education
University of Pennsylvania, PennDesign MFA 1995
Smith College, BA 1987
Radcliffe Publishing Procedures Course, 1987
residencies & workshops
Accent Francais, Montpellier, France, 2022, 2023
Potter's Place Ceramic Studio, MA, 2018, 2019
Norwood Space Center, MA, Figure Drawing Group
Vermont Studio Center, VT, Residencies: 1994, 2017
Offset Lithography Workshops, Smith College, MA, 1985-87
Assisted visiting artists: Gregory Amenoff, Janet Fish, James Rosenquist
awards & commissions
Commission | Lita Dirks & Co., Greenwood Village, CO. 2023
Commission | Kevin Barry Art Advisory, San Francisco, CA. 2022
PennDesign Vermont Studio Center Award, 1994
Commission | Patricia Conway, Dean of PennDesign, 1993
Harriet Boyd Hawes Fellowship, 1992
Robinson Fund Award, 1986
publications & special projects
The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn Art Library, 2018
sketchbookproject.com #345.63-7
Smith Voices: Selected Works by Smith College Women, Volume 1; 1999 | Illustration /mixed media
Traveler's Guide to Museum Exhibitions, 1990
Smith Voices: Selected Works by Smith College Women, Volume 2; 1990 | Illustration / limestone lithograph
Beside A Sea, Smith College, 1987 | Typography & bookbinding project that includes woodblock, etchings. Edition of twenty hand-set, illustrated & bound books. Worked under direction of sculptor Elliot Offner.
Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College, 1986
The Patron and the Crocus, by Virginia Woolf. Transcribed the author’s original signature purple-ink, hand-written manuscript. Documented one citation of a sentence not included in the published essay, but found in another essay in Woolf’s The Common Reader. Worked under direction of Ruth Mortimer.
exhibitions
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, 2023
Smallish Works / Annual Juried Exhibition for New England Artists
24th Annual Roddy Exhibition, Concord, MA, 2023
Juried by Lauren Szumita, Curator at Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Concord Art Members Juried 2 Exhibition, Concord, MA, 2023
Juried by Kelley Lehr of Greenhut Galleries and Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME
Raffles Boston Back Bay, Boston, MA, 2023
Executive Suite Commission/KevinBarry Art Advisory, CA
Red Hat, Inc., Speakeasy/Solo Exhibit, Boston, MA, 2022
Mother Brook Arts, Juried Open Studio Exhibit, Dedham, MA, 2021-23
Westwood Artists Exhibit, Westwood, MA, 2022
The Brooklyn Art Library, NY, 2019
The Canvas Project Exhibition
The Brooklyn Art Library, NY, 2018
The Sketchbook Project/Traveling Exhibition
Chestnut Hill College, PA, 1996.
Multiple Choice Gallery, Montgomery Community College, PA, 1995
The Woodmere Art Museum, 55th Annual Juried Exhibition, PA, 1995
Curated by Dr. Neal Benezra, Chief Curator, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Vox Populi Gallery, PA, 1994
Meyerson Gallery, University of Pennsylvania
Graduate Show, 1995
Places from the Center, 1994
collections & collaborations
Raffles Boston, Executive Suite
Raffles Boston, Model Home
Private Collections
Sheldon Hackney, Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Mary Maples Dunn, President of Smith College
Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College.
Two etchings in publication Liber Amicorum.
Brighton Press Livre d'Artistes
Painting and printmaking assistant to master printer for the following works, now held in museums, rare book libraries and private collections:
Midnight Carnival, painted etchings by DeLoss McGraw, poems by W.D. Snodgrass
She Said, etchings by Manuel Neri, poems by Mary Julia Klimenko
Steinberg: A Life in Woodcuts, woodcut illustrations by Harry Sternberg
Poem Made of Water, etchings by Michele Burgess, poems by Nancy Willard.
teaching experience
The Roxbury Latin School, MA, 2014. Independent study painting mentor.
University of Pennsylvania College of General Studies, PA, 1994-96
Montgomery County Community College, PA, 1995-96
Chestnut Hill College, PA, 1995-96
related work experience
Archeology and Anthropology Museum, University of Pennsylvania
The Brighton Press
Harcourt Brace Jovanovic Publishers
Museum Guide Publications, Inc.
MedSciArt Company
The National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
The Winchendon Courier
The Gardner News
Lyman Plant House, Smith College
Additional experience & Interests
The French Library, Alliance Français, Boston, MA.
Poet, essay writer
Pianist