Resume

Education:

B.A. Magna Cum Laude, University of Michigan                                          

M.A., Goddard College , Plainfield , Vermont

Awards:          

3 rd Place Juror's Award, Montpelier SculptCycle, June, 2008, for Battering Ram

Environmental Exhibit Collaborative, Worcester , MA , selected as central exhibit creator for a collaborative of our regional ( Quebec , VT , MA, ME)  mid-size museums' Transformations project, 2008.

Arts Endowment Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation, grant for 2005-2006 creation of new work

Vermont Arts Council grant for 2005-2006 for the creation of two new installations

Second Place for Outdoor Sculpture, S.E.A.B.A.'s Lucky 13 Art Hop (2005) , for Teapot Dialogue . Selected by Andrew Witkin, director of the Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston .

Finalist, fourth annual Barbara Smail Award, 2005

Judge, 23 rd Annual Vermont High School Congressional Art Competition (appointed by Senator James M. Jeffords), May, 2004

Residency, Vermont Studio Center , Vermont Week, 1999 and 2002

Vermont Arts Council grant 1996-1997 for creation of new work, A Guided Tour of Dante's Inferno , a self-enclosed sculptural installation

Selected    Exhibitions:      

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Title of Exhibit in Italics)

Lazy Pear Gallery, Montpelier , VT , Rolling Boil , September 23 – November 16, 2008

215 College, Burlington , VT Earth Stories (2-person show, Van Fleet: Gene Pool) October 12 - November 4, 2007

Lazy Pear Gallery, Montpelier , VT , Curious Lifeforms , March 15 - May 14, 2007

Cooler Gallery, White River Junction, VT, Circular Statements , September 1 - 30, 2006

T.W. Wood Gallery and Art Center , Montpelier VT , South Gallery, Museum Cases , June 1 - July 23, 2006

Flynndog, Burlington , VT , Circular Statements , May-June, 2006

Studio Place Arts, Barre , VT , Circular Statements , March 14- April 15, 2006

Enigma Gallery, Essex , VT , Circular Statements and Ice Shelf , Oct 9 - Nov 18, 2005

Stefanie Ludyny Gallery, 312 W. 36 th St, New York, NY, Rivers of Blood , Aug 16 - Sep 11, 2004

Beth Jacob Synagogue, Montpelier , VT , Books , March, 2004

Amy Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington, VT, The Red Dress , Jan 9-Feb 28, 2004

MPG Contemporary, Boston , MA , The Red Dress , Sept 5-28, 2003 (two artists)

Catamount Gallery, St. Johnsbury , VT , Video Installation , Nov. 11-30, 2002

Tamarack Gallery, Craftsbury , VT , The Red Dress , Sept 6 - Oct 12, 2002

Vermont Supreme Court, Montpelier , VT , The Red Dress , July 22- Aug 23, 2002

Woodenhead Gallery, Key West , FL , Red Dresses , April, 2002

Institute for Social Ecology, Plainfield , VT , The Flood Series , Nov-Dec, 2001

Arthur's Dress Shop Theater, Ridge St. , New York , NY , Brown , October, 2001

Catamount Gallery, St. Johnsbury , VT , Current 2- and 3-D Work , March, 2001

Woodenhead Gallery, Key West , FL , Recent Work , Feb. 25 - March 10, 2000

Firehouse Gallery (Install Space), Burlington , VT: Creatures , Sept 17 - Oct 17, 1999

ARA Gallery at City Center , Montpelier , Vermont : Nests and Eggs , Oct 3 - Nov 7, 1999

Horn of the Moon, Montpelier , VT :  Messages , August, 1999

AVA ( Alliance for the Visual Arts) Gallery, Lebanon , New Hampshire : Jungian Journey,  Aug 27- Oct. 2, 1999

Egger Gallery, Sterling College , Craftsbury Common , VT :   Nests and Eggs , March 6- May 7, 1999

Lyndon State College, Lyndonville , VT. Imprimatura Brown , Feb 17- April 8, 1999

Trident Booksellers, Newbury Street , Boston , MA ,  Recent Work , Feb 6 - March 6, 1999

Windhorse Visual Arts Center , St. Johnsbury , VT , Recent Work , Oct 26 - Nov 20, 1998

ARA Gallery at City Center , Montpelier , VT , Paintings, Nov 2 - Dec 6, 1998

City Hall Showcase, Montpelier , VT , Martin Luther King Jr. on Racial Diversity , July 1-31, 1998

Rose Street Gallery, Burlington , VT , A Guided Tour of Dante's Inferno and Other Recent Work , June 4- July 3, 1998

Milne Gallery, Barre , VT , A Guided Tour of Dante's Inferno , May 2-30, 1998

Vermont-NEA State Convention, Burlington , VT ,    A Guided Tour of Dante's Inferno , October 22-24, 1998

Vermont State Arts Council Spotlight Gallery, Montpelier , VT ,  Brown, Brown, Falling Down ,  March 21- May 1, 1998

St. Johnsbury Art League Building, St. Johnnsbury , VT ,   A Guided Tour of Dante's Inferno , Oct-December, 1997

JURIED EXHIBITIONS (Title of Exhibit in Italics, Work exhibited by artist following in parenthesis)

Johnson Works: Downtown Outdoor Sculpture , Johnson, Aug 20 - Oct 25, 2008 (Time of the Signs)

Wrap - Em: Column Art Under McGrath , Sommrville , MA , July-Sept, 2008 (Circular forms on canvas)

Montpelier SculptCycle , Montpelier , VT , selected exhibitor with honorarium (Battering Ram), 2008

Hardwick Outdoor Biennial, Hardwick , VT , (three polychrome steel fish), Summer, 2006

Helen Day Art Center , Stowe , VT , 14 th Annual Exposed! Outdoor Exhibition (Steel Fish) , July 14 - Oct 14, 2006

Revolving Museum, Lowell , MA , Pulling Strings: Traditional & Contemporary Puppetry ( Skater ) , March 12- Sept 30, 2006

SPA Gallery, Barre , VT , One Earth (two paintings from the Flood series, Lichen series, Ice Storm, three paintings on books) , March 9 - April 10, 2004

New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA, New England Sculpture Association Exhibition (Oracles installation) Oct. 10, 2002- Jan 10, 2003

SPA Gallery, Barre VT , Clean Your Plate (March of the Teapots, video) , Nov. 7-30, 2002

New Arts Program, Kutztown , PA , Invitational Salon Exhibition of Small Works (Little Red Dresses) , May 24-June 30, 2002

Helen Day Art Center , Stowe , VT , NVAA Exhibit (Priest of Watching and Waiting) , Oct 19- Nov 17, 2001

Shelburne Farms, Shelburne , Vermont , Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting (Nests and Eggs) , Sept 22 - Oct 7, 2000

Art in the Round Barn 2000, Waitsfield, Vermont, Sept 23-Oct 8, 2000

Woodenhead Gallery, Key West , FL , Annual Erotic Show (I'm on Fire, Wood, At Traction), Feb. 11-21, 2000

AVA Gallery, Lebanon , NH , Shades of Black and White (Sticks and Stones) , Jan14 - Feb 19, 2000

Catamount Gallery, St. Johnsbury , VT : Y2K ( Messenger ), December, 1999

Gallery 510, Decatur , IL :  Winter Thaw '99 (painting: Jubilation) , March 5-28, 1999

Scollay Square Gallery, Boston , MA :  Women Then, Now, and the Future: A Retrospective and Introspective Look at Females in our Society (3 paintings) , March 2 -26, 1999

Catamount Gallery, St. Johnsbury , VT : Triptyck (Creation Triptych), March, 1999

Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury , VT :  Four Letter Words (Mixed media: Don't), July, 1998

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Title of Exhibit in Italics, Work exhibited following in parenthesis)

Studio Place Arts, Barre , VT Adventure Sparks (Sackcloth and Ashes, mixed media sculpture) Aug 24-Sept 25, 2004

SOWA Art Walk, Boston , MA (mixed media sculptures) , May 23, 2004

Flynndog Gallery, Burlington , VT , WORD WORKS: Text-Fortified Visual Art (A Guided Tour of Dante's Inferno and other new work ), April 11-May 3, 2003

Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA, Garden Sculpture (Red Dress, painted steel) , June 20-Oct 26, 2002

Interior Design Collection, Dallas , TX , Showroom (2 Red Dresses, Eggs) , 2002

Church & Maple Gallery, Burlington , VT , Art Tones in E minor (3-person exhibit), June 1-16, 2001

Tamarack Gallery, Craftsbury , VT , Regional Artists , Summer, 2001

Studio Place Arts Gallery, Barre , VT , Founders Show (2 installations) , March 8-31, 2001

T.W. Wood Gallery , Vermont College, Montpelier , VT : Playing With Half a Deck (Two Red Dress paintings), Nov 27-Dec 23, 2001

Southern Vermont Art Center , Manchester VT Members Show (painting) , July 3-25 1999

Red Mill Gallery , Vermont Studio Center, Johnson , VT ,  Vermont Week (Ethnic Encampments) , April 28 - May 2, 1999

Flynndog Gallery, Burlington , VT , Enroute 2000 (Mitosis, 3 Oracles) , September 2000

Caravan Arts at Rose Street Gallery, Burlington , VT , Theater of the Imagination: Masquerade of the Soul (three Flood Series paintings ), Oct 22- Nov 13, 2000

T.W. Wood Gallery , Vermont College, Montpelier , VT , A.R.A. Gift of Art (Creatures installation), Dec 3 - Dec 24, 1999

Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT, Annual Group Show, Sept 1 - Oct 15, 1998

Woodenhead Gallery, Key West, FL Group Show (painting), January, 1997

Memberships and Offices:     

Founder, Studio Place Arts, Inc., a Barre, Vermont non-profit community center for the visual arts

Board of directors, Art Resource Association, Montpelier , VT.

Memberships: Alliance for the Visual Arts, Lebanon, NH; New England Sculptors Association, Studio Place Arts, Barre VT; Plainfield Village Gamelan, Plainfield, Vermont.

Selected Collections:     

Vermont Supreme Court, Montpelier , Vermont

Karen Thomsen and Harold Ryan, Copenhagen , Denmark

Gail Simms, Gidgegannup , Western Australia

Bruce Cockburn , Ontario , Canada

Ayako Senda, Akasaka, Tokyo , Japan

Caroline Canning, Dublin , Ireland

Stanley and Judith Zabar, Key West , Florida

Ellen Leibman, Chicago , IL

Catherine Davies, Washington , DC

Mark S. Waskow, Burlington , VT

Curation:   

The Boat Show , March 4 - April 12, 2008 , Studio Place Arts, Barre , VT

The Gun Show , January 16 - February 24, 2007 , Studio Place Arts, Barre , VT

Give Us a Hand , Jan 31 - March 4, 2006 , Studio Place Arts, Barre VT

Plugged In , Jan 18 - Feb 16, 2005 , Studio Place Arts, Barre VT (Reviewed in Art New England )

Far Out, Jan 27-Feb 28, 2004, Studio Place Arts, Barre , VT

Seasons, Dec 5 - Jan 2, 2003 , ARA Gallery at City Center , Montpelier , VT

Ironicons (constructions by Danish artist and filmmaker Hans Kragh-Jacobsen), in 4 different venues, 2003-2005

A Matter of Life and Death , November 1-24, 2001 , Studio Place Arts, Barre , VT

Teaching:

Goddard College , Plainfield , VT. Workshops for Education Residency (arts) October, 2002

Spaulding High School , Barre , VT.   Tessellation project: Fall semester, 2004. Mobiles: Spring, 2005

Studio Place Arts teaching, projects, workshops with children, 2001-2007

Art Institute of Boston, Artist Mentor for MFA student, Spring semester, 2005

Writing:           

Art New England , one of three reviewers for Vermont exhibits, 2008