EDUCATION

2003 MFA, Tyler School of Art Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
1993 BFA, University of Dayton, cum laude Dayton, Ohio

GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2010 Artist in Residence, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, ME
2010 Fleisher Challenge Award, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Artist in Residence, Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, Ganado, AZ
2005 International Artists Residency, Budapest, Hungary
2004 Soaring Gardens Artist’s Residency, Ora Lerman Foundation, Laceyville, PA
2003 Joan Mitchell MFA Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
Project Completion Grant, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
2002 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
Honorable Mention, 6th Annual Georgetown International, Washington DC
2001 Third Place, Ann Arbor Women Painters Exhibition, Ann Arbor, MI
2000 First Place, Blooms, Bugs, Beasts Exhibition, Detroit, MI
Latin Association for Visual Arts Award, Toledo, OH
1997 Grant from the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, Toledo, OH
Purchase Award, Women's Works Exhibition, Woodstock, IL
1996 Award of Distinction, Spectrum Gallery, Toledo, OH
1995 Committee Award, Salon des Refuses, Toledo, OH

SELECTED SHOWS & EXHIBITIONS

2011
Fleisher Challenge Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2010
Home, Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA
Spontaneous Repetition, Stratosphere Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2009
URBAN, InLiquid’s 10 Anniversary Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Hudson Gallery, Sylvania, OH

2008
Solo Show, Earlville Opera House Gallery, Earlville, NY
9th Annual National Exhibition, Huber Art Center, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA  
LaGrange National XXV, LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA

2007
Walk the Line, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY
Positive/Negative Twenty-Two, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
New Art 2007, MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA
The Body Sublime, Parkland Art Gallery, Champaign, IL
Drawing No Conclusions, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI

2006
Drawing Center, Viewing Program, New York, NY
Fresh Paint, Hudson Gallery, Sylvania, OH
Paint Creek Center for Arts, TFAS Exhibition, Rochester, MI
French Art Colony, Gallipolis, OH

2005
Hudson Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Sylvania, OH
Imagining Africa, Madison, WI
Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Ohio Arts League, Columbus, OH
University Galleries on Sycamore, WordArt, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Magnitude Seven, Manifest Creative Research Gallery & Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH

2004
Cue Art Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY
Women's Works Exhibition, Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock, IL
Hudson Gallery, Group Exhibition, Sylvania, OH