Education
School of Visual Arts — Master of Fine Arts, Visual Narrative
Pennsylvania State University — Master of Arts, English
Rutgers University — Bachelor of Arts, English
Select Exhibitions
2023 — Bushel Collective, "Memory Overture," Bushel, NY.
2021 — Museum of the City of New York, "Memory Opus," NY, NY.
2018 — Arte Studio Ginstrelle, "International Art Show," Assisi, Italy
2017 — School of Visual Arts “Resist & Record,” NY, NY.
2017 — Intersections “Light a Candle Festival,” NY, NY.
2016 — Zhou B Art Center “Twisted Oyster International Film Festival,” Chicago, IL.
2016 — Unlock House, “Unlock House Opening,” Chicago, IL.
2015 — School of Visual Arts “And Then,” NY, NY.
2015 — Spacewomb Gallery “A Piece In Time,” NY, NY.
2014 — School of Visual Arts “No On,” NY, NY.
2014 — Greenpoint Gallery “Salon de Eros,” Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2014 — Spacewomb Gallery “Silenced,” NY, NY.
2012 — Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, “Matters of the Heart,” New Brunswick, NJ.
2011 — Art Alley “Art on the Move,” University Park, PA.
2011 — Weston Community Center, “A Night With the Arts II (Exhibitor and Curator), University
Park, PA.
2010 — Robeson Gallery “Art on the Move,” University Park, PA.
2010 — HUB Robeson Gallery “World Cultural Festival” University Park, PA.
2010 — Centre County Home for Elderly “Accompaniment” (Solo Exhibition), Bellefonte, PA.
COLLECTIONS
Africa. Africana Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, 2010
Healing Hearts. Heart Kidney Transplant Center, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital,
Donation, 2012
PUBLICATIONS
Unmuted, Co-editor, May 2021
“Protest Art, V.3,” AI-AP DART, Vol. 3, March 16, 2017
“Collage Life: Art is Journey,” Moore Women Artists, March 12, 2016
“Strong Female Protagonist: Book One,” Visual Arts Journal (SVA), Page 10, Spring 2015
“Kale in Crown Heights” Excuse Me, Ladies and Gentlemen, Pages 42-43, July 2014
“Crowns of Crown Heights,” Excuse Me Ladies and Gentlemen, Pages 63-64, July 2014
FILM
Afterthought, Consulting Producer, 2024
Las Nogas, Production Designer, 2019
Home, Writer, and Director, 2018
Utica, Writer, and Director, 2017
Backpack Full of Cash, Content Strategist, 2016
Meeting MacGuffin, Set Decorator, 2016
Speaking of Freaks, Set Decorator, 2016
Spilt Milk, Writer, and Director, 2015
CREATIVE DIRECTION | DESIGN
Cover Art and Design: Contemporary African American Literature, 2012
Co-Founder: Visual Muze Storytelling Residency, 2020
Conference Art Direction and Design: Race and Resistance African American Literary Conference, PennState, 2016
Cover Art: Contemporary African American Literature, 2012
Conference Art and Design: The Contemporary African American Novel, Penn State, 2010
A Night with the Arts I and II, Weston Community Center, 2010-2011
Cover Design: African American Culture and Legal Discourse, 2009
TALKS
“Health is Wealth: Building a business on healthy foundations,” Luminary, October 2023
“Nadia DeLane's Travel Companion ” Bluestockings, February 2023
“Leveraging the Arts for a Healthier and Just America,” Harvard, January 2021
“Mythmaking and Visual Storytelling,” The New School, January 2020
“Suspense and Visual Storytelling,” Girls Write Now, October 2018
"Women in the Creative Industries," School of Visual Arts, February 2018
“Nadia DeLane's Coif City: Hair Tales and Visual Narrative,” Bluestockings, January 2017
“Digital Black Feminisms,” Penn State University, October 2016
“Spilt Milk,” School of Visual Arts, August 2015
RECOGNITION
Official Selection, Utica, Resist and Record Film Festival, 2017
Official Selection, Spilt Milk, Twisted Oyster Film Festival, 2015, 2016
MFA Visual Narrative T-Shirt Design Contest, SVA, 2014
Bunton Waller Research Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University, 2009