Timeline of Work

2019

• Awarded the Philip Halley Johnson Scholarship for Art at the University of Oregon
• Won first place in poetry in the Walter and Nancy Kidd Memorial Writing Competition in Poetry and Fiction at the University of Oregon

2018

• Began studies at University of Oregon with the aid of the Diversity Excellence Scholarship
• The Othered Gender Takes the Knife featured in University of Oregon’s Making History: LGBTQIA Art Exhibit
• Pop-up and tunnel books A Tiding of Magpies and Enough Space featured in Lane Community College Juried Student Art Exhibition and Eugene’s First Friday Art Walk

2017

• Film short Unmaking Space receives “Best in 4D Art” Porschman Scholarship in the Paragon Arts Annual Juried Student Art Show
• The Othered Gender Takes the Knife receives “Honorable Mention in 2D Art” Porschman Scholarship in the Paragon Arts Annual Juried Student Art Show
• Earns Associate of Science at Portland Community College with Honors (President’s List)

2016

• Solo visual art show the dream guides exhibited at Miss Zumstein Cafe and Cellar Door Coffee
• Fitcher’s Bird or the Girl Who Rescues Herself receives best in 3D artwork Porschman Scholarship in the Portland Community College Cascade Gallery‘s Hand Made Student Art Exhibition

2015

• Completed first tiny house of salvage materials at 99 square feet with Spencer Fisher
• Began visual art studies at Portland Community College

2014

• Recorded, mixed, mastered and produced solo acoustic album Human Thinking Animal
• Poem hallowed published in Querencia: A Compilation of Zuni Mountain Poets in New Mexico

2013

• Recorded, mixed, mastered and co-produced Maxwell von Raven’s debut album For the Night Surely Comes
• Wrote monologue for El Morro production of The Vagina Monologues on growing up female, being transgender, and surviving sexual assault
• Poem at sunrise published in January issue of the Gallup Journey of New Mexico
• Photo Muse won first place in its category at the El Morro Area Arts Council Harvest Festival

2012

• Produced two dozen visual art pieces for a solo art show in Portland, OR at the Silver Moth
• Began CoupleoHuckleberries blog with Spencer Fisher to document their adventures backpacking, living off grid, and making art

2011

• Ink and watercolor The Juniper Tree included in Group Love Show Number 5 at the Launchpad Gallery

2009 – 2010

• Published blog Western Rambler to document his sabbatical in the high desert off the grid, on the road, or with his 100 year old grandmother

2008

• Volunteered at the Multnomah County Library

2007

• Electronic music single Santa Maria released on Failing Records Compilation of Portland Music Volume 3
• Volunteered at Cardo’s Sprout Farm in Denton, Texas

2006

• Wrote, produced and performed multimedia visual art show/rock opera The Armless Children and the Serpent in a three month timeline at the Launchpad Gallery in Portland, Oregon
• Taught keyboard at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls in Portland, Oregon
• Volunteered at Mark Woolley Gallery in Portland, Oregon

2005

• Wrote string quintet Woven Shut
• Recorded, mixed, mastered and produced solo electronic album under the name Zeze the X
• Volunteered at In Other Words Feminist Books and Resources in Portland, Oregon

2004

• Wrote music reviews for art journal Art Prostitute
• Curated revolving art shows at Jupiter House, a 24-hour coffee house in Denton, Texas, which was co-owned and co-created with family

2001

• Wrote film score for independent short film Boiling Man
• Toured England with the Brookhaven Jazz Lab Band playing piano
• Recorded, mixed, mastered and produced solo punk album under the name (esperance)
• Music scholarship funding lost due to cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts

2000

• Wrote film score for independent short film Normalcy
• Attended Brookhaven College in Dallas, Texas for Music Composition and Piano, studying piano with Octavio Gutierrez, by virtue of a National Endowment for the Arts music scholarship
• Wrote piano composition Tempus

1991-1999

• Studied piano with classical pianist and instructor Carmen Doubrava

1999

• Wrote sonata for electric guitar and piano Ximena, which won 2^nd in the Texas State Music Teacher’s Association’s composition competition
• Recorded, mixed, mastered and produced solo experimental album Chained to the Sink under the name (esperance)

1998

• Wrote piano composition Tir fa Tonn, which won 2^nd in the Texas State Music Teacher’s Association’s composition competition

1996

• At age 15, completed first piano composition of note, Amans, in sonata form