As an interdisciplinary thinker and maker, Alex is interested in the “between” spaces.

“Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock—more than a maple—universe.” — Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Spanning ceramics, public practice, and environmental ethics, my work investigates how intersectional art–science relationships can expand public understanding, cultivate empathy, and produce forms of mutual intelligibility across disciplines and lived experiences.

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My most recent body of work, MOTHERLODE, examines how the body, particularly the female, feminized, and trans body, exists within environmental discourse and colonial histories. Working in ceramics, I engage material as both medium and material-language to explore systems of extraction, exploitation, and violence enacted upon living bodies and the land alike. At the same time, the work attends to the resilience, adaptability, and enduring strength embedded within queer and feminist ecologies.

Previous work includes performance-based interventions that explore radical joy, profanity, and queer embodiment. Alex’s work has been featured in the New York, Philadelphia, and D.C. Fringe Festivals, with performances touring nationally, including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York City, St. Louis, and beyond.

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M.A.→ Oregon State University
B.F.A. → Maryland Institute College of Art

Recent Teaching Experience

Oregon State University (Guest Lecturer & Teaching Assistant)
Portland Underground Graduate School (Lecturer)
Lewis & Clark College (Extension)
Otis College of Art & Design (Extension)
Maryland Institute College of Art (Extension)
Rec Center (Educator)
The Creative Alliance, Baltimore (Educator)

Featured Exhibitions & Performances

• Elysian Valley Arts Collective, Los Angeles, CA, 2023

• Artscape, Baltimore, MD, 2016–2019

• Potter’s Guild Annual Show, Baltimore, MD, 2018

• Baltimore Fringe Festival, Baltimore, MD, 2017

• Show Me Festival, St. Louis, MO, 2017

• New York City Fringe Festival, New York, NY, 2016

• Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA, 2016

• Artscape (Featured Performer), Baltimore, MD, 2016

• Best Debut, BHOF Weekender, Las Vegas, NV, 2016

• Lyric Opera House, Baltimore, MD, 2015

• Capital Fringe Festival, Washington, D.C., 2015

• Fiberocity, Middendorf Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2014

• Parts & Pieces, Leidy Atrium, Baltimore, MD, 2013

• WTF/WTF, Main O Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2013

• Accumulation and Metaphor, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2012