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PERSONAL PROJECTS
︎︎︎ The Reinforcements
︎︎︎ @WorkingWOC
︎︎︎ THRALL
︎︎︎ The Black Doll
︎︎︎ Namesake
︎︎︎ Inherited Patterns
︎︎︎ The Mist in Mystic
︎︎︎ Tenderheaded
︎︎︎ Bloodlines
︎︎︎ Trust Your Struggle

BOOKS + ZINES
︎︎︎ (up)rooted
︎︎︎ Dodge & Burn
︎︎︎ TOPSY TURVY
︎︎︎ Hard To Place
︎︎︎ Some Kind of War
︎︎︎ History of the World
︎︎︎ Indivisible

INSTALLATIONS
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The Reinforcements Solo Show @ BAXTER ST


On view June 4 - August 16, 2025 
NEW BAXTER ST LOCATION >> 154 Ludlow Street, NYC
Opening Wednesday, June 4th, 6-8PM 

The Reinforcements (2023-ongoing) is a series of photo collages that visualizes the labor history of Black and immigrant women of color in America’s corporate workplace. This is the first showing of all the collages I’ve made in the last two years. In the middle of the gallery space is a special framing device for my digital collages, an installation of handmade ladders that featuring the “broken rung”, a concept which identifies a critical early-career obstacle for women that is even more pervasive than the glass ceiling.

︎ 2025 CPW Vision Awards


Saturday, May 10, 2025
6 PM – 9 PM
25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY
The 2025 CPW Vision Awards Gala is sold out!


CPW is proud to announce the recipients of its 2025 CPW Vision Awards. Each of the honorees has had a significant impact on the field of photography, and will be celebrated in person at a dinner event on May 10, 2025, at CPW’s new headquarters at 25 Dederick Street in Kingston.

These are the honorees:

Lifetime Achievement: Sally Mann
Photographer of the Year: Tyler Mitchell
Saltzman Prize for Emerging Photographer: Qiana Mestrich
Photobook of the Year: I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now (Aperture)


︎Self Adjacent Group Exhibition


On view  April 8 – June 1, 2025
Ridderhof Martin Gallery at The University of Mary Washington Galleries


Left: Christa Donner, Home/Body, 2013, ink, acrylic, and gouache on cut paper. Top Right: Travis Donovan, Perennial, 2022, LED Hollogram, wood, and acrylic.Bottom Right: Jennifer White-Johnson, Free, 2018, Risograph.

The University of Mary Washington Galleries is pleased to present Self Adjacent, a group exhibition curated by Sarah Irvin and Tracy Stonestreet, on view in the Ridderhof Martin Gallery April 8 – June 1, 2025.

Self Adjacent examines the transforming experience of parenthood by artists as they navigate their many identities alongside and within the field of caregiving. Featuring the diverse viewpoints of twenty artists from across North America, Self Adjacent includes photography, performance, painting, printmaking, video, textile, and sculpture.

Artists include: Alberto Aguilar, Robin Assner-Alvey, Christa Donner, Travis Donovan, Meg Foley, Kate Gilmore, LaToya Hobbs, Sarah Irvin, Kevin and Jen Johnson, Carmichael Jones, Courtney, Qiana Mestrich

︎Pushing the Envelope Group Exhibition


On view November 2, 2024 - March 30, 2025
The National Museum of Computing
Block H, Bletchley ParkBletchley, England, MK3 6GX, UK

Pushing the Envelope: An exhibition of mailed and correspondence art showcases work made by 2D artists who either use or reference archaic technologies. As The National Museum of Computing houses the world's first electronic computer, the Colossus, which Tommy Flowers spent eleven months designing and building at the Post Office Research Station in North West London, each artwork will be posted into the Museum. The mailed artworks are to be hung through-out the galleries between, beside or over the machines themselves. While the museum’s visitors will diversify and expand the artists' audiences, the exhibition aims to introduce art to the visitors they would otherwise never see. Curated by Lucy Helton.

The exhibition features work from the following artists:

Antony Cairns
Harry Gammer-Flitcroft
Stewart Hardie
Lucy Helton
Qiana Mestrich
Sarah Pickering
Indianna Solnick
Barry Stone
Clare Strand
Rahel Zoller & Louis Porter


︎Great Green Hope for the Urban Blues Group Exhibition


On view February 15–August 17, 2025
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar

Across two centuries, artists have portrayed the Hudson Valley as an earthly paradise remote from the modern world. Though close to New York City, the region came to represent its idyllic opposite: a promised land of pristine beauty, pre-industrial lifeways, and utopian enclaves. In the wry words of one New York journalist, the Hudson Valley became a “great green hope” for the “urban blues.” At the same time, this enduring pastoral myth cloaks the region’s active ties to urban tourism and trade while obscuring histories of violent settlement, enslaved labor, and resource extraction. Gathering historic and contemporary art in various media, the exhibition invites viewers to explore how the Hudson Valley has been pictured as a place both proximate to the city and its opposite—a “great green hope” as much myth as reality.

Curated by John P. Murphy, Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings and Ian Shelley, Loeb Collections Curatorial Fellow

Exhibition Opening and Panel Discussion
Feb. 22, 2025, Panel discussion at 2:00 p.m. 
Artists Tanya Marcuse, Qiana Mestrich, and Lisa Sanditz will discuss how their work responds to the Hudson Valley landscape in myth and reality.