BIO
Boxx the artist synthesizes interactive art through paintings, digital art, and installations. She is an Indianapolis based full-time visual artist practicing for approximately 5 years professionally, from Gary, Indiana.
Boxx's visual artwork uses acrylic, digital, mixed mediums, and public installations to capture different elements of life from the African diaspora promoting health, wealth, wellness, and celebrating Blackness.
Her art initiatives are to share interactive art and offer art that serves as a connector of community. Boxx has exhibited in a host of exhibits and installed different murals located throughout Indianapolis participating in the High Art Billboard Project, Murals for Racial Justice Project, and the Indy Art & Seek with a community interactive mural installation located at the Martindale-Brightwood Library.
She completed serving as an Artist Apprentice for the Bicentennial Major Taylor mural installation, installing a 5-story civic mural. Boxx has severed as Maker-In-Resident for the Ignite Studio at the East Hamilton Public Library in Fishers, Indiana; Artist and Curator for Cat Head Press Artist Residency, and is a 2021 Fellow for the Indiana Arts Commission, On Ramp Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator. Boxx was awarded the DeHaan Artist of Distiction Award for 2022, and recipient of the Power Plant Grant provided by Big Car Collaborative and the Andy Warhol Foundation for Arts. Boxx The Artist is a Certified Minority/ Woman Owned Business in the State of Indiana. Connect with Boxx the Artist on social media @boxxtheartist on all platforms.
ARTIST RESUME
PROFILE
Professional artist with over 15 years of experience in visual art including a range of styles from sketching, linear drawing, abstract, to realism, 5 years of experience in painting with acrylics on stretched canvas, 2 years of experience in digital art and illustration. Commissioned full-time artist and curator with over 100 clients providing custom art collections, and the facilitation of creative consultation with a keen interest in artistic innovation. Emerging muralist with 6 public installations throughout the city of Indianapolis.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021 Fabric of Society, Nickel Plate Arts, Noblesville, IN
2021 Child’s Play, Nickel Plate Arts, Noblesville, IN
2021 Wanderlust, Ignite Studio, Fishers, IN
2021 Power: Hoosier Women in Art Garfield Park Arts, Center, Indianapolis, IN
2021 Legacy, Garfield Parks Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
2020 Meet the Artist XXXII Exhibit, Indianapolis Central Public Library Gallery
2020 Legacy, Garfield Parks Art Center
2019 December Exhibit, Murphy Arts Center, Indianapolis, IN
2019 Indiana Black Expo Cultural Arts Pavilion, Art Exhibit, Indiana Convention Center
2018 Black Hollywood, IBE Cultural Arts Pavilion, Art Exhibit, Indiana Convention Center
2018 Spectrum, Art Exhibit, Garfield Park Arts
2017 Raw Indy, Old National Centre, Indianapolis, IN
2016 Gifted Exhibit, Custom’s Art Studio, Indianapolis,IN
JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibit, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL (selected)
2020 26th African American Art Exhibition, Roanne H. Victor Gallery at Actors Theatre, Louisville, KY
2019 Prized Possessions Juried Show, Nickel Plate Arts, Noblesville, IN
AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS (honors,scholarships, etc.)
2022 Art & Soul Featured Artist, Indianapolis Arts Council, Indianapolis, IN, (selected)
2021 Maker-In-Residence Juror, Serving on jury committee to select the next artist, Ignite Studio, Fishers, IN
2021 Grant recipient, Central Indiana Community Foundation, Round 2 for Visual Arts
2021 Grant recipient, Central Indiana Community Foundation, Artist Winter Ambassador for Visual Arts
2021 On-Ramp Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship, Indiana Arts Commission,
2021 On-Ramp Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator Program, Indiana Arts Commission, 2020/2021 Cohort
2019 Indiana Arts Homecoming Scholarship Recipient, Indiana Historical Society
COMMISSIONS
2021 Roberts Blueprint, 48x60, acrylic , Hamilton County Community Foundation Collaboration Hub, Fishers, IN
2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute, 18x24, acrylic on canvas, Abstract Portrait Commission for Anderson University, Cultural Resource Center, Anderson, IN
ARTIST RESIDENCIES/APPRENTICESHIPS
2021 Apprenticeship, “Major Taylor Mural,” Bicentennial Legends Mural Installation, Indianapolis, IN
2021 Maker-in-Residence, Ignite Studio, Fishers, IN
2021 Artist & Curator Resident, Cat Head Press: Printshop/Artist Cooperative, Indianapolis, IN
PROJECTS
2022 Habitat, Mural Installation, Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibit, Conner Prairie, Fishers, IN (selected)
2021 Indy Keeps Creating Storefront Window Mural, Circle City Mall, Indianapolis Arts Council
2021 28th USCT Dedication Mural, Hotel Tango, 640 Virginia Ave, Indianapolis, IN (in progress)
2021 Inclusion Mural, Garfield Park Arts Center, Community Mural Installation, Indianapolis, IN
2021 Swish Indy, March Madness Art Project, Vinyl Mural, Indianapolis International Airport
2021 High Art Billboard Project, Indianapolis Arts Council & Regan Outdoor Advertising, 6654 W. Washington St.
2020 Indy Art & Seek: Public Art Interventions- Public Art Installations, “Interactive Community Chalkboard Canvas/Mural”, 25th & Sherman, Indianapolis
2020 Racial Justice Mural, Arts Council of Indianapolis, 300 S. Meridian, Indianapolis, IN (Community Activism mural in downtown Indianapolis)
LIVE ART, INSTALLATIONS, & EVENTS (showcases & displayings)
2019 Pattern Magazine Launch Party, Interactive Art Installation, Indianapolis, IN
2019 Pattern Magazine's Supply Trade Show, Art Exhibit, Indianapolis, IN
2019 Fishers Arts Crawl, Art Exhibit/Live Art, Fishers, IN
2019 Artitude, The Healer, Art Exhibit/ Live Body Painting, Indianapolis, IN
2018 Indianapolis Pride, Featured Artist
2019 The Black Experience, University of Wisconsin, Live Art/ Exhibit
EDUCATION
2013 Bachelors of Arts Mass Communication
Bachelors of Arts African American Studies
Minor: Political Science, College of Liberal Arts
Certificate of Entrepreneurship & Innovation,
Krannert School of Mgmt, Purdue University