Boston, MA
Three story vinyl installation with multiple individual designs of students and color coordinated abstractions.