American, born in Warwick, Rhode Island
Lives in Chicago, Illinois

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts
Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2003

Bachelor of Arts
Kent State University, Kent, OH, 1993
Art History International Studies Program: Florence and Rome, Italy
Kent-Blossom Arts Program

Continuing Studies
Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL, 2004-2005
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2008  

SELECTED AWARDS

• The Ragdale Foundation for Artists and Writers, Fellowship 2002 & Residencies
  2004 & 2008, Lake Forest, IL.
• Ox-Bow School of Art, affiliated with The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
  The Loretta Grellner Scholarship, 2008.           
• Community Arts Assistance Program Grant (CAAP Grant), City of Chicago’s
  Department of Cultural Affairs, 2008.
• The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Division of Continuing Studies,
  The Debbie Scholarship, 2008.
• Thesis Project Grant, Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship,
  Columbia College Chicago, 2003.
• Commendation for Excellence in the Printed Book Award,
  The New Art Forum, Kingston, MA, 2002.
• The Graduate Studies Opportunity Award, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2002.
• The AIKO Fellowship Award for artist collaboration at Penland School of Crafts,
  Penland, NC, 2002.  
  

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008

• The Artist Project, international juried exhibition of independent artists as part of ARTropolis 2008, that includes: ART Chicago, Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art and NEXT, The Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL. 
  

2007

• 12th Annual Chicago Artists Month, Fine Arts Building Studios Exhibition,
  Chicago, IL.

2006

• Fine Arts Building Open Studios Exhibition, Chicago, IL.

2005

• Hooked Up, juried exhibition, Columbia College Chicago, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL.

2004

• Reversing Vandalism, juried exhibition, San Francisco Public Library,
  San Francisco, CA.

• National Juried Paper Exhibition (traveling exhibition) Robert Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA.

• Weisman Memorial Scholarship Exhibition, Hokin Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL.

2003

• 78 Fathoms, Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL.

• The Art of Photography, juried exhibition, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, MO.

2002

• Image Impressions, juried exhibition, Hokin Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL.

• Book Explorations, juried exhibition, The New Art Forum, Kingston, MA.

• Chicago Hand Bookbinders Annual Juried Exhibition, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, IL.