Education

MFAAmerican University, Washington, DC 

BA - Centre College, Danville, KY 

Additional Studies 

Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

University of Reading, Reading, UK 

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 

Teaching

2015 - present - Associate Professor of Fine Art, Montgomery College, MD

2008 - 2015 - Adjunct Professor of Fine Art, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Prince George’s Community College, Montgomery College

Teaching Artist: Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution, Art Institute of Boston Low Residency MFA, and others.

Residency

2018 - Ou Gallery, Vancouver Island, Canada

2016 - Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland

2013- Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland 

Solo Exhibitions

2018 - Family Matters- Ou Gallery, Vancouver Island, Canada 

2016 - The Shakespeare Project, in collaboration with the First Folio! festival - Gallaudet University, Washington, DC

2014- Odds and Ends- Kentucky Coffeetree, Frankfort, KY 

2013- The Shakespeare Project- The Grand Theater, Frankfort, KY 

Exhibitions

2022 - This Woman’s Work, Ruffian, NYC

10th anual 10x10 Invitational, Pyramid Atlantic, Hyattsville, MD

2021 - Inside Out/Upside Down, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

FlatFile, Transformer, Washington, DC

2020 - Group Show - Virtual Exhibition, Shrine NYC

New Perspectives in Drawing and Painting - Virtual Exhibition, St Louis Artist’s Guild

2019 - She: an Expression of Womanhood - Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Solomon’s MD

2018 - Poe and Puck - Strathmore Mansion, Rockville, MD

2015 - Shakespeare in Central Park 55th Season, Louisville, KY

2014- Curate the Curator, Focus on the Figure, Lustine Center, Hyattsville, MD

Figure Studies- Galleries at University of Wisconsin Parkside, Kenosha, WI 

2012-  Lotta Art- School 33 Baltimore, MD

2011-   About Face- Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Sollomans MD 

2009-   Indie Grits Film Festival- Columbia SC

            50th Anniversary Faculty Show- Marlborough Gallery, Largo MD

2008-   Proximity- Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC

            Crafty Bastard- Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring MD

2007-   In the Flesh - Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA

4 by 6- Harmony Hall Regional Center, Ft Washington, MD

Other- Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC

ARTomatic – Old Patents Office, Crystal City, VA

2006-   A.Salon Member’s Show- Willow St. Gallery, Washington, DC

2005-   Voices- Edison Place Gallery, Washington, DC

            A.Salon Member’s Show- Willow St. Gallery, Washington, DC

2004-   A.Salon Member’s Show- Willow St. Gallery, Washington, DC

2003-   Cornucopia -  Kentucky Theater, Louisville, KY

 

Commissions

2018 - Animal Farm - Working with artist Ed Bisese, Megan Van Wagoner, and Lincoln Mudd, and students at Montgomery College’s 3D Design class to create masks and puppets, Montgomery College, MD

2007-   DC Play Blocks - public art campaign sponsored by GCH Endowment to promote importance of quality early childhood education, Washington DC

2006-   Mask - CJD, part of off-Broadway NEUROfest, New York, NY

2003-   Masks and Puppets Caucasian Chalk Circle, Centre College, Danville, KY

2002-   Masks and Puppets Picture of Dorian Grey, Actor’s Guild of Lexington, KY

Paintings A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Centre College, Danville, KY

Awards

2009- Southern Lens Award, Indie Grits Film Festival, Columbia SC

2006 – 2008 CAS Graduate Assistantship Merit Award, American University

Recipient of Mellon Grant for Graduate Research

2002 - The Art Prize Merit Award- Centre College, Danville KY