Awards and Special Accomplishments

CURRENT  Juried Registry Artist The Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, NY

2019  Individual Artist Award for Works on Paper, Maryland State Arts Council

2018  Public Art Trust Purchase, Contemporary Works on Paper CollectionArts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, MD

2017  Baker Artist Awards FinalistBaltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts

2016  Individual Artist Award for Works on Paper, Maryland State Arts Council

2015  Art Bank Collection PurchaseDistrict of Columbia Commission on Arts and Humanities

2015  Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize Semi-FinalistBalitmore Office of Promotion and the Arts

2013   Individual Artist Award for Works on Paper, Maryland State Arts Council

2010   Individual Artist Award for Works on Paper, Maryland State Arts Council

2009  Mid-Atlantic Competition Winner, Juror's Pick, New American Paintings, No. 81  

2009  Trawick Prize Contemporary Art Award Finalist, Bethesda Arts and Entertainment District  

2009  Bethesda Painting Award Semi-Finalist, Bethesda Arts and Entertainment District

2008  Graduate Fellowship, Towson University  

2001  Art Educator Scholarship, MD Higher Education Commission Loan Assistance Repayment Program  

1996  Merit Scholarship, Maryland Institute College of Art

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 Full Moon Acupuncture and Apothecary, Baltimore, MD: "Destination Unknown" 

2019  Greenbelt Community Center Art Gallery, Greenbelt, MD: "Intricacies and Polarities: Meditations on the Natural World" 

2018  Gibbs Street Gallery at Vis Arts, Rockville, MD: "Substance of Matter" 

2016  Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola University, Baltimore, MD: "Fierce Beauty" 

2014  National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD; Hospital Installation

2011   Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE; Solo Exhibition: “Cause and Effect”

2009   Towson University MFA Gallery, Towson, MD; Graduate Thesis Exhibition "Subtle Disturbance" 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019   Fleckenstein Gallery, Baltimore, MD: "By Hand"

Washington Project For the Arts Art Night at Hickok Cole, Washington, DC

Maryland Art Place, Maryland State Artist Registry Juried Exhibition, Baltimore, MD

2017   Fleckenstein Gallery, Baltimore, MD; “Terra Incognita”

           Towson University, Towson, MD; “Camp Artscape”

2016   Greater Reston Art Center, Reston, VA; “Cut”

           McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA; “Abundance” 

           Fleckenstein GalleryBaltimore, MD; Nature 3 Ways: Three Artists' Interpretation of the Natural World

           Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC; Annual Benefit Auction Gala

           Carroll Square Gallery, Washington DC; Persistence of Flora

           Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA; King of the Forest: Adventures in Bioperversity 

           Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD; Inward/ Outward

2015   Sondheim Semi-finalist Exhibition, Baltimore, MD 

           Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC; Hickok Cole Annual Benefit Auction

2014   Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC; “Cherry Blast”

2013   Area 405 Gallery, Baltimore, MD; “SweetArt" 

2012   Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC; Hickok Cole Annual Benefit Auction

           Silber Art Gallery Goucher College, Towson, MD; “Paper Shapers”

2010   King Street Art Gallery, Montgomery College Takoma Park, MD; “Myths and Transformations”

           Patrick Sutton Home, Baltimore, MD

2009    Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD; 2009 Trawick Prize Finalist Exhibition.

           Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD; “Convergence 2009” Annual MFA Graduate Invitational.

           Howard County Arts Council, Ellicott City, MD; “Delineations”.

           Sleeth Gallery, Buckhannon, WV; “Spontaneity, Gesture and Randomness”.

2008   Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Inc., New York, NY; “112th Annual Open Exhibition” Gramercy Park

            B.J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY; “27th Annual Expo” Juried Competition.

            Rhonda Schaller Studio, New York, NY; “ Restful Alertness – Abstract Art Today”Juried Exhibition.

            Borderland State Park, Sharon, MA; “Blanche Ames National Art Exhibition

            Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL; “Towson University Group Show”.

            Louisiana State University;  “Printed Matter” Group Exhibition.

            Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD; “The Seven Deadly Sins”, 2008 Annual Benefit Auction.

            Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN; “Poppin’ Pills” Juried Exhibition.

2007    Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE; “TropiCabana” Annual Fundraiser.

            Towson University, Towson, MD; “A Confluence of Raconteurs” Group Show.

            Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD;  “Out of Order” Benefit Auction.

2005    Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD; “By Invitation Only” Benefit Exhibition and Auction.

            Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD; “Out of Order” Benefit Auction.

            Gallery ID8, Baltimore, MD.

2004   Baltimore Shambhala Meditation Center, Baltimore, MD; Benefit Auction.

Collections

 Anonymous Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA

 Anonymous Law Firm, Washington, DC

Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County; Silver Spring, MD

District of Columbia Commission for the Arts and Humanities; Washington, DC  

Kevin Plank, Under Armour; Baltimore, MD

Hogen Lovells US, LLC; Washington DC

Education


May 2009  Master of Fine Arts: Towson University , Towson, MD   

May 1999   Bachelor of Fine Arts: Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD  

June 1992  Bachelor of Arts, Education/ SociologyEvergreen State College, Olympia,WA.