Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
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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
8/2022 – Present
- Wearable Sculpture
- 3-D Material Studies
2019 – 2022
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Intro to Design & Drawing 1
2011 – 2013
- Intro to Drawing
2009 – 2011
ART PROGRAM DIRECTOR
- Rainbo Club: Chicago, IL
- Lula Café : Chicago, IL
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),
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
- 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
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