GoodYear Arts Resident Artist, SUMMER 2024
GoodYear Arts
Goodyear Arts is an artist-led, nonprofit residency and multi-arts events program based on this truth: Artists need TIME, SPACE, MONEY, and COMMUNITY. In underused commercial spaces, they offer paid studio residencies for excellent and daring local visual, literary, and performing artists and present free-and-public arts events.
During my time at Goodyear I was granted a sizable studio, budget and the trust to bring a very ambitious project to fruition.
This culminated in the creation of :
a 48 x 96 in. acrylic behemoth meant to illustrate how we experience and navigate traumatic change.
“Things Don’t Always Come Full Circle“ (UV ink on Acrylic and Steel, 48 x 96 in.) is an exploration of how we navigate intense change. I begins with an organized design that quickly gives way to disorder and then chaos before gradually returning to a new order. Rarely do things return to the way they once were, but the hope is that we can find a version of harmony and balance in the end.”
The assemblage of slowly spinning dots gradually transition from order to chaos, with the circles becoming less organized and more chaotic before returning to order in the end.
My residency showcase and subsequent artist talk were a huge success and featured my large spinning machine as well as the work of two tremendous fellow artist Sam Digges-Hunter & Lauren Weeks.
Photos courtesy of Dana “Bliss” White
QC Family Tree Culture Bearer residency, September 2023
QC family tree
During this 10 Week Residency I worked alongside 3 others artist to put together a cohesive body of work that culminated in art exhibition and experience at the end of the residency. We were tasked with creating work that amplified the voices of the residents of Enderly Park, referencing their experiences with housing insecurity and gentrification.
My work consisted of Giclee prints, backlit by LED lighting affixed to motion sensors, and a spray painted resin sculpture.
The residency was rewarding, and exhausting in the best way. The subject matter was heavy and very human. I worked hard to create work that both represented my style and also felt authentic to the experiences that I both heard about and witnessed during my time in Enderly community.
Community Engagement was an equally important part of this residency and we hosted open studios that included activities like bonfires, pumpkin carving and artist talks.
Images courtesy of Eric Pratt Photography
Everybody Fights, 2023 (QCTF Culture Bearer Residency)
Giclee on Art Natural 300 Paper, with LED lighting
24 x 28 in
In this piece, we see gentrification personified in the form of a giant machine.Perhaps more importantly we see the neighborhood fighting back together.In time of crisis, all hands grab a rope to resist the machinations of the machines.
Serene Fury, 2023 (QCTF Culture Bearer Residency)
Spray Paint on Resin
24 x 28 in
This sculpture seeks to illustrate the paradox of beautiful violence.
Often times we only recall the bloody, visceral nature of violence, with a blind spot for its more sinister, silent sister.
We see shiny new things, new houses, and often neglect to realize the severe consequences that comes with them.
This solid resin club, though decorated to look quite fanciful, is still a club, and still quite dangerous.
We structured the exhibit to be reminiscent of the home. My room was staged to look like the living room, where you often come relax, but where the stresses of day, month, year, still loom overhead.
The residency experience concluded a few months after the exhibition with an artist talk in collaborations with Boom Charlotte and 3 Bone Theatre.
EDUCATION
2014 B.F.A. Brooklyn College CUNY, New York, NY.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2025 Art Beyond Certified Teaching Artist Program, Charlotte, NC.
2024 Goodyear Arts Residency. Charlotte, NC, USA.
2023 QC Family Tree Culture Bearer Artist Residency. Charlotte, NC, USA.
MEMBERSHIPS
2024- Board Member. QC Family Tree
2024- Collective Member. Goodyear Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Genesis. Noda Brewing Company. Charlotte, NC, USA.
2014 Rogues Gallery. Brooklyn College. Brooklyn NY, USA.
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Decade. GoodYear Arts. Camp North End. Charlotte, NC, USA
2025 Fantastical Resistance. The Arts Factory. Charlotte, NC, USA
2025 Mccoll Center’s Benefit Auction. Mccoll Center. Charlotte, NC, USA
2024 Nutrient Rich. GoodYear Arts. Camp North End. Charlotte, NC, USA
2024 Hunnid Dollar Art Fair. Camp North End. Charlotte, NC, USA
2024 Breaking The Chains. The Arts Factory. Charlotte, NC, USA
2024 Retrovision. Resident Culture. Charlotte, NC, USA
2023 Fire Works. Petras Art Lounge. Charlotte, NC, USA.
WORKSHOPS & PUBLIC ART
2025 Stickers With Saiga Workshop. We Rock CLT. Charlotte, NC, USA.
2025 Design to Dollars Workshop. Do Greater. Charlotte, NC, USA.
2025 North End Sidewalk mural apprentice. North Tryon st. Charlotte, NC, USA.
2024 Queens Greens Mini Golf Obstacle. Charlotte SHOUT. Wells Fargo Plaza. Charlotte, NC, USA.
PRESS, INTERVIEWS + PUBLICATIONS
ArtintheQC.com . Just Keep Spinning with Saiga Saturn. June 30 2025
BoldJourney.com . Meet Saiga. November 7 2024
ShoutoutNorthCarolina.com Meet SAIGA. Neo-Pointillist and Sculptor. March 6 2024
NoDa News. Artist of the Month. March 9 2024
