INSTITUTE FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES
IN THE VISUAL ARTS
IDSVA students and alumni are making substantial contributions to their fields of interest. Since enrolling at IDSVA, students have led panel discussions and presented papers at prominent conferences, published papers and articles, been awarded fellowships and promotions, and participated in solo and group exhibitions around the world.
Promoted to Full Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department, Indiana University Kokomo
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Literature at Hunter College, New York.
Presented "Interlooping: Livestreaming as Aesthetic Encounter" as part of the panel "Digital Realms in Practice" at CAA.
Appointed to CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts for a three-year term. The committee supports and promotes the scholarship, art practice and careers of women in the arts.
Appointed the Director of Operations of College of Arts and Humanities, College of Natural and Social Sciences, Adult Degree Completion and Online Undergraduate Studies at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, CA
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GHETTO BIENNALE 2022, Exhibiting Artist, representing the United States "SWEN MOUN | HEAL PEOPLE."
Essay "Art Activism and the Environment" is included in Ecothee Volume 6: Contemporary ecotheology, climate justice and environmental stewardship in world religions.
Panelist for Art As an Act Healing Symposium. Baltimore, MD
Conference Presentation: "The Artist Yachag and the Ceremony of Yagé as Cannibalistic Performance" at the IV Ecuadorian Anthropology and Archaeology Congress in Quito, Ecuador.
Published article Women Hip-Hop Artists and Womanist Theology in the MDPI Journal as part of the Special Issue Women Still Run This Thing: Hip Hop, Womanism, Sexuality, and Religion. Academic Editors: Daniel White Hodge and Erika D. Gault.
Appointed as the Awards chair for the AICa-International 3rd Congress in Paris, France.
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.
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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
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).
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).
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).
Book Publication: Politics and Heidegger’s Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art. Routledge. September 2021
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).
Appointed: Instructor of Art at Clovis Community College, New Mexico
Was crowned Chief Erelu Awo of Iwaro Oka Akoko, West Ondo State, Nigeria. She was officially Pronounced by His Royal Majesty, Oba Akande Omiyejola. The Asin(King) of Oka land.
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.
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.
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.
Founder and Owner, SeedVerse LLC
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).
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
Mellon Project Director in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department (AAADS) at Columbia University
Co -Director of Global Programs + Art Faculty at Greenwich Country Day School.
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
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
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
Tenured Assistant Professor and Gallery Director at Georgia Southern University
Professor, Art Appreciation at Baker College
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
Lecturer and Programme Director, MA Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway
Published: (Untitled), in the monograph Richard Hearns: Journey, to accompany Hearns' solo exhibition at Cadogan Contemporary
Chair, Department of Humanities, Paine College, Augusta, GA.
Publication: The Aesthetic of Art a Quiz E-Book by Cognella Editors & University Press
Assistant Professor of Art History at Queensborough Community College and Art History Professor at LIM
Associate Professor of Art at Northern State University.
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
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
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
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
Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs, San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). San Francisco, CA
Full Professor: 2D and 3D Design, University of Memphis, TN.
Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Lead Researcher and Archivist for the Estate of Michael Brewster
Tenured Associate Professor at Abilene Christian University.
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.
Program Officer, The Kettering Foundation
Executive Director, Western Kansas Community Foundation.
President Jennifer Ford Art Advisors and President Choice Designs
Co-Founder of the Travel Almanac Magazine, the first true post-tourism publication.
Owner, davisstudio, LLC
Promoted to Full Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department, Indiana University Kokomo
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Literature at Hunter College, New York.
Presented "Interlooping: Livestreaming as Aesthetic Encounter" as part of the panel "Digital Realms in Practice" at CAA.
Appointed to CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts for a three-year term. The committee supports and promotes the scholarship, art practice and careers of women in the arts.
Appointed the Director of Operations of College of Arts and Humanities, College of Natural and Social Sciences, Adult Degree Completion and Online Undergraduate Studies at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, CA
GHETTO BIENNALE 2022, Exhibiting Artist, representing the United States "SWEN MOUN | HEAL PEOPLE."
Essay "Art Activism and the Environment" is included in Ecothee Volume 6: Contemporary ecotheology, climate justice and environmental stewardship in world religions.
Panelist for Art As an Act Healing Symposium. Baltimore, MD
Conference Presentation: "The Artist Yachag and the Ceremony of Yagé as Cannibalistic Performance" at the IV Ecuadorian Anthropology and Archaeology Congress in Quito, Ecuador.
Published article Women Hip-Hop Artists and Womanist Theology in the MDPI Journal as part of the Special Issue Women Still Run This Thing: Hip Hop, Womanism, Sexuality, and Religion. Academic Editors: Daniel White Hodge and Erika D. Gault.
Appointed as the Awards chair for the AICa-International 3rd Congress in Paris, France.
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
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).
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).
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).
Book Publication: Politics and Heidegger’s Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art. Routledge. September 2021
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).
Appointed: Instructor of Art at Clovis Community College, New Mexico
Was crowned Chief Erelu Awo of Iwaro Oka Akoko, West Ondo State, Nigeria. She was officially Pronounced by His Royal Majesty, Oba Akande Omiyejola. The Asin(King) of Oka land.
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.
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.
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.
Founder and Owner, SeedVerse LLC
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).
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
Mellon Project Director in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department (AAADS) at Columbia University
Co -Director of Global Programs + Art Faculty at Greenwich Country Day School.
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
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
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
Tenured Assistant Professor and Gallery Director at Georgia Southern University
Professor, Art Appreciation at Baker College
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
Lecturer and Programme Director, MA Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway
Published: (Untitled), in the monograph Richard Hearns: Journey, to accompany Hearns' solo exhibition at Cadogan Contemporary
Chair, Department of Humanities, Paine College, Augusta, GA.
Publication: The Aesthetic of Art a Quiz E-Book by Cognella Editors & University Press
Assistant Professor of Art History at Queensborough Community College and Art History Professor at LIM
Associate Professor of Art at Northern State University.
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
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
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
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
Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs, San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). San Francisco, CA
Full Professor: 2D and 3D Design, University of Memphis, TN.
Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Lead Researcher and Archivist for the Estate of Michael Brewster
Tenured Associate Professor at Abilene Christian University.
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.
Program Officer, The Kettering Foundation
Executive Director, Western Kansas Community Foundation.
President Jennifer Ford Art Advisors and President Choice Designs
Co-Founder of the Travel Almanac Magazine, the first true post-tourism publication.
Owner, davisstudio, LLC
Promoted to Full Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department, Indiana University Kokomo
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Literature at Hunter College, New York.
Presented "Interlooping: Livestreaming as Aesthetic Encounter" as part of the panel "Digital Realms in Practice" at CAA.
Appointed to CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts for a three-year term. The committee supports and promotes the scholarship, art practice and careers of women in the arts.
Appointed the Director of Operations of College of Arts and Humanities, College of Natural and Social Sciences, Adult Degree Completion and Online Undergraduate Studies at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, CA
GHETTO BIENNALE 2022, Exhibiting Artist, representing the United States "SWEN MOUN | HEAL PEOPLE."
Essay "Art Activism and the Environment" is included in Ecothee Volume 6: Contemporary ecotheology, climate justice and environmental stewardship in world religions.
Panelist for Art As an Act Healing Symposium. Baltimore, MD
Conference Presentation: "The Artist Yachag and the Ceremony of Yagé as Cannibalistic Performance" at the IV Ecuadorian Anthropology and Archaeology Congress in Quito, Ecuador.
Published article Women Hip-Hop Artists and Womanist Theology in the MDPI Journal as part of the Special Issue Women Still Run This Thing: Hip Hop, Womanism, Sexuality, and Religion. Academic Editors: Daniel White Hodge and Erika D. Gault.
Appointed as the Awards chair for the AICa-International 3rd Congress in Paris, France.
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
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).
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).
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).
Book Publication: Politics and Heidegger’s Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art. Routledge. September 2021
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).
Appointed: Instructor of Art at Clovis Community College, New Mexico
Was crowned Chief Erelu Awo of Iwaro Oka Akoko, West Ondo State, Nigeria. She was officially Pronounced by His Royal Majesty, Oba Akande Omiyejola. The Asin(King) of Oka land.
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.
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.
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.
Founder and Owner, SeedVerse LLC
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).
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
Mellon Project Director in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department (AAADS) at Columbia University
Co -Director of Global Programs + Art Faculty at Greenwich Country Day School.
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
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
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
Tenured Assistant Professor and Gallery Director at Georgia Southern University
Professor, Art Appreciation at Baker College
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
Lecturer and Programme Director, MA Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway
Published: (Untitled), in the monograph Richard Hearns: Journey, to accompany Hearns' solo exhibition at Cadogan Contemporary
Chair, Department of Humanities, Paine College, Augusta, GA.
Publication: The Aesthetic of Art a Quiz E-Book by Cognella Editors & University Press
Assistant Professor of Art History at Queensborough Community College and Art History Professor at LIM
Associate Professor of Art at Northern State University.
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
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
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
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
Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs, San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). San Francisco, CA
Full Professor: 2D and 3D Design, University of Memphis, TN.
Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
Lead Researcher and Archivist for the Estate of Michael Brewster
Tenured Associate Professor at Abilene Christian University.
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.
Program Officer, The Kettering Foundation
Executive Director, Western Kansas Community Foundation.
President Jennifer Ford Art Advisors and President Choice Designs
Co-Founder of the Travel Almanac Magazine, the first true post-tourism publication.
Owner, davisstudio, LLC