Tabula Rasa Time Work

tobacco brown *** Bruckner Boulevard, Apartment *C, Bronx, New York 10459 901-***-****

Exhibitions/Projects

City of Memphis with the Urban Art Commission, blight remediation/restorative justice land art. Healing Tree, 18’ metal botanical sculpture with Carolina Jasmine and Tangerine Beauty Crossvine climbing vines in the sculptural base 2019 - DEC 2020

CLTV Cmplx Gallery, I Never Promised you a Rose Garden, FIBRE Women’s Group Show, June-August, Summer 2019 tabula rasa/erasure, solo show Orange Mound Gallery, garden installation and objects 4’x12’ solo show, 2018 Memphis Area Women's Foundation, Arte Amore, 3'x32", Baptist Women Hospital, installation, 2017 LeBonheur Children's Hospital, Spectral Conversion, 18"x 24" (x2), Art and Science Show, with U T Medical Research Sciences Institute, Memphis College of Art Hyde Gallery, collage, 2016 Community Lift, Slim's Backyard outdoor performance space, Memphis Slim House, performance garden, 2015 Winkleman Gallery: Wayland Rudd Political Protest Mail Art Exhibition, BORDERS, They Slave Us 8.5"x11”, New York City, NY, collage, 2014

Marshall Arts Gallery, Family Tree, Open Studio Show, sculpture, 2013 Downtown Memphis Commission, Spirit Gardens, six entry gardens, 8'x12' bordering entrances on front and rear of historic Court Square Park, Downtown Memphis, TN, 2011

Memphis Area Women's Foundation, Arte Adora 7’x3.5’, Baptist Women's Hospital, wall installation, 2011 Douglass High School, Memphis City Schools with Urban Art Commission, Philosophers Garden, 18’x18’ public art to commemorate historic visit of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, mural, wall installation art, 2008-2009 Berlin, Germany International Garten Ausstellung, IGA Rostock, International Meets Local, living sculpture, 2003 Berlin, Germany stilwerk Design Center, a non traditional garden installation, 2001 Fellowships/Scholarships/Residencies

ArtSpace Immersion Cohort, ArtSpace Corporate, Minneapolis, MN 2018-2020 TED Radio Hour, interview with Guy Raz, Executive NPR, Washington, DC, October 2019 StoryCorps Mobile Tour, Interviewer, Crosstown Arts Memphis, TN, Library of Congress and Smithsonian Museum Archives, September 2019

ART21 Summer Institute Scholarship, Columbia University Teachers College, New York City, NY, 2019-2020 Educators Cohort July 2019

New Museum, New Inc. Residency, Ideas for the City - Finalist New York City, NY, May-June 2019 Fractured Atlas New York City, “Artist Campaign School”, Chicago, IL 2019 Cohort, May 2019 Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Arts Administration Innovative Cultural Fellowship, NY, NY 2018 International Equal Justice Residency - Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, 2017-2018 TED Residency resulting in TED Talk, New York City, NY, Fall 2017 ArtsMemphis/Art Up Fellowship NEA Community Enhancement Fellow - Social Justice Project Research 2016 Memphis Slim House Residency. Political Resistance Exhibition January 30, 2016 Opening “burning bridges : as I light the way forward”, 2015-2016

Awards/Honors

TED Radio Hour, interview with Guy Raz, NPR Executive, in Washington, DC, 2019 Art21 Educators Cohort 2019-2020, Summer Institute Columbia Teachers College, July, 2019, NYC Fractured Atlas NYC, Artists Campaign School May, 2019 Chicago, IL TED.com “What gardening taught me about life”, published May 31, 2018 ArtSpace Immersion Cohort, ArtSpace Corporate, Minneapolis, MN, 2018-2020 ArtsMemphis- Robert E Gard National Arts Award for Orange Mound Community Engagement - Awarded at Americans for the Arts, Boston, MA 2016

Department of Women's and Minority Procurement University of Virginia for Enslaved African American Memorial Garden - Shortlist 2016

NBC Grio Magazine - 40 Amazing Black Artists to Watch, 2015 ARTISTIC STATEMENT collaboration for community and public art engagement, creative placemaking