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Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION
  • Master of Fine Arts: University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts: Massachusetts College of Art


ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF ART

  • Introduction to Sculpture 
  •  Ceramics I
Dominican University  River Forest, IL   
8/2022 – Present

  • Wearable Sculpture  
  • 3-D Material Studies
Chicago High School for the Arts 
2019 – 2022


  • Intro to Design & Drawing 1
Harper Community College  Palatine, IL
2011 – 2013


  • Intro to Drawing
University of Illinois at Chicago
2009 – 2011


ART PROGRAM DIRECTOR
  • Rainbo Club:  Chicago, IL
2006 to 2018 

  • Lula Café :  Chicago, IL
2018 to present



RESIDENCIES AND COMMUNITY-BASED EVENTS

  • ART etc CLUB co-founder 2025

  • Oxbow Residency | Summer 2023

  • ACRE Residency | Summer 2015

  • Harold Arts Residency | Summer 2008



MUSIC PROJECTS

 Aitis Band | 2019–Present
  • Albums: Aitis Band I (2020), Aitis Band II (2021), Aitis Band III (2022), 
Aitis Band IV (2025)

Joan of Arc | 2010–2019
  • Albums: 1984, Testimonium Songs, He’s Got the Whole This Land in His Hands, Tim Melina Theo Bobby



SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
  • Big Ramp Gallery – Philadelphia, PA | May 2025
  • North Central College – Naperville, IL | October 2024
  • Fall in the Leaves – Regards, Chicago, IL | 2023
  • EVERYDAY EVERYDAY – Devening Projects, Chicago, IL | 2019
  • Long Distance Dedication: The Fall of Asclepius 4581 – Regards, Chicago, IL | 2017
  • Melina Ausikaitis – Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, IL | 2012



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

 2024
Costume Design for Whim W’him Dance Production
Directed by Olivier Wevers and choreographed by Robyn Mineko

2023
  • Mort Garson’s Plantasia Performance – Aitis Band 
Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago, IL

  • Intimacies and Influence – Open House Contemporary, Chicago, IL

2020
  • Singles – Regards, Chicago, IL (with artist William Pope.L )

2019
  • Rocked & Rolled – Illinois State Museum, Lockport, IL
  • Diane Simpson: Architecture in Motion – Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL (performer)

2018
  • Dymaxion Trajectories – Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL

2017
  • Joan of Arc Presents: The Passion of Joan of Arc 
Art Institute of Chicago (score performance)

2015
  • MCA Live: William Pope.L, Cage Unrequited – Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (performer)

2006–2014 (Highlights)
  • Threesome Performance– Constellation, Chicago, IL | 2014
  • The Very Young – Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich, Switzerland | 2006

  • Monday Me – Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL | 2015


  • For the Wandered: Hubbard Street Performance 
     Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL | 2013