Degrees

MFA Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

BA Studio Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

Major Fields

Drawing and painting

Recent Solo Exhibitions

 2010 The Wardrobe Project , Graphic Arts/Fine Arts Gallery, Moberly Area Community College, Moberly, MO

Recent Group Exhibitions

 2012
 
Magnitude 7, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Chromophilia, The Gallery at the Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY
Oakland University Faculty Exhibition, Anton Art Center, Mount Clemens, MI
MACAA Members Juried Exhibition, The Elaine Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Fiber Hybridity: A Conversation with Tradition , Anton Art Center, Mount Clemens, MI
Cold Fusion, Salisbury University Gallery, Salisbury, MD
2012 Rawls Museum Arts National Juried Exhibition, Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA
11th National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Culture & Agriculture,  New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI
Biotic Semiotics: Drawing on Signs from Nature, Allen Priebe Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI

2011

A Fork in the Road,  Katonah Museum Artists Association, Putnam Arts Council, Mahapac, NY
Unmentionables: The Underwear Show , Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
The Maryland Federation of Art, Art on Paper , Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD

2010

Great Lakes Drawing Biennial, University Gallery, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Drawing in the Expanded Field, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Sub Terrain, Work: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Ann Arbor, MI
From Our Perspectives: 2010 National Women’s Art Exhibition , Wallace Smith Theatre Gallery, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI
Third Biennial Oakland University Studio Art Faculty Exhibition , Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI
Wordage,  Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
Ron Hayward: Remembered in Art,  Edwin Gallery, Hamtramck, MI

2009 

Art at the X 2009, Xavier University Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
sought/found, Creative Arts Center, Pontiac, MI
Director’s Choice: Obsession, Center Galleries, Detroit, MI

2008 

Uneasy , Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI
They Practice What They Teach: A Selection of Recent Paintings from Michigan College and University Faculty , Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI
Image and Text,  Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI

Recent Oral presentations

 “The Wardrobe Project,” Artist lecture in conjunction with solo exhibition, Moberly Area Community College, October 4, 2010, Moberly, MO

“The Resource Notebook as Bridge from Art Student to Professional,” College Art Association Professional Development Workshop, November 21, 2009, Detroit MI

“Fernando Botero: Witness to Atrocity,” School of Visual Arts, National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, October 22, 2009, New York, NY

“Witness,” School of Visual Arts, National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, October 16, 2008, New York, NY

“Uneasy,” Artist’ panel discussion in conjunction with group exhibition at Paint Creek Center for the Arts, July 12, 2008, Rochester, MI

Courses Taught

SA102 Foundations of Studio Art
SA105 Drawing for Non-Majors
SA201 Beginning Drawing
SA301 Intermediate Drawing
SA302 Life Drawing
SA316 Intermediate Painting
SA317 Life Painting
SA340 Historic Painting Techniques
SA380 Advanced Drawing and Painting I
SA392 Topics in Studio Art: Figure Study
SA480 Advanced Drawing and Painting II
SA491 Senior Thesis in Studio Art
HC201 Margins and Marginalia
HC201 Imagery and Atrocity