Curriculum Vitae

Education

2012 MFA 3D Studies, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

2005 BA Studio Art- Sculpture and Drawing, Bradley University, Peoria, IL. Magna Cum Laude

Solo Exhibitions

2019 Murmuration, ArtsPlace Gallery, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada

A Minor Sea Change, Union Grove Gallery, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL

2018 Strange Empathies, Olin Gallery, William and Jefferson College, Washington, PA

2016 Naturealism, Class of 1925 Gallery at WUD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

2015 Self Portraits, Anna Eastman Stout Memorial Gallery, Brescia University, Owensboro, KY

insideoutside, Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL

2014 This Remains to Be Seen, installation in domestic space, Interstuct Project, Lexington, KY

undirectionals, installation in Pritzlaff Event Space, 2014 NCECA Conference, Milwaukee, WI

2012 MFA Thesis Exhibition, University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ

2011 And Then…, Lionel Rombach Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Pretenses, Graduate and Alumni Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Public Installations

2015 Family Tree, Fantasy Forest, permanent installation at Leila Arboretum, Battle Creek, MI

2013 Urban Nest: Chicago’s Peregrine Falcons, Harold Washington Public Library, Chicago, IL

Parts of Being Wholly, window gallery installation, The Whistler, Chicago, IL

2 or 3-person Exhibitions

2016 Texture + Material, Kolok-Rolph Gallery, Kentucky Wesleyan University, Owensboro, KY

2013 Live/Work, CAC Gallery, Chicago, IL. Curated by Jessica Cochran

2010 Humorous Vitrine, Flow159 Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2005 Separation of Image, Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 Oh, yes she did! Old Courthouse Gallery, Woodstock, IL

2018 Artist Statement #3, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

2017 Midwest Sculpture Exhibition, Indiana University, Kokomo, IN

2016 What If? Chautauqua National Juried Exhibition, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY

2013 Root, a curatorial event by clementines and fingernails, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL

Twelve Variations, CAC Gallery, Chicago, IL. Curated by Jessica Cochran

2011 Dislocations, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2010 /IN-‘STOL/, Old Market Galleries, Tucson, AZ

Selected Juried Exhibitions

2021 Crocker Kingsley Annual, Roseville, CA

2020 Touch, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL

2017 HWD, Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, OH

Fierce and Frail Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland OR

Creatures: Real and Imagined II, uBe Art Center, Berkeley, CA

36th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition. Bradley University, Peoria, IL

2016 5th Central Time Ceramics Exhibition, Heuser Art Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL

Menagerie, Baltimore ClayWorks, Baltimore, MD

2015 14th Biennale de la Ceramique, Cultural Center, Andenne, Belgium. *Grand Prix Winner*

2014 73rd Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL. Juror: William Lieberman

Clay as Context: Contemporary Ceramics Intnl Biennial, Halcyon Gallery, Terra Haute, IN

2012 NCECA National Juried Exhibition, Ecumene: Global Interface in American Ceramics,

Santa Fe, NM

Right Here, Over There, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY

National Juried Exhibition: Biotic Semiotics, University of Wisconsin, OshKosh, WI

2011 National Juried Ceramics Exhibition, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ

Dog & Pony Show, Jordan River Arts Council, East Jordan, MI

2009 And You Think That’s Funny? Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008 Object of Desire, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL

Invitational Exhibitions

2019 Triennial Faculty Exhibition, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI

2018 Making the Bed, Levin Furniture Mattress Showroom, NCECA Conference, Pittsburgh, PA

2017 100 Miles: Art by Regional Collegiate Faculty, McCutchan Art Center, USI, Evansville, IN

2016 Women’s Exhibition, Melwood Arts Center Gallery, Louisville, KY

2015 Guess You Had to Be There, installation through Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL.

*2nd Place Juror’s Award*

2013 Dept/Eval, Fountain Installation, Department of Interarts, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Patterns in Futility, Dickson Window Gallery, Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL

Presentations/Lectures

2018 Modernist and Contemporary depictions of Nature in Art, Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA

2017 Homebodies: Clay and the Domestic Object, Artyfacts Anthropology Workshop, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD

2014 Memory as Object, Object as Memory. Rockford Art Museum, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Rockford, IL

2013 Urban Nests: Chicago’s Peregrine Falcons, Harold Washington Public Library, Chicago, IL

21artists: 21 Artists, 21 Days of Creation, Collaboration, and Exploration. Chicago, IL

2012 Trickhouse Live: An integrative art experience. Casa Libre en la Solano, Tucson, AZ

Membership

2018-19 Americans for the Arts Action Fund

2012-19 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts

2014-19 F.A.T.E (Foundations in Art: Theory and Education)

Residencies

August 2018 Lighthouse Residency, Kenosha, WI

May 2017 Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT

2012-13 HATCH projects, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL

Other Education

2018 The Wildness Within- Beth Cavener (Workshop), Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN

2011 Paper Clay with Rebecca Hutchinson (Workshop), Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN

Kiln Building with Fred Olsen, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ

Teaching Experience

2018-2019 Carthage College, Kenosha, WI- Adjunct Professor of Art

Courses: Hand building Ceramics, 3D Design, 2D Design, Drawing I, Fiber Arts

2015-2018 Brescia University, Owensboro, KY - Assistant Professor of Art

Courses: All levels of Ceramics, all levels of Drawing, 2D and 3D Design, Art Appreciation, Fundamentals of Media, Art History

2012-2015 Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago, IL - Teaching Artist

Courses: Sculpture

2009-2012 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - Instructor of Record

Courses: Beginning Ceramics, 3D Design, Mixed Media foundations, Material Studies