EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts with Departmental Distinction 2013 Studio Art, University of North Carolina at Asheville.


SHOWS & PUBLICATIONS

2019
"Blount County Remembers Cormac McCarthy and Looks Toward It's Literary Future" (Essay & Photographs). Scalawag Magazine. December 2019.

2018
"Telling Tales: How the Media Fails Appalachia" (Photographs accompanying essay by Rae Garringer).  Scalawag Magazine. March 2018.

"Power Lines: Broadband and Democracy in East Tennessee" (Photographs accompanying essay by Katie Myers). Scalawag Magazine. January 2018.

2017
"Her Appalachia" (Creative Director). July 2017- Sept 2017.

"The Energy Burden" (Essay and Photographs). The Appalachian Voice. February/March 2017.

2016
Artifacts: A Tradition of Collection
       Solo Exhibition (March 2016) 
       Blowing Rock Art and History Museum 

2015 
"Out of Frame: Regional Stereotypes in Photography" (Essay). The Appalachian Voice. December 2015/January/2016

The Blue Ridge Farm Book Photographer, Designer and Creative Director. May 2015. 

"All Gathered Here" Photo Essay and Cover Photograph. North Carolina Folklore Journal, 61.1-2 (Winter-Spring & Summer-Fall 2014)

2014  
 Artifacts: A Tradition of Collection
       Solo Exhibition (November 2nd- December 1st) 
       Mazie Jones Gallery 
       Jones House Community Center
       604 West King Street
       Boone, NC 28607
           
 "Mountain Bog" (Cover Photograph). The Appalachian Voice, August/September 2014. 

 Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition
     Juried group show (March 7th- June 7th) 
     Turchin Center for the Visual Arts 
     Boone, NC 

Photographs Accompanying "The Moral Universe: Barbara Kingsolver on Writing, Politics, and Human          
      Nature" The Sun Magazine, March 2014. 

2013
Artifacts: A Tradition of Collection 
          Solo Exhibition (December 2nd-13th)
          Blowers Gallery 
          Ramsey Library
          One University Heights 
          Asheville, NC 28804 
      
2012
 WHS Alumni Invitational, group show
        Jones House Cultural Center
        Boone, NC

“Jeanne Supin” ( Cover Photograph). All About Women Magazine. January/February 2012.  
        
“Courtney Bell” All About Women Magazine, April 2012. 20-21.
       
2011
 "Lonnie Ward”. North Carolina Folklore Journal 58, no. 2 (Fall-Winter): 21.

AWARDS 

2014
Appalachian Photography Competition: "Boilin' Sorghum Down" Culture Category