Creative Producer • Director • Sound Artist • Interdisciplinary Experience Designer

📍 Minneapolis, MN | 💻 beewilde.rocks | ✉️ bee@beewilde.rocks

🌀 PROFILE

Creative producer and interdisciplinary artist with 20+ years of experience leading immersive multimedia projects, managing cross-functional creative teams, and building community-centered art. Expert in sound design, video production, storytelling, and interactive experience design. Known for transforming abstract concepts into tangible, emotionally resonant works across media and public space.

🎓 EDUCATION

Berklee College of Music Online — Master of Interdisciplinary Music Studies (paused)

University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN — MFA in Painting and Printmaking

Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH - BA in Theater

UNC School of the Arts - Winston Salem, NC — Pre-Professional Acting Conservatory Training

🎬 RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Co-Founder / Creative Director — Beatrix*Jar
2007–2024 | National / Touring / Virtual

• Directed and produced 300+ immersive workshops and live performances nationwide

• Led video, audio, and mixed-media projects: scripting, editing, performance, and sound design

• Managed grants, budgets, artist communications, and cross-disciplinary collaborations

• Created The Beatrix*Jar Show (Episodes 1–7): a surrealist green-screen video performance series

• Produced and released 4 albums; led national sound-art education and DIY electronics programming

• Developed public art commissions and creative engagement projects with museums, libraries, and theaters

Creative Producer / Sound Designer — Freelance + Collaborator
2000–present

• Sound design for Walker Art Center’s Virtual Silents & zAmya Theater Project (2020–2023)

• Public art muralist (Chromazone Festival, Open Book, Harbor Light, Downtown MPLS)

• Radio show producer + host: The BeatrixJar Show* (24 episodes on WFNU Frogtown Radio)

• Produced and edited theater web series: Homeless NewZ Network with zAmya Theater

• Assistant Set Designer: School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play (Jungle Theater)

• Program + Production Manager, Set Designer: zAmya Theater (2019–2020)
  

💡 SELECTED PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

• Video + Storytelling: Directed and edited 20+ creative video projects across fiction, documentary, and experimental formats

• Sound Art + Music Production: Studying pop mixing, advanced vocal production, and music supervision at Berklee

• Public Art: Led multiple public murals, engaging community feedback and translating narrative into space

• Artist Mentorship & Coaching: Ongoing 1-on-1 creative coaching for emerging artists across disciplines

• Grantwriting & Management: Secured over $200,000 in arts funding from Bush Foundation, Jerome Foundation, American Composers Forum, and others
  
  

🎖️ GRANTS & COMMISSIONS (Selected)

• Archibald Bush Fellowship in Media Arts (2010)

• Jerome Emerging Printmaker Residency, Highpoint Center for Printmaking (2018)

• Hearst Grant (2018), MetLife Creative Connections Grant (2008)

• Mural commissions for Open Book, ChromaZone Festival, Salvation Army Harbor Light

• Minnesota Children’s Museum Residency (XOXO Exhibit)
  

🧠 SOFTWARE & TOOLS

• Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro,

• Canva, Squarespace

• Google Workspace
  
  

🌱 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Pop Mixing, Art of Mixing, Music Supervision, Vocal Production,

• Advanced Mixing, – Berklee Online (2024–2025)

• Experimental Sound Practices – CalArts MFA Online (2021)

• Springboard for the Arts: Work of Art Business Training

• Playwriting with Suzan-Lori Parks (Playwrights Center)

• On-Camera Acting with Victor Nunez (Antioch)