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2023

• Illustrations for and an Interview by Mia Pohlman, Flourish Magazine, Fall 2023
• “How to Make a Tuna Casserole”, Co-authored with Dr. Sandra Cox, accepted to “Step by
  Step,” Issue #9 of I Don’t Do Comics, Online Publication @idontdocomics
  organized by Allie Brown + Nora de Mariaffi. 
• Cover Art, “Haunted Love,” Hex, Literary Journal, 
  invited by Joseph Aguilar, editor of Hex and assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Worcester, MA

2021

• The HAND Magazine. Issue #32, April 2021. Juried publication. Prairie Village, KS.
• Multitasker, single edition newspaper curated, edited and published by Andrew
  Kozlowski and printed by printnewspaper.com, 7 January 2021, p. 8, La
  Courneuve, France

2019

• Reviewed artist, “Disrupting Our Disruption: Recycling Our Indelible Mark to mine a ‘wee bit of hope’”, by Adriane Herman, SGC International Website, 23 September 2019.
• Infame Zine El #4, Invited to create a spread by Xavier Moreno, Ifame Zine: Comunidad
  sin Fronteras. Mexico.

2018

• Contributor, “Printmaking in the Contemporary Landscape,” Paper Presentation by
  Professor Melissa Harshman of the University of Georgia for the IMPACT 10
  Conference in Santander, Spain.

Awards and Honors

2022

• Finalist for the Feature Wall Public Art Project for the Barkley Regional Airport Authority, juried selection by a Community Committee, facilitated by Via Partnership in St. Louis, MO. Paducah, KY.
• Windgate Distinguished Fellowship for Innovation in Craft, Hambidge Center, two week residency fees waived and provided a $700 stipend. Rabun Gap, GA.

2021

• Provost’s Summer Research and Creativity Grant, for Graphic Novel Study at Harvard, Enrolling in a class taught by Peter Kuper,  Regular illustrator for The New Yorker, The Nation, and Mad Magazine, and author of Spy vs. Spy, Southeast MO State University. Cape Girardeau, MO.
• Outstanding Faculty Award for Faculty Research/Creative Activity, Holland College of Arts & Media, Southeast Missouri State University. Cape Girardeau, MO.
• Student Life and Leadership Experiential Learning Award for Catapult Press students Tunuke Abudukamali, Logan Blankenship, Bailey Lawless, Ryan Nevill, Christian Ondr, Kolebe Shanks, and Wendell Stapleton, Southeast Missouri State University. Cape Girardeau, MO.

2019

• Grants Researching Funding Committee (GRFC) Grant, for Community Exchange in Puerto Rico during the Southern Graphics Council International Conference, as the Ad Hoc Committee for Community Exchange (SGCI), Southeast MO State University. Cape Girardeau, MO.
  

2018

• Lifetime Membership, Awarded by the 2018 Mid America Print Council (MAPC) Board
  for outstanding service as Editor of the MAPC Journal for four years.

Professional Organizations

• Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI)
• Mid America Print Council (MAPC)
• Arts Council of Southeast Missouri
• Spilt Milk Gallery
• Artist/Parent/Academic Organization (APA)
• Radical Intersectional Printmakers Guild (RIPG)
• Missouri Fibers Artists (MoFA)

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