Education

M.F.A. 1999 Sculpture Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Master of Library and Information Science dual degree program
Received magna cum laude honors

B.F.A. 1996 Painting, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
Selected for Golden Key Honor Society and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Received cum laude honors

Grants and Awards

2007 Connie Boochever Artist Fellowship Award
2007 Austin Cooley Talent Grant
2006 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship Award

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Migration, Bunnell Street Gallery, Homer, AK
2007 Linum, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK
2007 Cohesum, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK
2004 New Work, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK
2001 Veil, Commencement Art Gallery, Tacoma, WA
1999 Phylum, Pratt Galleries, Brooklyn, NY (M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition)
1997 Cast, Site 250 Gallery, Fairbanks, AK

Selected Group Exhibitions and Juried Exhibitions

2008 Concerning Climate Change: An Art and Science Collaboration, Pratt Museum, Homer, AK
2008 Attachments, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK

Selected Group Exhibitions and Juried Exhibitions Continued

2008 Alaska Concept and Abstraction, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK
2007 Alaska Women Artists, The Alaska House Art Gallery, Fairbanks,
2007 Synthesis: Collaborations, Investigations and Discoveries*, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK
*Also served as guest curator of exhibition
2007 Bones Invitational, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK
2007 Second Place Award, Alaska Statewide Contemporary Art Juried Exhibition, Juried Exhibit, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK
Juried by Mark Zirpel, Founder and CEO of ACME ART, Seattle, WA
2007 9 North: Multimedia Alaskan Perspectives, Fairbanks Arts Association Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
2007 Salve, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK
2007 Second Place Award, Patterns of Influence, Juried Exhibition, Fairbanks Arts Association Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
Juried by Jeremy Kane, ceramics professor at the University of Alaska Southeast
2007 BiPolar, The Annex Art Gallery, Ester, AK
Simultaneous dual art exhibit held in at the Annex Gallery in Ester, Alaska, and McMurdo Station, Antarctica
2006 Alaska Women Artists, The Alaska House Are Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
2006 Small Works, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK
2006 1st Annual Governor’s Award Centerpiece Exhibit, Alaska State Council of the Arts, Anchorage, AK
2006 64th Parallel, Juried Exhibit, Fairbanks Arts Association Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
Juried by Dianne Elliot, art consultant (based in Seattle, WA)
2006 Bio/Med SciART, Juried International Exhibit, New York Hall of Science, New York
Juried by Ramunas Kondratas, curator of medical collections at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., and Cynthia Pannucci, Director/Art & Science Collaborations, Inc., New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions and Juried Exhibitions Continued

*2006 POLARities: Aesthetics / Experiments / Observations*, UA Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK; Also served as guest curator of exhibition
2006 Skin, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK
2006 x10, Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK
2006 The Doll Show, The Annex Gallery, Ester, AK
2006 Pratt Auction, Invitational Fundraiser Exhibit, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
2006 The Human Body, National Invitational Exhibit, Bunnell St. Gallery, Homer, AK
2006 Juror Award, All Alaska Juried XXXI, Juried Exhibit, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK
Juried by Matthew Drutt, chief curator of The Menil Collection in Houston, TX
2005 New Works, The Annex Gallery, Ester, AK
2005 Will’s Creek Survey 2005, Juried International Exhibit, Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, MD
Juried by Kristen Hileman, Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
2005 Members Exhibition, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage