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EDUCATION
2020 MA, Art and Design, University of Northern Colorado (UNC), Greeley, CO
2012 National Board Certified Teacher, Art/Early and Middle Childhood certification
2006 BA magna cum laude, Studio Art with grades K-12 certification, College of Charleston (CofC), Honors College, Charleston, SC
2006 BA magna cum laude, English with Secondary Education certification, CofC, Honors College, Charleston, SC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Paradise Lost, Art Lab, Fort Collins, CO
2020 Happy Trails, Mariani Gallery, UNC, Greeley, CO
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Art in Everyone:: Creativity Without Exception, Campus Commons Gallery, UNC, Greeley, CO
2020 Co-Terminous, Union Hall, Denver, CO
Art Ed. Cohort Exhibition, soaddigitalgallery.com, UNC, Greeley, CO
Annual Student Exhibition, soaddigitalgallery.com, UNC, Greeley, CO, (Juried by Arielle Myers)
Youth Art Month Teachers’ Showcase, Union Colony Civic Center, Greeley, CO
2017 1st Annual Statewide CAEA Artisan Members’ Faire, Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, CA
2010 North Charleston Arts Festival Judged Fine Art Exhibition, North Charleston Performing Arts Center, North Charleston, SC
Teachers as Artists, Spirit Moves, Charleston, SC
Teachers as Artists, Wild Goose Gallery, Goose Creek, SC
2009 South Carolina Art Education Association Art Show, Village at Sandhills, Columbia, SC
2006 Young Contemporaries, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, CofC, Charleston, SC
2004 Young Contemporaries, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, CofC, Charleston, SC
Heads, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, CofC, Charleston, SC
2003 Sidewalk of the Arts, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC
HONORS AND AWARDS
2020 Best in Show, Annual Student Exhibition, soaddigitalgallery.com, UNC, Greeley, CO (Juried by Arielle Myers)
2018 Carole Anderson Art Scholarship, UNC, Greeley, CO
UCHealth Scholarship, UNC, Greeley, CO
2009 Mary Whyte Art Educator Award Finalist, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Third Place, South Carolina Art Education Association Art Show, Village at Sandhills, Columbia, SC
PUBLICATIONS
2024 "The Working Artist: Reflecting through the Studio Habits of Mind." Collage, Spring 2024, 26-30.
https://caeaco.org/resources/RESOURCES%20PAGE/Collage/Spring%20Collage%202024.pdf
2023 “Editor’s Pick: Desert Rider: Dreaming in Motion, Modern and Contemporary Art, and More, Denver Museum of Art.” Collage, Fall 2022, 31-33. https://caeaco.org/resources/RESOURCES%20PAGE/Collage/Fall%20Collage%202023.pdf
2022 “Do-Over: Revising Instruction to Focus on Process.” Collage, Fall 2022, 14-17.
https://caeaco.org/resources/RESOURCES%20PAGE/Collage/Fall%20Collage%202022.pdf
“Editor’s Pick: Artists Support Ukraine, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art.” Collage, Fall 2022, 30-33.
https://caeaco.org/resources/RESOURCES%20PAGE/Collage/Fall%20Collage%202022.pdf
"Artist on My Mind.” Collage, Spring 2022, 17-18.
https://caea.wildapricot.org/resources/RESOURCES%20PAGE/Collage/Spring%20Collage%202022.pdf
"Show and Tell: Sharing Student Art with the Community." Collage, Winter 2021-2022, 25-26.
https://caea.wildapricot.org/resources/RESOURCES%20PAGE/Collage/Winter%20Collage%2021-22.pdf
2021 "The Working Artist: Paradise Lost." Collage, Fall 2021, 22-29.
https://caea.wildapricot.org/resources/RESOURCES%20PAGE/Collage/Fall%202021%20Collage.pdf
“Editor’s Pick of Past Exhibitions: Keith Haring: Grace House Mural.” Collage, Fall 2021, 32-35.
https://caeaco.org/resources/RESOURCES%20PAGE/Collage/Fall%202021%20Collage.pdf
"Balance." Artists Responding To..., 1(7), front cover, 5-6. https://www.artistsrespondingto.co.uk/zine
"The Plot Thickens: What is My World?" Collage, Spring 2021, 36-41.
https://caea.wildapricot.org/resources/RESOURCES%20PAGE/Collage/Spring%20Collage%202021.pdf
"The Plot Thickens: The Impact of Research Workbooks on Assessment." Collage, Winter 2020-2021, 28-33.
https://caea.wildapricot.org/resources/RESOURCES%20PAGE/Collage/Winter%20Collage%202020-2021.pdf
2020 "Curiouser and Curiouser: The Impromptu Stay-at-Home Artist Residency." Collage:, Fall 2020, 8-9.
COLLECTIONS
Environmental Futures, www.colorado.edu/project/environmental-futures/, Boulder, CO Scholarship & Creative Works @ Digital UNC, digscholarship.unco.edu, Greeley, CO
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2020 Art Ed. Cohort Exhibition, soaddigitalgallery.com, UNC, Greeley, CO
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2020-Present Editor, Collage Magazine, Colorado Art Education Association, CO
2020 Website designer, Art Ed. Cohort Exhibition, soaddigitalgallery.com, UNC, CO
TRAVEL
2018 Earthwatch volunteer, Costa Rica
2016 France and Belgium
2014 Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding volunteer, China
2005 Study abroad in Amsterdam and Paris