Courses taught at Virginia Tech:
Creating 3D Settings (ART 3704/4544/5704) | Spring 2026
3D Computer Animation (ART 2704) | Spring 2025
Principles of 4D (ART1604) | Fall 2024
Intermediate Graphic Design II (ART_3566) | Spring 2024
Principles of 4D (ART1604) | Fall 2023
Motion Graphics (ART 3574, ART 4504) | Spring 2023
Highlighted Project: Ocean Eye
Ocean Eye is a 5-minute short-form animation created by students in two sections of Intro to 3D Animation, and one section of Sound Art/Design.
In Intro to 3D Animation, co-taught with Lesley Duffield, students learned 3D modeling, rigging, and animation in order to create and animate their own sea creatures in this dreamlike composition.
Ocean Eye debuted at the Science Museum of Western Virginia in their planetarium The Eye.
Workshops offered:
How to Build a Board Game
Projection Mapping Basics
Motion Capture Recording from Optitrack to Maya
Creating Holograms with Touch Designer
Enchanted Objects: Crafting Objects With Memory and Meaning (Co-Taught with Rude Graves)
3D World building for VR
Intro to Motion Design in After Effects
Kinetic Type in After Effects
Playbooks for Making it Easy on your Users: UX Heuristics
Ownership and Authorship in GenAI (Co-Taught with Julia Feerrar)
AI, Art, and Digital Ethics (Co-Taught with Julia Feerrar)
Leading from the Library: Digital Pumpkin Carving & Gaming Literacy