EDUCATION

MFA Yale University School of Art
BFA Kansas City art Institute

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

•University of Lagos Visual Arts Gallery grounds Lagos, NIGERIA: Kampala Canopy, 2013.

•Fairleigh Dickinson University Teaneck, New Jersey: Bespoken, solo exhibition of bespoke clothing projects & life size photo compositions depicting them, 2013.

•University of Lagos Visual Arts Gallery Lagos, NIGERIA: Fabric Friezes, solo exhibition of photo panoramas depicting textile constructions created by the artist, 2012.

•Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Kansas City, Missouri: neoPANOS, solo exhibition of new photo panoramas depicting textile constructions including the 20 foot panorama, raggedy rose, along with installations featuring hand sewn & hand printed fabric props, 2011.

•Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, MEXICO: Bessie Mae/Béseme y otras, solo exhibition of photo panoramas depicting textile constructions the centerpiece of which was the 10 foot panorama, Bessie Mae/Béseme, 2010.

•H & R Block Artspace Kansas City, Missouri: Kansas City Flatfile (also 2010, 2008): portfolio of six 17” x 30 photos and two 20” x 30” examples of textile design - works selected for gallery walls curated by Plug Projects & Nelson-Atkins Museum curator Jan Schall, 2012.

RECENT EVENTS

•Radio UniLag Lagos, NIGERIA: interviewed by Kayode Bakare for On Stage, 2013.

•Nelson-Atkins Museum Kansas City, Missouri, USA: 2013 design West Africa lecture, Design Week Pecha Kucha Night.

*miniBar Kansas City, Missouri, USA: African Style - Design, Fashion, Fabric lecture, 2013.

•Fairleigh Dickinson University Metropolitan Campus Teaneck, New Jersey, USA: gallery talk, 2013.

•West 18th Street Fashion Show Kansas City, Missouri, USA: Triple Crown Summer-West Africa collection - 6 looks (original clothing design & fabrics) modeled on a 100 foot outdoor runway for an audience of approximately 2000, 2012.

*Yocum Institute for Arts Education Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, USA: Fabric Craze lecture, 2013.

•University of Lagos Lagos, NIGERIA: Cloth / Pattern = Subject / Medium lecture, 2011.

•Billboard Art Project Atlanta, Georgia, USA: work in Color Shift screening - curated by Katerina Lanfranco, 2012.

•Billboard Art Project series of images displayed in Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2011.

•Museo Textil Oaxaca de Juárez, MEXICO: workshop instructor, Fabric Assemblage and Photography, 2010.