Publication: The “Ring Shout”: A Corporeal Conjuring of Black-Togetherness.

Performed "Prelude: Site of Becoming" at the Denizen Arts Project, September 2024. This is the opening movement of a larger work, "Journey of a Thousand Dreams" (Fall '25).

"Wolfgang Beltracchi and the Authenticity of Forgery: Not a Moral Failure" in Visual Inquiry, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, 2023.

Book Publication: Machine Anxieties of Steampunk: Contemporary Philosophy, Neo-Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future by Bloomsbury Press

Solo Exhibition: "Imaginary Letters to Vasily Grossman, Post-WWII Repatriation to Soviet Armenia" at the Festival TransCaucases (INALCO) Paris, France

Poetry Reading at 2024 LitHop in Fresno, CA

Presentation: “Unmasking Identity:Exploring the Philosophical and Cultural Implications of Aztec Masks in Chicano Street Culture” for the panel Realize Our True Potential at the Skyline College's 2nd Annual RIDE Conference in San Bruno, California, Friday, April 26th, 2024.

Presentation: "Resonating Quietude: Harnessing Silence for Social Justice in Today’s Classroom", iJADE Conference 2024, Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus

Co-curation of Exhibition: "The Future of Clay" exhibition at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA for the 50th Anniversary.

Presentation: "I Go to Prepare a Place for You: Afro Feminist Approaches to Spacemaking and Curating in Modern Museums" at the CraftNOW Connectivity Symposium for Emerging Voices, presented by CERF+

Presentation: "Rainbow Liberty: LGBTQ+ Political Economy in a Polycentric World" at Markets & Society hosted by Mercatus Center, at George Mason University Dates: October 11-14.

Presentation: Rainbow Liberty: Topics in LGBTQ+ Mainline Economics," is upcoming for the Southern Economic Association conference

Presentation: “The Intimacy of Ecological Time in Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels” at the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT) conference in Los Angeles, October 3, 2024.

Paper: "Ecological Intimacy as Anarchic Feminist Care Practice" published in International Journal for Education in the Arts

Presentation: “Finding Home in the Songs of the Whale” at the 14th Pacific Association of the Continental Tradition (PACT) conference at Seattle University, September 2023.

Solo Exhibition: "Future Monument to the Trees of the Public Garden," on November 9-11, 2024 in the Boston Public Garden as part of "Un-Monument," a public art initiative sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture and supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

Paper: “500 Rosas, 5 Círculos, 5 semanas: La Efímera Materia Vital en un Espacio Público” (“500 Roses, 5 Circles, 5 Weeks: Ephemeral Vital Matter in a Public Space” ) at the I Congreso Internacional MATERIA Investigación y Creación Artística sobre Los Estados de la Materia (CIMIC), Altea, Alicante, España. November 7, 2024.

Appointment: Visiting Researcher at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain.

Paper: "Time for Play: The Ontological Risk of the Space of Interpretation" at the PACT conference in Los Angeles, October 4, 2024.

Published: "Women Cultural Agents: The Extermination of the Beguines, the Caring Mothers" in the Journal of Mother Studies. Threads of Connection. Confronting mother (and other) blame–healing & resistance in contemporary culture and beyond. 2024. ISSN 2833-5155

Art Curator for a juried art exhibition: Interpretations of Medusa. October 11, 2024. The Gallery at Carrollwood Cultural Center, Tampa FL.

Paper: “Becoming Aware: Art and The Sense of Touch” at the 5th Barcelona Conference of Arts, Media and Culture (BAMC 2024).

Co-chair with IDSVA student, Shana Dumont Garr, the two-session panel Beyond Humanism: Exploring Post- and Trans-Human Entanglements at SECAC in Atlanta, GA.

Appointed to CAA's Committee on Women in the Arts for a three-year term starting February 2024.

Presentation: Video essay “Shedding, Molting, Letting Go; Live Version” for the panel Power of the Performative Lecture at SECAC in Atlanta, GA.

Chaired the session Black Cultural Art Performances and present the paper "When Hope and Fear Collide" at the Black Joy AI Summit Conference in Washington, DC.

Presented the workshop “The Evolution of Black Input and Output” at the 53rd Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, DC.

Participation in panel discussions “Adventures in Live-streaming” and “DEI Work in Audio Engineering Higher Education.” Adjudicator for the Student Recording Competition and moderate the DEI Town Hall meeting during the 157th Audio Engineering Society Convention in New York.

Present the paper “Aesthetic Noise as Contemplative Practice” based on a chapter from her forthcoming book Aesthetic Noise: The Philosophy of Intentional Listening on Routledge during the panel The Inmost Light: Analog, Esoteric & Occult Sound Practices in the Art Studio and Classroom at SECAC in Atlanta, GA.

Appointed the AICA-International Awards Chair and Editor of the AICA/E-MAG

Presentation: “‘Understated’ The Socio-Political and Environmental Across Generations: Diego Rivera and El Anatsui” at the AICA-International Congress in Bucharest, Romania.

Award: Best Experimental Film Award (Paris Film Festival) and Honorary Mention (Hollywood Short Film Festival) for her film "Viaggio: A Journey through Life."

Present the paper: “Fused Subjectivity in the Artwork of Carolee Schneemann” at the Scientific Committee of the 5th International Conference on Gender Studies and Sexuality (ICGSS) Paris, France.

Publication "A Tiny Box, Big Dreams: The Lamasco Microgallery as a Nontraditional Venue for Art & Community Engagement" at the 2024 SECAC conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Conference Presentation: “New Series by Berghahn: Explanations in the Social Sciences” at the 95th Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences Conference.

Co-chair with IDSVA student, Felix Lloyd, the two-session panel Beyond Humanism: Exploring Post- and Trans-Human Entanglements at SECAC in Atlanta, GA.

Presentation: “Plant Beings: Portraits Signaling Beyond Humanism” at this panel and also at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference in Dallas, TX.

Featured Artist in the exhibition "Shattered Psyche's 2023 World Artists in the Spotlight" at the Stope, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada.

Presentation: “Exploring Night Criminology: An Abstract Examination through Poetry and Visual Arts” and “The Need for Zines: A Feminist Convict Criminological Theoretical Perspective on Zines, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Abolition” at the American Criminology Society Conference in San Francisco, CA

Co-presents the paper “Beyond the Exhibit: Museums as Foundational Training Grounds for Future Lawyers” at the ICOM-UMAC & Universeum conference in Dresden, Germany.

Co-plenary speaker for the Social Justice Institute Think Tank at Case Western University, Cleveland, OH.

Awarded 2024 “Artist Instructor of the Year” by the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts.

Presentation: “Nesting the World (Or, Haptic Listening)” for the session Locating Impact: Practices and Dialogues Influenced by Place at SECAC, Atlanta, 2024.

Forthcoming book "Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape" will be published by Routledge in 2025.

Received a fellowship from the C. Sylvia and Eddie Brown Driskell Center Scholars Advancement Fund. The award will fund travel and research for Dr. Orwel's new book on David C. Driskell. As part of the award, he'll present a lecture at the ​David C. Driskell Center's gallery.

Presentation: "Beating Burnout:The Balance Between Trusting the Process and Trusting Yourself," at the 2022 National Dance Education Organization Conference on October 29, 2022, in Atlanta, GA.

Presentation: "Black Anime Fans: A Discussion on Afrofuturism and Ascension" at Performing Black Futures: Performance Studies Focus Group Post-Conference.

Job Appointment: Curator of Exhibits and Engagement at Mitchell Memorial Library and Collections Division at Mississippi State University.

Presentation: "Immersive Spaces: Experiences of True Immersion or Disguised Free Labor?" at SECAC 2024.

Appointed in house UX/UI Experience Designer at Ralph Lauren. New York, NY 2022.

Group Exhibition: WOW: Worlds of Women at Trieste Photo Days 2022 International Photographic Festival. September 2022.

Presentation: "Georgia O’Keeffe and Martin Heidegger: On the way to Dwelling in the Threshold" at the American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Conference.

Solo Exhibition: "Vital Traces" at the University of Maine at Farmington. September 14, 2021

Presentation: "Body Soul Crisis Recovery: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference" at The College of the Arts and Sciences, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, April 2021

Publication: Cover artwork and illustrations in Helen Najera Reyes book, Grandpa Lee's Stories, New Mexico to California. The book has also been nominated to the Latino International Book awards, under the young adult category.

Appointed Lecturer at The Ohio State University Department of History of Art, teaching the self-authored Museum Studies course, 'Toward an Ethico-Aesthetical Curatorial Practice.'

Appointed the Executive Gallery Director at ROY G BIV Gallery for Emerging Artists.

Appointment: Chief of Staff, The Studio Museum in Harlem, reporting to the Director and Chief Curator, Thelma Golden.

Artist residency at the Scalamata Gallery / Michel Meron in Venice, Italy, August, 2024.

Presentation: "The Architectural Facade: Gothic to Contemporary Dissections on Surface Presentation” for the panel New Research in Architecture and Urban Design at the SECAC conference in Richmond, VA..

Published a chapter in the book titled "Tribal and the Cultural Legacy of Streetwear."

Appointed the Interim Executive Director at 500 Capp Street.

Appointment: College Art Association (CAA) Board of Directors for the 2019-2024 term

Duo exhibition "Ritual Reparations" with IDSVA student, Lisa Tremaine. Eula Mae Edwards Gallery at Clovis Community College, Clovis, New Mexico, February 2023.

The paper "Shrouded Bells: The Hallow of Janine Antoni's Unveiling" at ICMHS, Dublin, Ireland, July 2024.

Publication: “A Conversation with Art Conservator, Luis Seixas” at St. Pete Life Magazine. July/August 2024 Interview with a Portuguese art conservator about his recent work – live conservation of a 4-century-old Spanish tabernacle at the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, Florida.

Paper: “The Intersection of Abjection and Écriture Féminine in Jenny Holzer’s Inflammatory Essays” at SECAC, October 2024.

Appointed full time lecturer at Lone Star College-University Park.

Awarded the Houston Endowment Jones Artist Award and Exhibition.

Publication "Livestreaming An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter."

Publication: "Pseudorandom: generative animation as performance in Emergent" in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media.

Appointed Senior Art Business Coach

Presentation: “The First Female Engineer at General Motor’s Descent into Alzheimer’s with Sundowners: A Daughter’s Scholarly Research and Case Study as Caregiver” at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC).

Participated in the Arctic Circle Residency, July 2024.

Exhibition: in collaboration with Chicano artist Richard Lou, pages from the graphic novel “Embustero” are on display at Clemson University until March 8^th. Additionally, her works are represented in the show Art Gallery: RichardLou Exhibition at Union University from April 23-May 28, 2024.

Presentation: "The Environmental and Ecological Embodiment of Blue in the Paintings of Aleah Chapin” at the Southern Humanities Council conference in Savannah, Georgia, February 3rd, 2024.

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Group Exhibition at the New York Academy of Art Summer Exhibition at Forum Gallery in New York City.

Presentation: “Celebrating Bachelard’s Pyromenon Through the Practice of Good Fire, an Anarchic Ceramic Experience” along with Tim Freeman at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT).

Presented "Crawling Through the Moon: Fragments of an Outpost of the Imagination," June 2024 at the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle (CCPC). University of Hawai'i Hilo, Hawai'i.

Awarded the Elinor Ostrum 2024-2025 Fellowship at Mercatus Center, George Mason University. June 2024

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Group Exhibition: InFlux: Recalibrating the Unknown at the Museum of Northern California Art, Chico from March 21 through May 14, 2024.

Group exhibition entitled, Same House, Different Time, June 12, 2024, at the Avellana Art Gallery in Manila Philippines.

Presentation: "The Sweet and Subtle Smashing of the Status Quo – Not Just a Pile of Candy" at SECAC, Baltimore, October 2022.

Exhibition: Making Memory, will run June 8th to July 20 at The University of Southern Indiana’s New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art (NHGCA).

Appointment: Assistant Professor, Saint John’s University, Queens, NY

Panel Chair: Artivism in Public Space, and present the paper, "What is Artivism in Public Space?" at the upcoming SECAC Conference, in Richmond, VA.

Presentation: "Becoming Monumental: The Contemporary State of Black Female Subjectivity" at the virtual conference: Art, Access and Agency-Art Sites of Enabling.

Panel Co-Chair: "Reframing Aesthetics: Diaspora, Historicity, and The Myth of Truth" at CAA

"It's the End of the World as We Know it and I Feel Fine" in Visual Inquiry, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, 2023.

Conference Participation: "Culturing Biodesigners: Pedagogical Approaches to Biodesign" at the 17th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices. Lisbon Polytechnic, Portugal. March 29-31, 2023.

Hosted the event "Collaborative Community Canvas” at the 2024 Open Studios at the Yale School of Art.

Group Exhibition: Group show: Praxis and the Artist Philosopher

Publication "Black Artistic Thought and the Art of Freedom" in the journal Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art.

Presentation: "Spacetime and Virtual Reality: temporal recalibration for neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, ADHD, and autism by using movement contingent time flow in virtual reality" at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, Greece.

Publication: "The Clock in Profile: How Marcel Duchamp Challenged Time to Become an Artist-Philosopher" in Marcel Duchamp: inventing the Present.

Presentation: "Putting Out Fires: David Lynch's Giant Fireman" at CAA.

Elected member of the Society of Encouragement and Education

Group Exhibition in Pekin, China.

Book Publication: The Templars’ Chalice, a novel by Shadow Rock Publishing, LLC

Conference panel chair of the session "Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion in the Emergence of Photography" at SECAC in Richmond, VA.

Book Publication: The Aestheticization of History and the Butterfly Effect. Vernon Press, 2023.

"Dean Fox’s Lady on the Grass: Berthe Morisot: A Chaotic-Form as an Otherness" in Visual Inquiry, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, 2023.

Presentation: "Flux, Wi-Fi, Fractals: Opening the Investigation into Spatial Rhythms" at the SLSA Conference 2022.

"Flickers of Singularity: Ryman and Rauschenberg Paint the Diremption" in Visual Inquiry, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, 2023.

"Steve McQueen and Béla Tarr: Exploring a Whatever Communality on the Dance Floor" in Visual Inquiry, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, 2023.

"A Haunted World: Animism, Spirits, and Sorcery as the Work of Art" in Visual Inquiry, Volume 11, Issue 2-3, 2023.

Presentation: “Expressions of Trauma and Healing Amid Recurring Warfare” at the East-West Philosophers’ Conference in Honolulu, Hawai'i, May 24-31, 2024.

Presentation: “Dao of AI” at the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, June 4-7, 2024, at Hawai'i Volcano National Park. 

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Received a grant from Collective Future Fund: New Projects for “Soil Culture Project” in collaboration with Julie Poitras Santos.

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Presentation: “Exploring Eco-Materialism as Translation in Vegetal Aesthetics within the Plant Contingent Collective” for the panel: Art of Ecology and Beauty of Nature at the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of The Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia May 24–27, 2023.

Exhibition: "Faces of Humanity:A Global Portrait " in the Barbagelata International Portrait online Exhibition on view until 10/30/2023.

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Solo Exhibition: Leto: Echos of Ephemera at the Barbagelata Contemporary Art Foundation Online Gallery. Currently on exhibit through February 15^th, 2024.

Presentation: “Prescriptive reality asa foundation of descriptive abstractions: a multidisciplinary approach to the process of creation” at the Manipal International Symposium on Design (MiSD),School of Design and Architecture in Dubai on February 15, 2024.

Presentation: with Kelly Gawel (PhD, The New School) “Intimate Reclamations: Aesthetic Practices of Care” for the panel How do feminist artists care? at the College Art Association conference in Chicago, February 16, 2024.

Presentation: with Kelly Gawel (PhD, The New School), and Ciclón Olivares (Pratt Institute) “Counter-normative Kinship as Jouissance: Celebrating Co-Created Decolonial Space” for the conference Feminist Making, Doing, & Sensing at philoSOPHIAin Southern Alberta, Canada, March 16, 2024.

Presentation: "The Artist yachag and the ceremony of yage as cannibalistic performance."

Publication: Diarios Andinos de las Tierras del Sol Recto in the "Andean Diaries of the Land of the Rectilinear Sun." 2024.

Solo show: "Dreams of Ether: The Photographic Works of Rowynn Dumont" at 86 Orchard Gallery, New York City.

Group Exhibition: "KAFKAESQUE" at the Dox Contemporary Art Center Prague.

Presentation: "Bread Philosophy: Forgotten Justices in Situating Scott Nearing" as part of the 2021 Speaker Series at the Good Life Center in Harborside, ME.

Appointed to the board of the Good Life Center. March 2023.

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Award: 2021 California Arts Council Administrator of Color Fellowship

Appointed chair in the Colloquium on the paper "The Value of Epistemic Trust in Public Experts" at the APA Pacific Division Conference.

Appointed Co-President and Chief Ideation officer of One Arts.

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Appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History at CUNY-Kingsborough Community College.

Presentation: “Modernism in America: Retelling a Tale . . . of Two Cities” in the panel Rethinking Borders and Boundaries at the SECAC conference in Richmond, VA.

Presentation: "Gender and Fluid: A Reconsideration of the Stain in the Painting of Helen Frankenthaler" at SECAC, Baltimore, October 2022.

Co-Presentation with IDSVA Alumna, Angela Mosely: “Teaching Under ‘Protections from Discrimination and Woke Indoctrination’” (FATE) at SECAC in Richmond, VA.

Presentation: "Plant Play" at the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY), in Stratford, Canada.

Presentation "Media Art and Structures of Care" at RE:SOURCE, the 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology in Venice, Italy.

Panel Chair: "The Impact of “Professionalism” on the Artist/Parent & How to Change a Culture" at SECAC in Richmond, VA.

Presentation: “Shifting Pedagogy for Holistic Learning in Higher Education” with Robert Howsare at SECAC in Richmond, VA.

Panel co-chair, along with IDSVA PhD Candidate, Jocelyn Holmes, of the session: "Decolonial Aesthetics: Toward Artistic and Philosophical Interventions" at SECAC in Richmond, VA.

Presentation: "Doris Salcedo’s Plegaria Muda: Remembering the Everyday Aesthetics of the Colombian Civil War" at the American Society for Aesthetics in Philadelphia, PA. April 2023.

Panel co-chair, along with IDSVA PhD Candidate, Kimberly Aimée Alvarado, of the session: "Decolonial Aesthetics: Toward Artistic and Philosophical Interventions" at SECAC in Richmond, VA.

Presentation: "Addressing Erasure Through Adriana Corral’s Memento: Vibrant Medium and A View of Decolonizing Feminist Thought" at SECAC, Baltimore, October 2022.

Presentation: "Carnivalizing Philosophy: The Future of Western Thought" at CAA.

Appointment: Adjunct positions at The College of Staten Island, in History of Philosophy and History of the Caribbean. Staten Island, NY.

Created permanent sculpture at Indiana University Kokomo along with two students.

Promotion: Full Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department, Indiana University Kokomo.

Appointment: Teaching "Still Life and Floral Painting in oils" at the Kirkland Arts Center in Kirkland, Washington.

Group Exhibition: COCA Members' Show "20/20" at COCA (Center On Contemporary Art), Seattle, WA.

Publication in "A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China." Yale University Press, 2023.

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Publication: Journal of Daoist Studies

Publication: “Historic Decisions: Looking Deliberately at the Past.” Connections (2020): 21-28.

Appointed Senior Program Officer for the Kettering Foundation's Democracy and the Arts Program.

Presentation: "Repurposing Purposiveness Without Purpose: On Works of Art as Complex Adaptive Information Systems" at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) conference at Purdue University in Indiana.

Award "Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics" has been nominated for the American Society of Aesthetics "Outstanding Monograph"

Founder of The GlassHouse.

Appointment: Professor, Art Appreciation at Baker College.

Appointed as a "Subject Matter Expert" (course content builder) and Professor of Art Theory with Tiffin University. Tiffin, OH.

Publication: "Art Activism and the Environment" is included in Ecothee Volume 6: Contemporary ecotheology, climate justice and environmental stewardship in world religions.

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Presentation: "The Intertextual Studio: Research, Technique, and The Paradigm of the Artist/Scholar" at SECAC, Baltimore, October 2022.

Book Publication: Wittgenstein and the Problem of Metaphysics: Aesthetics, Ethics and Subjectivity by Bloomsbury Press.

Appointed: Tenured Associate Professor at Abilene Christian University.

Panel Chair: "Transgressive Tendencies: Stepping Over to Go Beyond" at CAA 2023. New York, NY

Appointment: Associate Professor of Art at Northern State University.

Appointment: Executive Director, Western Kansas Community Foundation.

Presentation: "Action Required: Sound Art’s Transgressions against Passivity." CAA 2023. New York, NY

Appointment: Art History Instructor at California State University - San Bernardino.

Appointment: Mellon Project Director in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department (AAADS) at Columbia University.

Appointment: Adjunct Faculty at The Barnes Foundation

Named "Adjunct of Year" for Rowand College of South Jersey

Owner, davisstudio, LLC

Organized a traveling exhibition of her Women and Power series to show at independent bookstores and libraries nationally.

Appointment: Foster Chair in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice and Distinguished Curator-in-Residence at Emerson College.

Co-curated "John Preus: The Beast (Herd Mentality)," at Montserrat College of Art.

President Jennifer Ford Art Advisors and President Choice Designs

Appointment: Full-time Assistant Professor of the Practice and Digital Media Specialist, Georgetown University.

Promotion: Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Art & Art History at Georgetown University.

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