Employment
2010- Current New Media Studio, UMBC, Video Editor
2001- 2010 Creative Alliance Baltimore, MD Curator, Director, Creative Alliance MovieMakers (Produce programming and workshops to support local filmmakers and the filmmaking community in Baltimore, curate monthly screenings, coordinate workshops, community meetings, maintain equipment, manage equipment rental program and computer lab, public relations, web design and maintenance)
2000-2002 Wide Angle Youth Media Baltimore, MD Video Instructor; Manager of Distribution (Instruct youth and adults in community media production classes writing to editing, maintain contact database, develop contacts, organize screenings, submit student work to youth film festivals.
2000-2002 Lynne Sachs, Artist/Filmmaker Baltimore, MD/NY, NY Artist Assistant , video installation, Mary Moylin: 9 Years Underground, Maryland Art Place, personal assistant, Investigation of a Flame
Organizing/Curating/Residencies
Visiting Artist Lecturer, Salisbury University, Apr 3, 2009; UMBC, Oct 15, 2009; MICA, Feb 19, 2010
Co-Curator, on this invention… video exhibition Electronic Gallery (Salisbury University Apr 2009)
Curator, End of Analog, Video Exhibition, Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD Feb 17-Mar 15, 2009)
Curator, Hollyweird Film Program, MIXNYC Film Festival, New York, NY Oct 9-12, 2008
Co-curator, Is You Is or Is You Ain’t, Traveling Video Exhibition (Curated with Jed Dodds and Christopher West), Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art April-August 2008, Creative Alliance at The Patterson, Sep-Nov 2008
Screening Committee, Maryland Film Festival, Jan 2008-Current
Artist in Residence, Experimental Television Center, Feb 2004, March 2008, Feb 2010
Panelist, Morgan State University Student Film Festival, April 2007
University of Baltimore, Social Enterprise Executive Roundtable, 2007-Current
Moderator, Maryland Film Festival, Filmmakers Tent, May 2007-Current
Organizer, Movie Dearest, Baltimore Pride Film Festival, June 2005
Visiting Artist, Art Institute of Portland, August 2004
Media Advisory Committee, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 2004-2007
Organizer, Founder, Charm City Kitty Club, Baltimore, MD, 2002-Current
Curator and Presenter, Classic Film Series, Elk Run Vineyards, Mt. Airy, MD 2003-2004
Juror, MicorCinefest, Baltimore, MD, 2002-2006
Solo Video Screenings
Let’s Get Outta Here Film Tour, Richmond, VA; Memphis, TN, New Orleans, LA; Birmingham, AL; Charlotte, NC; Chapel Hill, NC (Mar 27- Apr 3, 2010)
Minas Third Thursdays, Baltimore, MD (Feb 18, 2010)
Los Solos, Baltimore, MD (Oct 3, 2008)
Selected Group Screenings/Exhibitons
Threat Level (Chicago, IL, Jan 2010)
Digi-a-Go-Go, Art Basel Miami, (Miami, FL, Dec 2009)
Videopolis (Baltimore, MD, May 2009)
MIX Queer Experimental Film Festival (New York, NY, Oct 2008)
DVD Compilations
ETC: 1969 – 2009 (expected release 2010)
Let’s Get Outta Here Videos by Kristen Anchor and Rahne Alexander (self-release Mar 2010)
Creative Capitalism’s Notebook (May 2008)
Films About Nothing (self-release, Jun 2006)
Hondance (2007)
Film/Video/Installation
Collaborator, Facts about Cats, video w/ original live score in collaboration with Rahne Alexander, Arctic Safari Tour, Dec 3, 2008, Shattered Wig, Feb 20, 2009, Baltimore, MD.
Maker, I’ll Pass, 2008, (Screenings Los Solos Series Oct 3, 2008; Mix NYC, Oct 10, 2008; Charm City Kitty Club Jan 2009)
Contributor, Video Content, Beatbots Webzine, A/V Club (av.beatbots.com) October 2007-Current
Creator, Performer, Thunderupagus, installation and performance in collaboration with Andrea Shearer, Transmodern Festival, April 2008, Artscape, July 18-20 2008, SalsaPolkaLooza July 26, 2008. Baltimore, MD
Video Editor, Mustachio, Don’t Touch My Mustache, A DaDa Dance Party, Jive Social Club. June 2, 2007.
Contributor, Video Installation, Watch This Space installation/screening, The Warehouse, Washington, DC June, 2007
Video Installation Artist, Outta This World (loop), Marquee Ball, Creative Alliance at The Patterson, Baltimore, MD April 2007
Video Installation Artist, Tiki Disco, Art To Dine For, Load of Fun Studios, October 2006
Video Editor, Transitions: The Photography of Robert Creamer, Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History, October 2006-June 2007
Creator, Performer, Collaborator, Connie and Bonnie Show performance, Transmodern Age Festival 2005, April 9, 2005, Area 405 Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Jun 22, 2006 21 Grand, Oakland, CA, Jun 24, 2006 Artists Access Television, San Francisco, CA, Jul 2, 2006, Hamilton Arts Collective, Baltimore, MD, Jul 22 Modernformations, Pittsburgh, PA Multimedia live performance with Citizen Rahne Alexander including video, performance, and set
Video Installation Artist, Oh She Anna, Marquee Ball, Creative Alliance at The Patterson, Baltimore, MD, April 2006
Assistant Dir. and Installation Artist, Feminist Freak Show, 2004, Venus Theatre at Warehouse Next Door, Washington, D.C. Installations: Distortion Room ( Mr. Bush Turned the World Upside Down) Room installation including video and Hall of Hollywood Horrors (sound installation)
Maker, Bush Beatin’, 2004 Created at Experimental Television Center (Screenings: CineKink, NY 2004, Charm City Kitty Club 2004, Icecapades, Baltimore show, 2004, Phoenix Rising, Santa Cruz, CA 2004, Hondance Arts Festival, January 2005, Women in the Director’s Chair Film Festival, March 2005, MARS, AFI Silver Theater, Silver Spring, MD April 2005, Hondance Compilation DVD, Released January 2005)
Collaborator, Variety Soundtrack, Feb 2004, In collaboration with performer/writer Citizen Rahne Alexander, recorded original soundtrack to Variety (1925, DuPont) classic silent film. Soundtrack sampled from European folk music recordings and commissioned by Elk Run Vineyards, Mt Airy, MD. (Exhibitions: Elk Run Vineyards, Feb 2004, Orpheum Silent Sounds Series, May 2004, St Johns College, Annapolis, MD July 2004)
Installation Artist, I’ll Pass: Trilogy (Single channel video installation) Artists and Models, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY, July 2003
Collaborator, Causmonautica Performance, January 2003, In collaboration with writer Megan McShea .
Post Production PA, Empathy, Dir. Amie Seigel, 2002
Sound, Personal Assistant to Director, Investigation of a Flame, Dir. Lynne Sachs, 2001-2002
Maker, Accidental Insolence, 2001 (Screenings: Lightstruck 2001, Reel Green Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, Labor Film Fest, San Francisco, CA, 2001, Gay and Lesbian Experimental Film Festival, Mix, New York, NY Sheppard College, 2002, Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2002, Ladyfest DC, 2002, Ladyfest East, 2002, Women in the Director’s Chair, 2002, Bamboo Theater, Milwaukee, WI, 2002, Film Arts Foundation, 2002, 911 Community Media Center, 2002, Clinton Street Theater, 2002, Columbia College of Chicago, 2002, Homoagogo, Olympia, WA, 2002, Visions DC, Washington, DC, 2002, Artists and Models, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, 2003, Hondance Arts Festival, January 2005, Hondance Compilation DVD, Released January 2005)
Collaborator, NeverNeverLand, Installation/Performance, 20 Min, Porter, Maine, 2000 Collaborated with musicians and performers to produce multimedia performance (incl. video) in outdoor theater of our creation on the edge of a swamp near Maine Teen Camp.
Maker, In My Room, 1999 (Screenings: Maryland Film Festival 2001, Independent Eye, Maryland Public Television 2001, Seattle Underground Film Festival 2000, Crash Test Videos 2001, LightStruck 1999, ArtScape, 2002, 14 Karat Cabaret, 2003, Baltimore, MD, Flicker, Richmond, VA, 2003 Hondance Arts Festival, January 2005, Hondance Compilation DVD, Released January 2005)
Education
James Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia 1992 – 1996
Bachelor’s of Science, Sociology; Minors, Women’s Studies and English GPA 3.6
University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1998 – 2002
Visual and Performing Arts, Film GPA 4.0
Awards received
Graduated Magna Cum Laude, 1996, James Madison University
Earned Outstanding Sociology Graduate Award, 1996, James Madison University
Dean’s List, 1998-2001, University Of Maryland, Baltimore County
Kaplan Scholarship for Outstanding Service, 2000, University of Maryland, BC
Judge B. Watts Scholarship, 2000 YMCA of Central Maryland
Outstanding Student Graduate Award, University of Maryland, BC
Graduated Suma Cum Laude, 2002, University of Maryland, BC
