This page is dedicated to the work I performed with both Professor Nestor Gil and Professor Jim Toia at Lafayette College.
In the summer of 2025, I was awarded the Bergh Fellowship, working under Professor Gil. I assisted in the creation, ideation, execution, and presentation of his personal art practice. This resulted in a gallery showing at the Payne Gallery at Moravian University in Bethlehem, PA. The work concerned Cuban culture and the long history of Cuban-American immigration politics. My contribution consisted of several woven rubber pieces embroidered with copper wire, laser-cut houses made of tobacco-stained paper, gilded with copper leaf, and strung on copper wire into a rosary, hand-made chain fence made out of copper wire placed on tobacco-stained paper, and rolled, pressed tobacco leaves strung on copper wire into a rosary.
In both the fall of 2025 and the spring of 2026, I worked with Professor Toia as part of my role as the Art Department Media Fellow, assisting in the creation, ideation, execution, and presentation of his personal work in collaboration with poet and former Lafayette professor Lee Upton. This resulted in a showing at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clifton, NJ. My contribution consisted of laser-cut sycamore leaves, laser-cut wasp paper, laser-engraved tree bark, and laser-cut forms used to compose works in powder. Please see both a formal review of the gallery show from Roborant Review’s Elizabeth Johnson and an online version of the gallery brochure below:
https://www.roborantreview.com/reviews/ihim2ldi7ou20ezubkuftqehu5z954
https://jimtoia.com/Professor Gil Work—-
