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Education
2025 Canadian International Institute of Art Therapy - Therapeutic Arts Practitioner Certification
2021 University of Alberta, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking and Intermedia, with Distinction
2018 Grant MacEwan University, Fine Arts Diploma, with Distinction
Solo & Duo Exhibitions
2024 variegata, Esker Foundation Project Space, Calgary AB - solo
2024 In Violet Light, Art Gallery of St. Albert Main Gallery, St. Albert AB - duo
2023 variegata, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre Main Gallery, Edmonton AB - solo
2023 variegata, Soft Gallery, Edmonton AB - solo
2023 variegata, The Works International Visual Arts Society x The Westin, Edmonton AB - solo
2025 what we leave, what we take, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton AB
2024 Coming Up Next, Alberta Craft Council, Calgary AB
2024 Coming Up Next, Alberta Craft Council, Edmonton AB
2023 twenty eight months, Soft Gallery, Edmonton AB
2023 Art-O-Rama, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton AB
2022 Fully Realized, Latitude 53, Edmonton AB
2022 Art-O-Rama, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre, Edmonton AB
2021 Care, Virtual Exhibition, hosted by Dear Artists
2021 Where do we go from here?, Remote Contact Virtual Symposium, hosted by The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2020 Breathing Room, University of Alberta Fine Arts Building Gallery, Edmonton AB
2020 Incidental Folds, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton AB
2019 As Is; On Sight, Enterprise Square Gallery, Edmonton AB
2019 Goodbye Goodbye, Jackson Power, Edmonton AB
2018 Going Once, Enterprise Square Gallery, Edmonton AB
2018 How to Work a Room, Stollery Gallery at Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, Edmonton AB
2018 Fine Art Grad Show, John and Maggie Mitchell Gallery, Edmonton AB
2018 Change for Climate, Latitude 53, Edmonton AB
2018 Living with the Damage, Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton AB
Group Exhibitions
2025 Pollinator Virtual Residency
2024 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Visual Arts & New Media Individual Project Funding
2024 Eldon + Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize Runner-Up
2022-23 Harcourt House Artist in Residence
2022 Edmonton Arts Council, Grant for Individuals and Collectives, Stream 1: Exploration & Experimentation
2018 Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, Emerging Artist Program
Grants, Awards, & Residencies
2025 Artist talk, Red Deer Polytechnic
2024 Soft-sculpture workshop, Esker Foundation
2024 Artist panel, Art Gallery of St. Albert
2023 Soft-sculpture workshops, The Works x The Westin
2023 Artist talk, Harcourt House Artist Run Centre
Workshops & Artist Talks
2023 Contributor to Materials for continuing by Alma Louise Visscher and Riaz Mehmood, Alcove Spring 2023 Publication
2023 Contributor to Two Cents of Sense by Amanda Chwelos, Alcove Spring 2023 Publication
2021 Signs of Life, Art From Here, in partnership with Latitude 53, The Mitchell Art Gallery, Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective & SNAP Gallery, https://www.artfromhere.ca/writing-archive/taiessa
2021 When All The Good Feels Scarce, Slow, SNAPline 2021.1
2021 Cover art, Art Mentorship Society of Alberta, Art + Wellness Magazine, Issue 1
Publications
2025 Edmonton artist crafts ghostly house plants from white felt, Kate Taylor
2024 The List: In Violet Light considers strange reality of imbedded houseplants, Fish Griwkowsky
2024 April Dean and Taiessa | In Violet Light, Galleries West
2024 Art Gallery of St. Albert boasts three new exhibitions, Anna Borowiecki
2024 Breaking down the Edmonton Arts Prizes shortlists in music, film, art and books, Fish Griwkowsky
2023 The Social Life of Wallflowers, Freyja T. Catton
Media
2024-ongoing Volunteer Artist on the Wards, University Hospital Foundation
2022-ongoing Education Facilitator, The Works International Visual Arts Society
2021-23 Production Supervisor, The Works International Visual Arts Society
2020 Artist Exchange Program, John & Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery
2019-21 Production Coordinator, Summer Internship Program, The Works Art & Design Festival
2019-20 Undergraduate Printmaking Assistantship, University of Alberta
2019 Volunteer, Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts
2018-22 Peer Support Volunteer, University of Alberta Students’ Association
2018 Production Assistant, Summer Internship Program, The Works Art & Design Festival
2017-18 Volunteer Gallery Guide, John & Maggie Mitchell Gallery
2017-18 Peer Support Volunteer, MacEwan University Students’ Association