EDUCATION
2016 Future Tutors Programme, Royal School of Needlework, UK
2012 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture
2010 Certificate in Technical Hand Embroidery, Royal School of Needlework, UK
2008 BA, Macalester College, Studio Art
RESIDENCIES
2020 Inaugural Artist in Residence, Carbon Upcycling Technologies/Expedition Air, Canada
2015 Entre, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2007 Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, Jingdezhen, China
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021-22 Our Future Planet, Science Museum, London
2020-21 Captured Carbon Studio display, Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre, Canada
2017 In Remembrance: People, Times, & Places, San Francisco Center for the Book
2016 Stories in Stitch, Royal School of Needlework, UK
2016 Stitched in Time: A Needlework Exhibit, Filoli, CA
2014 Black, White, and Colour, Cumberland Lodge, UK
2013 truck pillow, Ford’s Truck Plant in the Rouge Complex, Dearborn, MI
2012 SAIC MFA Graduate Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago
2012 Solo Exhibition, …to a company that made something, Gallery Uno, Chicago
2011 Weddings/Proms/Corporate Events/Beauty Pageants/Bar Mitzvahs/Quinceañeras/,
Zhou B Art Center, Chicago
2010 No People, Pets, or Flowers: Exploring the Sentimental, the Personal, and the Domestic
in Contemporary Art, Chicago
PRESS
Robin McKie, Vodka, toothpaste, yoga mats … the new technology making items out of thin air: An exhibition at London’s Science Museum shows how far carbon capture research has come, The Guardian, April 18, 2021
Andrew Bell, Creating products, art out of CO2 ‘huge step forward in climate mitigation’: Expedition Air lead, BNN Bloomberg, April 9, 2021
Kevin Fleming, Residency program aims to turn captured carbon materials into art, CTV News, April 6, 2021
Using captured carbon to make art—w/ Annalee Levin of Captured Carbon Studio, podcast, Reversing Climate Change: Season 2 Episode 52, February 23, 2021
Embroidery and Climate Change, podcast, The Embroidery Podcast: Season 1 Episode 2, February 6, 2021
HONORS
2015 Royal School of Needlework Clothworkers’ Award for Top Student
2012 Eldon Danhausen Sculpture Fellowship
2008 Graduated Cum Laude with Departmental Honors, Macalester College
2007 Freeman Grant, collaboration with ceramicist Gary Erickson
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2015-2016
Liz Harvey’s The Lost Ones, Master Embroidery Teacher during SF performances: de Young Museum, Conceptual Craft Exhibition at Artemis Gallery, and Yerba Buena Night
2016
Embroidery Project for Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Textiles and Clothing, Guatemala, designing embroidery kits based on pieces in the museum collection, to be sold in the museum store and also used to facilitate the teaching of embroidery classes at the museum
2015
Cornelia Parker’s Magna Carta (An Embroidery), part of the Royal School of Needlework team who helped to embroider and piece together this project
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021
INSTRUCTOR
Embroidery Classes, Cielo House
2020
SPEAKER
East Bay Mini Maker Faire, Virtual Town Hall Event
INSTRUCTOR
Virtual Embroidery Class, Kindling
2019-2020
INSTRUCTOR
Embroidery Classes, Engage as you Age
2015-2020
EMBROIDERY CONSULTANT AND INSTRUCTOR
Kayu Design, design consultation and sampling, job training program—teaching new immigrant women the skill of hand monogramming at the San Francisco YMCA as part of Kayu’s initiative to provide practical training and an alternative source of income, special events—running embroidery workshops for Kayu’s clients
2016-2019
FOUNDING INSTRUCTOR
San Francisco School of Needlework and Design (SNAD), beginner through advanced courses
2018-2019
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
San Francisco School of Needlework and Design
Projects with the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco) and SNAD:
designing a hands-on embroidery activity for the Textile Lab to accompany the exhibition Veiled Meanings and organization of stitching events including “Goldwork Embroidery Circle” and “Crafternoons”
2019
GUEST LECTURER
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Studio Principals: Textile
2015-2018
INSTRUCTOR
Royal School of Needlework, Certificate Courses, Day Classes, and Summer School
2016-2018
COMMUNITY OUTREACH COORDINATOR
San Francisco School of Needlework and Design
2018
Gallery Talk, Goldwork Embroidery, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, in conjunction with the exhibition Veiled Meanings
INSTRUCTOR
Personalized job training programs at SNAD, organized and ran training programs for local SF businesses looking to hire hand embroiderers for product customization
INSTRUCTOR
Embroiderers’ Guild, St. Paul Needleworkers
2017
DESIGN CONTRIBUTOR
Book, Embroider Your Life, by Natalie Mornu
2014-2016
ASSISTANT TEXTILE CONSERVATOR
Forever Embroidery Studio, San Francisco
2016
Lecture, Embroidered Portraits, Filoli, CA
2015
INSTRUCTOR AND LECTURER
Forever Embroidery Studio Seminar on the Queen Mary, CA
VISITING ARTIST AND INSTRUCTOR
Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Textiles and Clothing, Guatemala
2013-2014
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR
Royal School of Needlework
2013
UPHOLSTERY APPRENTICE
Mandan Designs, San Francisco
2016 Future Tutors Programme, Royal School of Needlework, UK
2012 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture
2010 Certificate in Technical Hand Embroidery, Royal School of Needlework, UK
2008 BA, Macalester College, Studio Art
RESIDENCIES
2020 Inaugural Artist in Residence, Carbon Upcycling Technologies/Expedition Air, Canada
2015 Entre, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2007 Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, Jingdezhen, China
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021-22 Our Future Planet, Science Museum, London
2020-21 Captured Carbon Studio display, Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre, Canada
2017 In Remembrance: People, Times, & Places, San Francisco Center for the Book
2016 Stories in Stitch, Royal School of Needlework, UK
2016 Stitched in Time: A Needlework Exhibit, Filoli, CA
2014 Black, White, and Colour, Cumberland Lodge, UK
2013 truck pillow, Ford’s Truck Plant in the Rouge Complex, Dearborn, MI
2012 SAIC MFA Graduate Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago
2012 Solo Exhibition, …to a company that made something, Gallery Uno, Chicago
2011 Weddings/Proms/Corporate Events/Beauty Pageants/Bar Mitzvahs/Quinceañeras/,
Zhou B Art Center, Chicago
2010 No People, Pets, or Flowers: Exploring the Sentimental, the Personal, and the Domestic
in Contemporary Art, Chicago
PRESS
Robin McKie, Vodka, toothpaste, yoga mats … the new technology making items out of thin air: An exhibition at London’s Science Museum shows how far carbon capture research has come, The Guardian, April 18, 2021
Andrew Bell, Creating products, art out of CO2 ‘huge step forward in climate mitigation’: Expedition Air lead, BNN Bloomberg, April 9, 2021
Kevin Fleming, Residency program aims to turn captured carbon materials into art, CTV News, April 6, 2021
Using captured carbon to make art—w/ Annalee Levin of Captured Carbon Studio, podcast, Reversing Climate Change: Season 2 Episode 52, February 23, 2021
Embroidery and Climate Change, podcast, The Embroidery Podcast: Season 1 Episode 2, February 6, 2021
HONORS
2015 Royal School of Needlework Clothworkers’ Award for Top Student
2012 Eldon Danhausen Sculpture Fellowship
2008 Graduated Cum Laude with Departmental Honors, Macalester College
2007 Freeman Grant, collaboration with ceramicist Gary Erickson
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2015-2016
Liz Harvey’s The Lost Ones, Master Embroidery Teacher during SF performances: de Young Museum, Conceptual Craft Exhibition at Artemis Gallery, and Yerba Buena Night
2016
Embroidery Project for Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Textiles and Clothing, Guatemala, designing embroidery kits based on pieces in the museum collection, to be sold in the museum store and also used to facilitate the teaching of embroidery classes at the museum
2015
Cornelia Parker’s Magna Carta (An Embroidery), part of the Royal School of Needlework team who helped to embroider and piece together this project
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021
INSTRUCTOR
Embroidery Classes, Cielo House
2020
SPEAKER
East Bay Mini Maker Faire, Virtual Town Hall Event
INSTRUCTOR
Virtual Embroidery Class, Kindling
2019-2020
INSTRUCTOR
Embroidery Classes, Engage as you Age
2015-2020
EMBROIDERY CONSULTANT AND INSTRUCTOR
Kayu Design, design consultation and sampling, job training program—teaching new immigrant women the skill of hand monogramming at the San Francisco YMCA as part of Kayu’s initiative to provide practical training and an alternative source of income, special events—running embroidery workshops for Kayu’s clients
2016-2019
FOUNDING INSTRUCTOR
San Francisco School of Needlework and Design (SNAD), beginner through advanced courses
2018-2019
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
San Francisco School of Needlework and Design
Projects with the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco) and SNAD:
designing a hands-on embroidery activity for the Textile Lab to accompany the exhibition Veiled Meanings and organization of stitching events including “Goldwork Embroidery Circle” and “Crafternoons”
2019
GUEST LECTURER
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Studio Principals: Textile
2015-2018
INSTRUCTOR
Royal School of Needlework, Certificate Courses, Day Classes, and Summer School
2016-2018
COMMUNITY OUTREACH COORDINATOR
San Francisco School of Needlework and Design
2018
Gallery Talk, Goldwork Embroidery, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, in conjunction with the exhibition Veiled Meanings
INSTRUCTOR
Personalized job training programs at SNAD, organized and ran training programs for local SF businesses looking to hire hand embroiderers for product customization
INSTRUCTOR
Embroiderers’ Guild, St. Paul Needleworkers
2017
DESIGN CONTRIBUTOR
Book, Embroider Your Life, by Natalie Mornu
2014-2016
ASSISTANT TEXTILE CONSERVATOR
Forever Embroidery Studio, San Francisco
2016
Lecture, Embroidered Portraits, Filoli, CA
2015
INSTRUCTOR AND LECTURER
Forever Embroidery Studio Seminar on the Queen Mary, CA
VISITING ARTIST AND INSTRUCTOR
Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Textiles and Clothing, Guatemala
2013-2014
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR
Royal School of Needlework
2013
UPHOLSTERY APPRENTICE
Mandan Designs, San Francisco