EDUCATION:

2007  MFA Edinboro University of Pennsylvania                                                       

2003  BFA University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL                                                          

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Judson College 2009-2010                                        

Printmaking

Painting

Drawing I, II, IV

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 2009                                

Printmaking

Community College of Allegheny County 2009                                

Art Appreciation

Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA 2008                                

Introduction to Ceramics

Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA 2008                        

Summer Academy Faculty (pre-college)

Introduction to Ceramics

Introduction to Printmaking

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA 2007                       

Introduction to Printmaking

Intermediate Printmaking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2007-2009 Artists Image Resource | Operations Manager, Pittsburgh, PA

-Primary printmaker on works completed by resident artists using various printing methods primarily focused on intaglio and relief.  Artists include Jose Ruffino, Mark Gehry, Bill Fick, John Ritter, Kim Beck, Delanie Jenkins, John Carson, among others

-Instructed interns on printing methodologies, safety, and organization

-Prepared materials and demonstrated researched projects for individual and group educational programs

-Instructor for a variety of intensive printmaking workshops covering intaglio, lithography, letterpress and silkscreen

2008-2009 Society for Contemporary Craft | Manager of Special Projects, Pittsburgh, PA

-coordination of all for-profit activities, including commercial gallery space, juried exhibitions, and web sales

-growth of a national traveling exhibitions program

-development of the LEAP Award

-redesign and maintenance of website

2007-2008 Society for Contemporary Craft | Exhibitions Manager, Pittsburgh, PA

-installation and coordination of exhibitions and catalogues focusing on contemporary craft

-development of a national traveling exhibitions program

2006 Society for Contemporary Craft | Cheteyan Scholar, Pittsburgh, PA

-Researched and coordinated catalogue and installation of Nature/Culture: Artists Respond to Their Environment

-Developed condition reports for traveling exhibitions Colors and Nature/Culture

-Developed press releases and PR kits for several regional and national exhibitions

-Artists + Kids Program

2006 Artists Image Resource | Studio Internship, Pittsburgh, PA

-Primary printmaker: William Clark Bicentennial Print (restrike of an 1840’s portrait engraving)

-Primary and Assistant Printer on works completed by resident artists using various printing methods, including screen, digital, intaglio and lithography

-Assisted Community Outreach Programs and Open Studios

-Artists + Kids Program

2005-07 Edinboro University | Graduate Research Assistant, Edinboro, PA

-Aided in the professional development of graduate art students by developing resources for exhibitions and residencies, and organized the third annual Graduate Art Student Presentations

2003-04 Radford University | Education Research Assistant Radford, VA

-Assisted in the development and implementation of new technologies in classrooms

2002 Hans Grohs Foundation Trust | Archives Internship, Birmingham, AL

-Documented the works on paper of one of the original German Expressionist printmakers

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:

2008 Juror, Lydon Emerging Artists Program, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA

2008 Juror, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA

2008 Visiting Lecturer, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

           -“Art out of the African Diaspora”

2007  Studio Technician, Braddock Creative Arts Program, Braddock, PA

        -Developed a community youth studio enabling at-risk children and pre-college adults the opportunity            

        to gain arts experience in a production studio

        -Oversight and maintenance of open ceramics studio, including mixing clay and glazes, and firing                        

        kilns

2007Printmaking Demonstrator, Three River’s Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA

        -demonstrated a variety of printmaking techniques--including intaglio, relief etching, four color process    

        screen printing, and monoprinting--to the general public to raise awareness of printmaking        

        opportunities in the community

2004-06 Egress Press Printing Assistant, Egress Press and Research, Edinboro, PA

        -Assisted in artist’s projects with Bill Fick, Jay Ryan, Mary Hood, Franz Spohn, Andy Farkas, and Tom    

        Huck

2006 Silkscreen Instructor, Children’s Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

        -with AIR’s portable silkscreening stations, we demonstrated the techniques Andy Warhol used in    

        creating his portraits, helping each student develop an edition of prints

2006 Guest Speaker, Group Against Smog and Pollution, Annual Event

        -Delivered a lecture on craft artists who work with environmental themes

2006 Ceramics Workshop, Pittsburgh’s Battered Women’s Shelter

        -Developed a hands-on activity for the children residents of this shelter, ranging in age from 4 to 16

2006 Monoprinting Workshop, Artist’s Image Resource annual benefit fundraiser

        -Developed a monoprinting workshop for kids at annual nonprofit research center

2005 Contributing Artist, Empty Bowls, America’s Second Harvest Food Bank, Erie, PA (also contributed    

        2004)

2003  Imagination Festival Demonstrator, Magic City Arts Connection, Birmingham, AL

        -Developed hands-on activities for a rotating group of middle school students introducing them to    

        areas of printmaking

2002 Visiting Artist, Wallace State College, Cullman, AL

2001  Magic City Arts Connection Demonstrator, Birmingham, AL

CURATED EXHIBITIONS:

2009   The Day After Tomorrow, Sewickley Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA

-contemporary ceramic artists whose works respond to a science fiction aesthetic

2007Something Wicked This Way Comes, Invitational Print Portfolio, Bates Gallery, Edinboro, PA

2006Edinboro Graduate Art Exhibition, Heeschen Gallery, Meadville, PA.  (co-curated)

2003  The Monster Show, Margaret Jones Gallery, Birmingham, AL

-invitational exhibition of artists who made works responding to the theme “Monster”

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2010   Recent Prints and Puzzles, MATH Gallery, Judson College, Marion, AL.

2009   Kept Closer, ModernFormations Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.

2009   Transitional Enemies (solo show), Galerie Chiz, Pittsburgh, PA.

2008  Hoyt Mid Atlantic,  Hoyt Center for the Arts, Newcastle, PA.

2008  figurepittsburgh,  Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA.

2008  Off the Wall,  Galerie Chiz, Pittsburgh, PA.

2008  Erie 85th Annual Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA.

2008 Dirty Fingernails Say a Lot: A Celebration of Pure Printmakers 2, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles,

          MO.

2008  A Space of Resignation, ModernFormations Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.

2007  Visual Arts Society of Texas 39th Annual Spring Exhibition, Denton, TX. 

2007  20 x 20 x 20, LSU Union Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA. 

2007  Materials: Hard and Soft, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX. 

2007  A Silver Mount Zion, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA

2006  October Evenings Exhibition, Meadville Council on the Arts, Meadville, PA.

2006  The Game Show, Contemporary Craft Museum, Portland, OR. 

2006  Ceramics Biennial, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH. 

2006  96th Annual Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Annual, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. 

2006  Interior/Exterior, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA. 

2006  Dirty Fingernails Say a Lot: A Celebration of Pure Printmakers, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles,        

           MO. 

2006  Northern National, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI. 

2006  Gulf States Rising, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS. 

2006  Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA. 

2006  Images 2006, Robeson Gallery, University Park, PA.

2006  Crafts National 40, Zoller Gallery, University Park, PA.

2006  Westmoreland Art Nationals, Westmoreland County Community College, Latrobe, PA 

2006  Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2006, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA. 

2006  Gateway to Imagination, Farmington Museum, Farmington, NM. 

2006  Edinboro University Annual Student Exhibition, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro, PA. 

2006  Erie 83rd Annual Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA. 

2006   40th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX. 

2006  8 Fluid Ounces-National Juried/Invitational Ceramic Cup Exhibition.  Louisiana

          State University, Baton Rouge, LA. 

2006  Paper in Particular, 27th Annual National Exhibition, Columbia College, Columbia, MO.

2006  Janet Turner Print National Print Competition, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA.

2006  Skin Deep: A Celebration of Ceramic Surface, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC.

2006  Americas 2000, National Juried Exhibition, Northwest Art Center, Minot, ND.

2005  Craft Forms 2005, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA.

2005  8th Annual Northwestern PA Cup Competition, Gallery 611, Clarion, PA

2005  October Evenings Exhibition, Meadville Council on the Arts, Meadville, PA. 

2005  Chimera 2006, Erie Art Museum Annex, Erie, PA

2005  Cup:  The Intimate Object IV, Charlie Cummings Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN.

2005  Salt Lake Dozen, Invitational Print Portfolio, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

2005  Saltline Biennial, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

2005  Lines into Shapes, Arts Center at Estes Park, Estes Park, CO

2005  WAD, Second Annual Juried Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA

2005  Erie 82nd Annual Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA. 

2005  EUP at NCECA, Star-Spangled Banner Flaghouse Museum, Baltimore, MD

2004  Members Exhibition, Five Points Gallery, Huntsville, AL

2004  Radford Art Show, Bondurant Center, Radford, VA

2003  B.F.A. Solo Exhibition, Bloch Art Gallery, Montevallo, AL

2003  Great Plains National Juried Exhibition, Hays, KS

2002  Big Relief, Bloch Art Gallery, Montevallo, AL

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

Francis Marion University, Florence, SC

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA

The Amity Art Foundation, Cincinnati, OH

University of Montevallo, Public Relations, Montevallo, AL

AWARDS:

2007 Juror’s Award, Materials Hard and Soft, Center for the Arts, Denton, TX

2006 Karen Burgess-Smith Award, Ceramics Biennial, Manchester, NH

2006 Honorable Mention, October Evenings Exhibition, Meadville Council on the Arts

2006 Best in Show, All Media, Gulf Sates Rising, George Ohr Museum

2006  Judy G. Cheteyan Scholarship, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA

2006  Edinboro University Graduate Print Award, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro, PA

2005  2nd Place, 8th Annual Northwestern PA Cup Competition, Gallery 611, Clarion, PA

2005  Juror’s Award, Erie Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA

2004  Juror’s Choice Award, Radford Art Show, Radford, VA

2003  Madge Taylor Sims Memorial Scholarship, Montevallo, AL

2003  Dorothy Robbins Mullican Scholarship, Montevallo, AL

PUBLICATIONS:

2007 5 Contemporary Masters (wrote introduction)

2007 Transformations 6 (coordinated catalogue)

2006  Americas 2000 Exhibition catalogue (exhibiting artist)

2006 Nature/Culture: Artists Respond to Their Environment  (coordinated    catalogue)

2006  Saltline Biennial Exhibition catalogue  (exhibiting artist)

AFFILIATIONS:

2006 Delaware Center for Contemporary Art member

2005-07NCECA member

2005-06 Graduate Student Council (board member)

2005-06Graduate Professional Development Program (board member)

2005-06 Edinboro University Clay Club

2004President of Radford University Clay Club