My first show of the year will be hosted by ECOCA at their new (temporary) location at City Seed. This show will be my first opportunity to showcase my new generation of dolls that feature natural skin colors, hair, and eyes. It is a huge leap for me and I am excited to see everything come together.

The Ely Center of Contemporary Art (ECOCA) is undergoing tremendous change. From structural reorganization to literally moving buildings, leadership has been tasked with a lot. I was warmly welcomed to join the Curatorial Advisory committee to help shape its new direction. It is exciting to join the established and emerging artists guiding one of the most important exhibition venues in the vibrant city of New Haven.



I’m pictured here with the ECOCA mascot at the final exhibition party to take place at the Ely Mansion.

I love the School for Poetic Computation based in NYC. It's an amazing blend of modern tech with an artistic sensibility. They offer rigorous coursework that is both incredibly niche and relevant to the forward thinking minds of today. The community is also lovely.

Several desktops were set up in addition to an artist talk with professors of the spring sessions (2025). On every device you could find a digital representation of the Dan mask I sourced from a museum's digitized collection and sculpted in Blender 3D.

A 3D printed version of that same mask was featured in the Beholder exhibition earlier this year paired with one of my dolls.

It was significant to me to highlight the groundbreaking aesthetics and technical ability of artisans from the African continent and how those aesthetics are championed in white adjacent media, such as the Don't Starve gaming series.

My artwork included in the Beholder exhibition was featured in two publications, The New Haven Independent and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.

Again, it was such a pleasure to be selected for this exhibition by curator nico okoro and to be displayed amongst the talents of other black women.

This opportunity allowed me to showcase the raw, unedited forms that makeup the foundation of my practice as I prepared an even more rigorous collection to follow.

I am thrilled to share that both of my pieces in the Beholder exhibition at Orchid Gallery have sold!

The first, Run Faster, is a 16" doll paired with a 3D-printed Dan Runner mask, modeled from a 3D scan of archival museum data. It speaks to movement, identity, and the pressure to perform.

The second, Loose Woman, is my largest doll to date at 24". Partially strung with a disembodied head, it takes on the violent fragmentation of beauty standards and the roles women are expected to play.

Learn more here (https://www.bldg.fund/beholder)

Both works are fully coated in brown pigment, emphasizing their Blackness and the projections placed onto it. I am deeply grateful that these pieces resonated with viewers and found new homes.

I just gave my first-ever artist talk as part of Beholder, a group show at Orchid Gallery in Hamden, CT. The exhibition brings together Black women artists who are challenging the beauty standards often forced onto us and erase who we are.

Beholder features painting, photography, collage, and sculpture. I was the first artist to introduce sculpture to the space, which felt like an important step in broadening the opportunities for artists to interact with this space.

The show includes work by Sydney Bell, Demeree Douglas, Clymenza Hawkins, Ebony B. Mckelvey, and myself. Together, we are building something that honors complexity, defiance, and self-definition. Speaking about my work in that context was surreal in the best way.

https://www.bldg.fund/beholder