Education
1999 Masters of Arts, State University of New York - Albany, NY
1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Millikin University - Decatur, IL
1992 Associate in Arts, Southwestern Michigan College - Dowagiac, MI
Honors/Awards
2004 Guest Artist / Lecture, Merrimack College - N. Andover, MA
2003 Surdna Foundation Fellowship, Haystack Mountain School of Craft- Deer Isle, ME
Guest Artist/ Lecturer, Brunswick Art and Cultural Alliance - Brunswick, ME
2001 Guest Artist/ Lecturer, Fairfield University- Fairfield CT
1995 Dorothy Sellars Award, Millikin University - Decatur, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Leighton Gallery - Blue Hill, ME
2006 Leighton Gallery - Blue Hill, ME ( Weir Series)
2005 Leighton Gallery - Blue Hill, ME ( Weir Series)
Green Design Showroom - Portland, ME
2004 Hay Gallery - Portland, ME ( Weirs)
McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College - Andover, MA (SPARS)
2003 Thomas Moser Cabinet Makers - Freeport, ME (Areas to Weirs)
2002 The New O’Farrell Gallery - Brunswick, ME (Recent Area Paintings)
2001 Lukacs Gallery, Fairfield University - Fairfield, CT (Area Paintings & Remnant Installation Project)
Lewis Gallery, Portland Public Library - Portland, ME (Area Paintings)
1998 Southern Vermont College Art Gallery - Bennington, VT (Area Paintings)
1996 Lincoln Square Theater - Decatur, IL (Performance - Conditioned 3 Psychol.a)
Decatur Area Arts Council - Decatur, IL
Gallery 510 Arts Guild, LTD. - Decatur, IL (Figural Exertion)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Greenhut Galleries - Portland, ME (Fusion : 10 Maine
Encaustic Artisits)
2006 Elan Fine Arts - Rockport, ME
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art - Rockport, ME (Printmaking in Maine)
New Arts Program - Kutztown, PA (Small Works Invitational)
Harlow Gallery - Hallowell, ME (11th Annual Juried Exhibition)
2005 The Center for Maine Contemporary Art - Rockport, ME (Water)
Leighton Gallery - Blue Hill, ME
Chocolate Church Center for the Arts - Bath, ME ( Traces, Two Person with Sarah Cowperthwaite )
Galeria Janet Kurnatowski - Brooklyn, NY (Form & Void, Journey & Time: Fowlkes, Keen, Sperber)
Montgomery College Art Gallery - Rockville, MD (Drawing National II)
2004 Firehouse Gallery/ Vermont Arts Exchange - Bennington, VT (Faculty Exhibit , 10th Year Anniversary)
Leighton Gallery - Blue Hill, ME
7th Annual North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Park - N. Bennington, VT
University of New England Westbrook Gallery - Portland, ME (Home, Curated by Bruce Brown)
Jewett Hall Gallery, University of Maine - Augusta, ME (Artists in Education)
2003 Hay Gallery - Portland, ME
Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL (Art & Industry)
Marist College Art Gallery - Poughkeepsie, NY ( Encaustic Works ‘03, The Gallery at R&F Biennial)
Chocolate Church Center for the Arts - Bath, ME (Summer Juried Exhibition)
Maine Art Gallery - Wiscasset, ME (Summer Juried Exhibition)
The Stage Gallery - Merrick, NY (Abstraction 2003, International)
The Center for Maine Contemporary Art - Rockport, ME (Curiosity)
2002 Chocolate Church Center for the Arts - Bath, ME (Summer Juried Exhibition)
Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY (National Small Works)
Cambridge Art Association - Cambridge, MA (National Prize Exhibition)
Hera Gallery - Wakefield, RI (The Mark)
June Fitzpatrick Gallery - Portland, ME (Works on Paper)
2001 Montgomery College Art Gallery - Rockville, MD (Drawing National)
June Fitzpatrick Gallery - Portland, ME (Works on Paper)
Chocolate Church Center for the Arts - Bath, ME (Summer Juried Exhibition)
2000 Lindenberg Gallery - NYC, NY (Art for the New Millennium)
1999 Danforth Gallery - Portland, ME
1998 Canyon Crossing Gallery - Brattleboro, VT (Extreme Measures:The Radical Perspective)
1997 Leslie Urbach/ Albany Center Galleries - Albany, NY
1995 Laura A. Sprague Gallery - Joliet Junior College, Joliet, IL
Gallery Affiliations
2006 - Elan Fine Arts - Rockport, ME
2004- present Leighton Gallery - Blue Hill, ME
Collections/Corporate Loans
Millikin University
Harbor Technologies
Private Collections Nationally
Teaching Experience
04 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts - Deer Isle, ME: Studio Assistant for Student Craft Insitiute
01-04 Mt.Ararat High School, Topsham, ME:Painting, Foundations, Computer/Multimedia
00-01 Marcia Buker School, Richmond, ME: Visual Arts
99-01 West Harpswell School, Harpswell, ME: Visual Arts
98 State University of New York, Albany, NY: Teaching Assistant (Art History)
97,98 Vermont Arts Exchange, N. Bennington, VT: Instructor/ Exhibition Coordinator
Publications
The Coastal Journal, April, 2005, pg. 12,14.
Art New England, June/ July, 2004, pg. 31.
The Times Record, Jan. 23, 2003, pg.16
The Providence Phoenix (Arts),May 10, ‘02, pg.4.
Harpswell Anchor, May 2000, pg. 1,19.
Bennington Banner, Feb. ‘99, pg.15.
Manchester Journal, Jan. ‘98, pg.14.
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