LECTURES

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artist lectures

2024. “My Heart Surrounds You : Jewelry, Stevie Nicks, and the Art of Full Disclosure,” Narva, Estonia; Blackout | Metall 100

2020. “From Idea to Exhibition,” EKA, department of Jewellery & Blacksmithing, Tallinn, Estoni

2019. “loneliness is the slowest death : a requiem for longing,” EKA Galerii, Tallinn, Estonia

2019. “loneliness is the slowest death : a requiem for longing,” Tallinn Arts Week, Featured Art Tour with ECCDC; Tallinn, Estonia

2021. “My Heart Around Your Neck : Intimacy in Contemporary Jewellery,” Tartu University Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia (*Cancelled due to Covid)

2008. "Mortality in Sculpture and Installation," College of Charleston, Sculpture Department, Charleston, SC, USA

2007. "Multiple of the Single," Sheridan, WY, USA

2007. "Untitled," Hungarian Multicultural Center, Budapest, Hungary

2006. Artist Lecture: “Working in Glass in Istanbul,” Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN, USA

2006. “Self-Portrait through Sculpture & Installation,” MSCC, West Memphis, AR, USA

2006. "My Practice," The Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey

1998. "Untitled," Stratford High School, Goose Creek, SC, USA

artist panels

2020. “Why SCHMUCK?”, with Rebekah Frank, Janna Gregonis, and Cathryn Jasterzbski moderated by Chiquita Nehar, New York City Jewelry Week (NYCJW), virtual

2006. “Creating a Career in Art – The Role of the MFA,” Careers in Art Conference, Memphis, TN, USA

2006. “Art of Graduate School,” SECAC Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

art lectures and panels

2013. “Transformer,” Introduction for Jeweler Daniel Von Weinberger; SOFA CHICAGO, Chicago, IL, USA

2013. “Eero Saarinen: Furniture for Everyman,” Introduction for Author Brian Lutz; Spring Show NYC, NY, NY, USA

2012. “The Beauty Within,” Introduction for Artist Bonnie Seeman; SOFA CHICAGO, Chicago, IL, USA

2007. “Memento Mori: Art of the Experiential Body,” Open Engagement: Art after Aesthetic Distance Conference, Regina, SK, Canada

2007. “The Feminine Aesthetic: Phenomenology of the Female Artist, Memory & Material,” Gender Identity in the Visual Arts Panelist; MTSU Women’s Studies Conference, Murfreesboro, TN, USA