Born in Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in Oakland, CA
EDUCATION
2016 BFA California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
ARTS WORK EXPERIENCE
2022-Present Founder, Executive Director, Mxt Collective Arts Collective for Creatives of Multicultural Ties
2022-Present Botanical Pigment Maker, Fibershed
2016-Present Natural Pigment Maker and Dyer, Freelance
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023 Instructor, Making Pigments from Fungi, Mycological Society of SF 50th Anniversary Fungi Fair
2023 Instructor, Natural Dyes + Inks with California Fungi, SOMA Wild Mushroom Camp, Occidental, CA
2022 Teaching assistant, Indigo Extraction Process—from leaf to pigment with Judi Pettite, Fibershed,
Point Reyes, CA
2022 Teaching assistant, Art and the Landscape: Colors of the NorCal Fibershed with Judi Pettite,
Fibershed, Point Reyes, CA
2022 Instructor, Indigenous Los Angeles and Native Plants, New Roads School, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Instructor, Shibori Basics and Natural Dyes Workshop, Aguas Migrantes Residency, La Loma,
Guanajuato, MX
COLLABORATIONS
2022 Selling artist at Berkeley Horticultural Nursery’s 100th Aniversary, Berkeley, CA
2021 – 2022 Mutual Stores art collective member in Oakland, CA
2020 – 2022 Garden administrator at Mutual Stores art collective in Oakland, CA
2019 – 2020 Personal assistant for plant-based ink maker Judi Pettite (BioHue)
2019 Selling artist at Berkeley Horticultural Nursery’s Art in the Nursery, Berkeley, CA
2018 Selling artist at Berkeley Horticultural Nursery’s Art in the Nursery, Berkeley, CA
RESIDENCIES
2020 Biohue Residency, Placerville, CA
2017 Aguas Migrantes Art Residency, Guanajuato, GTO, Mexico
2015 New York Studio Class, AICAD Residency, Brooklyn, NY
AWARDS
2022 Artist Power Convenings, Artist Power Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
2015 Ted Doyle Scholarship
2014 Faculty Honors Scholarship
2014 Westerbeck Arts Scholarship
2014 William B. Memorial Scholarship Award
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Holding Back & Letting Go, Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Trueque, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2017 Trueque, Central Cultural del ISSSTE, Guanajuato, Gto., Mexico
2016 Senior Painting Exhibition, Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2015 Honeycomb, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA
2015 Resonant Conversations, Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2015 Open House, New York Studio Class, AICAD NYSRP Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Painting Expelled, Campus Center Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2015 Contagious, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA
2014 The 62nd Annual Visual Arts Scholarship Exhibition, Boone Family Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
COURSES
2022 Cochineal dyeing in the Zapotec tradition with Porfirio Gutiérrez, Fibershed, Point Reyes, CA
2022 Lake Pigments at Home, Natalie Stopka, Textile Art Center, Online
2022 In Living Color: Pigments of the Past, Present, and Future, Julia Norton, NYC Crit Club, Online
2022 Making Lake Pigments with Wild Plants, Karla Claudio-Betancourt, Herban Cura, Online
2022 Mycopigments: An Exploration of Coastal Colors from Fungi, Alissa Allen, Fungus Federation of
Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
2020 Making Paints, Inks & Stains using Indigo, Judi Pettite, Fibershed, Online
2020 Inkmaking and Foraging, Jason Logan, Albany Bulb, Albany, CA
2019 Botanical Inks and Lake Pigments, Judi Pettite, Summerfield Waldorf School and Farm, Santa Rosa,
CA
2019 Handmaking Botanical Watercolors, Judi Pettite, Tilden Regional Botanic Garden, Berkeley, CA
2018 Ochre Mineral Pigment Foraging, Heidi Gustafson, Oakland, CA
2018 Botanical Inks, Babs Behan, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, Berkeley, CA
2016 Modern Textile Design with California Native Plant Dyes, Sasha Duerr, Tilden Regional Parks Botanic
Garden, Berkeley, CA