Kristine Holohan CV
(Kristi or Kris Holohan)
Finnish American Artist • Organizer • Cultural Strategist
Based in New England
Kristi Holohan is a Finnish American artist, organizer, and cultural strategist based in New England. Her playful work in visual arts focuses on our deep connection to each other and our natural world. Holohan’s dedication to engagement and social practice is recognized for intensive community incorporation, cultural relevance, inclusivity, and accessibility—creating a place of belonging. She aims to inspire curiosity and creativity as an alternative to routine. Holohan has collaborated with hundreds of organizations, companies, municipalities, and international collections.
Sacred Heart University; Connecticut College; Hampshire College; Rhode Island School of Design (RISD); University of North Carolina; University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; Sacred Heart University
(Chronological, inclusive of all listings)
(Lead Artist, Organizer, Assistant, and Restoration Roles)
Coverage by: The Day, East Bay Times • SFMoMA • KQED • Oakland Tribune • Examiner.com • Oakland North • KGO Radio • Dimond News • California Report
(2009–2023 full press list retained)
Kristine Holohan has served in leadership roles across arts, culture, and community organizations, guiding strategy, fostering inclusive programming, and advancing cultural initiatives with lasting impact. Her board and advisory service emphasizes community engagement, mentorship, arts accessibility, and cross-cultural collaboration.
Current Roles
Recent Leadership & Advisory Roles
Long-Term Commitment & Collective Work
2003–Present
K Holohan Art & Design
Photography, Illustration, Graphic Design, Binding, Painting, Murals, Curation, Ceramics, Sculpture, Multi-media, Clothing & Accessory Design, and Construction
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Kristine Holohan
Kristi Holohan is a Finnish American artist, organizer, and cultural strategist based in New England. Her playful work in visual Arts focuses on our deep connection to each other, and our natural world. Holohan’s dedication to engagement and social practice is recognized for intensive community incorporation, cultural relevance, inclusivity and accessibility creating a place of belonging. She aims to inspire curiosity and creativity as an alternative to the routine. Holohan has collaborated with hundreds of organizations, companies and municipalities, and international collections.
2026-present Independent Potter, Stonington Community center, Stonington, CT
2013 Restorative Practices Training, Oakland Unified School District, Oakland, CA
2002 B.A. Cultural Studies of Dress & Gender, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA,
mentorship of Nelson Stevens of Africobra
Artist Apprentice:
2015-2024, Artist Dan Fontes, muralist
2018-2019 Artist John Pugh, Trompe-l'œil muralist
Collegiate Mentorship Partnerships:
Conn College, Hampshire College, RISD, University of North Carolina, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Conn College, Sacred Heart University
Youth Mentorship:
2007- present open to youth ages 15-25 through a variety of community partnerships with public school districts and community colleges
2024 Art in Collections, Uncle George’s Sauna, Finnish American Heritage Museum, Canterbury, CT
2024 Participating Artist, SPARK Makers, a collection of SPARK Makerspace Members, Waterford Public Library, Waterford, CT
2024 Participating Artist, 8 x 10 show featuring Bay Area Artists, Faultline Artspace, Oakland, CA
2024 Participating Artist, National Sauna Week, block Print, Finnish American Heritage Center, Heikinpāivā Winter Festival, Hancock MI
2024 Participating Artist, SF Artist’s Giftshop, a curated artists shop in historic Haight Ashbury location, San Francisco, CA
2024 Participating Artist, One Person’s Trash, Work made from recycled materials to benefit Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2023 Participating Artist, Pet Portraits, a Joan Brown Companion exhibit, SFMOMA, CA
2022 Participating Artist, Keystone Species, 510 All-Stars, Nielsen Art Gallery, Albany CA
2022 Participating Artist, Mushi Mushi, Helvella Gallery, Oakland, CA
2022 Participating Artist, Miniature Rabbits, Tiny Time, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2021 Participating Artist, Forage, Deck Show, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco CA
2021 Participating Artist, Glowing Amanita, Gardens at Lake Merritt, Autumn Lights Festival, Oakland, CA
2021 Participating Artist, The Swan of Tuonela, Etherial Folk, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2021 Participating Artist, Return to Discolandia, works on vinyl by 200 artists, 111 Minna, San Francisco CA
2020-21 10X10, 100 Bay area Influential Female Artists, Faultline Artspace, Oakland, CA
2020 Participating Artist, Carpe Diem Paris, Group Work Online Exhibition, benefit Covid-19 vaccine research
2020-present Participating Artist, Game of Shrooms, Scavenger Hunt, High Fructose Magazine
2020, Towards Justice, Group Online Exhibition, Rock Paper Scissors Collective
2019 Mae Macau, Group Exhibition, Macau Encontro, Macau, & San Francisco Exhibition
2019-present Artist, Guardian of Wonder Project, globally located ceramics, guardianofwonder.com
2013-2019 Participating Artist, Hands and Pants, Collaborative exhibition with John Casey, Collaborations with John Casey, Gallery 85, San Jose, CA, Rare Bird, Faultline Artspace, Oakland CA
2019 Participating Artist, 60 Artists, Nielsen Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2019 Exhibition of Hearts, Textile Works on Display, Econo Jam, Oakland, CA
2019 Participating Artist, It’s only ART, 14th St Supply, Oakland, CA
2018 ShapeShifters, Dual Show with Chris Granillo, Mis En Place, Oakland, CA
2017 Small Art Show, Group Exhibition, Warehouse 416, Oakland, CA
2016 Fully Collaborated, Group Show of Collaborations, Faultline Artspace, Oakland, CA
2016 Viral:25 years since Rodney King, group exhibition, SPARK, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Pinball Squared, Group Exhibition, Pacific Pinball Museum, Alameda, CA
2016 Home? Artists and Displacement, Group Exhibition, Incline Gallery, funded by SOEX Alternative Exposure Grant, San Francisco, CA
2015 Group Exhibition, Installation and Projection Artist, No Justice No Service, SEIU commissions, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2015 Group Exhibition, Oaktown, Elyse Wiener Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014 Group Exhibition, Save it for a Rainy Day, Trees, Oakland, CA
2014 Group Exhibition, Get Small, Session Space, Oakland, CA
2014 Group Exhibition, Framework, Faultline ArtSpace, Oakland, CA
2014 Group Exhibition, Till Death Do Us Part I and II, Somar & SoleSpace, Oakland, CA
2014 Group Exhibition, X (ten years), Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2014 Group Exhibition, 111 Minna, San Francisco, CA
2013/14 Group Exhibition, Printmaker’s Picnic, Mosswood Park, Oakland, CA
2013 Collective’s Show, The Third Mind, Representative Artist from Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Big Umbrella Studios, San Francisco, CA
2012 Solo Display, Jewelry and small textiles, Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, City of Oakland Sponsored, CA
2012 Solo Show, Redux, Alameda, CA
2012 Group Exhibition, Box Art Project, Fundraising Show, ProArts, Oakland, CA
2011 Group Exhibition, Hands-on Healing, Presented by SEIU, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Art and Music in the Gardens at Lake Merritt, Native Butterfly Installations, Collaboration with artist Dan Fontes, youth artists Naima Yi, & Liliana Herrera, Oakland, CA
2010 Group Exhibition, Knuckles Kicks and Boards, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2010 Group Exhibition, The Gran Pachanga, Fundraising Show, 111 Minna, San
Francisco
2010 Group Exhibition, Expressions of Constraint, ABCo Artspace, Oakland, CA
2010 Group Exhibition, Paint by Number, WE Artspace, Oakland, CA
2010 Group Exhibition, Memories of Oakland, WE Artspace, Oakland, CA
2009 Group Exhibition with Rock Paper Scissors Collective, ZineMart, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2009 Group Exhibition, WE Artspace, Group Oakland, CA
2009 Featured Artist, Chillin Productions 11th annual Art show, San Francisco, CA
2009 Lead Facilitator, Intersection for the Arts, GirlSource Collaborative Puzzle, San Francisco, CA
2009 Challenges of Champions, Reflections on Oakland Homicides, on public exhibition every month of 2009 including San Antonio Park, and Studio One, Oakland, CA
2008 Oakland Art Murmur, Interactive Street Production, Native Plants and Animal Cutouts Community Art Project Oakland, CA
2008-09 Installation Artist, Reflections on Oakland Homicides, Community Interactive Art Project, Power to the Peaceful, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
2008 Challenges of Champions, Oakland Art and Soul, Community Art Project, Oakland CA
2008 Group Show, The Mill, Santa Cruz, CA
2008 Global Menagerie, Mama Buzz Café, Oakland, CA
2006 Mobile Mural Artist, Peace Festival Tour, Power to the Peaceful, San Francisco, CA
2025 Forest of Finland, a mural on the Sauna, Finnish American Heritage Association, Canterbury, CT
2024 Native CT flowers and birds, Lead Artist, Garde Arts Center, New London, CT
2024 Tribute to Julie Johnson, Lead Artist, sponsored by Dimond Improvement Association, Oakland, CA
2024 Amongst the Redwoods, Lead Artist, Mural Featuring natural Flora and Fauna with informational QR Codes, Big Trees Trail, Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland, CA
2023 Nature Nurture Mural, Lead Organizer, Collaborative cross-cultural mural highlighting local flora and fauna, sponsored by Montclair Village Association, Oakland, CA
2023 Secret Garden, Private Collection, Placerville, CA
2022 People Places and Nature, a mural series over 6 months in collaboration with the public at the Ferry Building, sponsored by Hudson Pacific Properties, San Francisco, CA
2022 Integration of Social Justice Icons and the Environment, a mural in collaboration with June Jordan School for Social Justice, San Francisco, CA
2021 Metamorphosis, a mural in collaboration with the Waterkeepers youth program at Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, Oakland, CA
2021 Sofre’s Farm, Mural on a barn at a rescue Farm, Vacaville, CA
2020 Black Joy Matters Mural, Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, Oakland, CA
2020 Mural, Art on Balboa, a collaboration with businesses during COVID-19 to prevent vandalism, San Francisco, CA
2020 Mural, Collaborative 5-story Dragon Mural, Redding Elementary, San Francisco, CA
2019 Mural, Ferns and Fiddleheads, Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, Oakland, CA
2019 Project Lead, Brown Girl Surf Mural, a collaboration with Oakland High School Students, Oakland, CA
2019 Mural Restoration Assistant, Lead Artist Dan Fontes, Salud, Girosol Mission Dolores Senior Apts, San Francisco, CA
2018 Mural Restoration, Lead Artist Dan Fontes, Salud!, Bethany Senior Center, San Francisco, CA
2018 Mural Restoration, Lead Artist Dan Fontes, Giraphics, CalTrans, Oakland, CA
2018 Mural Restoration, Lead Artist Dan Fontes, Zebra Murals, CalTrans, Oakland, CA
2018 Mural Assistant, Lead artist Daryll Pierce, Salesforce Transit Center, San Francisco CA
2018 Mural Artist, Community Bank of the Bay, Oakland, CA
2018 Mural, About the Music, Neighborhood Music and Dancing Festival, Oakland, CA
2018 Laurel Planter Murals, Oakland, CA
2018 Mural Assistant to John Pugh, Denver Zoo Mural, CO
2017 Mural Assistant to John Pugh, Theater in the Round, Minneapolis MN
2017 Mural Assistant to Dan Fontes, Life Chiropractic College, Hayward, CA
2016 Artist, Ghost in the Redwoods, Artwork to benefit East Bay Regional Parks District trail systems, Oakland, CA
2016 Lead Mural Artist, NFL Super Bowl Mural and Live Painting with Mentors and Oakland Youth, Market Street San Francisco, CA
2015 Mural Assistant to Dan Fontes, Carrington Stairs, a Jellyfish Mural, Keep Oakland Beautiful, Oakland, CA
2014 Mural, AMA preschool and day Care, Oakland, CA
2013 Mural, Public Mural and Writing Collaboration about gentrification with Meg Claudel, Commissioned by In Situ in collaboration with Oakland Public Library, Oakland, CA
2012 Teaching Mural Artist, 5th Grade, Arts and Science integration on native birds, Emerson Elementary, Oakland, CA
2011 Lead Artist, KABOOM playground building, Native Butterfly Elements & Mural, Wade Johnson Park, Oakland, CA
2011 Mural, District Four Courtland Creek Enhancement Project with ACE Arts and local youth, Oakland, CA
2011 Lead Artist, Mural at Defremery Pool, Open Community Painting with 200 Oakland Parks and Recreation youth, Oakland, CA
2010 Lead Artist, Neighborhood Banner for Best of the East Bay, Dimond District, Oakland, CA
2010 Lead Mobile Mural Artist, Oaktoberfest Interactive City Structure, for the Dimond Improvement Association, Oakland, CA
2010 Lead Artist, Mural at Raymond Kimball Park in collaboration with Jewish Community Services SF and City of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2010 Lead Artist, Community Painting, Dia de los Ninos with KQED and Oakland Office of Parks and Recreation, Oakland, CA
2010 Lead Artists, Community Mural at the Marriott with MOCHA, Oakland, CA
2009 Recipient, City of Oakland Open Proposals Commission, Open Circle Foundation
Brookdale Mural Project collaboration with Oakland’s Office of Parks and Recreation
2009 Butterflies of the East Bay, community installation project, Allendale Park, Oakland, CA
2009 Lead Artist, Dimond Gateway Mural, MacArthur and Lincoln Ave., Oakland, CA
2009 Lead Artist, Brookdale Community Cutouts at Brookdale Recreation Center, Oakland, CA
2009 Mural & Visual Arts instructor at LPS College Park (Castlemont Campus)
2009 Mural instructor for What Now America Saturday School Program, KIPP Elementary, Oakland, CA
2008 Guest Mural Artist, Art & Social Justice, Irvington High School, Fremont, CA
2008 Community Muralist, Sausal on My Mind, Lion’s Pool at Dimond Park, Oakland, CA
2008 Lead Artist and Project Manager, Puzzle in the Park, A Community Art installation to reclaim a park in the midst of violence at Nicol Park, Oakland, CA
2007 & 2008 Guest Art Instructor, Mural Program, Renaissance High School, Watsonville, CA
2007 Lead Artis, Rainforest Mural, Guayaki Yerba Mate, Sebastopol, CA
2024 Featured Artist, 8 x 10, published by Faultline Artspace
2022 Coordinator, Neighborhood Voices Club, a zine about community Arts program with seniors and veterans, Oakland, CA
2019 Illustration Contributor, Abortion Self Care, collaboration for SF General Hospital, CA
2018 Editor, Illustration, and Compilation They Say We Choose the Concrete, stories from Houseless, collaboration with Bay Area Community Services, Oakland, CA
2016 Publication Director and Graphic Designer, Lost and Found, a zine on Oakland, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2015 Facilitator, Colonization and Gentrification-Youth Reflections, Zine, Oakland, CA
2014 Cover Artist, Women Warriors, Limited Edition Alternative Print Series, Oakland, CA
2013 Mentor Reflection, Open Me, Self Publication, Jessie Wheaton, New York, NY
2011 Featured Cultural Arts Blog, Cultural Policy Blog Salon, Emerging Artists Professionals, San Francisco Bay Area, CA
2011 Zyzzyva Spring Issue, Selected Photography Works
2010 Selected Featured Artist, First 1 to 3 Records, Limited Edition Publication, Contributing Artist, Necklace of Lights, Oakland, CA
2007 Illustrator, Children’s book series, written by Diane McCarthyArlington’s Dream, Evvy, Independent Book Award Winner, 2009 Including hand bound Limited Edition
2007 Illustrator, White Plains Green Concepts, Website Illustration Design, City of White Planes, NY
2005 Comic Series, various academic Feminist Journals, written by Diana Russell
2000-2002 Political Comic Series, Eastern Massachusetts Indy Media, via Internet Journal
2023/2024 Recipient Stop Waste Grant, Creation of Art and Exhibition through Waste Diversion, Oakland, CA
2023 Recipient, Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angelos, CA
2023 Recipient, Diamond Improvement Association, Grant, Botanical Illustrations, in collaboration with Friends of Sausal Creek, Oakland, CA
2023 Recipient, Finlandia Foundation National, National Grant
2022 Recipient, California Clean Air Act, educational and hands-on participatory clean air project programming with Veterans, Oakland, CA
2021 Recipient, Neighborhood Voices Grant, Oakland Cultural Arts and Marketing Department
2020 Recipient, Diamond Improvement Association, Grant, Diamond Gateway Restoration, Oakland, CA
2014 Recipient, Youth Program Director, Award For Best Non-Profit for Youth, Inner City Advisors and Oakland Youth Friendly Businesses, Oakland CA
2013 Recipient, East Bay Community Foundation, Grant for Invented Birds Project (sculpture)
2012 Recipient, Oakland’s Hometown Hero, Bay Area News Group
2012 Artist In Residence, Saint Vincent de Paul, Alameda County
2010 Recipient, City of Oakland, Individual Artist Grant
2026 Producer/Curation Assistance, The Land You Stand on, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT
2024/2025, Friends of Finland, Co-curator, and Juror, National call and exhibition, Finnish American Heritage Center, Hancock, MI
2022 Belonging in Oakland, Lead Organizer, programming with Veterans Association and Senior Housing, Oakland, CA
2022 Color Me Oakland, Lead organizer, Oakland Coloring Book Zine, Oakland Unified School District Public High School Students, Oakland, CA
2022 Oakland Citywide Youth Art Show, Mentor, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2019 Production Assistant, Good Omen Market, Oakland, CA
2018-2023 Production Team, Lead Workshops organizer East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest, Oakland, CA
2018 Project Lead, Created with Oakland Public School Students, Oakland Public Library Media Mobile, Oakland, CA
2017-18 Production Lead, Roshambonanza, A Local Arts Festival, Oakland, CA
2017 Production Lead Vegan Cupcake Bake-off, Oakland, CA
2017 Lead Organizing Team, Dimond Lights Community Market, Oakland CA
2016 Lead Curator, HOME?, a group exhibition to raise awareness around displacement and Homelessness in the Bay Area, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Producer and Educational facilitator, “Viral, 25 years since Rodney King”, SPARC, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Lead Curator, Youth Pop-Up Shop, a youth retail store, Flightdeck, Oakland, CA
2015 Lead Education and Curation, Lit Paths-tracking our personal migration, 10 High School age youth participants in a multimedia exhibition, Dia de Los Muertos, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2014 Curator, Super Awesome Salon: Zine and Print Culture, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2014 Curator, Montclair vacant storefront buildings, Oakland, CA
2012-2023 Curatorial Team, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2013 Facilitator, Alternative Print and Zine Culture, Estria Foundation, Estria Battle, Defremery Park, Oakland, CA
2012 Lead Curator, ReCreate, Museum of Children’s Art, Oakland, CA
2012 Lead Curator, Elias Duchowny, Youth Art Show, Oakland Public Library, Oakland, CA
2012 Curator, Living Concrete, A live mural painting featuring apprentice and mentor Urban Artists, Oakland Museum of California
2012 Curator, Live Painting, Mentors and Apprentices, Life is Living Festival, Defremery Park, Oakland, CA
2011 Lead Curator, Art in the Gardens, Friends of Lake Merritt Gardens Fundraiser, Oakland, CA
2025 East Lyme Wellness Program, a series of wellness and creative classes, East Lyme Parks and Recreation, East Lyme, CT
2024 Lead Presenter, Finnophile Printmaking, FinnFunn Weekend, Troy New Hampshire
2024 Lead Instructor, Sip and Sew, a casual sewing course, Garde Arts Center, New London, CT
2024 Presenter, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: From Theory to Action, Arts Integration, Social Justice and Restorative Practice in every classroom, through the Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective, Teacher Training, New Haven, CT
2024 Botanical Illustration instruction, a fundraising collaboration with Friends of Sausal Creek, in Dimond Park and Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland, CA
2023-2024 Lecture & Lab, Finnophile Printmaking Workshop, Scandinavian School San Francisco, University of California Berkeley, Finn Fun weekend, Funded by Finlandia Foundation
2022 SoapBox Derby Participant, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2014-2023 Drawn Together, Participating Artist, Fairyland Benefit, Oakland, CA
2008-2021 Arts Program Coordinator, Studio Art, Art History, Textiles, Advanced Art, MetWest Public High School, Oakland, CA
2020 Silkscreen Workshop facilitator, Redding Elementary School, San Francisco, CA
2019 Facilitator, Pride Banners, Collaboration with Oakland Art Murmur, Oakland, CA
2017- 2019 Arts Teacher, Craft-a-thon, an annual day of crafting and classes with Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2019 Artist, Save the Rainforest, Berkeley Chalk and Chocolate Festival, Berkeley, CA
2019 Organizer, Party in the Park, Artists Alley, Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, Oakland CA
2018 Co-Presenter, We Are the People Conference, Arts and Revolution, Oakland Unified School District Oakland, CA
2017 Sewing Instructor DIY Undies, AntiLab, Oakland, CA
2017 Crafts Director, Summer Camp, Creative IQ, San Francisco, CA
2017 Sewing Teacher, ASL interpreted workshop, Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, Oakland, CA
2017 Lead Teaching Facilitator, Stencil Mural Workshop, West Oakland Public Library, Open free for all community Participation, Oakland, CA
2016 Creating Tents, a youth workshop with Paxton Gate to raise awareness around homelessness, Paxton Gate, San Francisco, CA
2016 Lead Facilitator, Political Poster Workshop, In collaboration with Patagonia, Creative Action Network, and David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
2015 Lead Teacher, Stuffed Animals Making Class for Youth, Creative IQ, San Francisco, CA
2015 Lead Teacher, Bookbinding Class for Adults, Depot for Creative Reuse, Oakland, CA
2015 Lead Facilitator, Silk Scarf Dyeing Workshop for Youth, Temescal Street Fair, Oakland, CA
2015 Teacher, Mural Arts, Camp 510, ages 5-13, Oakland, CA
2015 Presenter, Community Arts, for Foster Youth Museum, curated by Warehouse 416, at Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2015 Guest Silkscreen Teacher, STEAM Workshop, Black Girls Code, Techliminal, Oakland, CA
2015 OUSD Program Funding Recipient, Mobile Maker Cart and Curriculum, Oakland, CA
2015 Guest Lecturer, Restorative Practices in Arts and Social Practice Work, Center for Art and Public Life, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2014 Lead Community Facilitator, Taggers by Night, Muralists by Day, East Bay Express, I do it 4 Oakland Campaign, Restorative Justice Mural with Alameda County Juvenile Justice Participants, Oakland, CA
2014 Guest Speaker, Inalienable Rights to the Arts, on behalf of Rock Paper Scissors Youth Program, A Night with Amanda Palmer, Freight and Salvage, Berkeley, CA
2014 Facilitator and Designer, Live Silkscreen Printing, Cat Video Festival, benefit for the SPCA, Oakland, CA
2014 Teacher, Printmaking and Zine Culture, Camp 510, Oakland, CA
2014 Teacher, Sewing Semester, beginning to advanced sewing and design techniques, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2013/14 Presenter, Community Arts in Action, for Woolman Semester School, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2013 Guest Printmaking Teacher, Oakland Public Library Workshop Series, Oakland, CA
2013 Guest Lecturer, Navigating Arts Institutions, Center for Art and Public Life, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2012/13 Lecture & Lab, Letterpress and its History, East Bay Zine Fest, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA
2012 Presenter, Community Works, Youth Summer Program, The Crucible, Oakland, CA
2012 Featured Presenter, Arts as a form of Youth Incorporation into Public Parks, Oakland Parks Coalition, Oakland, CA
2011 Adult Supervisor, One Oak City Youth Printing, Youth Run Business, Oakland, CA
2011 Instructor, Professional Development and Resume Building, Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, CA
2011 Instructor, Artists Thrive-Professional Development Series for artists, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2011 Fashion Arts in School Program Presenter, Bridge the Bay Conference, A showcase of Enrichment Programs for Public Education, Oakland, CA
2010-11 Lead Teacher, Wearable Art and Fashion Design, Museum of Children’s Art Oakland, CA
2009-2021 Street Style/Dream Seams School of Fashion, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, MetWest High School (OUSD), formerly at Tassafaronga Recreation Center, Oakland, CA
2009 Teacher, Healthy Eats Cooking Class, Brookdale Recreation Center, Oakland, CA
2008-2009 Lead Artist, United Front, a component of Challenges of Champions, Anti Gun Violence Art Project, Mosswood Recreation Center, Oakland, CA
2008 Sausal Creek Native Plant and Animal Study, Oakland Parks and Recreation, Oakland, CA
2008 Quilting facilitator, Oakland Peace Quilt, Diamond Recreation Center After School Program, Oakland, CA
2002-2004 Art Teacher, Art in Still Life, Ageless Art, Senior Activities, Santa Cruz, CA
2002 Volunteer, Rainbow Players, Department of Mental Health Theater Program at the Bang Center, Amherst, MA
2000-2002 Outreach Director, Mothership Art Collective, Amherst, MA
1999-2002 Coordinator and Arts Teacher, Boltwood Project, Department of Mental Health,
Amherst, MA
2023 Nature Nurture Mural, a feature of an all-female-led mural, East Bay Times
2023 Pet Portraits, Featured Participating Artist, SF MOMA, KQED
2022 SoapBox Derby Participant, covered by KQED, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA
2018 Culture Clash, Interviewee, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA
2015 Spokesperson for Rock Paper Scissors Collective, “Essence of Oakland: Preserving local art in the face of change”, East Bay, CA
2014 Featured Art Teacher, The Giving Tree, California Report, KQED
2013 Feature, People of Color Zine Project, Oakland, CA
November 2010, Oakland North, article on Street Style & Dream Seams School of Fashion, Oakland, CA
September 2010, MacArthur Metro, article on Courtland Creek Community Art Commission, Oakland, CA
June 2010, Examiner.com, article on Behold [A New Era] runway show at Studio One, Oakland, CA
March 2010, Oakland North, article on Street Style & Dream Seams School of Fashion, Oakland, CA
2010, Dimondnews, http://www.dimondnews.org/dpa., Inclusion in Public Art Plan, Oakland, CA
January 2009, Oakland Tribune, coverage of Challenges of Champions, Installation and Exhibit at ABCo ArtSpace, Oakland, CA
January 2009, KGO Radio, coverage of Challenges of Champions, Installation and Exhibit at ABCo ArtSpace, Oakland, CA
February 2009, KQED, California Report, coverage of Challenges of Champions at Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
April 2009, Oakland Tribune, Front Page, Earth Day Mural Painting at KIPP Elementary, Oakland, CA
2026-present Board Member, Cultural Coalition, Eastern CT
2026-Present Board Member, Finnish American Heritage Society, Canterbury, CT
2024-Present Member, SPARK Makerspace, New London, CT
2023-Present Co-Founder, Pattagansett Art Center, East Lyme, CT
2022-2024 Board Member, Finlandia Foundation Bay Area chapter, social media coordinator
2021-2024Cultural Aesthetic, Arts Consulting, Professional Artist Development, Community Building, Bay Area, CA
2021-2023 Board Member, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Oakland, CA
2019-2023 Board Member, Peralta Hacienda Historical Park, Oakland, CA
2017-2023 Advisor and Grant distributor, Ara Jo Memorial Fund, Oakland, CA
2012-2024 Studio Member, Faultline Artspace, Oakland, CA
2011 Collective Member, Patchwerk Press, Silkscreen Shop, Oakland, CA
2009-2021 Coordinating Member, Youth Director, Rock Paper Scissors Collective a non hierarchical consensus based organization, Oakland, CA
2008-2012 Board Member, Friends of Oakland Parks and Recreation, Oakland, CA
2008-2012 Artistic Program Director, ACE Arts, Oakland, CA
2003-present K Holohan Design, Photography, Illustrations, Announcements, Graphic Design, Binding, Paintings, Murals, Curation, Wood Working, Clothing/Accessory Design & Construction.