Education
2006 – 2008 Master of Fine Arts: 2-Dimensional Studies, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
1999 – 2006 Bachelor of Fine Arts, with honors: Major in Painting and Graphic Design, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN.
Professional Experience
2011- Present Adjunct Professor of Art, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL.
2008 – 2010
Adjunct Professor of Art, Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN.
Director of Arts, Inspirative Gallery and Studios, Plymouth, IN.
2008 – 2009 Adjunct Professor in Graphic Design, Raclin School of the Arts, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN.
2007 Instructor of Record, Drawing the Figure, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
2006 Gallery Administrative Assistant, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
Selected Exhibitions
2011
Solo Exhibitions
Manufactured Community, Traveling Exhibition Culminating at Thaddeus C. Gallery, Midwest and LaPorte, IN.
Group Exhibitions
Annual Faculty Exhibition, Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL.
2010
Solo Exhibitions
Under the Line, Bloss Studios, Chicago, IL.
Mark and Scar, Eder and Zitzewitz, Munich, Germany. E.U.
Mechanical Solidarity, Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN
Post-Industrialism, Inspirative Gallery, Plymouth, IN.
Group Exhibitions
The Contemporary Still Life, with Dennis Wojtkewicz and Charles Kanwischer, Inspirative Gallery, Plymouth, IN
Suspended, Wells County Arts Center, Bluffton, IN.
Contemporary Realism Biennial, Group Exhibition, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN.
5th Annual National Exhibition, Katharine Butler Gallery, Sarasota, FL.
Artprize, YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids, MI.
2009
Joseph Frasca Memorial Works on Paper, Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago, IL.
113th Annual Exhibition, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club at the National Arts Club, NYC.
Culture? Group Exhibition, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN.
Unity One, Solo Exhibition, Vickers Theater, Three Oaks, MI.
31st Annual Exhibition, Midwest Museum of Art, Elkhart, IN
Faculty Exhibition, Bethel College, Mishawaka, IN.
37th Annual Exhibition, Pastel Society of America at the National Arts Club, NYC
Faculty Exhibition, Indiana University, South Bend, IN.
2008
Outside of Reach, Edward Jones Investment Firm, Plymouth, IN.
Revisited, Americorp Enterprises, Plymouth, IN.
Other Things, Bowen-Thompson Student Union Gallery, Bowling Green, OH.
Beyond Object, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery
Bowling Green, OH.
2007
Small Works, Art Dialogue Gallery, Western New York Artist Group Buffalo, NY.
Mechanism, Sugar Creek Arts Center, Thorntown, IN.
Spring Exhibition, Art Space, Lima, OH.
Curated Exhibitions
2010
Blues Event, Samantha Barton and Amanda Willams, Inspirative Gallery, Plymouth, IN.
A Couple of Eccentrics, L. Lee Heinsen-Ligocki, Inspirative Gallery, Plymouth, IN.
Above, Sayaka Ganz, Inspirative Gallery, Plymouth, IN.
2009
Curiousity, Josh Hozey, Inspirative Gallery, Plymouth, IN.
2007
Curator assistant, 2-D or not 2-D? Danish Artist Flirt with Space, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
Awards/Honors
2010
Individual Artist Grant, Indiana Arts Commission, Indianapolis, IN.
2009
Pastel Artists of Hawaii Award, Pastel Society of America, NYC.
Leila Gardin Sawyer Award, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, NYC.
2008
Marilyn Singleton Leadership Award, Medici Circle, Toledo, OH.
Service
2010
IAM, International Arts Movement, NYC, NY.
ACMC, Artists of Marshall County, Education Director, Plymouth, IN.
Imaginary Art School, Director, Plymouth, IN.
2009
IAM, International Arts Movement, NYC, NY.
Arts Council of Marshall County, Coordinator, Plymouth, IN.
Bergman Arts Center, Project Experience, Mentor, Plymouth, IN.
CAA, College Arts Association, Member, New York, NY.
2007 – 2008
Student Arts Senate, President, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
Arts-X, Director, Bowling Green State University.
CAA, College Arts Association, Member, New York, NY.
Women’s Professional Development Series, “Living and Sustaining a Life as a Woman Artist”, panel discussion member, Women’s Center, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
2006 – 2008
Graduate Art Student Association, Bowling Green State University.
Gallery Advisory Board, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery,
Bowling Green State University.