I am interested in the intersections of culture, communication, representation, and storytelling through digital games, acrylic paintings, digital art, and environment design as communicative networks. I strive to educate and advocate for marginalized voices that are not often represented in mass media. To do this, I intentionally blend of my usage of medium at the intersects of critical making, play, and storytelling as an epistemological device. I have always been drawn to the multitude of ways we can navigate life and the existing structures of oppression that force us to negotiate our identity. I am drawn to themes of power, vulnerability, community, and self-discovery. My work is often colorful, character
driven, and reflective.
As a game designer and artist, I center my personal experiences navigating the many spaces I inhabit and seek to capture the nuances of my intersecting identities. Through this lens, and with the visceral connection that art innately creates with its audience, I am interested in the communication across mediums that acknowledge and play with the existing relations of power, the destruction of power, and narrative. Many of the overlapping, fluid interwoven patterns and blending of mediums
interdisciplinary themes across my art and digital games seek to capture the nuances of the black experience in the present tense. My creative practice uses drawing, technology, and sculpture as means to explore the lived nuances of human emotion, specifically in black women, using the way we engage with the world and technology as
a vehicle for creative expression.
EDUCATION
University of Texas at Dallas - MFA, Creative Practice
Tarleton State University - B.S Digital Media Technology
University of Texas at Dallas - MFA, Creative Practice
Tarleton State University - B.S Digital Media Technology
EXPERIENCE / SKILLS
Programming + Game Development + Critical Theory + Pedagogy
Programming + Game Development + Critical Theory + Pedagogy
AWARDS / RECOGNITION
The Jess Hay Endowment for Chancellor's Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Nominee. Graduate Studies Committee, 2021.
President's Teaching Award Candidate. University center for Teaching and Learning, 2021.
Key, Film shown, The Ocular Obstinance Moving Media Festival, Brazos Drive-In Theater, Granbury, TX
Best Video, Granbury Scavenger hunt service project, Tarleton State University, Granbury, TX
Solo Exhibition, BS Senior Thesis Exhibition, The Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Gallery, Tarleton State University, TX
What was lost?, Participatory art installation, Creativity as Social practice Exhibition, Arts,Technology and emerging communications Lobby, The University of Texas at Dallas, TX
The Jess Hay Endowment for Chancellor's Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Nominee. Graduate Studies Committee, 2021.
President's Teaching Award Candidate. University center for Teaching and Learning, 2021.
Key, Film shown, The Ocular Obstinance Moving Media Festival, Brazos Drive-In Theater, Granbury, TX
Best Video, Granbury Scavenger hunt service project, Tarleton State University, Granbury, TX
Solo Exhibition, BS Senior Thesis Exhibition, The Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center Gallery, Tarleton State University, TX
What was lost?, Participatory art installation, Creativity as Social practice Exhibition, Arts,Technology and emerging communications Lobby, The University of Texas at Dallas, TX
