Hello!
As an Illustrator, Crafter, and Educator from Northeast Ohio, I create work that embraces softness, fantasy, and introspection. My art is a space where I craft visual narratives that explore the emotional landscapes of memory, healing, and wonder. While my BFA in Illustration (CIA ’20) shaped my creative foundation, my graduate studies in Arts & Culture Management (University of Akron MA ’25) have led me toward advocacy and community building. Through this work, I’ve learned the deep, real-world value of empathy and collaboration. I now run the group called StarFall Creative Collective that embraces this important work.
These are lessons that echo in my art through a quiet insistence that kindness, imagination, and care are not just personal values, but collective needs. Rooted in fantasy and shaped by lived experience, my current body of work reflects on the resilience found in gentleness and the healing that can come from embracing softness in an often unkind world. Allowing tenderness, imagination, and wonder to guide me. Through my current evolving writing and Illustration project, I invite you to enter my world within a dream, darkened by memory, and sparked to life by a falling star.
My Illustration practice, Star Catcher Studio, also explores whimsical concepts through a storybook aesthetic. I create prints, zines, design products like enamel pins, printed woven blankets, sculpt figurines, and more. Through the various other multimedia approaches to art I explore, my work strives to spark joy through color, evoke empathy with thoughtful musings, and sometimes is just fun!
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
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Birdsong, Akron-Summit County Public Library, Main Library, Akron, MAR, 2025
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FRESH: Soft Offerings, Juried Exhibition, Summit Artspace Main Gallery, Akron, JAN 10-MAR 25 2025
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Love, Sex, and the Body, Hildebrandt Artist Collective, Cleveland, FEB 1-MAR 22, 2025
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Trip to the Moon Gala, Akron Soul Train Benefit, OCT 2024
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Groundhog Show, Akron, JUN 2024
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In the Shadow: Artwork from the Solar Eclipse, Summit Artspace, Akron, MAY 24-JUN 15, 2024
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Inside the Closet, Hildebrandt Artist Collective, Cleveland, MAR-APR 2024
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Creative Folk Exhibition, White Rabbit Gallery, Barberton OH, SEP 2023
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Bazaarbeque Vol. 10, KINK Contemporary, Cleveland, JUL -AUG 2023
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YES WE ARE, Hildebrandt Artist Collective, Cleveland, JUN-JUL 2023
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Groundhog Show, Akron, JUN 2023
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Tiny Art Show, Wild Goose Gallery, Columbus, FEB 10, 2023
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIP, PUBLICATION
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ArtsNow, Arts Forward Grant, Fund attendance to 2025 LEAD conference (Leadership Exchange in Arts & Disability) in Cleveland, 2024
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BratBox Artist Feature - Artist and FleurBot Enamel Pin feature in monthly subscription box, May 2022
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2nd place, Duvel Glass Design Contest, 2019
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Nettie Borstein Scholarship, Based on competitive assessment of art portfolios for the 2020 class, Cleveland Institute of Art, 2017
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Illustration in Huffington Post Contributor Article by Kathryn Poe, Dec 2016
