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Education
2017-21 Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX – Bachelor in Fine Arts, Emphasis in Sculpture
2013-17 El Centro College – Associate in Arts, Dallas, TX
2009-13 Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Dallas, TX
2008-10 Studio Arts Dallas, Dallas, TX
Work Experience
The University of Texas-Arlington, TX
Gallery Assistant, 2024, Jul.-Aug.
Responsibilities: website coordinator, proofreader, collaborative team efforts, cashier, and gallery
instillation for the following exhibits:
• Pauline Hudel-Smith Memorial Show, The Gallery at UTA
Cost Plus World Market, Dallas, TX
Cashier, Sales Associate, Stock Associate and Freight Team, 2023-24, Oct.-May
Responsibilities: loading and unloading products, organization, janitorial duties, equipment
maintenance, cashier, customer service, collaborative team efforts
Artists on the Block: Art Show and Silent Auction, A3 Resale and Gallery, Lewisville, TX
Caricature Artist, 2023, Jun
Frances Bagley, LLC., Dallas, TX
Studio Assistant, 2023-24, March-Feb.
Responsibilities: janitorial duties, artwork and equipment maintenance, collaborative team efforts,
landscaping
Ro2 Art and The MAC, Dallas, TX
Gallery Internship, 2022, Jun.-Dec.
Responsibilities: website coordinator, proofreader, ad designer, collaborative
team efforts, maintaining Occulibrary, cashier, and gallery instillation for the following exhibits:
• Fooling Ourselves: The Annual Cedars Union Member Show, The MAC
• Venus and Mars: Climates in Dialogue, The MAC
• Morgan Grasham: Memory Beast, The MAC
• Sarah Lasley: Welcome to the Enclave, The MAC
• CHAOS! 8, Ro2 Art
• Refuge: 24th Annual Membership Exhibition, The MAC
• Cheryl Finfrock: The Ties That Bind, Ro2 Art
Pauline Hudel-Smith, LLC., Dallas, TX
Art Activist Intern, 2019-22
Responsibilities: Packing, Shipping, Delivery, Sales, Printing, Coordinating and
attending protest marches, construction, gallery installation for the following exhibits:
• 2020 The Women’s March, Dallas, Austin and New York
• 2020 Black Lives Matter, Gallery 295, UT Arlington
• 2020 Women at Work, SP/N Gallery, UT Dallas
• 2019 Ron Wilson, Gallery 295, UT Arlington
• 2019 Oak Cliff Visual Speed Bump Art Tour, Dallas, TX
• 2019 Design Swap, Gallery 295, UT Arlington
• 2019 Dissent in Design, Atrium Gallery, Brookhaven College
Brian “George” Scott, LLC., Dallas, TX
Studio Assistant, 2021, Oct.
Responsibilities: Construction
Mardi Gras Festival, Keri Fouse, Cooper, TX
Caricature Artist, 2019, Feb.
Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX
Figure Art Model, 2018, Jan.-May.
Responsibilities: Holding poses for extended periods for art students
Frances Bagley, LLC., Dallas, TX
Studio Assistant, 2013-15
Responsibilities: Sculpture construction - fabric, paper, video, metal, paint.
Gallery, artwork and equipment maintenance, collaborative team efforts,
gallery installation of the following:
• 2015 Open House, Frances Bagley/Tom Orr Studio, Dallas, TX
Grants, Honors and Awards
2026 ● 3rd Place | Curious Curls Fiction Contest 2025, Curious Curls Publishing - Mystery Movies Customer Complaint Transcript
2025 ● 1st Place | Curious Curls Fiction Contest 2024, Curious Curls Publishing - Arson Jax
● 7th Place | Flash Villain 2025, The Molotov Cocktail – Potter's Field
● Morgan Henderson Monet in the Bank Award, GAVA 2025 Fall Art Exhibition – The Wild Hunt
2024 ● 2nd Place | “Contemporary” Category, GAVA 2023 Fall Art Exhibition – Four Seasons
● RebelTV Illuminates The Eye Award, GAVA 2023 Fall Art Exhibition – Four Seasons
● Krootz Brewing Company Freakin' Awesome Art Award, GAVA 2023 Fall Art Exhibition – Four Seasons
2023 ● 3rd Place | “Contemporary” Category, GAVA 2023 Fall Art Exhibition – Playing
Doctor
2020 ● Honorable Mention | 2020 Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition – Reclining Venus
2016 ● 1st Place | “One-Act Play” Category, League for Innovation Student Literary
Competition – Beelzebaby
● 1st Place | “3D Design/Sculpture” Category, Big Dreams: Visual Fine Art Student
Exhibition – Beelzebaby
● 1st Place | “Ceramics” Category, Big Dreams: Visual Fine Art Student Exhibition –
The Face of Revulsion and Terror
● Purchase Award | Visual Art Award, Barnes & Thornburg Law Firm
2015 ● 2nd Place | “Short Story” Category, League for Innovation Student Literary
Competition – The Garroting Man
2014 ● Honorable Mention | Big Dreams: Visual Fine Art Student Exhibition
I Spit on Your Grave
2013 ● Senior Superlative for “Most Individualistic (Male)”
● Senior Superlative for “Most likely to star in a Horror Film”
● Senior Superlative for “Best AP 2D Design”
2012 ● Most Outstanding Organizations – Creative Writing
● Most Improved Student – AP Drawing
Exhibitions
2025 ● GAVA 2025 Fall Art Exhibition, Sante Fe Depot Museum, Gainesville, TX
2024 ● Naturalist Gallery Painting Collection, District of Columbia
● GAVA 2024 Fall Art Exhibition, Sante Fe Depot Museum, Gainesville, TX
● Rockwall Art League 24th Annual Juried Fine Art Show, Cavender Nissan, Rockwall,
TX
2023 ● Indoor DownEast Sculpture Exhibition, Emerge Gallery and Art Center, Greenville,
NC
● EMERGE Art Fair, Plush Gallery, Dallas, TX
● Artists on the Block: Art Show and Silent Auction, A3 Resale and Gallery, Lewisville,
TX
● CHAOS! 9, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
● GAVA 2023 Fall Art Exhibition, Sante Fe Depot Museum, Gainesville, TX
2022 ● Oak Cliff Visual Speedbump Art Tour 2022, Dallas, TX
● CHAOS! 8, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX
● 2022 Annual Fall Show Lake Granbury Art Association, Shanley House Gallery,
Granbury, TX
● Abstract Art: Artistic Independence, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
● 2022 - Political Storm, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2020 ● 2020 Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX
2019 ● 2019 Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX
● Oak Cliff Visual Speedbump Art Tour 2019, Dallas, TX
2018 ● 2018 Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX
● 3D Design Paper Fashion Show, Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX
● Oak Cliff Visual Speedbump Art Tour 2018, Dallas, TX
2017 ● 3D Design + Intro to Sculpture Silent Art Auction Fundraiser, City of Commerce
Animal Shelter, Commerce, TX
● Oak Cliff Visual Speedbump Art Tour 2017, Dallas, TX
2016
● Big Dreams: Visual Fine Art Student Exhibition, El Centro College, Dallas, TX
● Oak Cliff Visual Speedbump Art Tour 2016, Dallas, TX
● Advanced Student Exhibition, H. Paxton More Fine Art Gallery, El Centro College,
Dallas, TX
● League for Innovation Art Exhibition, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX –
March of the Flying Rocks in Mountain View College permanent collection
2015 ● El Centro College Fall Craft Show/Vendor Fair, H. Paxton More Fine Art Gallery,
El Centro College, Dallas, TX
2014 ● Big Dreams: Visual Fine Art Student Exhibition, H. Paxton More Fine Art Gallery,
El Centro College, Dallas, TX
2013 ●[Untitled], Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
● Painting Exhibit, Hudson Foundation Gallery, Booker T. Washington High School for
the Performing and Visual Arts, Dallas, TX
● 2013 Senior Juried Show, Norwood Flynn Gallery, Dallas, TX
● Student Art Contest, Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX
2012 ● Alpha, Hudson Foundation Gallery, Booker T. Washington High School for the
Performing and Visual Arts, Dallas, TX
● Painting Exhibit, Hudson Foundation Gallery, Booker T. Washington High School for
the Performing and Visual Arts, Dallas, TX
● Young American Talent, H. Paxton More Fine Art Gallery, El Centro College,
Dallas, TX
● Young Masters, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
● Literary Festival – Live Reading, The Kessler Theater, Dallas, TX
● Gateway to the Arts District Mural Project, Dallas, TX
2011 ● Literary Festival – Live Reading, The Kessler Theater, Dallas, TX
● Painting Exhibit, Hudson Foundation Gallery, Booker T. Washington High School for
the Performing and Visual Arts, Dallas, TX
2009 ● 2009 Plano ISD Visual Arts Contest, Sockwell Center for Professional Development,
Plano, TX
Presentations
2025 ● Authors with Answers: Aza Smith, Curious Curls Publishing, YouTube
2023 ● 5-Minute Artist Introduction, EMERGE Art Fair, Plush Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016 ● Art Introduction, Advanced Student Exhibition, H. Paxton More Fine Art Gallery, El
Centro College, Dallas, TX
Publications
2026 ● "Wet Matches on a Dark Christmas Eve", Flash Phantom, January 2026 Issue
● "Mystery Movies Customer Complaint Transcript", Curious Curls Publishing
● "Humans Below", Flash Phantom, February 2026 Issue
● "The Great Freeze", Flash Fiction Magazine
● "The World Tree Awakens", Flash Phantom, March 2026 Issue
● "This House Isn't Haunted", Last Girls' Club: The Witches' Cosmo, Spring 2026 Issue no. 21 Haunted
● "The Last Easter", Flash Phantom, EVIL EASTER April Issue
2025 ● "Arson Jax", Curious Curls Publishing
● "Potter's Field", The Molotov Cocktail
● "The Undead Buccaneer's Sonata No. 8", Flash Fiction Magazine
● "The Raptor is Coming!", Flash Fiction Magazine
● "A Letter of Complaint to Public Relations", Flash Fiction Magazine
2024 ● "Paranoia Retardant", Flash Fiction Magazine