Upcoming Events.

September 19 through November 23, 2025, my short film Inundation screens at the Films of Return festival

October 3, 2025 – my short film Inundation screens at the Mountain Craft Film festival

October 9, 2025 – We are premiering an expanded version of the Ancient New this at the Richmond Folk Festival’s Riverlore on Film program!

Past Events

August 1 2025 – the Trash Trout Motion Picture Show screened at the Fly Around Festival

February 13 – May 5, 2025 My sculpture Plastic Confluence #3 was part of the Asheville Strong: Celebrating Art and Community After Hurricane Helene exhibit at Asheville Art Museum

January 25, 2025 Benthic Salvage Triptych screened at the Carrboro Film Festival, Carrboro, North Carolina

August 25 – September 3, 2024 I was a artist in residence at Swale House on Governors Island in New York and created a participatory installation and video loop titled Confluence

April 22, 2024 My short film Moab Waste Stream screened at Moab Arts in Moab, Utah

April 20, 2024 The Trash Trout Motion Picture Show performed at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center’s {Re}Happening in Black Mountain, North Carolina

April 10, 2024 My short film Moab Waste Stream screened at the Athens International Film and Video Festival in Athens, Ohio

March 22+23, 2024 My short film Benthic Salvage Triptych screened at the Oxford Film Festival in Oxford, Mississippi

My work was included in the From these Hills Exhibit at the William King Art Museum in Abingdon, Va from October 5, 2023, to February 4, 2024.

September 2023 – I was the featured artist on the EcoArtSpace Blog. Read an interview and learn about my latest works.

August 1 – 31, 2023 – I was an artist-in-residence at the Moab Arts ReUse Residency in Moab, Utah. The residency included public workshops and a screening of a new project, here is a link to more details.

Sunday, April 2, 2023 – 1pm – Trash Trout Motion Picture Show was part of the Ears on Appalachia program at Big Ears in Knoxville, Tennessee.

December 6, 2022 to February 4, 2023 – Trash Trout Picture Show exhibit at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum

Tuesday, January 24, 2023 – 6pm – Closing reception and performance of the Trash Trout Motion Picture Show with live musical accompaniment by Trevor McKenzie and Julie Shepherd-Powell at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum.

Thursday, November 17, 2022 – 7pm The Trash Trout Motion Picture Show will be part of the Dance-a-lorus program at the Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Thursday, November 3, 2022 – 1pm Presentation and discussion of the Trash Trout Motion Picture Show at the Creative Placemaking South + Appalachia Leadership Summit Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Thursday, October 20, 2022 – 6pm Screening of the Trash Trout Motion Picture Show with live musical accompaniment by Trevor McKenzie and Julie Shepherd-Powell at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum.

Tuesday, October 4, 2022 – Screening of the Trash Trout Motion Picture Show with live musical accompaniment by Trevor McKenzie and Julie Shepherd-Powell at the Appalachian – Carpathian International Mountains Conference in Brasov, Romania.

Friday, June 17, 2022 – Screening of the Trash Trout Motion Picture Show with live musical accompaniment by Trevor McKenzie and Julie Shepherd-Powell as part of the Boonerang Festival in Boone, North Carolina

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 – Screening of the Trash Trout Motion Picture Show with live musical accompaniment by Trevor McKenzie and Julie Shepherd-Powell in Radford University’s Bonnie Auditorium. (Eight Point Star opened the show)

October 15-23, 2021 – Benthic Salvage premiered at the Athens International Film and Video Festival

July, 2021 – I was the McClure Scanlan Visual Artist in Residence at Piedmont University’s Lillian E. Smith Center 

October 2-4, 2020
The short experimental film Does Water Die?, which I co-directed with Josh White, screened at the Raleigh Film and Art Festival

April 4, 2020
The short experimental film Does Water Die?, which I co-directed with Josh White, screened at the 2020 Indie Grits Film Festival in Columbia, South Carolina.  Here is the link: indiegrits.org/festival/livestream