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.