Education
MFA/Painting. East Carolina University. Greenville, NC. 1996
BFA/Painting. East Carolina University. Greenville, NC. 1991
Current Employment
Media Center Director/ Associate Professor 1997-present
School of Art & Design. East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
Awards
Grant: North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artist Project Grant 2007
Extensive Reassigned Time for Scholarship (Research leave)
East Carolina University 2005
Grant: Pocosin Arts Center. Columbia, NC. 2005
Grant: Haystack Mountain School of Craft. Deer Isle, MA. 2003
Award: Claire E. Armstrong Scholarship. 1995
Selected Exhibitions
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
Bottomlands (solo)
Nature Art Gallery. NC Museum of Natural Science. Raleigh, NC. 2009
Pocosin Arts, Columbia, NC. 2008
Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center, Tarpon Springs FL.
The Arts Center at the Imperial Center. Rocky Mount, NC.
Council for the Arts. Jacksonville,NC. 2007
Community Council for the Arts. Kinston, NC.
North Carolina Estuarium. Washington, NC.
A Flight of Metaphor 2003
Fayetteville Museum Downtown Gallery
Up and Coming Weekly, Corporate Office. Fayetteville, NC.
Numina 1994
1994 Jean P. Haydon Museum. Pago Pago, American Samoa
International
Patriotic Partnership 2000
Feleti Barstow Public Library, Pago Pago, American Samoa
American Kaleidoscope 1999
Erkelenzer Haus Hohenbush, Erkelentz, Germany
14th Annual Samoa Invitational 1993
Jean P. Haydon Museum. Pago Pago, American Samoa
Group Exhibitions
Environmental Visions 2009
Elzay Gallery, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH. (national juried)
A Sense of Place 2008
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta GA. (national juried)
Discovering the Native American Landscapes of the Mid-Atlantic Best in Show 2006
Adkins Arboretum. Ridgely, MD. (national juried)
Art of the Feminine Devine 2006
Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South,
Durham, NC. (regional juried)
American Landscape 2005 2005
Maryland Federation of Art. MFA Circle Gallery,
Annapolis, MD. (national juried)
Drawing National 2005 2005
Montgomery College, Rockville, MD. (national juried)
Uplands: Landscape Interpretations 2005
Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC. (regional juried)
Englewood Arts National Juried Art Show Best in Show 2005
Englewood Cultural Arts Center Assoc., CO. (national juried)
Adkins Arboretum Annual Art Competition 2005
Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, MD. (national juried)
National Drawing 2004 2004
College of New Jersey, Department of Art. Ewing, NJ. (national juried)
Landscape Unlimited 2003
Fine Arts Building Gallery. Chicago, IL. (national juried)
Digitally Speaking 2003
WomanMade Gallery. Chicago, IL. (national juried)
Through Women’s Eyes, By Women’s Hands 2003
Women’s Center. Chapel Hill, NC. (regional juried)
Digitally Propelled Ideas (DPI) 2002
Kellogg University Art Gallery.
California State Polytechnic University. Ponoma, CA. (national juried)
Americans 2000 2002
Northwest Art Center. Minot State University. Minot, ND. (national juried)
The World in Black and White Best in Show 2002
Fredericksburg Center for The Creative Arts,
Fredericksburg, VA. (national juried)
Drawing National 2001
Montgomery College, Rockville, MD. (national juried)
B&W and Shades of Gray 2001
Tampa, FL. (national juried)
Invitational
School of Art Faculty Show 1996-2008
Gray Gallery, East Carolina University. Greenville, NC.
Down East: ECU Faculty Exhibition 2005
Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC.
Haystack Mountain School of Craft. Deer Isle, MA. 2003
Lifelines. Community Council for the Arts. Kinston, NC. 2002
Beeswax, Brackish Water, and Junipers 2001
Gray Gallery, East Carolina University. Greenville, NC.
Artists of Greenville 2000
Fayetteville Museum of Art. Fayetteville, NC.
Southern Memory/ Southern Vision 1999
Craven Arts Council, New Bern, NC.