readings , exhibits, & events

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PAST READINGS

Poor Mouth Writers Series, 2021

Pretty Owl Poetry Release, White Whale Bookstore, 2021

Open Door Reading Series, Poetry Foundation, 2021

Poets in the Field, Field Museum of Natural History, 2019
Oddities Reading, Strange Fevers Artists & Scholars Colloquium, Columbia Library, 2019
Breton's Birthday | Surrealist Love Letters, Columbia Library, 2019
Danny's Reading Series, 2018

Wit Rabbit Reading Series, 2017

Written on the Body Reading, Columbia College Library, 2017

Poetry Center of Chicago |  Hands on Stanza Benefit, 2017

City Lit Books, 2017

The Mystical and the Magical:  Women Writing the Metaphysical Worlds, NOLA Poetry Festival , 2017.

FOUND Reading, HOAX! Week, Columbia College Library, 2017

Aesthetics of Research Salon Series, Columbia College Library, 2016

Women & Children First, 2015 

Kettle Blue Review issue release, Powell’s Bookstore, 2015

major characters in minor films release, Quimby’s, 2015 

Poetry Center of Chicago, Six Points Reading Series, 2014

Red Rover Series, 2014 

WomanMade Gallery, 2014 

Ladies Night, AWP 2014, Seattle . 

Women Writing Resistance Anthology Reading, Seattle AWP 2014. 

Poetry and Beer, Revolution Brewery, 2013 

Chicago State University, Lunchtime Reading Series, 2013

W4tB, Jack’s Tap, 2013

Uncharted Books, 2013

Headless: A Body Of Text Based Performers, 2013

First Friday Series, Studio B, 2012

Poets Who Open Doors, WomanMade Gallery,2012

Sundress Publications AWP Reading, Beauty Bar, 2012

Fifth Wednesday Release, The Book Cellar, 2012

Waiting 4 the Bus, Café Ballou, 2011

Chicago Calling, Myopic Books, 2010

Beyond Audubon, WomanMade Gallery, 2010

Chicago Calling, Epiphany Church, 2009

Waiting 4 the Bus, Jaks Tap, 2009

Red Rover Series, Links Hall, AWP 2009

Orange Alert Series, The Whistler, 2009

Lewis University, 2009

Bookslut Reading Series. The Hopleaf, 2009

@ the Café, 2009

Rhino Series, Brothers K Coffeehouse, 2009

Woodland Pattern Bookstore, 2009

DePaul Summer Writing Conference, Publishing Panel, 2009

Series A Mini Conference Reading, 2009

Revolving Door Series, Red Kiva, 2009

Rock the Independent Vote, Weeds Tavern, 2009

Open Books , Poetry Panel, 2009

Georgia State University, 2008

Series A, Hyde Park Arts Center, 2008

Tuesday Funk, Café Ennui, 2008

1st Fridays Series, St. Paul’s Cultural Center, 2008

In the Bird Museum release party, Quimby’s Bookstore, 2008

U-niverse of Poetry, Uncommon Ground, 2008

Collage Reading, WomanMade Gallery, 2007

MFA Reading, Columbia College, 2007

Columbia Poetry Review Reading, Columbia College, 2007

Lewis University, 2007

Fictional Characters, Lilstreet Gallery, 2007

Myopic Books, 2006

Rhino Release, Evanston Arts Center, 2006

Poetry on the Web Workshop, Chicago Public Library, 2006

DvA Gallery, Battle of the Sexes, 2006

Molly Malones Series, 2006

Poetry Center of Chicago, 2004

PAST WRITING WORKSHOPS

Poetry & the Web, Chicago Public Library Poetry Fest, 2005

Poetry & the Visual Arts, Georgia State University, 2008

PAST ART WORKSHOPS (@ Columbia College Library)

Art and Propaganda 
A Brief History of Zines / Zine Making
Zines in the Classroom
Bookwrecking: Collage

All Things Ink

Junk Art, Found Art & Upcycling

Bookwrecking:  Altered Books

Nature Printmaking

Monthly Zinemaking 

Vintage Photo Transfer

Printmaking for the Faint-Hearted

Household Printmaking
DIY Collage Pendants
April Showers, Paper Flowers
Paper Quilling

PAST PANEL DISCUSSIONS

Future Tense  Imagined Words from the Margins, Columbia College Library, 2020
Lethal Ladies:  The Women of True Crime, Columbia College Library, 2019
Spooky Little Girls, Strange Fevers Artists & Scholars Colloquium, Columbia College Library, 2019
Forging Your Tiny Lit Empire, Columbia College Library, 2019
On & Off the Walls, Moderator, Columbia College Library, 2018
Building Your Art Empire, Moderator, Columbia College Library, 2018
Art on the Cheap, Moderator, Columbia College Library, 2017
Power and Page Count :  Publishing the Other Gender,  AWP-Seattle, 2014

From Litmag to Chapbook Press: Championing the Handmade in the Digital Morass, AWP-Chicago, 2012.

Publishing Chapbooks and Books, DePaul Summer Writing Conference, 2009

Poetry Writing, Open Books Grand Opening, 2009

PAST EXHIBITS

Bad Art: Kitsch, Camp, and Craft, Columbia College Library  (Fall 2021)

Urban Legends: from playground lore to cultural norms,  Columbia College Library  (Spring 2021)

Future Tense:  Imagined Worlds from the Margins (Spring 2020)
Lethal Ladies, Columbia College Library (Fall 2019)
Strange Fevers, Columbia College Library (Spring 2019)
Beautiful Monstrosities, Columbia College Library (Fall 2018)

Dark Forest,  Columbia College Library Book to Art Club, (Summer 2018)

Tattoo:  Ink, Art & Object, Aesthetics of Research (Fall 2017)

Tiki Madness, Aesthetics of Research, (Summer 2017)

My Bloody Valentine, The Aesthetics of Research (Winter 2017)

Krampuslauf, Elgin Arts Studio (December 2016)

Words|Matter, Art on Elston (October 2016)

Ballyhoo:  Beasts, Broads and the Bizarre, Aesthetics of Research (Summer 2016)

Thrifstore Redux, Aesthetics of Research (Spring 2016)

Creepy Curiosities, Aesthetics of Research (Fall 2015)

Words|Matter, Art on Elston (October 2015)

alumni on 5, Columbia College (fall 2015) 

Art of Library, Columbia College Library, (2003-Ongoing)

Aesthetics of Research Series 1, Columbia College (2014)

alumni on 5, Columbia College (fall 2012) 

WomanMade Gallery, Underground (2011)

Convergence Project, Vespine Gallery, (2008)

Papercuts & Gluesticks Gallery (2008)

Unlikely Stories 2.0 (2006)

WomanMade Gallery, Secret Places, Sacred Spaces (2005)