Education

2017     MFA,  The University of Delaware, Newark DE

2010    BA    Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia PA                                                                                                     Minors: Art History, Psychology


Experience

Teaching Artist, Philly Art Center, Philadelphia PA

Studio Assistant - Dianne Koppisch Hricko, Philadelphia PA

Adjunct Professor, Drawing I&II, Carlow University, Pittsburgh PA

Creative Arts Dept Head & Teaching Artist, Westinghouse Arts Academy, Wilmerding PA

Adjunct Professor, Printmaking, The University of Delaware, Newark DE

Lead Graduate Instructor, Printmaking, The University of Delaware, Newark DE

Instructor, Specialty Workshops and Summer Camps, The Center For the Creative Arts, Yorklyn DE

Gallery Director, Metropolitan Gallery 250, Philadelphia PA

Administrative Coordinator, Crane Arts LLC and Crane Old School LP.  Philadelphia PA

Fob Holder, Second State Press, Philadelphia PA

Ceramics Studio Assistant Nicholas Kripal, Philadelphia PA

Printmaking Intern Richard Hricko, Philadelphia PA


Exhibitions

2024
Second State Press Annual Members Print Exchange.

2021
Houses/ Homes, Martha Gault Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock PA.

2020
Unanaonymous II, On Hold. Online Exhibition and Digital Publication

HerStory, The Braddock Carnegie Library, Braddock PA

2018 

Fob Holder Alumni Exhibition, Second State Press, Philadelphia PA 

Annual Members Print Exchange Portfolio Second State Press, Philadelphia PA                 

2017

&, The University of Delaware’s 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington DE 

Humanifold, Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin Germany                    

2016

RBTL, The College Art Association’s Annual Conference, Washington DC

UD MFA @ SOUP Experimental, Tallahassee FL                                                                             

2015                                                                                                                                                                                             

Drawing Lines Across Mediums, Site Brooklyn Brooklyn NY

Hatch, The University Of Delaware Newark DE

Body Mass New Boon(e), Philadelphia PA                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

2014                                                                                                                                                                                             

Series Chhaya, Philadelphia PA                                                                                                                                                 

Moon Over Me The Archive Space, Philadelphia PA                                                                                                        

Grey Area Color/Form The Quarter Sheet Challenge, Philadelphia PA                                                                             

Current Climate Gallery 105, Philadelphia PA

2013

The Members Show The Icebox, Philadelphia PA                                                                                                                                                                                          

Second State, Second Edition Metropolitan Gallery 250, Philadelphia PA

Annual Members Print Exchange Portfolio Second State Press, Philadelphia PA                                                                                                                                                                                         

2012                                                                                                                                                                                

Launch, at Space 102 Fiber Philadelphia ’12 Crane Arts, Philadelphia PA                                                                           

Second Annual Members Print Exchange Portfolio, Second State Press, Philadelphia PA

2011                                                                                                                                                                                  

Words: The Art of Symbols and Syntax The Rotunda, Philadelphia PA                                                                                     

Eye See You MugShots Cafe, Philadelphia PA

2010                                                                                                                                                                                         

Party of 26 Senior Seminar Show Tyler School of Art Temple University

2009                                                                                                                                                                                  

Annual Student Exhibition Tyler School of Art, Temple University

2008                                                                                                                                                                                  

Annual Student Exhibition Tyler School of Art, Temple University


Publications                                                                                                                                                                               Vlas, Adelina. &. Newark, DE: University of Delaware, 2017. Print.         


Curating and Exhibitions Planning                                                                                        

2016                                                                                                                                                                                    

Volto, A love story Desiree Guinn    

Fantasy, Soup Experimental at Metro 250

Fresh Artists IV June 2016                                                                                                                                                            

Body Content, Tyler Printmaking At Metro 250

MAMFAD-X

2015                                                                                                                                                                                             

The Liminal State Kristin Scatterfield Rein

The Sidework Series: Second Look                                                                                                                                       

Fresh Artists III

Aimee Gilmore And Sarah Peoples: Inflatables 

Nature Seen, Tyler Printmaking At Metro 250

Sarah Coote: (so that i know it’s you)

Michael Secor: Essays in Color

SLA Photo Lab                                                                                                                                                                             

2014                                                                                                                                                                                            

Lauren Boillini: The Fugue

The Sidework Series: FLAT

Fresh Artists II  

Brenna K. Murphy: Home Imagined 

Sarah Coote: Marks of Vanity

250x250 – A Group Show of Philadelphia Street Photographers                                                                                           

2013                                                                                                                                                                                            

Mike Geno: Rhittenhouse Square Meal 

Jake Beckman: no more                                                                                                                                                              

Hannah Saline: Sylvania- a sound installation                                                                                                                         

Sidework

Fresh Artists  

The Side Work Series I 

Second State: Second Edition                                                                                                                                                    

2012                                                                                                                                                                                

Marafiki Arts: Join our Story

Adam Ledford: Catch 'em All                                                                                                                                              


Special Projects

Artist As Activist - Carlow University & WAA Mural - Westinghouse Arts Academy Spring 2023


Under the direction of educators from WAA and Carlow, Students in Carlows Drawing I and WAAs Studio 3 classes meet 4 times over the course of the semester to study Artists who are working as Activists in their work and then to conceptualize and execute a social justice centered mural. The students choose to highlight the identity and contributions of black women in social justice and cultural spaces. Students made original small works highlighting the women and their work, then compiled them collage style to build a wheat paste bus stop including three-dimensional figures and accompanying handprinted informative zines.

Unanaonymous - Co-creator with Abby Deleki  

www.unanonymousproject.wordpress.com  (U-NAN-NON-Y-MOUS) Is a framework for creation based on the idea that a group of like-minded individuals can collaborate and exchange, near and far. That, perhaps, a group of friends might each have a friend who, through the degrees of separation, knows someone whose contributions may complement the ideas created by that core group.  And, via the process of exchange, this largely anonymous, but unanimous group, generates a language and brings to fruition something greater.


Awards

2024 Adjunct Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award Dept. of Art, Communication, English at Carlow University

2015 Jurors’ Honorable Mention, Drawing Lines Across Mediums: Site: Brooklyn                    

2011 Best in Show Award winner: Words: The Art of Symbols and Syntax                          

2010 Outstanding Achievement in Printmaking, Tyler School of Art, Temple University        

2009 Faculty Award, Annual Student Exhibition, Tyler School of Art,Temple University