Education

University of North Texas, Toulouse Graduate School, CVAD, Denton, TX

MFA in ceramics; with an emphasis in sculpture and conceptual explorations and a minor in painting; May 2015, Summa Cum Laude

Outstanding Graduate Student in Studio Art Honors Award 2015

The Masters Academic Achievement Scholarship 2012-2015 recipient

The Joann Elliot Bond Memorial Scholarship 2013-2014 recipient

University of Hartford, Hartford Art School

Studio Resident Program (Fall 2003-May 2005)

Intensive instruction to develop conceptual and technical skills in ceramics with a strong emphasis in sculpture and alternative surface treatments

Anna Bell Scholarship recipient

University of Hartford, Hartford Art School

B.F.A in Ceramics; Magna Cum Laude, Concentrations in Sculpture and Art History, 1995

Charles Salisbury Memorial Award for Excellence in the field of Ceramics

Inducted into Alpha Chi National Honor Society, May 1994

President’s List 1992-1995

Work Experience

ECI Screen-Print, Watertown Connecticut

Color Matching Specialist May 2017-Present

Responsibilities include mixing inks and using the Pantone swatch book or provided customer samples to match. I use Munsell color system of Hue, Chroma, and Value for accuracy; printing swatches on requested substrates for final Design approval.

Post University, Associate Faculty, Waterbury Connecticut

Art History I and II, Neolithic to Present, On-line, Spring-Summer-Fall 2017-Present

Responsibilities include facilitating and monitoring Discussion Boards, on Black Board, responding to discussions and encouraging strong intellectual discourse, as well as reading and grading written assignments.

Photo I and II: Spring 2017

Responsibilities include teaching basic photography skills as well as darkroom techniques creating an understanding of the photographic process. Students also learn about the critique setting and vocabulary, associated with photography.

University of North Texas, CVAD, Denton Texas

Core Design II Foundations 3D: Instructor of Record, spring 2013 to 2015

Responsibilities include teaching techniques utilizing a wide range of materials and helping students to develop a creative process through problem solving, visual aesthetics and organization. Students will also start to develop a broad range of vocabulary and critique language.

Beginning and Intermediate Ceramics: Instructor of Record, fall 2014 to spring 2015

Responsibilities include intensive instruction of hand-building techniques using slab method, coil, press molding, and wheel work. Students learn to mix and pug their own clay, loading and firing electric kilns and gas kilns, and mixing their own glazes in glaze lab. Students will also develop a broad range of vocabulary and critique language.

Core Drawing II Foundations: Instructor of Record, spring 2014

Responsibilities include instruction in 2 and 3-point perspective and figure drawing using a variety of media which includes pencil, charcoal and pastel. Through critique students learn to develop strong drawing vocabulary and language to utilize throughout their career.

Ceramics Teaching Experience

Ceramics Instructor Krasl Art Center, St. Joe, Michigan 2010-2012

Canton Clay Works, Canton Connecticut 2003 to 2004

Wesleyan Potters, Middletown Connecticut 2003 to 2004

Farmington Valley Arts Center, Avon Connecticut 1998-1999 and 2003

Responsibilities include instruction of techniques in throwing, hand building and glazing processes, as well as instruction in altering forms and alternative methods in creating forms. Kiln and studio maintenance done as needed.

Professional Experience

2018

And by Necessity, Melanie Carr Gallery, Essex Connecticut, October-November 2018

Theory, Group Exhibition, Five Points Annex Gallery, Torrington, Connecticut, June-July 2018

2017

The New, New, Inaugural Exhibition, Five Points Annex Gallery, Torrington, Connecticut, December 2017

MIXMASTER Exhibition, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury Connecticut, January-March 2017

2016

7th Annual Abstracts Art Competition, Light, Space, and Time Online Gallery, Jupiter, Florida, March 2016

PINK! Silpe Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford Connecticut, March 2016

Small Works Exhibit, Lemonade Stand Gallery, Key West, Florida, March-April 2016

2015

Green, Orange County Creatives, Laguna Beach, California, August 2015

CAMEO (Clay Arts Museum and Education Organization) 8th Annual Emerging Artists Show, Lee College, Baytown Texas, June-August 2015

Celebrating the Abstract 2015, Orange County Creatives, Laguna Beach, California, May 2015

Tributary, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon, May-June 2015

Ceramics Invitational II, Light Well Gallery, College of Visual Art and Design, UNT, Denton, Texas, April 2015

Hybrid Forms: Of Circumstance, University of North Texas, Cora Stafford Gallery, Oak Street Hall, Denton, Texas, April 2015

Blue, Orange County Creatives, Laguna Beach, California, March 2015

Rockport Center for the Arts’ 2015 Rising Eyes of Texas, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, Texas, March-April 2015

Student Expo Show, 500 X Gallery Dallas, Texas, February 2015

M.F.A Thesis Show: Peripheral Nature, University of North Texas, Cora Stafford Gallery, Oak Street Hall, Denton, Texas, February 2015

University of Dallas Regional Ceramic Exhibition, juror Eva Kwong, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, January-March 2015

2014

Art Takes Miami, SCOPE Exhibition Space, Miami Art Week, South Beach, Miami, Florida, December 2014 (Digital Exhibition, See.Me)

Ceramics Invitational, North Gallery, College of Visual Art and Design, UNT, Denton, Texas, December 2014

Fresh! 2014, juror Mat Gleason, South Bay Contemporary/Zask Gallery Rolling Hills Estates, California, November-December 2014

Expo 2014, juror Alison Hearst, 500 X Gallery Dallas, Texas, October 2014

Hot and Sweaty 3: The Open Show, 500 X Gallery Dallas, Texas, June 2014

The Best of 2014, a show featuring one grad student from each of the Masters of Fine Arts programs from the DFW area. Red Arrow Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, May-June 2014

Brik Haus Collective presents: Agent Form, Mixed Media Group Show, Pan Handle House, Denton, Texas, April 2014

Senior and Graduate Group Show: Fired Clay, Light Well Gallery, College of Visual Art and Design, UNT, Denton, Texas, April 2014

Year in Review 2013, Digital Exhibition, SeeMe Exhibition Space, 26-19 Jackson Ave. Long Island City, NY, January 2014

2013

Art Takes Miami, SCOPE Exhibition Space, Miami Art Week, South
Beach, Miami, Florida, December 2013 (Digital Exhibition, See.Me)

Metabolic Science in Art Exhibition and Competition, UNT on the Square Gallery, Denton, Texas, November 2013

The Unexpected, Ceramic Sculpture- 23 National Artists, Max Jackson Gallery, Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, October-November 2013

MFA Painting Invitational, Light Well Gallery, College of Visual Art
And Design, UNT, Denton, Texas, October 2013

“The Story of the Creative”: International Digital Exhibition, SeeMe Exhibition Space, 26-19 Jackson Ave. Long Island City, NY, July-September 2013

CVAD MFA Showcase, Main Gallery, College of Visual Art and Design, UNT, Denton, Texas, May-June 2013

CVAD Scholarship Show, Light Well Gallery, College of Visual Art and Design, UNT, Denton, Texas, April 2013

The Dirty Dozen Group Show, Light Well Gallery, College of Visual Art and Design, UNT, Denton, Texas, March 2013

2012

The CCC 14th and 15th Annual Benefit Cup Auction, Carbondale Clay Center, Carbondale Colorado, December 2012-2013

Artists Wanted: Self 2012: A Creative Competition, Top 100 finalist, June 2012 (Digital exhibition), Long Island City, NY, June 2012

Artists Wanted: Art Takes Times Square, Times Square New York, NY, June 18th 2012 (Digital exhibition)

Aaron M. Flynn, Art Lab Installation Space, Krasl Art Center, St. Joe Michigan, March-April 2012

The Krasl Art Center Members’ Show: ‘In 3-D’, Krasl Art Center, St. Joe, Michigan, January-February 2012

2011-2002

Axis ‘Pop-Up’ Gallery group show: Three Artists Three Mediums, Michigan City, Indiana, December 2011

Group Teacher and Student Exhibition at Krasl Art Center’s Main Gallery, St. Joe, Michigan, February 2011

Studio Resident group show at University of Hartford, Silpe Gallery, West Hartford, Connecticut, February 2005

Alexander Goldfarb Annual Juried Student Exhibition at the University of Hartford, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, Connecticut, April 2004

National Arts Program Annual Juried Show at Capital Community College (Downtown Hartford branch) Art Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut, February 2003.

National Arts Program Annual Juried Show at the Ellen Trout Collection Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut, February 2002.

Publications

2012

Art Takes Times Square: page 15, ©2012 See Me Group Inc.

Educational and Professional Development

Visiting Artist, Post University, November 6th, 2015 Waterbury, Connecticut

Visiting Artist, Tyler Junior College, October 21-23, 2014 Tyler, Texas

CLEAR (The Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign) Excellence in Teaching Seminar for new and returning teaching staff, 2012-2013

Juror for Krasl Art Centers Art Fair on the Bluff, St. Joe Michigan, May 2012

Co-Director for Axis ‘pop-up’ Gallery, North West Indiana, 2011

Curator, Generations: Teachers and Students Exhibition, LaPorte County Visitors Bureau Gallery, Michigan City, IN June through July, 2009

Designated guest speaker at the National Arts Program Juried Show Awards Ceremony sponsored by CRT (Community Renewal Team). “Youth Art and Patriotism after September 11, 2001.” April 2002

Fine Arts institution through the State Department of Education (CT.) Curriculum development throughout the Arts, June 2002

Invitation from Hartford Art School to co-curate and participate in a memorial show, Finding Comfort through Art: How children understood and dealt with September 11, 2001. Taub Hall Gallery, October 2001.

Co-Curator, Joan C. Duzak Retrospective 1959-1998 at the Hartford Art School Taub Gallery, July 1999