Art Facilitator
As an experienced community art facilitator, I bring people together to create small works that contribute to larger public-facing installations. Because of my positionality as a white, female-presenting person with citizenship, my role is to create structures which allow participants and their experiences to shape the work itself; this is especially true in my work in communities with a large immigrant and migrant populations.
Currently, I am applying this model in my ongoing collaboration with MBX, a non-profit recording studio and concert venue. Last summer, I co-designed and installed Phase I of a public art project for the space: relief print portraits of community members wheat-pasted over a painted color field. In fall 2025, I began organizing workshops in public schools and community centers to complete Phase II. Centered around the theme “What Moves You?”, the project uses migration as another form of movement. Participants create relief print birds that will be installed as a flock during the MBX grand opening this summer. Each bird contains the artwork of an individual community member, with an emphasis on immigrant voices and their contributions to our city and state.
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These workshops take place throughout the community, including within Lincoln Public Schools, specifically Title I schools serving large populations of English Language Learners. To best support students, I collaborate with multilingual artists of color who reflect the communities they teach. My facilitation practice also includes curriculum development, coordinating between artists, schools, families, and funding sources, and ensuring artists are paid fair wages for their labor.
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Other recent collaborative projects include the Postcard Pride Project, which connected Queer youth in Missoula, Montana, with Queer youth in Lincoln through the exchange of handmade postcards; Monster Jam, where elementary students designed monsters that were later reimagined by high school art students and exhibited together; and a 2024 collaboration with Sonja Hinrichsen in which students participated in a massive collaborative drawing made entirely of circles.