Education:

M.F.A in sculpture May 2005, University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa, minor drawing

M.A. in sculpture May 2004, University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa minor in printmaking

other fields of study: hand papermaking, time based media

B.A. with Highest Honors May 1999, Marlboro College Marlboro, Vermont, fields of study: visual arts, art criticism, poetry

Awards and Residencies:

May 2007 Fellowship at the Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, WY.

November 2005 - May 2006 Artist-in-Residence at the Harwood Museum of Art Taos, New Mexico.

July 2004 resident artist at The Vermont Studio Center Johnson, Vermont.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

April 2007 Galleri Urbane Marfa, Texas

February 2007 “home” Drury Gallery Marlboro College, Vermont

February 2006 “Bags” UICA/Portal Space Grand Rapids, MI.

April 2005 “in private life and official time” Eve Drewelowe Gallery Iowa City, IA.

April 2004 “Lesbian Portraits at Walmart” Eve e Drewelowe Gallery Iowa City, Iowa

April 2003 “21/2 Miles’ Armature Gallery Iowa City, Iowa

Selected Group Exhibitions:

July 2006 New Art ’06 Kingston Gallery Boston, MA. Juror Susan Greenberg February 2006 - March 2006 “3-D” box gallery Santa Fe, New Mexico

May 2005 MFA Exhibition University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA.

September 2004 “Pareidolia” Orange County Center for Contemporary Art Santa Ana, CA. Juror Eleanor Antin.

May 2004 - July 2004 “59th Juried Exhibition” Sioux City Art Center Sioux City, IA.

Juror James Rondeau, curator of contemporary art at The Art Institute of Chicago.

October 2003 - April 2004 “Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Winners Exhibit” Grounds for Sculpture Hamilton, N.J.

January 2003 - March 2003 “Units” CSPS Cedar Rapids, IA

Visiting Artist Lectures

Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont February 2007

University of New Mexico, Taos, New Mexico April 2006

College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico March 2006

Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico February 2006

Professional Experience

Summer 2007 Massachusetts College of Art, Instructor in the Art in New England Summer Program Bennington, VT.

September 2006 - December 2006 Visiting Professor in Sculpture, Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont.

January 2005 - May 2005 Instructor, Handmade Paper as Sculpture, University of Iowa.

September 2004 - May 2005 Instructor, Undergraduate Sculpture, University of Iowa.

Related Arts Experience:

September 2003- September 2004 Armature Gallery Coordinator, University of Iowa

January 2003- December 2003 Studio Assistant, Oakdale Paper Facility Coralville, IA

February 2002- May 2002 Internship, Dieu Donne Papermill New York, NY

preparation, paper production

January 2000 - January 2002 Apprenticeship, Port and Starboard Press Bar Harbor, ME

September 2000 -February 2001 Internship, Harwood Museum of Art Taos, NM

Summer 1997 study abroad in Cortona, Italy with the University of Georgia

February - May 1997 completed the Chicago Arts Program Chicago, IL. Included an internship at the Columbia College Chicago Center for the Book and Paper Arts.