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EDUCATION:

Western Carolina University
MFA (2021)
Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, MA
BFA (2014)

RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS:

2021

• Artist in Residence, Peter Bullough Foundation, Winchester, VA

• CLICK! PIC Grant (as Six Feet Photography Project), Click! Photo Festival

2020

• Curatorial Fellow, Black Mountain College Collection - Asheville Art MuseumBlack Mountain College Collection - Asheville Art Museum

2019-2020

• All for North Carolina Fellow - Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation

2020

• Summer Research Fellowship - Western Carolina University

2019

• Summer Research Fellowship - Western Carolina University

• First Place, Juried show: Analog | Digital, Beacon Gallery, Boston, MA

2018

• Artist in Residence, Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC

• Regional Artist Project Grant, Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, NC

2017

• Inaugural Artist in Residence, the Cabbage School, Sandy Mush, NC

2016-2017

• Inaugural Artist in the Community Resident, HUB-BUB + Spartanburg County Public Libraries, Spartanburg, SC

2016

• Cabbage School Summit, the Commons, Sandy Mush, NC

• Penland School of Crafts Winter Residency, Penland, NC

2015

• Penland School of Crafts Winter Residency, Penland, NC

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2021

• Open Floor Plan, various locations

2018

• An Apocryphal Cloud of Somewheres and Sometimes (and other works), Downtown Books and News, Asheville, NC

2017

• Deaccessioned: the Identity of Accumulated Material, Crutchfield Gallery, Spartanburg, SC

• Family Vacations I Have Never Taken, Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill University, Mars Hill, NC

2016

• Practice/Process, REVOLVE, Asheville, NC

• Special Collections, HQ Studio, Spartanburg County Public Library, Spartanburg, SC

SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATIONS / PERFORMANCES:

2021

• Affordable Housing, RAMP Gallery, Asheville, NC

• New Real Estate Now Available, Cullowhee, NC

• Custom, Light-filled, Historic, WCU Fine Art Museum, Cullowhee, NC

• If You Lived Here You’d Be Home(less), Asheville, NC

2019

• Etiological Relations, Art Fields, Lake City, SC (April 2019)

• South Interslopers, South Slope, Asheville, NC

2018

• An Apocryphal Cloud of Somewhere and Sometimes for MAINFRAME, the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC

• Vague/Limited, REVOLVE, Asheville, NC

• An Apocryphal Cloud of Somewheres and Sometimes, Art Fields, Lake City, SC

• Rituals for visual listening I. Water. II. Night., supporting Rhona Eve Clews, {Re}HAPPENING 8 at Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC

2017

• Correspondences, Maker's Marks, Nichols House Museum, Boston, MA

• Community Thread, Trade & Lore, Asheville, NC

• Untitled (148 Main st.), Spartanburg, SC

• Lighten Up Spartanburg, Spartanburg, SC

2016-2017

• Loom with a View, Spartanburg, SC

2015

• Mise en Abyme, {Re}HAPPENING 5 at Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC

• Black Mountain Blue Print, Lake Eden Arts Festival, Black Mountain, NC

• Latta Park Installation 1, Charlotte, NC

2014

• Untitled (all the tea I drank that year), Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2021

• Future Tense, Carroll Gallery, Marshall University

• Out of Office, Collar Works, Troy, NY

• Pieces of Light, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC

2020

• Postmarked, Crafting the Future X Penland

• Hope is a Horizon, REVOLVE, Asheville, NC

• By a Thread, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC

• Click Photography Festival – Life at Six Feet

2019

• Next Wave, RAMP Gallery, Asheville, NC

• Peach Pie, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC

• Gendered Fury, Gallery 130, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

• Analog | Digital, Beacon Gallery, Boston, MA

• Soundwave, The Bascomb, Highlands, NC

• Spartanburg Day School, Spartanburg, SC

• FIBER OPTIMISM, Gallery 130, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

• Street/Art, PUSH Gallery, Asheville, NC

• Limitless Snowflakes, Gallery 130, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

2018

• Dope, Yet Unfamiliar, Gallery 130, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

• Alternative to What?, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA

• Future Past: Experiments in Photography, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC

• 10x100, RAMP Gallery, Asheville, NC

2017

• Get Well Soon, the Southern Gallery, Charleston, SC

• Sent from a Pure Moment! (honoring and responding to the work of Jack Pierson), Godine Gallery, Boston, MA

• Crafted With Strangers, Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, Asheville, NC

• MOTH/MISC, the Mothlight, Asheville, NC

• Object as Poet, Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design, Asheville, NC

• Apple Pie: an American Art Show, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC

2016

• 99 Problems (but a Print Ain't One), The Southern Gallery, Charleston,, SC

2015

• Fiber/Topographics, West End Bakery, West Asheville, NC

• Misprints: An Exploration Into Printmaking, Craft and Design, Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, NC

EXHIBITIONS CURATED:

2021

• Carolina Record Shop, Buncombe County Special Collections (Engaging Collections)

• Connecting Legacies, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

2020

• The Poetics of Space - Life at Six Feet

2019

• Tell Me What You See - works by Molly Sawyer, Gallery 130, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

• Incoming Something, Gallery 130, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

• FIBER OPTIMISM, Gallery 130, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

• Street/Art, PUSH Gallery, Asheville, NC

• HUSTLERS series (ongoing 2016-2020), High Five Rankin, Asheville, NC

2018

• Sorcerous Selections from the Garden of Time and Dreaming, Zachary Sarvis, High Five Coffee, Asheville, NC

• Day Aches, Brett Wyatt with Wooly Press, High Five Coffee, Asheville, NC

• Simply Serve, Jennifer Mesk + Jonathon Flaum, High Five Coffee, Asheville, NC

• Selected Works by Gus Grissom, High Five Coffee, Asheville, NC

2017

• Creating from Kindness, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC

• Selected Works by Esteban Gonzalez, High Five Coffee, Asheville, NC

• Photo:Object, PUSH Gallery, Asheville, NC

• We Gonna Be Alright, Reba West Fraser, High Five Coffee, Asheville, NC

• Modern Nostalgia - Michael Christopher, High Five Coffee, Asheville, NC

2016

• #AVLGLITCH: an Internationally-Sourced Exploration of Glitch Photographs, REVOLVE, Asheville Darkroom + the BLOCK off Biltmore (three-venue exhibition), Asheville, NC

• Sorry I made it Weird: Portraits of People You May Know, Andy Herod, PUSH Gallery, Asheville, NC

• The DeHulling, Janine Rissewyck + Nicola Bajalia, High Five Coffee, Asheville, NC

• Indian Summer Press, Rosy Kirby, High Five Coffee, Asheville, NC

• Sculptural Installation, Carley Brandau, High Five Coffee, Asheville, NC

• INTERLUDE: 22 Days of Happenings at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Henco Pop-up Gallery, 5 Walnut Wine Bar, and the streets of Downtown Asheville, NC

2015

• Fiber/Topographics, West End Bakery, West Asheville, NC

• Misprints: An Exploration Into Printmaking, Craft and Design, Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, NC

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:

• National Museum of Women in the Arts - Library + Resource Center, DC

• International Museum of Collage, Fort Worth, TX

• Spartanburg County Public Libraries, Spartanburg, SC

• Private Collections

TEACHING/SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS/CONFERENCES:

2022

• Keynote: Inner Borders/Crossing Threads, Emerging Conversations Conference, University of Arizona, Art and Visual Culture Education, Tucson, Arizona.

• The Critical Eye: Curators in Conversation, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona.

2020

• Teaching: Photography 2, Art 455-01 (SP2020, FA2020), Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

• Conference Presenter: BMC Playbook. SECAC Conference

• Curatorial Talk: Life at Six Feet, Click! Photo Fest

• Conference Presenter: Engaging Collections: at the intersection of Art with Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections. Society of American Archivists Preservation Section Twitter Conference, ALA

• Teaching: Black Mountain College Playbook, College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL

• Conference Presenter: Relational Equity - Story-sharing Lived Experience for Radical Empathy, Inclusive Leadership Conference, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

• Conference Presenter: Decolonizing the Archive for Museum Diversity: Engaging Marginalized Narratives within Collections for Wider Representation in Museums and Archives, Diversity + Inclusion in Small to Mid-size Museums Symposium, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

• Conference Presenter: Looking Back to Move Forward: Examining Overlooked Histories Through Art Praxis to Build Community and Facilitate a More Equitable Future, Graduate Research Symposium, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

• Guest Lecturer: Public Policy 390: New Entrepreneurs, UNC Chapel Hill

• TA: ART136-01: Art History Survey I + ART104-05: Introduction to the Visual Arts, assisting Dr. Jillian Echlin

2019

• Teaching: Introduction to the Visual Arts, Art 104-01 (FA2019), Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC

• 3MT Presenter: Art as Amplification in Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections, Western Carolina University

• Teaching: Connections at Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

• Teaching: Black Mountain College Playbook - School of the Alternative, Black Mountain, NC

• Teaching Practicum - Photography 2+3, Western Carolina University

• Juror, HUB-BUB Residency selection

• Juror, ELSEWHERE Residency selection

• Guest Lecturer: Art 450: Arts and Entrepreneurship Intensive, Western Carolina University

2018

• Community Day Cyanotype Workshop - Penland School of Craft Penland, NC

• Teaching Artist in Residence: Visual Arts, Theater in the Open Summer Arts Workshop, Newburyport, MA

• Teaching: Transdisciplinary Photography – the Cabbage School, Sandy Mush, NC

• Teaching Artist in Residence: Stone Academy, Greenville, SC

2017

• Teaching: the Living Library – the Cabbage School, Sandy Mush, NC

• Visiting Artist, Guest Critique - Converse College Drawing 1+2 (SP2017), Spartanburg, SC

• Visiting Artist, Guest Critique - Massachusetts College of Arts Fibers Department (SP2017), Boston, MA

• Deaccessioned, Artist's Talk, Spartanburg County Public Library, Spartanburg, SC

• Guest Critique, Photography Concentration with Mercedes Jelinek, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

• Waste: Discarded Materials in Creative Practice, Talk20 Lecture Series, Spartanburg, SC

• Juror, 8th Annual Collegiate Art Exhibition, Spartanburg County Public Library, Spartanburg, SC

• Juror, Cadenza Literary & Arts Magazine, Mars Hill University, Mars Hill, NC

• Visiting Artist, Guest Critique - Converse College Senior 2017 BA, Spartanburg, SC

• Visiting Artist, Guest Lecturer - Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC

• 2016-2017 Teaching: Free All-Ages Workshops: Markmaking, Embroidery, Weaving, Photography, Nature + Land Art, Abstract Expressionism, Printmaking, Collage - Spartanburg County Public Library, Spartanburg, SC

2016

• Panel - Aestheticization of Error: the Analog and Digital Materiality of GLITCH, REVOLVE, Asheville, NC

• SCLA Conference Presenter - “Artist in the Community: An Artist in Residence Partnership” Columbia, SC

• Practice/Process, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Studio, REVOLVE, Asheville, NC

• Teaching: Film Composition - Fierce Flix Film Camp for Girls and Gender Minorities, Asheville, NC

• Art Education Program Volunteer: Roots + Wings School of Art and Design, Asheville, NC

2015

• Teaching: Markmaking, Weaving, Alt-Photo: Archetypographia Studio Workshops, Marshall, NC

• Panel Moderator: ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 7 Conference, UNC Asheville, Asheville, NC

EXPERIENCE + CIVIC ENGAGEMENT:

2020

• Sylva Art and Design committee, member

• Campaign for Southern Equality, Queer Artist group, member

2018-2020

• Graduate Exhibitions Assistant, Fine Art Museum, Bardo Arts Center, Cullowhee, NC

2019

• Education - Connections Intern, Asheville Art Museum: developing pilot program serving adults with memory loss and their care partners through arts engagement

• Graduate Assistant in Art History, Dr. Karen Britt + Dr. Seth McCormick

• Volunteer: Tool School for Girls, UNCA STEAM Studio, Asheville, NC

2018

• Graduate Assistant in Art History, Dr. Karen Britt + Dr. Seth McCormick

• Centering Intersectional Feminism webinar, Standing Up for Racial Justice

• Gallery Associate, REVOLVE, Asheville, NC

2017-2018

• Archivist, Mountain Gardens, Celo, NC

• Fabrication and on-site Assistant to Artist Eli Blasko, Art on the Atlanta Beltline, Atlanta, GA

2017

• Curation and Interpretation, Creative Consulting, Strategy: About Face Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

• Installation + Documentation, Art2, Spartanburg Art Museum

• C4 Hatch Training Intensive: Fuse Arts Center, Atlanta, GA

• Fabrication, Mural painting, Assistant: BannanBlasko, Spartanburg, SC

2016

• Collaborative Founder and first resident artist of the Cabbage School

• Installation/Documentation: Seeing Spartanburg in a New Light by Erwin Redl, Bloomburg Grant-funded Project

• ArtistsU - “Making Your Life as an Artist” Workshop: Tapp's Art Center, Columbia, SC

2015-2016

• Outreach + Development Coordinator: Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC

MEMBERSHIP:

• College Art Association

• Society for Photographic Education

• Southeast College Art Association

PUBLICATIONS/PRESS:

2020

• Editor, Engaging Collections Journal

• Mapping Craft - This is where we meet, photoessay

• “MFA Student Emerges as a Change-Maker in North Carolina” - Western Carolina University

2019

• “On Living in a Flood Plain and an Internet Desert,” Photoessay, Dilettante Army

• “Went There: Analog | Digital @ Beacon Gallery” - Gina Lindner, Boston Hassle

• ArtFields Catalogue - juried exhibition

2018

• Asheville Made, April 2018 - feature

• ArtFields Catalogue - juried exhibition

• the _____ House, Essay and Photograph

2017

• Ghost Proposal, no.7, Fall 2017 - Cover Image

• PHOTO:OBJECT, zine catalogue, 2017

• Maker's Marks: Art, Craft, and the Fiber of Change, Exhibition Catalogue, Nichols House Museum, Boston, MA (March 2017) - Essay, Photographs, and Artworks published

• “A year in Spartanburg with Hub-Bub Artist-in-Residence, Lydia See“ - interview, City Podcast, Spartanburg, SC

• “Lydia See’s latest exhibit travels to places unknown” Mountain Xpress, February 10, 2017

• “Artist in Residence” - Spartanburg Magazine, February 2017

• “Artist in Residence Program” - Spartanburg County Public Library Magazine, Winter 2017

2016

• “Artist joins revamped Hub-Bub residency program” - Spartanburg Herald-Journal, 9.4.16

• “Lydia See to focus on art accessibility during Hub-Bub residency" – interview, City Podcast, Spartanburg, SC

2014

• Photographer - Adventures in Letterpress, Brandon Mise. Laurence King, 2014

my photography and/or writing has also appeared in: USA Today, SPIN, The New York Times, Signal to Noise, SIFT
+ numerous other regional and national print publications, blogs and online publications.