Booooooom is as an online voice in the new contemporary arts scene, highlighting emerging talents around the world. Launched from Vancouver, Booooooom is Canada’s highest traffic art platform, and one of the largest on the Internet.

In 2020 Booooooom featured my work Mid— through the online publication of ten images from the series and an introduction by photo editor Anna Schneider.

Sager Braudis Gallery features rotating monthly exhibits of regionally, nationally, and internationally acclaimed artists, representing masters from Pablo Picasso and Leonor Fini to contemporary artists working in diverse media. Ten large-scale pieces of work from my series Mid— were exhibited in a five-artist show.

In the summer of 2018 I traveled across China to co-present a series of Arts Integration Teacher Training Workshops with Mido Art Education, as part of the Peking University Overseas Master Teacher Forum Lecture Series. Within this series, I gave three Artist Talks on my project Mid— and presented follow-up discussions on artist statement writing at the high school through college and adult levels.

Tsinghua University, Beijing, June 21-22
Shanghai, June 28-29
Guangzhou, June 25-26

Juried by Lisa Volpe, Associate Curator, Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

30 photographers were chosen from over 350 national and international submissions to participate in this exhibition coinciding with the 10th Annual Filter Photo Festival and Expo Chicago’s Art After Hours. My image “Leap” was included in the gallery and exhibition catalog.

Curated by Wesley Verhoeve, photographer, writer and founding curator of ICP Projected, New York. ICP Projected is a weekly thematic exhibition of artists from the United States and abroad. I was invited to participate in the 45th installment, featuring works on the body from 38 artists, including my own image “Camper”.

Kansas City Flatfile is a biennial series of emerging and established Kansas City-based artists. Visitors peruse flatfile cabinets holding over 230 custom-made artist portfolios, and guest curators selectively appoint salon walls each month. Work from my portfolio Mid— was curated into the wall exhibition all four months of the program, including the pieces “Bread Winner,” “Leap,” “Morning, Bed,” “The Bather,” and “Sidewalk, Road Watching.”

My MFA thesis, Mid—, was selected for inclusion in RISD’s first edition of the Book of Thesis Books—a guide featuring excerpts of 37 exemplary recent thesis books. The theses were chosen and annotated by staff of the Center for Arts & Language following recommendations from Graduate Program Directors and faculty and review of about 300 theses. Mid— was also one of five thesis books selected for inclusion in the abridged shortlist of The Book of Thesis Books. 

Curated by Matt Rahner, Photography Faculty, Missouri Valley College, Marshall, MO, this exhibition of Missouri photographs traveled to three galleries across the state: Evelyn E. Jorgenson Fine Arts Gallery, Moberly, MO, Morris Gallery of Contemporary Art, Marshall, MO, and Sidney Larson Gallery, Columbia, MO

The exhibition included photographs from the Works Progress Administration archive to the contemporary, including three pieces from my series Mid—. My piece “Leap” was featured on the cover of the exhibition catalog, and my piece “Sidewalk, Road Watching” was used for promotion of the show.

Juried by members of the Kansas City photography collective, Archive Collective.

Archive Collective held an open-call for submissions to exhibit in projection form at Front/Space gallery in the Crossroads Arts District. Twelve images from my series Mid— were chosen for a solo slideshow opening on First Friday in July and running for a week, visible inside and outside Front/Space.

Juried by Eliot Dudik, Photographer and Founding Editor One Day Projects, Williamsburg, VA

Featuring work from 24 artists exploring the relationship between landscape and identity, including my image “Sidewalk, Road Watching”.

Juried by Maggie Blanchard, Director, Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM

The Center for fine Art Photography’s Portfolio Showcase is an annual award and publication, featuring photographers who demonstrate a remarkable commitment to their work and the strength of vision to produce a cohesive series of photographs. Fifteen portfolios were chosen for inclusion in Portfolio Showcase 9 physical and online exhibitions and exhibition catalog, including selections from my series Mid—. 

Juried by James Estrin, founder and co-editor of The New York Times Lens blog

CPW’s Photography Now is a preeminent annual juried show of contemporary photography. In 2016, James Estrin chose 11 photographers from almost 500 entries, with a common theme surrounding identity and representation. Two of my pieces, “Leap” and “Sidewalk Road Watching” were included in the group show.

Founded by Aline Smithson in 2007, LENSCRATCH is a premiere photography blog featuring the work of contemporary photographers. The States Project invites one photographer from each of the United States to guest curate new and exciting work from their state; I was one of five Kansas photographers featured by curator Daniel Coburn. The article included an introduction by Coburn and 15 images and text from my series Mid—.   

Rabbit Rabbit is an annual curated journal of emerging artists by Katie Harwood and Big Bad Bettie Press. Conceived as a "portable exhibition", the design interweaves imagery, essays, and interviews. My images and writing from Mid— were included in this volume on Transition.

Pony Jacobson and Helen Jones, ”Elise Kirk, from the series Mid—,” Incandescent Issue 9: To Save and To See, (Portland, OR: Pine Island Press, January 2016): 7-11.