EDUCATION

 

• Various clay workshops

• Intermediate Hand Building - Instructor:  Lee Akins

• Creative Expression Class - Instructor:  Patricia Pearce

• Sculpture 101 - Instructor:  Lisa Gordon

• Advanced Monoprint - instructor:  Ron Pokrasso

• Solar Plate Etching - Instructor:  Dan Welden, author of  Printmaking in the Sun

• Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy

• BA, magna cum laude, Western Michigan University - Majors:  Art and History

 

 

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

 

• Artistas (now Vivo Contemporary)  "Earth in my Hands" - April 2010

• Women's Health Center - Santa Fe - Autumn 2002

• Morgan Stanley - Santa Fe - Autumn 2003

• New Works - Community Bank - Santa Fe - Winter 2008 through Spring 2009

• Full Circle - Community Bank - Santa Fe - Currently exhibiting

• Wells Fargo Bank Gallery - Santa Fe - Drawings and Mixed Media - October 2005

 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

• Santa Fe Clay studio artists - Past several years and currently exhibiting

• Artists Gone Berserk - Santa Fe - November 2008

• Sculpture 101 - Santa Fe - 2008

• Sunrise Springs - Santa Fe - November 2007

• Summer Showcase of the Arts Collaborative - Santa Fe - 2002 through 2007

• Wells Fargo Bank Gallery - Santa Fe - March 2006

• Invitational Exhibition "Site Unseen" - Site Santa Fe Contemporary Museum - 2014

• "Wonder Salon" - Linda Durham Contemporary Art - Santa Fe - December 2009

• "Rhythm and Hues" - Fuller Art Center - Los Alamos - 2002

• "Anything that Flies" - Fuller Art Center - Los Alamos - 2001

• "Sculpture in the Round" - Governor's Gallery - New Mexico State Capitol - Summer 2002

• Santa Fe Community College - Santa Fe - 2000 through 2003

• Selby Fleetwood - October 2005

• Book Art Guild - New Mexico State Capitol - Summer 2007

• De Libris - The Book Transformed - El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe - Aril and May 2005

• First National Bank - Santa Fe - August, 2004

 

 

SELECTED REVIEWS

 

• "Creation and Solace" by Kate McGraw - Albuquerque Journal North - April 2010

• "Conversation Pieces"  by Harmony Hammond Albuquerque Journal North,  December 11, 2009

• Kusel, D. - The New Mexican - November 5, 2003

• The New Mexican - Pasatiempo - May 20, 2003

 

 

AWARDS

 

• First Featured Artist, Mayor's Ball, "Take My Hand" (bronze), purchase commission, Santa Fe

• "Facing the Storm" (bronze), purchase commission, American Cancer Society, Santa Fe

• "Hope" (bronze), purchase commission, American Cancer Society, Santa Fe

 

 

APPOINTMENTS AND PUBLIC SERVICE

 

• City of Santa Fe Arts Commissioner - 1980-1982

• New Mexico Arts Commission - Member, Secretary, Executive Committee - 1967-1972

• Co-founder Quay County Fine Arts League - 1975