Education
2016
MFA, Studio Art & Emerging Practices, Graduate Teaching Fellow, University at Buffalo SUNY, Buffalo, NY2003
BA magna cum laude, Studio Fine Arts, Amherst College, Amherst, MATeaching Experience
2021 - present
Art Teacher, Telluride Mountain School, Telluride CO
7/8, & 9-12 grade cohorts
9th Homeroom Teacher & Mentor, 2023-24
7/8 Homeroom Co-teacher & Mentor, 2022-23
International Baccalaureate Visual Art category 1 training
Experiential Ed. Head Leader - Civil Rights South Trip - 7/8, grades 2023
Experiential Ed. Co-Leader - Civil Rights South Trip - 8/9, grades 2022
Experiential Ed. Co-Leader - Big Island, Hawaii 7/8, 2022
Experiential Ed. Co-Leader - Santa Fe, New Mexico - 3/4, 2022
Outdoor Ed. Head Leader - Kokopelli Bike Trail, CO & UT, 9-12 grades, 2023
5 day mountain biking and camping trip with 18 high school students
Outdoor Ed. Co-Leader - Grand Gulch, Bears Ears Nat. Monument, Utah - 8th grade, 2022
5 day backpacking trip through desert canyon with 12 8th grade students
Outdoor Ed. Co-Leader - Dark Canyon, Bears Ears Nat. Monument, Utah - 7th grade, 2021
5 day camping trip in desert canyon with 16 7th grade students
Ski PE Leader - Lower School
2016-2021
Adjunct Faculty, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY
Digital Foundations - Spring 2021, 2020 & Fall 2020, 2019
Video Art - Spring 2021, 2020, 2019 & Fall 2017
3D Design - Fall 2020, 2019 & 2017
Sculpture: Time & Context - Spring 2017
2D Design - Fall 2016
2017-2021
Adjunct Faculty, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN
Intro to Video Art - Spring 2021 & Fall 2020, 2017
Digital Art: Survey & Practice - Spring 2018, 2017 & Fall 2017
2018-2019
Visiting Assistant Professor, Hanover College, Hanover, IN
Environmental Art - Spring 2019
Illustration 1 - Spring 2019
Drawing I - Fall 2018
Photography I & II - Fall 2018
Sculpture I - Spring 2018
Photography I - Spring 2018
2018
Summer Study Abroad Faculty, Kentucky Institute for International Study, Italy
The Graphic Travelogue - Drawing III
Art of the Italian Renaissance - Art History
2014-2016
Instructor of Record, University at Buffalo SUNY, Buffalo, NY
Intro to Digital Practices, Adobe CC & Processing, Fall & Spring 2015-6
Intro to Digital Photography - Spring 2015
Public Space, studio & lecture foundation - Fall 2014
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2016 Inward Out:Spontaneous Reverberations, Silo City, Buffalo, NY
2014 outside/in inside/out, IDEAS 40203, Louisville, KY
2013 Light Maps Bernheim, Bernheim Arboretum, Clermont, KY
2011 Haunt, Cocoon Series, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY
2009 Light Maps, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY
2007 Daily Climb: Part 1, Blackburn Gallery, Mary Anderson Ctr., Mt. St. Francis, IN
Group Exhibitions
2016 Re: Place, Project 13, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY
Bernheim: A Natural Muse, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
2015 Phantom Vibrations, Lower Gallery, University at Buffalo, NY, Buffalo, NY
New Extravaganza Today, Hi-Temp Fabrication, Buffalo, NY
2014 Fresh Air: Art of Bernheim, Ascent PCM & Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2013 7 Borders, Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Louisville, KY
Public @ PUBLIC, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY
2012 Connect, Collaboration with LVL1 Hackerspace, Bernheim Arboretum, Clermont, KY
2011 Garden Sculpture Show, Yew Dell Gardens, Crestwood, KY
2010 Creativity Rising, Phoenix Hill Neighborhood, Louisville, KY
Conspiring with Nature, 930 Gallery, Louisville, KY
2008 Titration²: Park Fiction, Coffman Park, Dublin Arts Council, Dublin, OH
2007 DIG, The Ground Floor Gallery, Louisville, KY
Digital Projects & Research
2017-2020 Bike Sense, citizen science/public art project giving sensor units to 100 cyclists to track bike usage and create sound from data, Louisville, KY
2019-2020 Whole Teach, Whole Community, digital platform created for active & retired public teachers for 2 Kentucky counties assessing hope, trust & belonging and its impact on health and wellbeing after arts engagement
2016 Inward Out, interactive light & sound experience using Arduino accelerometer, radio transmitters, & digital relays, Buffalo, NY
Heartlight, hacking a heart rate monitor and writing an algorithm with Arduino to give a signature light/sound experience for each user, Buffalo, NY
2015 The GOOD GUY Glove, on-going development of sensor gloves to interpret pressure sensor data using Python & Beagleboard, Buffalo, NY
Rambling_Q, smartphone app sound walk using AppFurnace, Buffalo, NY
Awards
2019 Travel Grant, ISEA, Great Meadows Foundation, Gwangju, South Korea
2017 Travel Grant, Prospect.4, Great Meadows Foundation New Orleans, LA
$20K ArtsMatch, Fund for the Arts matching grant for Bike Sense Louisville, KY
2016 Master's Thesis Award, Techné Institute Buffalo, NY
Residencies
2022 Dublin Arts Council Dublin, OH
2019-2020 Kentucky Artist Innovator in Health IDEAS xLab Louisville & Jackson, KY
2018 Project HEAL, Hero+Shero Journeys, IDEAS xLab Louisville, KY
Environmental Justice Workshop, Meyzeek Middle School
2013 Guapamacátaro Art & Ecology Residency Michoacán, MX
2012-2013 Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft Artist-In-Residence Louisville, KY
2011-2012 Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest Art-In-Residence Clermont, KY
2007 Work-Exchange Fellowship & Art Residency, Mary Anderson Ctr. Mt. St. Francis, IN
Commissions
2017-2020 ARTmovesLOUISVILLE $40K Public Art Commission, Bike Sense Louisville, Louisville Metro Government's Commission on Public Art, Louisville, KY
2011 Buy Local Fair, Driftwood Nest, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY
2010 Forecastle Festival, Stock Series, Waterfront Park, Louisville, KY
Collections
City of Dublin, Coffman Park, Dublin, OH
Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Louisville, KY
Commonwealth Bank & Trust of Kentucky, Louisville, KY
Insight Communications, Louisville, KY
Private Collections
Professional Experience
2022 Community Workshops Dublin Arts Council Dublin, OH
2021 Environmental Justice Poster Session: Bike Sense - CitSciVirtual Conference, Online
2020 Presenter: Bike Sense - Science & Society, AGU, Fall Meeting, Online
Hybrid/Hyflex Course Design Training, ILTE, IU Southeast, New Albany, IN
Creative Revelation, TEDx talk, Bellarmine Univ., Louisville, KY
STEAM2020 Roundtable Panelist, Citizen Science, UWF, Pensacola, FL
Created & designed UofL Center for Healthy Air Water & Soil Junior Achievement at-home science activities, Louisville, KY
2014 Buffalo Incubator Workshop, Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr, Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Lecture and Undergraduate Critiques, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY
2012-2013 Head Preparator, Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft, Louisville, KY
2012 Winning presentation, On The Floor: Ideas Competition, CoPA, Louisville, KY
2010 Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop, 21C Museum, Louisville, KY
2009 Speaker, Artist Dialogues, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Academic & Volunteer Service
2023 Seed Planter, Telluride Valley Floor Revegetation Plan, Telluride, CO
2013-2021 Citizen Forester, Louisville Grows, Volunteer leader for tree plantings, Louisville, KY
2015-2016 Secretary, Buffalo Emerging Art Practices, Graduate Student Association, Buffalo, NY
Senator, Department of Art, Graduate Student Association, Buffalo, NY
2015 Habitat for Humanity, Buffalo renovations and new builds, Buffalo, NY
2014-2015 Sculpture Studio Monitor, Graduate TA Service, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Bibliography
See bikesense.net for all media related to Bike Sense Louisville
2018 IDEAS xLab, “These Louisville Middle Schoolers…” The Renewal Project, Apr. 9
2017 Q&A with Keith Waits from Louisville Visual Art, Mar. 30
2014 Bailey Loosemore, "Bernheim artists connect art to nature," The Courier-Journal, Jun. 23
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/bullitt/2014/06/23/bernheim-artists-connect-art-nature/11259661/
Matthew Metzger, "Fresh Air: Art from the Bernheim Arboretum Review," AEQAI, Apr. 26
https://aeqai.com/main/2014/04/fresh-air-art-from-the-bernheim-arboretum-review/
2013 Julie Gross, "Trees as Public Art," Blog@KMACMuseum, March 23
https://4materiality.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/trees-as-public-art/
2012 Julie Leidner, "Todd Smith & the Bernheim Forest Art Residency," February 3
http://www.thelouisvillepaper.com/todd-smith-the-bernheim-forest-artist-residency/
2011 Chelsea Gifford, "Art: Haunted by the art," LEO Weekly, May 4
https://www.leoweekly.com/2011/05/art-haunted-by-the-art/