GHETTO BIENNALE 2022, Exhibiting Artist, representing the United States "SWEN MOUN | HEAL PEOPLE."

Appointed as the Awards chair for the AICa-International 3rd Congress in Paris, France.

Solo Exhibition: "Valientes Hombres de mi Patria: the remake" at Centro Cultural Metropolitano Quito.

Forthcoming Book Publication: Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics by Duke University Press.

Forthcoming Book Publication: Wittgenstein and the Problem of Metaphysics: Aesthetics, Ethics and Subjectivity by Bloomsbury Press.

Was selected to co-chair the panel ""Mothering as a Work of Art" at the 2021 SECAC Conference.

Presented "Becoming Monumental: The Contemporary State of Black Female Subjectivity" at the virtual conference: Art, Access and Agency-Art Sites of Enabling.

Presented "From the Ground Up, Seeking Creative Commons" at the virtual conference: Art, Access and Agency-Art Sites of Enabling.

Solo Exhibition: "Imaginary Letters to Vasily Grossman, Post-WWII Repatriation to Soviet Armenia" at the Festival TransCaucases (INALCO) Paris, France

Solo Exhibition: "Vital Traces" at the University of Maine at Farmington. September 14, 2021

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Presented “The Gaze of Anarchy: from the imaginary to its rehearsal" at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT).

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Presented “Mourning as True Anarchy—Philosophical Thinking Reimagined as a Grieving-With Shared Ecologies Upon an Earth in Trouble" at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT).

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Presented "Motility of Being: How Otherness Emerges Through Art and Anarchic Play” at the12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT).

Presented “Celebrating Bachelard’s Pyromenon Through the Practice of Good Fire, an Anarchic Ceramic Experience” along with Tim Freeman at the12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT).

Forthcoming Book Publication: Politics and Heidegger’s Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art. Routledge. September 2021

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Published "The Subject and Object in Knowledge and Understanding" (Article 3488) in the online journal Academia Letters.

Appointed: Assistant Teaching Professor at Villanova University, PA in the Communication Department (Courses: Film Analysis and Video Production).

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Appointed: Instructor of Art at Clovis Community College, New Mexico

Conference Presentation: “The First Female Engineer at General Motor’s Descent into Alzheimer’s with Sundowners: A Daughter’s Scholarly Research and Case Study as Caregiver” at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC).

Presented lecture entitled: "Bread Philosophy: Forgotten Justices in Situating Scott Nearing" as part of the 2021 Speaker Series at the Good Life Center in Harborside, ME.

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Conference Presentation: "Georgia O’Keeffe and Martin Heidegger: On the way to Dwelling in the Threshold" at the American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Conference.

Co-Curator: "Futuring the Past: Contemporary Explorations of Traditional Performance Practices in Technology" at the The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) 2021 National Conference

Symposium Co-organizer and Presenter at the Midwest Biodesign Hub Launch.

Publication: "The Clock in Profile: How Marcel Duchamp Challenged Time to Become an Artist-Philosopher" in Marcel Duchamp: inventing the Present.

Appointed: Department Head of Visual Arts at Pensacola State College.

Cover artwork and illustrations are published in Helen Najera Reyes book, Grandpa Lee's Stories, New Mexico to California. The book has also been nominated to the Latino International Book awards, under the young adult category.

Presented "Hair Straightening in the Hispanic Caribbean: Race, Commodification, Neurosis, and Passing Mestizidad" at CAA

Named "Adjunct of Year" for Rowand College of South Jersey

Awarded the 2021 California Arts Council Administrator of Color Fellowship

Appointed the Chairperson for the Diversity and Inclusion Committee for AES (Audio Engineering Society).

Publication: “BEAVER: The Exhibition” in "An Otherness Both Repellant and Repelled, a Deep Well of Memory That is Unapproachable and Intimate" (a series of images produced in dialogue with Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection)signed by Naomi Elena Ramirez.

Presented “The Conjuring Visual Intermediaries: African-Derived Spiritual Practices In Visual Art” at Kosanba: The Scholarly Association for the Study of Haitian Vodou Colloquium

Book Publication: Machine Anxieties of Steampunk: Contemporary Philosophy, Neo-Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future by Bloomsbury Press

Publication: Chapted titled "Stealing Culture: The Internationalization of Critical Race Theory Through the Intersection of Criminal Law and Museum Studies" in the book Critical Race Theory in the Academy, Information Age Publishing

Job Appointment: Mellon Project Director in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department (AAADS) at Columbia University

Appointed Assistant Professor, Art Department, Graphic Design & New Media at SUNY Potsdam

Presented "Black Anime Fans: A Discussion on Afrofuturism and Ascension" at Performing Black Futures: Performance Studies Focus Group Post-Conference

Host of the 2nd Annual Hip-Hop Summit (on the importance of diversity and inclusion in Hip-Hop music)

Presented "Humanity: Reflecting upon Belonging Beyond Boundaries" at the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC)

Presented "Performative Knowledge: Overcoming Static Epistemologies on Human Nature" at the Ryerson Philosophy Graduate Student Conference: Disagreement and Philosophy

Publication: A Psychological Journey into Otherness an essay in the book "Between Mobility Control and Social Transformation: Art/Interdisciplinary project Risk Change"

Participated in Exhibition "Washington Art Association Faculty Show" Washington Depot, CT

Organized a traveling exhibition of her Women and Power series to show at independent bookstores and libraries nationally.

Appointed as a Visiting Researcher at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

Participated in the Poster Session "Resituating Art in Education by Disrupting the Modern Conception of Time" at CAA

Teaching Introduction to Philosophy Spring 2020 at DigiPen Institute of Technology

Awarded tenure, and promotion from assistant to associate professor in the Interdisciplinary Art Department

Publication: "Valuing the discipline: refrains and riffs" in Landscape Review

Appointed to Head of Merchandising and Administrator at the Museum of the Grand Prairie

Publication: Review of “Inka Essenhigh,” Miles McEnery Gallery, NY | ARTPULSE magazine, No. 32, Vol. 9

Appointed: Lecturer Below the Bar at National University of Ireland, Galway.

Published: (Untitled), in the monograph Richard Hearns: Journey, to accompany Hearns' solo exhibition at Cadogan Contemporary

Appointed: Chair, Department of Humanities, Paine College, Augusta, GA.

Publication: The Aesthetic of Art a Quiz E-Book by Cognella Editors & University Press

Publication: “Street Art, Political Activism, and Surveillance” in The Revolution Will Be Live! Social Practice Art in Turbulent Times, edited by Kristina Olson & Eric Schruers (Routledge Press)

Appointed Full-time Assistant Professor of the Practice and Digital Media Specialist, Georgetown University.

Appointed to Professor and Chair of Department of Art & Design at the University of Southern Indiana

Appointed as the Assistant Professor of Dance at Temple University, Boyer College of Music and Dance, with a focus on Africanist Perspectives in Contemporary Dance Practices

Attended residency Oral History in Liberal Arts Institutes at Antioch College and the American University of Bulgaria

Presented "Spacetime and Virtual Reality: temporal recalibration for neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, ADHD, and autism by using movement contingent time flow in virtual reality" at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, Greece

Named the Foster Chair in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice and Distinguished Curator-in-Residence at Emerson College

Appointed: Executive Director of T.W. Wood Gallery in Burlington, VT

Solo Exhibition: Flowers and Figures for Mother’s Day, Atelier Lucia Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

Solo Exhibition: Gallery Sonia Monti in Paris

Round table discussion "Morality and Entrepreneurship" at Lighthouse's "Adventures 2019" in Seoul, Korea

Publication: The chapter “Centers for Democratic Public Life: Learning as a Deliberative Democratic Practice” Coauthor with Alice Diebel. Published by Higher Education Exchange

Awarded: 2019 Male Artist of the Year by the National African American Quilt Convention

Participated in Artist Residency at the Studios at MASS MoCA

Co founded: Studio EA, a multi discipline creative firm focussing on architecture, art and collaboration.

Book Publication: Errant Bodies, Mobility, and Political Resistance published by Palgrave Macmillan

Promoted to Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs, San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). San Francisco, CA

Appointed full professorship, 2D and 3D Design, University of Memphis, TN.

Appointed two adjunct positions at The College of Staten Island, in History of Philosophy and History of the Caribbean. Staten Island, NY.

Promoted to Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

Appointed to the position of Lead Researcher and Archivist for the Estate of Michael Brewster

Promoted to Associate Professor and tenured. Abilene Christian University. Abilene, TX.

Appointed Adjunct Professor in Multimedia Studies, New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY.

Promoted to Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. Lakewood, CO.