FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Ohio Governor’s Award for Business Support of the Arts – 2020
Leventhal Artist Program – 2020
Ohio Arts Council – Ohio Teaching Artist 2019-2021
Artist in the Classroom Residency -ACPA – 01/2020- 05/2020
Adaptation, Integration & the Arts Residency – 2018-19
GCAC Media Arts Fellowship – 2014
EDUCATION
Ohio State University – 2005
Double Major/ History of Art and Film and Media Studies
Kent State University – 2007
Master of Library and Information Science
GRANTS
GCAC – Equipment Grant – 2012 – 2017
GCAC – Professional Development Grant – 2013
VIDEOS & EXHIBITIONS
Goodmorning – 2022
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 4/2022
Dear Montreal – 2021
OAL Thumb Box 2023
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 1/2021
Tree of Knowledge
Pennington On Paper – 10/2022
Exploration, Experimentation, Exploration, Explanation! – The Vanderelli Room 1/10/2020
Those Who Spring of Me 2020
The IndieFEST Film Awards 5/2021
Boden International Film Festival 4/2021
Champion Film Salon International Film Festival 9/2021
RealAbilities Columbus – 12/2020
360 Montage Ohio State Fair – 2020 Co-created with Jennifer Bender
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 5/2020
Columbus in Cuba 2019
Spotlight Documentary Film Awards 1/2022
Boden International Film Festival 3/2021
SoCal Film Awards 3/2021
Montreal Independent Film Festival – 9/2020
Columbus Museum of Art – 1/2020
Gateway Film Center – 12/2019
Player Piano
Let There Be Light – The Vanderelli Room 2/2019
TechnoMEME – Pearl Conard Gallery 10/2018 -11/2018
Fuse Factory – Frequency Fridays
Frequency Festival 5/2022
Circuitry Room 10/2018
Truus de Groot + Jeff Chenault 6/2017
Truus de Groot 6/2016
Winds of Change – Carnegie Gallery – 1/2017 – 3/2017
Darkness Visible – Pennington Custom Art Services 10/2016 – Collaboration with Matt Swift
Human Refractions: A Modern Zoopraxagraph – Independents’ Day 9/2016 – Co-created with Matt Swift
Unrecognized Dynamism
TechnoMEME – Pearl Conard Gallery 10/2018-11/2018
Women on Women – 400 West Rich 9/2016
Resided – 2016 An installation collaboration
The Game Show – EASE 2/2016-4/2016
Goodbye Margaret – 2016
Upper Arlington Film Festival – Upper Arlington, Ohio 5/5/2017
Moving-Image-Arts International Short Film Festival – Toronto, CA 3/23/2017
Film Forum on the Lake – Geneva, Ohio 2/5/2017
Wimberley Film Festival – Wimberley, Texas 1/14/2017
Short Short Story – Providence, Rhode Island 11/27/2016
BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival – Bilbao, Spain 9/12/2016
Brand New Blinkers – London, UK 8/18/2016
Ohio State Fair Fine Art Show 2016 – 8/2016 – GCAC Award
PlaceMakes – West Cherry St. Film Night – 6/15/2016
Wexner Center – Ohio Shorts – 4/30/2016
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 1/2016
180 Montage: Broad and High 2015 Co-created with Jennifer Bender
Breaking Waves Music and Arts Festival – Freeport, Nova Scotia 7/30/2016
Independents’ Day – 9/2015
Slow Ascent – 2014 Co-created with Matt Swift
Independents’ Day – 9/2015
Ohio State Fair Fine Art Show 2015 – GCAC Award
Ohio Made Shorts 5/2015
Sahar International Short Film Festival – 2/2015
CS Gallery – 100 Under 100 – 11/2014
Blue Beautiful Skies – Documentary 2015
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 3/2015
Hammond Harkins Gallery 1/2015
The Experimentals –
Popup Installation at Independents’ Day 9/2015
City Walks – 2011-2016
MOTE 078 – City Walks (Installation) 7/2015
City Walks: The Body, Wellness, and Urbanization – The Oak Room 7/2014
The Oak Room – Meaningful Gestures 11/2013
Ohio State Fair Fine Art Show 2013 – GCAC Award
ComFest – Best of CMIAR 6/30/2013
A Scape – CS Gallery 5/2013
Urban Arts Space – Idea Lab: The Best of CMIAR – 10/2011
CBUS Film Screening 9/2012
BYOB Columbus 3/2012
Your Memories – 2014
Ohio State Fair Fine Art Show 2014 – 3rd Place
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 5/2014
Ennui – 2012
GCAC 2015 Public Forum 2/2015
Public Domain 10/2014
SeptemberFest 9/2012
ComFest – Best of CMIAR- 6/23/2012
Columbus Arts Fest Afterparty 6/2012
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 5/2012
Arrow of Time 2011 Co-Created with Matt Swift
The Ohio State Fair – 2012
CS Squared – CS Gallery 4/2012
Still’n Motion – CS Gallery 6/12/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 5/2011
Consume 2011
Agora 5/21/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 3/2011
Void 2007
Project-A-Bug – Still’n Motion 6/18/2011
Project-A-Bug – Gallery Hop 6/4/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 3/2011
Lamentation 2011
ComFest – Best of CMIAR- 6/23/2012
CS Squared – CS Gallery 4/2012
Urban Arts Space – Idea Lab: The best of CMIAR – 9/20 – 10/7/2011
The Ohio State Fair – 7/27 – 8/7/2011 – Jurror’s Choice
Still’n Motion – CS Gallery 6/12/2011
Feature at Agora 5/21/2011
Appalachian Edge Film Festival 4/13/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 12/2010
Can (V. 2) 2010
ComFest – Best of CMIAR- 6/22/2012
The Ohio State Fair – 7/27 – 8/7/2011
ADD Short Film Festival TBA
Appalachian Edge Film Festival 4/13/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 8/20/2010
Assiduous Affliction 2010
Agora 5/21/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 5/27/2010
Journey
Project-A-Bug – Grandview Art Hop 5/28/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 3/11/2010
Adaptive Resolution
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 11/13/2010
FBSP Co-Created with Matt Swift
CS Squared – CS Gallery 4/2012
Still’n Motion – CS Gallery 6/12/2011
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 11/13/2010
Agora 5/2009
Kieru 2004 Co-Created with Matt Swift
LIVE STREAMING
APO Artist Talks 2023-2024
ACPA Hour 9/2020 – 12/2021
Washington Gladden Social Justice Park – Unveiling Ceremony 1/2021
Art Tells a Story, Let it Tell Yours – 4/2020 – 1/2021
Not Sheep Gallery – Voter Profile – 11/7/2020
Rise Together – Honoring the Legacy of Linda Regula 10/17/2020
Table Reads – CBIFF – 8/2020
The Vanderelli Room – The Giving Tree 6/12/2020
ACPA Graduation – 5/2020
Deeper Connections Series – ACPA 3/2020 – 5/2020
Cbus Creatives Live – 2017 – 2018
PRESENTATIONS
Filmmaking After COVID – CIF+AF – Panel Presentation 4/17/2020
Autism + Micro-Budget Filmmaking – ACT Conference – Panel Presentation 9/2018
Those Who Spring of Me – Showing Relationships – Reel Abilities Film Festival – Presentation 7/2018
Artist Talk – EASE Gallery 2016
Video Hosting for Video Blogging 2006
Video from Analog to Digital 2006
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Nicolettecinemagraphics – Multimedia Specialist 5/2003 – Present
Kent State University – V-Tel Monitor 6/2007 – 8/2007
OSU – Literacy Collaborative/Reading Recovery – Digital Video Editor 5/2006 – 8/2006
Columbus Museum of Art – Digital Projects Intern 8/2007 – 12/2007
OSU – Huntington Archive – Image Specialist Intern 6/2004 – 3/2005
EDITING WORK
Showdown in Amherst (sound editor) – 2024
Our Terrible Son – Amachi Yah Films – 2023
Blue Rebellion (Second Editor) – Amachi Yah Films – 2021
Those Who Spring of Me – 2020
Columbus in Cuba -2019
Godspeed (2nd editor) – Artistic Freedom Ltd. 10/2017
ROXË15 (Second Editor)– Artistic Freedom Ltd. 6/2017
Sick Days (Second Editor– Derek Stewart Productions 10/2015
Change My Relationship – Karla Downing 2013-2015
3 Weeks of Terror – “Chuckles in the Dark” – Whiskey Face Productions 10/2014
48 Hour Film Project Columbus, Ohio – “Stepping Down” (Second Editor) – 4, Robert Foor – 7/22-24/2011
PROJECTION WORKS
Lodestar 9/2015
Adaptations – Independents’ Day – A projection mapped experience 2014-2015
Emitting Velocity – Body Language 2014-2015 – Collaboration
PHOTOGRAPHY
Pennington Custom Art Services – Size Matters – 12/2020
The Vanderelli Room – Exploration, Experimentation, Exploration, Explanation! – 1/2020
Pennington Custom Art Services – Splinters of Light – 5/2016 – 6/2016
Urban Arts Space – 25 on High 9/2014 – 11/2014
The Oak Room– House Home Space Place10/2014
CS Gallery– Open Show 12/2013
CURATOR / JUROR
Columbus International Film and Animation Festival Juror 2020-2021
Ohio Governor’s Youth Art Exhibition – Central Ohio Region – 2016
Independents’ Day Film Committee – 2014-2017
Journal of Short Film – Production Assistant – 2011 – 2016
Souled World – The Oak Room 12/2014 – 1/2015
Columbus Moving Image Art Review 2009-2018
Student Film Fest 2014 – 2015
Wizard World Film Fest 2013
Columbus International Film + Video Festival – Student Division Co-Chair 2011 – 2014
Campus Movie Fest – OSU 2010
PRESS
“’Those Who Spring of Me’ and the many obstacles of indie filmmaking,” Joel Oliphant, Alive, 17 November 2020
“Ohio State Alumni Co-Direct A Film Featuring Couple With Autism” Denise Cameron, The Lantern at OSU, 17 November 2020
“Area filmmakers spotlight those on autism spectrum for ReelAbilities Columbus festival,” Peter Tonguette, The Columbus Dispatch, 14 November 2020
“Arts community shares its story,” Together As Buckeyes, 10 July 2020
“Matt and Nikki Swift celebrate 20 years of near-continuous filming,” Andy Downing, Alive, 10 January 2020
“The Autism Puzzle Part 3” Jerod Smalley, NBC4 Columbus, 3 April 2019
“Ohio State professor provides new film opportunities to students within the disabled community,” Romi Azulay, The Lantern at OSU, 11 March 2019