What’s up - news and updates 2024

group exhibition - Tulsa, Oklahoma

Cultivating, Crafting, Collecting Community
Exhibition dates: February 7-28, 2025
Positive Space, 1324 East 3rd Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74120

This exhibition features artwork by three transplants to Oklahoma: Leticia R. Bajuyo in Norman, Cassidy Frye in Tulsa, and Christyn Overstake in Ada and Shawnee. Each artist brings their own sense of place as they engage with their new homes. Inspired by domestic spaces and landscapes, they use forms and materials to be OK.

group exhibition - Cincinnati, Ohio

Exhibition dates: February 2 to April 6, 2025
DAAP Galleries, University of Cincinnati
2.0 Kinds of Funny is a traveling exhibition co-curated by Holli Friley, Matt Lynch, and Jenny Ustick

group exhibition - Norman, Oklahoma

Building Belonging
Exhibition Dates: January 13-31, 2025
Spotlight Gallery in Norman, Oklahoma

Building Belonging is a group show featuring Robin Baker, Thomas Cornell, Cassidy Frye, Christyn Overstake, and myself. This show will be traveling around Oklahoma in the future, visiting multiple institutions. Our paths crossed years ago and since then, we have all moved to Oklahoma during the past five years. This exhibition was inspired by conversations about relocating, joining communities, supporting artists, and building belonging.

group exhibition - Houston, Texas   
2024 Texas Biennial
Co-juried and co-curated by Erika Mei Chua Holum, Assistant Curator at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Ashley Dehoyos Sauder,curator at DiverseWorks in Houston, and Coka Treviño, Founder and Curator of The Projecto in Austin.

Over eighty artists with deep ties to Texas will be featured in thirteen spaces throughout Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast. Connect with this outstanding group of talented creatives who will share their work in over five months of exhibitions and ongoing programs.

Visit texasbiennial.org to learn more!

Guest Speaker - Cork, Ireland via zoom

Monday, November 4, 2024, it was a pleasure to get to present about my work and discuss the trajectory of my studio practice, teaching, and network across my career with Professor James Hayes’ students at the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork, Ireland.

group exhibition - Chelsea, New York

Exhibition dates: October 26–December 14, 2024
SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 W 26th St Suite 1502, New York, NY 10001

Project Vortex artists will be gathering all our plastic for an exhibition titled Plasticulture. Curated by Aurora Robson who also founded and directs the collective, this exhibition is at the School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery is SVA’s premier exhibition facility. Located in Chelsea on the 15th floor of the landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building

I am thankful to be a part of this unique collaborative. For this exhibition, I created a new CD installation for SVA’s Chelsea Gallery that features an “S” curve shape with a wormhole tunnel connecting two vortices.

Project Vortex is an international collective of artists, designers, and architects actively focusing on the global problem of plastic pollution through our work. Operating at the intersection of art and science, we strive to inspire people to rethink and reinvent plastic debris through innovation, creative stewardship, and education. We are dedicated to improving global understanding of the impacts of plastic consumption + pollution. We support and assist with the development of initiatives to restrict the flow of plastic debris to the oceans.

Visiting Artist - Rochester, New York

Thank you to the faculty of Rochester Institute of Technology for welcoming to their campus to lecture and meet with undergraduate and graduate students students for studio visits. Special thanks to Professor Biz Kronfield, Kate Johnson, Kelly Wilton, and Christina Leung for making my first visit to RIT so amazing.

Guest Speaker - Knoxville, Tennessee via zoom

Wednesday, October 23, 2024, I am honored to get to meet Professor Jason Brown’s graduate seminar students to share with them about the installation at Chelsea Gallery and to share stories about my artwork, methodologies, and network with them.

Artist Residency - Birmingham, Alabama
Sloss Metal Arts – June 17-August 9, 2024
I am honored to be part of the Summer 2024 Visiting Artist Residency and joining fellow Visiting Artist James Hayes and the Sloss Metal Arts crew June-August, 2024! Sloss Furnaces Foundation hosts three, 8-week Visiting Artists throughout the year, in the Summer (June-Aug) and Fall (Sept-Nov).

Visiting Critic Lecture - Snowmass Village, Colorado

I am looking forward to visiting Anderson Ranch February 20th – 23rd, 2024, to lecture and meet with each of the current Artists in Residence.
Lecture: Feb 21, 2024 5:30PM-6:30PM (mountain time zone)
and recorded on Youtube

Anderson Ranch Art Center - An Art Original Since 1966

“It is a center, not a school. We’re different.” — Paul Soldner, Founder of Anderson Ranch Arts Center

In the beginning… It was the vision of prominent American raku ceramist Paul Soldner combined with an incredible land opportunity that paved the way for what Anderson Ranch is today—one of the most respected visual arts programs in the country.

In 1966, just as the ski industry began to blossom, local resort developers envisioned an arts and cultural center for the valley and surrounding community. They called on Soldner, who chose the Anderson Ranch property as the location for that venue, to make it a reality.

To learn more about Anderson Ranch visit: https://www.andersonranch.org

group exhibition - Oxford, Ohio

The World In Which We Live: The Art of Environmental Awareness at the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum in Oxford, OH.
Exhibition dates: January 30-June 8, 2024
Curated by Jason E. Shaiman, Curator of Exhibitions, Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum

Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum
College of Creative Arts, Miami University
801 S. Patterson Ave.
Oxford, OH 45056

public art - Fort Worth, Texas
2025 installation
Marine Creek Parkway Public Art Project, Fort Worth, Texas
permanent, site-specific, outdoor roundabout sculptural installation

Curated by Iris Bechtol @irisbechtol - Alicia Eggert and I designed proposals for traffic roundabouts for the Fort Worth Public Art program. In addition to research about the city and assessment of the logistics of the roundabouts, we also considered the proposal guidelines that the sculptures at the “two roundabouts should tie into each other, connect without mirroring each other.”

public art exhibition - Johnson City, Tennessee
December 19, 2023 - April 15, 2025  

Forces of Nature: Blue Skies, Slinkys, and Hurricanes
Media: steel, blue PEX tubing, hardware, and artificial grass
18in x 63in x 63in 

Reminiscent of inner tubes easing down a lazy river or bean bags in a living room, these sculptures provide playful, unusual benches with calm grassy centers at the eye of each storm. Inspired by diagrams of hurricane development and the spring movement of the “wonderful toy” Slinky (as the longest-running jingle in advertising history so memorably describes it), this delightful installation features three circular forms that appear to be large Slinkys connected at the ends into rings and circling perfectly-maintained “lawns” of artificial grass.

outdoor group exhibition - Splendora, Texas
A Gift from the Bower, Splendora Gardens, Splendora, Texas, curated by Xandra Eden, Executive Director at Diverseworks in Houston, Texas; sculptor James Surls; and sculptor Jack Massing
April 22, 2023 - April 22, 2025

My addition to A Gift from the Bower is a sculptural installation titled Swing Set: Share a Share (Duyan: Ibahagi ang Balato) 

public art - Russellville, Arkansas

Magnolia, Main Street Russellville, Russellville, Arkansas

This piece is permanent outdoor sculptural bike rack that was collaboratively designed and fabricated by the TLC Art Collective: Tiffany Black, a mural and mosaic artist, Leticia Bajuyo, a sculptor, and Christine Wilson, a landscape architect

installed November 2022