EXPERIENCE: 
•Artistic Co-Director (programming) at Stride Art Gallery, Calgary AB, 2025-present 
•Chair of Board of Directors for Moving Gallery (newly formed) Calgary AB, 2025-present 
•Graphic Designer (2007-2020 full-time) (2015-present, freelance) 

•RA for Dr. Devon Smithers - Professor at the University of Lethbridge, AB 2025 
•RA for Dr. Jessica Jacobson-Konefell - Assistant Professor at the University of Lethbridge, Winnipeg MB. 2021 to 2022, Calgary AB 2024-present 
•General Board Member / Social Media CARFAC MB 2023 - 2025 
•Co-Chair and Curator - Graduate Studies Curatorial Committee, AU Arts, Calgary, AB 2023-2025 
•Curator of District SOA - Exhibition of Student work (School of Art, UofM) in several Businesses in The Exchange District Wpg MB, 2023 
•Gallery Assistant; School of Art Gallery, UofM, 2022 - 2023 

EDUCATION: 
2025 - AU Arts, Masters in Fine Arts in Craft Media (Distinction) 
2023 - School of Art, UofM, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) 
2007 - Herzing College, Web and Print Production Diploma 

 AWARDS and GRANTS: 
2025 - AGES - Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship 
2023 - MAC Learn Scholarship 
Alberta University of the Arts Entrance Award 
1 of 5 Grant recipients for Nuit Blanche Installation 
2022 - Cecil C. Richards Memorial Award (Sculpture) 
Janet Ian Cameron Memorial Bursary in Fine Arts 
Lydia Friesen Memorial Bursary in Fine Arts 
2021 - MSBI Bursary Fund  
UMSU Bursary 

EXHIBITIONS/PRESENTATIONS: 
2026 •From Campus to Community - AU Arts X cSPACE, cSPACE Marda Loop, Calgary AB, (Alumni group exhibition) 
•How to Apply to Galleries - CARFAC AB + Airdrie Arts and Culture Council, Inspire Airdrie, AB (Speaker) 

2025 •Faces and Places, (invited to add to Deep Dream Superstructure) IKG Gallery, AU Arts, Calgary AB,
(invited to respond as an alumnus to Deep Dream Superstructure) 
•Artist Talk - Art Now, School of Art, UofM, 2025 
  •Thunderstorm - AU Arts Residency Exhibition, AU Arts, Calgary AB, (group show) 
•Words as Water - Solo Exhibit - The Guest Room, AU Arts, Calgary AB 
•aceart Members Show 
• DIY Spaces and Artist Run Centres in Calgary since the 1970s (Panel Moderator) 
•Threads in Water (Solo) - The Nook, AU Arts, Calgary AB
•AU Arts Graduation Exhibition, IKG Gallery, AU Arts, Calgary AB, (group show) 
•MFA in Craft Media Thesis Exhibition (Tales From Under the Silk Cotton Tree), Illingworth Kerr Gallery (IKG), AU
Arts, Calgary AB, (group show) 
•Curator of Warm Fuzzies - The Guest Room, AU Arts, Calgary, AB 
•aceartinc Artist Run Centre - Curator for Poetics of Light - Experiments in Photography
- in conjunction with Flash Photo Festival, and published in the Flash Catalogue, Winnipeg, MB.
•AU Arts Gallery Fibre/Jewelry Show Spring, AU Arts, Calgary AB(“Tree” installation alongside several students) 

2024-2025 - 13th Annual President’s Student Art, Craft and Design Exhibition, AU Arts, Calgary, AB, (Group Show)   

2023 •2025 - Graduate Studies Curatorial Committee, AU Arts 
•Co-Chair + Curator of the MFA curatorial committee created to maintain the 3 MFA, exhibition spaces
-The Nook Gallery, The Living Room Gallery and The Guest Room Gallery 

2024 •Inter-University Graduate Student Conference, University of Calgary, AB (speaker) 
•aceartinc - Adjudication of aceart’s exhibits for 2025, Winnipeg, MB 
•AUArts x SMFA Exchange Exhibition, Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, MA. (group show)   

2023 •AU Arts Gallery Crawl Fall, AU Arts, Calgary AB. 
Cohort: MFA exhibition (group show), Cold Tone: The Pearl Club (group show), Threading Water (Solo) 
•Garden of Illuminated Tales, Co-Curator with SOAFA Co-Presidents (Rebecca and Charli) , Nuit Blanche,
Winnipeg, MB 
•Artsins Square Magazine - Selected Artists - Online 
•The 90 Second - Screening of Everyday Superstition Pt 2. WUFF. Winnipeg MB 
•aceartinc Members Show 
•Salon, School of Art Student Gallery, UofM, Winnipeg MB, (group  show) 
•School of Art BFA Honours Exhibit, ( Tales from Under the Silk Cotton Tree) School of Art, UofM. Winnipeg MB,
(group show) 
•District SOA - Curator + artist of Students exhibition in several businesses in The  Exchange, Winnipeg MB 
•Pieces of Us - Curator + artist, group show, School of Art Student Gallery,  UofM, Winnipeg MB 
•Do No Evil - Curator - Group Show. School of Art Student Gallery, UofM, Winnipeg MB 
•Et Cetera. Et Cetera - duet with Cole Cancilla. School of Art Student Gallery, UofM, Winnipeg MB 

 2022 •Bead By Thread/Altered Forms - Curator and artist School of Art Student Gallery, UofM, Winnipeg MB 

2021 •Zueike: The Creator. A School of Art Student Exhibit (group show)
- Curated and exhibited work in The Zueike Lounge, for MB Culture Days. 
•CUDL: A Mooncats Exhibit in Crypto Voxels (Curated by Ciel Noel), Exhibition Designer (VR) 
•P.A.W.S: Protest, Activism, Whimsy and Self-Care :An Exhibit in Animal Crossing New Horizons. 
Hosted by School of Art Gallery - U of M, Curated by Ciel Noel, exhibit designed by M.Edwards 
(Designed the Pocket Worlds Resource, written and compiled by Ciel Noel)