Resident at Stay Home Gallery, Artist/Mother Podcast Oct 2022
Resident at BOLT, Chicago Artists Coalition 2022-23
Resident at Hyde Park Art Center 2019 - 2022
Recipient of Make/Together Project Grant from the ATHENA foundation 2020
Recipient of the South Asian Artists Resilience Fund SAARF 2020
Recipient of the Illinois Art Fund- 3 Arts Relief grant 2020
Stay Home Gallery, "Wax and Wane", curated by Anna McKeown, Paris, TN
Collar Works, "Painting at night", juried by Judith Braun, Troy NY
Lillstreet Art Center, "Taking. Up. Space" curated by Amanda Mulcahy, Chicago, IL
Grounds for sculpture, The Color Network, Hamilton, NJ
2021
Center Program Coordinator, Hyde Park Art Center
- Assist Director of Education with administrative duties including processing applications, communicating with program participants and visitors, planning seminar meetings, setting up seminar space and gathering exhibition content for promotional purposes
- Serve as a key spokesperson and liaison to the Art Center and larger art community
- Put together exhibition catalog and exhibition related programming events
Teaching- Lectures and Workshops
- Guest Lecture School of the Arts Institute of Chicago (undergrad)- Documentation for Art
- Guest Lecture School of the Arts Institute of Chicago (grad)- Curating expanded fields
- Educator for teen painting program at After School Matters
- Creativity workshops with elementary children at START Mumbai, Bell Academy, Wicker Park Garden community and Harold Washington Library.
Board Member, Chicago Public Art Group CPAG
- Grow mentorship program by aligning lead artists with young volunteers and emerging artists
- Further community relationships, engage schools and park districts to commission public art
- Provide critique, design feedback, and guidance for ongoing projects
- Support fundraising and event sponsorship efforts
Lead Artist, Devon Streetscape design, Chicago Public Art Group CPAG
- Studied cultural influences and corralled opinion within the community via workshops, collaborations, and charrettes to develop specific design forms for community identifiers
- Engaged stakeholders including Aldermen, Principals, Park Administrators, urban planners, Chicago Department of Transportation, city officials, and Community Leaders