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-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

2008-2009Society 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

2007-2008Society 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

2006Artists 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:__________________________________________

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

2008Juror, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA

2008Visiting Lecturer, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

-“Art out of the African Diaspora”

2007 Studio Technician, Braddock Creative Arts Program, Pittsburgh, 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

2006Silkscreen 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

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

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

2006Ceramics 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

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

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

2005Contributing Artist, Empty Bowls, America’s Second Harvest Food Bank, Erie, PA (also contributed 2004)

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

-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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

200720 x 20 x 20, LSU Union Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA.

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

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

Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA

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

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

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

200696th Annual Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Annual, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA.

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

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

2006Northern National, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI.

2006Gulf 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, PA2005 October Evenings Exhibition, Meadville Council on the Arts, Meadville, PA.

2005 Chimera 2006, Erie Art Museum Annex, Erie, PA2005 Cup: The Intimate Object IV, Charlie Cummings Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN.2005 Salt Lake Dozen, Invitational Print Portfolio, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY2005 Saltline Biennial, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL2005 Lines into Shapes, Arts Center at Estes Park, Estes Park, CO2005 WAD, Second Annual Juried Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA2005 Erie 82nd Annual Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA. 2005 EUP at NCECA, Star-Spangled Banner Flaghouse Museum, Baltimore, MD2004 Members Exhibition, Five Points Gallery, Huntsville, AL2004 Radford Art Show, Bondurant Center, Radford, VA2003 B.F.A. Solo Exhibition, Bloch Art Gallery, Montevallo, AL2003 Great Plains National Juried Exhibition, Hays, KS

2002Big Relief, Bloch Art Gallery, Montevallo, AL

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

Francis Marion University, Florence, SC

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NYErie Art Museum, Erie, PAThe Amity Art Foundation, Cincinnati, OHUniversity of Montevallo, Public Relations, Montevallo, AL

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

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

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

2006Best 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, VA2003 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