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

2024 — Windows of Understanding, “400 Families,” Highland Park, NJ.

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 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, 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

Taking our Place in History, Co-editor, May 2020

“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