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CREATIVE DIRECTOR + CURATOR + ARTIST + WRITER + MUSICIAN

CO-FOUNDER:and CREATIVE DIRECTOR

the institute for aesthetic advocacy

BECAUSE ART IS THE ANSWER
WHEN WORDS STOP WORKING


Installations + Exhibitions + Civic Events

VISIT THE IAA

thank you to my PARTNERS AND ARTISTS

JURIED & GRANT-FUNDED: NAT. & INT. EXHIBITS & INSTALLATIONS

art installations: AS ARTIST AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR

JURIED, GRANT FUNDED, AND PEER REVIEWED

  

JURIED, GRANT FUNDED, AND PEER REVIEWED

USING AESTHETICS TO ENACT ACADEMIC RESEARCH, LEGAL AND POLICY ARGUMENTS,, AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING



Juried, Peer Reviewed, Awarded, Grant-Funded

Using aesthetics to illuminate, educate,

and advocate for:
Free speech, digital civil rights, public health,

and civic civility.

Because art works when words don't.


"CELLULAR HOME INVASION" 

International Solo Show.

Czong Institute of Contemporary Art  

Seoul, South Korea. 2019.

go to insallations

ART EXHIBITIONS: AS CURATOR AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR

  
       

JURIED OR GRANT FUNDED: LOCAL, NATIONAL, and INTERNATIONAL

CURATED TO CATALYZE IMPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS



“Digital Rights Are Civil Rights: 

Race and Technology.”  
Juried International Art Exhibition 

and Community Education Event.  

Minneapolis, MN and Online:
February 2021
  
 With ACLU MN, Safety Not Surveillance, Reclaim the Block, Northeast Sculpture Gallery, Councilman Simon Trautmann (Richfield, MN), and Councilman Steve Fletcher (Minneapolis, MN). 


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musical performances

  

"Soundtrack to Cambridge Analytica"

with Dronestruck

Eagles Club

Minneapolis, MN 

April 2018

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