Education:
MFA Indiana University-Bloomington 1980
BFA University of New Mexico 1975
visual book workshops: Kathy Keuhn, 1996, Dolph Smith, Susan Share, Mark Van Stone, and Rick Hungerford, 1995, Nancy Callahan and Daniel Kelm, 1994, Tim Ely, 1993, Keith Smith and Don Cortese, 1992
computer skills: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Aldus Superpaint
Employment:
Associate Professor, Syracuse University 1985-present
courses: Drawing, Figure Drawing, 2D & 3D Design, Intaglio, Relief, Advanced Printmaking, Graduate Printmaking.
-2D Design Coordinator: 1989-90 and 1991-94. wrote fifteen page teaching manual for adjuncts and grad students, conducted teaching workshops, initiated "cookbook" compiling best assignments -conducted portfolio reviews in Pittsburgh, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago and on campus
-coordinated visits by artists Daniel Kelm, Nancy Callahan, Heather Arak, Nathan Kanofsky, and writer Rachel Guido DeVries
-Teaching Innovation Grant: "Visual Books in Foundation Teaching"
created team of eight teachers, introducing books to 200 students
-Teaching Innovation Grant: "Bridging the Gap Between Verbal and Visual Education" collaboration with writer Stephen Feikes
Art Coordinator, Syracuse University London Centre 1990-91
courses: Beginning to Advanced Drawing, Drawing Research
-supervised students placed at six London art schools and five ad agencies, including Pentagram
-co-led field trips to Paris and Dorset, co-taught British Art course
Assistant Professor, Dickinson College 1982-85
courses: Lithography, Print Survey, Drawing, 2D Design
-designed and implemented printshop, Weiss Art Center
-Registrar and Exhibition Designer, Trout Art Gallery 1983-84
Instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College 1981-82
courses: Figure Drawing, Drawing, 2D Design and Color
Assistant Professor, Indiana University: summers 1981, 1983
courses: Beginning to Advanced Intaglio
Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas 1980-81
courses: Lithography, Print Survey, Drawing, 2D Design and Color
Technical Assistant: Tamarind Institute of Lithography 1975
Solo Shows:
University of South Carolina-Spartanburg,SC 1994
Western Carolina University, NC 1994
Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, IL 1993
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY 1993
Knott Academic Center, Mount St. Mary's College, MD 1985, 1992
Vassar College, 1990
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY 1989
Experimental Theatre, Syracuse University, NY 1987
May Memorial Gallery, Syracuse, NY 1987
Cameracases, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 1986
Huber Art Center, Shippensburg University, PA 1986
Mathers Theatre, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA 1985
Fine Arts Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 1983
Center Court Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 1983
Miami University, Oxford, OH 1983
Holland Union Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA 1983
Duo Shows:
Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA 1986 and 1990
Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY 1989
Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA 1981
Indiana University Fine Arts Museum, Bloomington, IN 1980
Trio Shows:
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 1996
Elmira College, Elmira, NY 1993
Group Shows:
Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 1995
Writers and Books Cell Gallery, Rochester, NY 1995
State University of New York, Oneonta, NY 1992
Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, FL 1989
Clatsop Community College, OR 1988
Selected Invitationals:
Mission Landing Invitational, Syracuse, NY 1992
SU Faculty Exhibition: yearly, 1985-95
Penland School of Crafts Faculty Show, Penland, NC 1989
Works on Paper, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 1983
Central Pennsylvania Consortium at Franklin & Marshall College
and Gettysburg College, PA 1983
Collage Show, Santa Rosa Junior College, CA 1982
Indiana University Print Workshop Traveling Show 1981-91
University of Arkansas Faculty Show, Fayetteville, AR 1981
also sent to University of Tulsa, OK 1981
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 1979
Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN 1979
Washington Gallery, Indianapolis, IN 1978
Graduate Printmakers Invitational, River Falls, WI 1977
Selected Juried Shows:
National Works on Paper, Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond, VA 1996
-Purchase Award
Chapman Regional, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY 1996, 1994
-Best in Show Awards
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium 1992
Cultural Resources Council Showcase, Syracuse, NY 1992
at the edge: Texas Fine Arts Association, TX 1989-91
shown at Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Abilene Christian University, Southwestern University, The Nave Museum, Cultural Activities Center
-Honorable Mention Award
51st CNY Exhibition, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY 1989
Charlotte National, Charlotte, NC 1990
West Coast Works on Paper, Humboldt State University, CA 1986, 1989
Women Artists '89, McDonald Gallery, Sacramento, CA 1989
Photo National, Mid-Hudson Arts & Science Center, NY 1988
New Prints Northeast, Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY 1988
Past Presence, Corvallis Arts Center , Corvallis, OR 1987
Western Washington National, Bellingham, WA 1985
21st Biennial Exhibition, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 1984
Hayward Forum on the Arts, Hayward, CA 1982
Waukesha Print and Drawing Exhibition, Waukesha, WI 1979
Oklahoma Print and Drawing Exhibition, OK 1979
Potsdam Print Exhibition, SUNY-Potsdam, NY 1978
Potsdam Drawing Exhibition, SUNY-Potsdam, NY 1977
Lectures:
"Introduction to Visual Books" NY Elderhostel, Skaneateles, NY 1995
Visiting Artist: Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY 1994
"The Creative Process" Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY 1994
Visiting Artist: Sheldon Art Center, Haines, AK 1994
Visiting Artist: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 1994
Artist-in-Residence: Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland 1993
Visiting Artist: SUNY-Oneonta, NY 1992
"Personal/Political" Central/St. Martins School of Art London, UK 1991
"Making Choices/Taking Chances: A Life in Art" Penland School, NC 1989
"Psychology Based Figurative Imagery"
Institut Sint Maria, Antwerp, Belgium 1988
Lecture/Demonstration:"Collaborative Creativity and the Collective Unconscious" jointly with Christine Vilardo, Dickinson College, PA 1987
Studio Grants:
Special Opportunity Stipend: Catskill Council on the Arts 1994
Syracuse University Research Grant: Lithography 1991
Syracuse University Research Grant: Figurative Imagery 1987-88
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts: A Dance Collaboration 1985, 1987
Creative Arts Grants, Dickinson College: A Dance Collaboration 1985;
The Cyclotron Project 1984, Line & Pattern in Abstract Imagery, 1983
Ford Foundation Fellowship, Indiana University, Bloomington 1976-77
Residencies:
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA 1994, 1995
Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR 1993
Centrum Franz Masereel, Kasterlee, Belgium 1988, 1990, 1991
Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY 1990
Choreography:
Linescapes, a ten-minute piece for six dancers; Canon, a three-minute piece for three dancers, 1985
Chiaroscuro, a thirty-minute piece for two dancers and six projectors, completed in 1987. All in collaboration with Christine Vilardo
Performed:
Moving Target, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA and
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 1988
Moving Target, Conwell Dance Theatre & Dickinson College, PA 1987
Chautauqua Series Concert, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA 1985
Dance Council of Central Pennsylvania, Harrisburg & Lancaster, PA 1985
Publications:
Mid-America Print Council Journal, "Traditional and Transformative:
Two Approaches to Visual Books" scheduled August 1996
Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, 20th anniversery, front cover 1996
FATE in Review: "Critical and Creative Thinking" 1991
The Painted Bride Quarterly, front and back covers 1987
Workshops Taught:
"Narrative Labyrinths, Structural Mazes" Women's Studio Workshop
jointly with Nancy Callahan 1996
"Narrative Labyrinths" Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, OR 1993
"The Painterly Print" Penland School of Crafts, NC 1989
Professional Service:
Program Coordinator: FATE National Conference, Richmond, VA 1997
responsible for organizing 32 panels and developing overall program
Panel Chair: "Visual Books" MACAA Conference, Indianpolis, IN 1995
Panel Chair: "Visual Books" FATE Conference, St. Louis, MO 1995
Panelist: "Teachers as Artists" FATE Conference, St. Louis, MO 1995
Presenter: "Bridging the Gap Between Visual and Verbal Education"
International Word/Image Conference, Ottawa, Canada 1993
Presenter: "Integrating Visual and Verbal Education"
Art/Liberal Arts Conference, School of Visual Arts, NYC 1992
Panelist: "Beyond the Bauhaus: Re-Designing Critical Thinking"
MACAA Conference, Madison, WI 1991
Panel Chair: "Critical & Creative Thinking"
FATE Conference, Chicago 1990
Panelist: "Defining the Basics: The Foundation Experience"
FATE Conference, Amherst, MA 1988
Galleries:
Eureka Crafts, Syracuse NY
The Print Club of Philadelphia
Major collections:
Gilkey Collection, Portland Art Museum, OR
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium