Education
-1993_ Graduated with Honors: Duke Ellington School of the Arts
Visual Arts Major
-2000_Bachelor’s Degree Of Fine Art: Pratt Institute of Art and Design
Visual Arts Major
Professional Background
-14 years Freelance Graphic Designer: Polo Ralph Lauren
-Professional Dancer, Ase Dance Theater Collective: 12 yrs
-Fashion designer: 2010-present
-Performance Poet/MC/Vocalist: 2001-present
-Professional Freelance illustrator, artist: 2010-present
-Writer/Author
COMMISSIONS [some]
-Back Album Cover, “The Vulture Prince“, Arooj Aftab… 2021
-Album Art, “Dirty Sneakers Instrumentals”, Substantial …2020-2021
-Costume, Production and Graphic Design for Make.Believe, Collaborative Theater performance
Queen GodIs/Makeda Thomas
June 2013
-Costume Design, Amy Secada… 2012, 2013
-Costume Design, Shelley Nicole 2011-19
-Single Album Art, Substantial vs. Samurai Champloo.. 2009
-Costume Design for Climbing Poetree “Hurrican Season” Activism and Educational Multi-Media Tour… 2008
-Album Cover Design Shelley Nicole’s blaKbushe, She Who Bleeds… 2003
Awards
2017, 2018_Haines and Friends Fund Awardee
Exhibitions
2019. In Search of the Colored Girl, group show, Museum for Colored Girls, Philadelphia, PA
2017. 4th Annual Haines and Friends Fund Artist Awardees Exhibit
2017. BROKEN BOXES Exhibition, group show, Form and Concept Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2010. BlackSnow Volume I, Ico Gallery, New York, NY, USA. (2 person collaborative show)
2009. Urban Roots. group show, Saint Marks Church, New York, NY
2008. Collage, group show, COSM Gallery, New York, NY
2008 – 2010. Mura, Brooklyn, NY, solo show