Currently, I’m based in Denver, Colorado, where I live with my dog Maude.
Prior to living in Colorado, I lived most of my life as a Midwestern gal. I grew up in a small town on the border of Illinois, the daughter of avid art collectors who encouraged my passions in theatre and music. When my studies in journalism brought me to a travel course in Egypt and Turkey in my freshman year in college I was inspired to pursue a career in art.
Read on to learn more about my career and education. You can also download my CV for a more holistic look at my background and experience.
Career
Currently, I am a Marketing Coordinator at Applewood Seed Company.
In 2024, I decided to pivot the focus of my career to digital marketing and brand identity, bringing my unique experiences as a creative professional to a corporate setting where I could make a meaningful impact. This strategic shift led me to Applewood Seed Company, a vibrant organization with a rich history and a commitment to sustainability. Here, I am currently focused on re-envisioning Applewood’s digital presence to more accurately reflect the incredible story and values of this employee-owned wholesale business. My role involves not only enhancing the visual elements of the brand but also crafting compelling narratives that resonate with our audience, showcasing the quality of our products and the passion behind our work. Through innovative marketing strategies and a collaborative approach, I strive to elevate Applewood’s position in the seed industry and foster a deeper connection with our customers, ensuring that our mission and dedication to excellence shine through in every digital interaction.
Previously from 2016 – 2018 I served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Denver’s Vicki Myhren Gallery. After graduating, I was hired on as the Exhibitions Manager and Assistant to the Director from 2018 – 2023.
Over the course of my time at Vicki Myhren Gallery, I re-designed and facilitated the training, supervision, and enrichment of the gallery’s many student employees. The policies, workshops and training I created for the undergraduate gallery attendants were instrumental in the founding of the Davis Gallery, a satellite student exhibition space in the University of Denver’s Department of Art and Art History. In addition to my in-gallery duties, I served on the University Art Collections and Exhibitions committees, contributing to wider efforts by the campus community to collect and exhibit artworks by local Coloradan, female – identifying, and BIPOC artists.
From 2021 – 2023, I served as co-director for Friend of a Friend Gallery, a nationally recognized project space that reinvigorated the Denver art community by providing a platform for emerging artists. During my tenure at Friend of a Friend, my fellow co-director Derrick Velasquez and I curated over eleven four to six week exhibitions on a largely back to back schedule.
While serving as Associate Director at K Contemporary gallery in Denver, Colorado from 2023 to 2024, I had the privilege of liaising with high-profile artists and discerning collectors, while also assisting with the curation and installation of exhibitions showcasing a diverse array of global contemporary art. This role allowed me to deepen my understanding of the intricate relationships within the art world. As part of this role, I coordinated traveling presentations at established international art fairs, including untitled: Miami and Art Aspen.
Education
I graduated from Beloit College in 2016 with a bachelors degree in Art History. Here, I earned the Helen Rubinstein prize for an educational exhibition I created about Buddhist iconographic art, was selected for the Mortar Board National Honors Society, and served as operations chair for Kappa Delta National Sorority, Upsilon Chapter.
Moving out west, I earned a Master of Arts in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Denver in 2018. At DU I served as a graduate teaching assistant and received the annual Stein Graduate award. My masters thesis paper, Into the Light, focused on incorporating the immersive art form of the 1960s liquid light show into the art historical canon.
Since then I’ve continued on to earn advanced certifications in Google Digital Marketing and E-Commerce.
“Some say the creative life is in ideas, some say it is in doing. It seems in most instances to be in a simple being. It is not virtuosity, although that is very fine in itself. It is the love of something, having so much love for something–whether a person, a word, and image, an idea, the land, or humanity – that all that can be done with the overflow is to create. It is not a matter of wanting to, not a singular act of will; one solely must…”
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D in Women Who Run With The Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype