Creative Expressions Arts
Creative Expressions Arts (CEA) was established in the 1980s and is owned by Indiana author and artist Alys Caviness-Gober.
Alys Caviness-Gober is an anthropologist, artist, and writer. Despite lifelong disabilities, Alys perseveres with her art and nonprofit volunteering. She comes late to the life of a professional artist: after receiving her MA in Anthropology, Alys taught Anthropology, Women’s Studies, and ESOL at the university level, and was a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics until her disabilities worsened in 2009. In 2011, Alys started exhibiting artwork online and locally as Creative Expressions Arts, and was juried into the Hamilton County Artists' Association in both photography (2012) and 2D categories (2013), and served on the HCAA Board for many years. She and author Sarah E. Morin are the co-founders of the literature-based annual project NICE (Noblesville Interdisciplinary Creativity Expo); in 2018 NICE received an Indiana Humanities project grant.
In November of 2014, Alys founded Logan Street Sanctuary, Inc. (LSS), an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) Arts organization providing the community with diverse arts projects and programming. In July 2019, LSS rebranded as Community • Education • Arts, Inc. (CEArts). Alys serves as the President of CEArts, and Sarah E. serves as the Secretary. Under their leadership, in late 2019, CEArts expanded with digital content, including online Arts Showcase exhibit opportunities for writers, musicians, and artists, and @theroundtable, an arts-related podcast/short videos series.
Alys and Sarah E. are the co-directors behind CEArts’ two annual creative place-making projects, NICE and The Polk Street Review Project (TPSR), both of which include workshops and episodes for the @theroundtable. TPSR also includes an annual submissions-driven anthology publication titled, The Polk Street Review. TPSR project has received three Indiana Arts Commission project grants (2018, 2019, and 2020).
Alys is a FY2017 (July 2016 - June 2017) Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Project Grant Award recipient, for which she created a series of paintings expressing life with hidden disabilities. She was selected to participate in the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute’s Religion Spirituality, and the Arts 2018/19 Seminar Class. Alys has been an invited presenter at Poetry Society of Indiana conferences (2017, 2018, 2019), and Monicat Data’s arts and technology Yellow Summit (2019), and is an invited artist member of RAW Artists (her first RAW Showcase Exhibit has been postponed until July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Alys is a selected poet for INverse: Indiana’s Poetry Archive, and she is a member of Noblesville’s Noble Poets and serves on the Board of the Poetry Society of Indiana. Her poetry has been featured in various global anthologies since the 1980s, and she's published four volumes of poetry and artwork, Naked In Wonderland (Volumes I, II, III, and IV). She serves on the Noblesville Cultural Arts Council and is active in the local arts scene. Alys' artwork, photographs, and poetry have received national and international recognition.
More about Alys' artistic recognitions can be found below.
Alys Caviness-Gober is an anthropologist, artist, and writer. Despite lifelong disabilities, Alys perseveres with her art and nonprofit volunteering. She comes late to the life of a professional artist: after receiving her MA in Anthropology, Alys taught Anthropology, Women’s Studies, and ESOL at the university level, and was a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics until her disabilities worsened in 2009. In 2011, Alys started exhibiting artwork online and locally as Creative Expressions Arts, and was juried into the Hamilton County Artists' Association in both photography (2012) and 2D categories (2013), and served on the HCAA Board for many years. She and author Sarah E. Morin are the co-founders of the literature-based annual project NICE (Noblesville Interdisciplinary Creativity Expo); in 2018 NICE received an Indiana Humanities project grant.
In November of 2014, Alys founded Logan Street Sanctuary, Inc. (LSS), an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) Arts organization providing the community with diverse arts projects and programming. In July 2019, LSS rebranded as Community • Education • Arts, Inc. (CEArts). Alys serves as the President of CEArts, and Sarah E. serves as the Secretary. Under their leadership, in late 2019, CEArts expanded with digital content, including online Arts Showcase exhibit opportunities for writers, musicians, and artists, and @theroundtable, an arts-related podcast/short videos series.
Alys and Sarah E. are the co-directors behind CEArts’ two annual creative place-making projects, NICE and The Polk Street Review Project (TPSR), both of which include workshops and episodes for the @theroundtable. TPSR also includes an annual submissions-driven anthology publication titled, The Polk Street Review. TPSR project has received three Indiana Arts Commission project grants (2018, 2019, and 2020).
Alys is a FY2017 (July 2016 - June 2017) Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Project Grant Award recipient, for which she created a series of paintings expressing life with hidden disabilities. She was selected to participate in the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute’s Religion Spirituality, and the Arts 2018/19 Seminar Class. Alys has been an invited presenter at Poetry Society of Indiana conferences (2017, 2018, 2019), and Monicat Data’s arts and technology Yellow Summit (2019), and is an invited artist member of RAW Artists (her first RAW Showcase Exhibit has been postponed until July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Alys is a selected poet for INverse: Indiana’s Poetry Archive, and she is a member of Noblesville’s Noble Poets and serves on the Board of the Poetry Society of Indiana. Her poetry has been featured in various global anthologies since the 1980s, and she's published four volumes of poetry and artwork, Naked In Wonderland (Volumes I, II, III, and IV). She serves on the Noblesville Cultural Arts Council and is active in the local arts scene. Alys' artwork, photographs, and poetry have received national and international recognition.
More about Alys' artistic recognitions can be found below.
11 July 2020
INverse Poetry Archive 2020
Alys Caviness-Gober has been selected by The Indiana Arts Commission and the Indiana State Library to have here of her poems included in the INverse poetry archive in its inaugural year.
All three of Alys’ submitted poems have been approved for the collection:
The Pastel Scarf
Devastation
Recent Convert
Approved poems will be uploaded into the digital archive over the next few weeks and will be available for public access in early Fall.
INverse Poetry Archive 2020
Alys Caviness-Gober has been selected by The Indiana Arts Commission and the Indiana State Library to have here of her poems included in the INverse poetry archive in its inaugural year.
All three of Alys’ submitted poems have been approved for the collection:
The Pastel Scarf
Devastation
Recent Convert
Approved poems will be uploaded into the digital archive over the next few weeks and will be available for public access in early Fall.
Information about RAW Artists and the GLOW Showcase Exhibit can be found here: https://www.rawartists.com/
Monicat Data's 2019 Yellow Summit
Selected as a seminar participant in the Sept 2018 - Feb 2019 seminar of the Religion, Spirituality, and the Arts Initiative at IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute.
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Religion, Spirituality, and the Arts (RSA) is a program of the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute that brings together artists, religious leaders, religious communities, humanities experts, and a broad range of publics from diverse backgrounds and disciplinary perspectives for sustained study, analysis, and discussion of religious texts in a classroom environment. Directed by Rabbi Sandy Sasso, these textual discussions, which explore the varieties of religious experience and understanding, provide the inspiration for creating new artistic works (e.g. music, poetry, fiction, drama, visual art, dance). Artists share their creations through exhibitions and presentations to members of the Central Indiana community, including religious organizations, congregations, schools, libraries, and community groups.
2018-19 Theme
Genesis 19 tells the story of Lot’s Wife, who turns to see the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and becomes a pillar of salt. Did she act in disobedience or out of compassion? What is our responsibility to bear witness? Is looking back redemptive or paralyzing? Might we see contemporary events (mass tragedies, refugees) in the light of this text? These are just a few of the questions the seminar will explore by examining Genesis 19 through religion, art, poetry, and music.
2018-19 Faculty
The faculty list for the 2018-19 seminar is still growing. So far, the faculty include:
Julia Muney Moore, Director of Public Art for the Arts Council of Indianapolis
Sandy Sasso, Rabbi Emerita of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck
Steven Stolen Host of WFYI's Stolen Moments and CEO of The Humane Society of Indianapolis
Shari Wagner, Author and Indiana Poet Laureate (2016-2017)
Joseph Tucker Edmonds, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Religious Studies at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
RSA programming fosters a respectful and stimulating environment designed to nurture creativity. With a world class faculty from across the disciplines, RSA invites students from a broad range of artistic practices and diverse experiences.
2018-19 Theme
Genesis 19 tells the story of Lot’s Wife, who turns to see the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and becomes a pillar of salt. Did she act in disobedience or out of compassion? What is our responsibility to bear witness? Is looking back redemptive or paralyzing? Might we see contemporary events (mass tragedies, refugees) in the light of this text? These are just a few of the questions the seminar will explore by examining Genesis 19 through religion, art, poetry, and music.
2018-19 Faculty
The faculty list for the 2018-19 seminar is still growing. So far, the faculty include:
Julia Muney Moore, Director of Public Art for the Arts Council of Indianapolis
Sandy Sasso, Rabbi Emerita of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck
Steven Stolen Host of WFYI's Stolen Moments and CEO of The Humane Society of Indianapolis
Shari Wagner, Author and Indiana Poet Laureate (2016-2017)
Joseph Tucker Edmonds, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Religious Studies at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
RSA programming fosters a respectful and stimulating environment designed to nurture creativity. With a world class faculty from across the disciplines, RSA invites students from a broad range of artistic practices and diverse experiences.
Creative Expressions Arts selected to participate in Conner Prairie's 2018 Curiosity Fair
Abstract Landscape ©ACG
See Your World With An Abstract Eye
Abstract Art
~ Experimenting with Shapes ~
See Your World With An Abstract Eye
Learn how to see your world through the lens of abstract art! I'll provide some guidance to help guests see how familiar scenes, people, pets, and objects are represented in abstract form by artists, like how we represent our 3D reality with 2D shapes and forms. Throughout the Curiosity Fair event, I’ll be working on abstract paintings, and guests will have the opportunity to advise me on representational shapes and forms in my paintings, and they’ll have the opportunity to create their own basic abstract rendition of a photo (one of my samples, or one from their cell phones) with everyday items like markers, crayons, and paper.
May 2018
National Academy of Medicine Sheds Light on Clinician Burnout and Well-Being Through Art Exhibition in Washington, DC
Noblesville artist and writer Alys Caviness-Gober's painting "Rage (aka, Out With The Old)" has been selected to be in the National Academy of Medicine’s permanent online gallery and pop-up exhibit in Washington DC (May 2, 2018).
Read the National Academy of Medicine's press release here: https://nam.edu/national-academy-of-medicine-sheds-light-on-clinician-burnout-and-well-being-through-art-exhibition-in-washington-dc/
Noblesville artist and writer Alys Caviness-Gober's painting Rage (aka, Out With The Old) has been selected to be in the National Academy of Medicine’s permanent online gallery and pop-up exhibit in Washington DC (May 2). The artwork selected for the gallery and exhibit explores what clinician burnout, clinician well-being, and clinician resilience looks, feels and sounds like to people across the country. A panel of reviewers drawn from participants of the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience will evaluate entries for creativity and responsiveness to the prompt. Part of the acceptance letter to Alys reads, "I am delighted to inform you that your submission to the National Academy of Medicine’s Expressions of Clinician Well-Being nationwide art project has been selected to appear in our upcoming pop-up gallery on May 2. Our review committee thought “Rage (aka, Out With The Old)” was particularly insightful and would be a thought-provoking addition to our exhibit. "
Alys is a Juried Artist member in two categories (2D and Photography) in the Hamilton County Artists' Association.
Congratulations, Alys!
https://nam.edu/expressions-of-clinician-well-being-an-art-exhibition/
Alys is a Juried Artist member in two categories (2D and Photography) in the Hamilton County Artists' Association.
Congratulations, Alys!
https://nam.edu/expressions-of-clinician-well-being-an-art-exhibition/
Indiana Arts Commission "Individual Artist Program" Grant Award Recipient
FY2017 (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017)
Alys Caviness-Gober has received an Indiana Arts Commission "Individual Artist Program" grant award of $2000 for grant period July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017. Alys is a disabled artist, who began selling artwork after she left a University teaching career in Anthropology due to health problems. Disabled with a rare lung disease her entire life, Alys developed heart problems a few years ago. She's had a stroke, retinal bleeds, and glaucoma. Initially, she feared visual impairments meant no more painting, but she started to use texture to create images on canvas, then feel her way across the texture when applying paint.
Alys' Indiana Arts Commission IAP Grant project is to create 10-12 large-scale highly textured semi-abstract and abstract paintings that tell the story of challenges faced by people with hidden disabilities. Hidden disabilities have no visual indicators; physical, mental, and emotional pain and financial distress are hallmarks of hidden disabilities. People cannot see a lung disease or heart problems, people cannot see some residual effects of a stroke, and people cannot see some visual impairments. Financially, disability is below poverty-level ~ not "cushy", despite what some people think. Alys has an insider's perspective on life with hidden disabilities. She's been yelled at in parking lots for using handicapped spaces (despite her disability license plate), and she's experienced prejudice and discrimination in every place she's worked, including a public University. Employers, co-workers, even friends always say, "you don't LOOK sick."
Alys hopes her Indiana Arts Commission IAP project will raise awareness about hidden disabilities. You can follow the progress of Alys' project on the project's Facebook page here ~ thank you for your support for Alys while she worked on her paintings expressing various perspectives of life with hidden disabilities.
FY2017 IAC IAP Project Pieces
Alys recorded videos while she worked on her project paintings, and you can view those videos HERE.
Past Recognitions:
Addiction
Addiction (above) was selected as an Abstract/Experimental Category Finalist in The Artist's Magazine's International competition in 2014.
Alys' Irish Lines is in an Irish poetry anthology, The Gathering, published in Dublin (2014):
I breath her in my dreams,
amidst her roses her yellows her greens;
I hear weathered ancient stones calling,
gathering souls like a reclusive collector.
Click on the link below to watch Alys' 12-minute video that won the "Viewer's Choice" award in The Polk Street Review's first annual short film competition (2014):
I Hardly Ever Leave Noblesville
Alys' original photograph, Upper Pontabla Building, was purchased purchased by Gretchen Bomboy Interior Design for a faux window effect in the coffee shop of the corporate headquarters of the Reily Companies in New Orleans. Reily Companies owns Luzianne Tea, French Market Coffee, CDM Coffee, New England Coffee and Tea, and several other national "brand" names.
Alys' original poem River was selected from thousands of entries as the Second Place Winner in the 23rd Biannual Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Contest.
River
The force that endured,
that raged,
that cut through
and created
the Grand Canyon
is hard to visualize.
Her eyes were a river’s ribbon
of steely blue
raging
as if cutting through
five hundred years
of brown-eyed Turkish domination,
somehow enduring
to flow into my veins.
“Luba” —
the Macedonian word
for love --
in any language:
complicated.
I loved her sweet smile,
her crocheted treasures,
Christmas cookies
like no others,
the twinkle in her eye;
yet never did she let me in,
her magic and her mystery
were her own.
Strange accent and strange beliefs;
her past distorted
and unknown to me,
her perspective
from another time and place,
my love was tinged by distance
that I could not cross;
never as close to her
as to my other grandmother,
whose sweet sad elegance
seemed more familiar.
Her complications conspired
to preserve the reserve
from which she saw the world;
it rarely cracked.
I could not see
her protective wall
for what it was;
her strength escaped me,
only later would I see it,
could I know it,
long after she was gone,
and my own steely-eyed children
chose their middle names
Luba and Alexander --
their homage
to a Macedonian past,
and her.
I can see her reserve
in their eyes;
I know now,
finally
what she saw,
understanding
what lay behind her laughter --
it had its own accent,
an echo down through time,
that mirrored the twinkle
in her ice-blue eyes --
like a river,
raging,
cutting,
like a secret flash,
enduring wisdom,
a knowing unshared
like that last never-revealed ingredient
in a recipe --
her secret,
she alone
knew the punchline.
“I survived.”
© ACG 2014
Alys' Irish Lines is in an Irish poetry anthology, The Gathering, published in Dublin (2014):
I breath her in my dreams,
amidst her roses her yellows her greens;
I hear weathered ancient stones calling,
gathering souls like a reclusive collector.
Click on the link below to watch Alys' 12-minute video that won the "Viewer's Choice" award in The Polk Street Review's first annual short film competition (2014):
I Hardly Ever Leave Noblesville
Alys' original photograph, Upper Pontabla Building, was purchased purchased by Gretchen Bomboy Interior Design for a faux window effect in the coffee shop of the corporate headquarters of the Reily Companies in New Orleans. Reily Companies owns Luzianne Tea, French Market Coffee, CDM Coffee, New England Coffee and Tea, and several other national "brand" names.
Alys' original poem River was selected from thousands of entries as the Second Place Winner in the 23rd Biannual Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Contest.
River
The force that endured,
that raged,
that cut through
and created
the Grand Canyon
is hard to visualize.
Her eyes were a river’s ribbon
of steely blue
raging
as if cutting through
five hundred years
of brown-eyed Turkish domination,
somehow enduring
to flow into my veins.
“Luba” —
the Macedonian word
for love --
in any language:
complicated.
I loved her sweet smile,
her crocheted treasures,
Christmas cookies
like no others,
the twinkle in her eye;
yet never did she let me in,
her magic and her mystery
were her own.
Strange accent and strange beliefs;
her past distorted
and unknown to me,
her perspective
from another time and place,
my love was tinged by distance
that I could not cross;
never as close to her
as to my other grandmother,
whose sweet sad elegance
seemed more familiar.
Her complications conspired
to preserve the reserve
from which she saw the world;
it rarely cracked.
I could not see
her protective wall
for what it was;
her strength escaped me,
only later would I see it,
could I know it,
long after she was gone,
and my own steely-eyed children
chose their middle names
Luba and Alexander --
their homage
to a Macedonian past,
and her.
I can see her reserve
in their eyes;
I know now,
finally
what she saw,
understanding
what lay behind her laughter --
it had its own accent,
an echo down through time,
that mirrored the twinkle
in her ice-blue eyes --
like a river,
raging,
cutting,
like a secret flash,
enduring wisdom,
a knowing unshared
like that last never-revealed ingredient
in a recipe --
her secret,
she alone
knew the punchline.
“I survived.”
© ACG 2014
More About Alys:
Recognitions:
Invited Artist Member, RAW Artists (2020).
Selected Participant, Monicat Data's 2019 Yellow Summit.
Awarded: Extraordinary Women Of Hamilton County (IN), September 2019.
Selected Participant, IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute Religion, Spirituality and the Arts Seminar (2018-19).
Rage (aka, Out With The Old) painting selected to be in the National Academy of Medicine’s permanent online gallery and May 2 pop-up exhibit in Washington DC (2018).
Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Project Grant Recipient (FY2017).
Juried Member: Hamilton County Artists' Association (HCAA) (painting 2015; photography 2012). HCAA Board service: 2018: VP Partnerships, 2016- current Public Relations Chair, 2015-2016 Membership Chair.
2016 Nominee, Emerging Artists Champion, Nickel Plate Arts Organization
Cofounder, Logan Street Sanctuary, Inc. 501(c)(3) nonprofit all volunteer cultural arts organization (November 2015).
Finalist, The Artist's Magazine's 2014 International Art competition in the Abstract/Experimental category with Addiction (2014).
Original photograph Upper Pontabla Building purchased by Gretchen Bomboy Interior Design for a faux window effect in the corporate headquarters of the Reily Companies in New Orleans. Reily Companies owns Luzianne Tea, French Market Coffee, CDM Coffee, New England Coffee and Tea, and several other national brand names (2014).
River (poem) selected from thousands of entries as the Second Place Winner in the 23rd Biannual Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Contest (2014).
I Hardly Ever Leave Noblesville 12-minute video won the Viewer's Choice award in The Polk Street Review's first annual short film competition (2014).
Irish Lines poem, in The Gathering, Irish poetry anthology published in Dublin, Ireland (2014).
Reclaimed River Sculpture artist (juried application; commissioned, Nickel Plate Arts) (2014).
Juried Exhibitor: Nickel Plate Arts, exhibits December 2012 through current.
Artist for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day at Conner Prairie (juried application; commissioned, Conner Prairie and Nickel Plate Arts) (January 2013).
Salvage Art artist (juried application; commissioned, Nickel Plate Arts) (September 2012).
Market Umbrella artist (juried application; commissioned, Nickel Plate Arts) (April 2012).
Invited Paper Presenter, 2nd Annual African Diaspora Conference, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana (04 April 2008).
Women’s Studies Essay Competition Winner, Women’s Studies Program, Ball State University,
Muncie, Indiana (27 March 2008).
Paper Presenter, Practical Criticism Midwest Conference, Ball State University (08 Feb 2008).
Invited Participant and Paper Presenter, 2008 Oxford Round Table (invitation-only annual colloquium), Oxford University, Oxford, England (March 2008).
Diversity Associate Award, 2007 – 2008, Diversity Policy Institute, Ball State University.
Doctoral Assistantship, 2007 – 2008, English Department, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
Presenter, Inaugural African Diaspora Research Conference, Ball State University (14 April 2007).
Paper Presenter, 2003 ESRI International Users Conference, San Diego, California (July 2003).
Paper Presenter, 2002 ESRI International Users Conference, San Diego, California (July 2002).
Graduate Assistantship, 1997 – 2001, Department of Anthropology, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
Undergraduate Fellow 1995 – 1997, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
BSU Dean’s List 1995 – 1998, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
Ball State University Women’s Club Scholarship 1995 – 1996, Ball State University.
Invited Artist Member, RAW Artists (2020).
Selected Participant, Monicat Data's 2019 Yellow Summit.
Awarded: Extraordinary Women Of Hamilton County (IN), September 2019.
Selected Participant, IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute Religion, Spirituality and the Arts Seminar (2018-19).
Rage (aka, Out With The Old) painting selected to be in the National Academy of Medicine’s permanent online gallery and May 2 pop-up exhibit in Washington DC (2018).
Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Project Grant Recipient (FY2017).
Juried Member: Hamilton County Artists' Association (HCAA) (painting 2015; photography 2012). HCAA Board service: 2018: VP Partnerships, 2016- current Public Relations Chair, 2015-2016 Membership Chair.
2016 Nominee, Emerging Artists Champion, Nickel Plate Arts Organization
Cofounder, Logan Street Sanctuary, Inc. 501(c)(3) nonprofit all volunteer cultural arts organization (November 2015).
Finalist, The Artist's Magazine's 2014 International Art competition in the Abstract/Experimental category with Addiction (2014).
Original photograph Upper Pontabla Building purchased by Gretchen Bomboy Interior Design for a faux window effect in the corporate headquarters of the Reily Companies in New Orleans. Reily Companies owns Luzianne Tea, French Market Coffee, CDM Coffee, New England Coffee and Tea, and several other national brand names (2014).
River (poem) selected from thousands of entries as the Second Place Winner in the 23rd Biannual Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Contest (2014).
I Hardly Ever Leave Noblesville 12-minute video won the Viewer's Choice award in The Polk Street Review's first annual short film competition (2014).
Irish Lines poem, in The Gathering, Irish poetry anthology published in Dublin, Ireland (2014).
Reclaimed River Sculpture artist (juried application; commissioned, Nickel Plate Arts) (2014).
Juried Exhibitor: Nickel Plate Arts, exhibits December 2012 through current.
Artist for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day at Conner Prairie (juried application; commissioned, Conner Prairie and Nickel Plate Arts) (January 2013).
Salvage Art artist (juried application; commissioned, Nickel Plate Arts) (September 2012).
Market Umbrella artist (juried application; commissioned, Nickel Plate Arts) (April 2012).
Invited Paper Presenter, 2nd Annual African Diaspora Conference, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana (04 April 2008).
Women’s Studies Essay Competition Winner, Women’s Studies Program, Ball State University,
Muncie, Indiana (27 March 2008).
Paper Presenter, Practical Criticism Midwest Conference, Ball State University (08 Feb 2008).
Invited Participant and Paper Presenter, 2008 Oxford Round Table (invitation-only annual colloquium), Oxford University, Oxford, England (March 2008).
Diversity Associate Award, 2007 – 2008, Diversity Policy Institute, Ball State University.
Doctoral Assistantship, 2007 – 2008, English Department, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
Presenter, Inaugural African Diaspora Research Conference, Ball State University (14 April 2007).
Paper Presenter, 2003 ESRI International Users Conference, San Diego, California (July 2003).
Paper Presenter, 2002 ESRI International Users Conference, San Diego, California (July 2002).
Graduate Assistantship, 1997 – 2001, Department of Anthropology, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
Undergraduate Fellow 1995 – 1997, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
BSU Dean’s List 1995 – 1998, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
Ball State University Women’s Club Scholarship 1995 – 1996, Ball State University.