I am thrilled to have been selected as the 2024 Pierre Lassonde Artist-in-Residence at the school of fine arts at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.

I will immerse myself in a research-based contemporary art project titled Guaranteed to Bleed that takes a long view of the establishment of the cotton industry in the Atlantic provinces. Through archival research and artwork creation, I would like to understand the relationship of the establishment of this industry to larger colonial, industrial, American Civil War, and enslavement histories of cotton. Guaranteed to Bleed will focus my interest on the ways textile is constituted over vast geographies and further my interest in the ways we understand and appreciate cloth, clothing, and the body, including it’s histories, it’s resonances, and it’s possibilities.