Resume

EDUCATION:

2009 – 2007     University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, MFA 2009, Major: Painting

2006 – 2002     Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, BFA 2006, Major: Painting and Printmaking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Present-2009        Adjunct Faculty:

Drawing 1, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Spring 2009           Teaching Assistant:

                                                Drawing 1, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Fall 2008                 Drawing 1, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

2009-2007               Art Gallery Graduate Assistant:

Contemporary Arts Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Jorgensen Art Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Student Union Art Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

2007                        Visiting Artist:

                                                Art Foundation course, Eastern State University

·         Instructed class in collography

2008                        Personal Tutor: Instructed student in drawing and painting

2007                        Wheel and Hand building Instructor: Kids N’ Clay, Mclean, VA

EXHIBITIONS:

2010                       Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI, “4th Annual Multicultural Exhibit,” Susan Dowling, co-

                                creator of PBS "Art 21",and Susan Carrol, Curator for the Chazan Gallery at Wheeler, jurors

                        Hayloft Gallery Jacksonville Center for the Arts, Floyd, VA, “All This I Am,” Sally Bowring, juror

2009                       Stamford Art Gallery, University of Connecticut, CT, “Emerge CT,” Carolyn Ginsberg, curator

                                Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY “Apperceptions,” Barry Rosenberg, curator

                                Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs “Apperceptions,”

                                DakshinaChitra Gallery, The Goa College of Art, Panjim, India“Coast to Coast,” Katherine Myers, curator  

2008                        The Arena Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, “MFA Student Show,” Monica Bock, curator

]2007                       Student Union, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, “Origins” Monica Bock, curator

2006 (selected)      F.A.B Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, “Senior Show,” Sally Bowring, curator

                                Plant Zero, Richmond, VA “24/7: Fire In The Hole,” Reni Gower, curator

Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA, “Student Fine Art Exhibition,” Heide Trepanier, curator

Gallery 5: The Virginia Fire and Police Museum, Richmond, VA, “Works On Paper,” Amanda Robinson            

Gallery 5: The Virginia Fire and Police Museum, Richmond, VA“Disrobed: Nude Art Exhibition,”    

Amanda Robinson, curator

                                F.A.B Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

                “View: Undergraduate Works on Paper Exhibition,” Amy Newell, curator

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS:                  

2006                     Virginia Commonwealth Summer Study Abroad: Literary and Visual Arts in the Highlands of Peru

PAPR 324 Intermediate Drawing, ENGL 667 Workshop in Fiction

2006-2005            Honors Studio Art at Virginia Commonwealth University

2006                     Catholic Campus Ministry: Alternative Spring Break, Long Beach,

 Mississippi,Construction for Hurricane Katrina Relief

                               Anderson Ranch Brooks Fellowship Award

                Painting and Printmaking Department Outstanding Senior Award

                             Painting and Printmaking Department Award for Student Fine Art Exhibition

2005                     Catholic Campus Ministry: Alternative Spring Break, Oaxaca, Mexico

Call and Response Program with Lay Missionaries

                               State Fair of Virginia Scholarship Award

                               Research Abroad, major art centers of Western Europe

2004                       Peace Core Project, Middleburg, South Africa, Construction and mural painting

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

2009                      The Benton Brochure, published by the William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut

2006                       Daydreams and Impossibilities, Volume 2 Issue 8, published by Richmond’s Local Magazine            

2005                     The Catalog 27, published by the Department of Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth        

                               University, in conjunction with “Interaction 27”