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Biography
 B. 1984 - Morgantown, West Virginia
 Currently working out of Minneapolis, MN and The Highpoint Center for Printmaking

Education
2013    MFA, Printmaking - University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2007    BFA, Drawing - Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

Grants/Awards
2022.             Artist Communities Alliance/McKnight Residency Award
2020/21       McKnight Foundation Printmaking Fellowship
2020             Second Best in Show, Brinton Museum of Art | Big Horn, WY
2019             Artist Initiative Grant in Visual Arts - Minnesota State Arts Board
2018             Jerome Foundation Fellowship/Emerging Printmaker-In-Residence, Highpoint Center for Printmaking - Minneapolis, MN
2015             New England Emerging Artist Grant – St. Botolph Club Foundation

2013             People’s Choice Award – Cape Elizabeth Land Trust and Paint for Preservation
2013/11       Graduate Assistantship – University of Delaware
2010             1st Place, National Program for the Arts, State of Maine
2007             Second Agnes Gund Traveling Award - Cleveland Institute of Art
2007             Otto F. Ege Memorial Scholarship for Philosophical Merit 
2007             Prizm Art Award for Two-Dimensional Work – SIE Exhibition
2006             Ralph W. Woehrman ‘66 Scholarship for Excellence in Drawing, Cleveland, Ohio
2005             Gertrude Hornung Award for Excellence in Medical Illustration, Cleveland, Ohio

Residencies

2022             Grand Marais Art Colony - Grand Marais, MN
2022             The Wassaic Project - Wassaic, NY
2020/21       McKnight Printmaking Fellowship, Highpoint Center for Printmaking - Minneapolis, MN
2019             Efroymson Visiting Artist-in-Residence, University of Evansville - Evansville, IN
2019             Van Zante Visiting Artist, South Dakota State University - Brookings, SD
2018             Jerome Foundation Emerging Printmaker-In-Residence, Highpoint Center for Printmaking - Minneapolis, MN

2015             Artist in Residence, Tides Institute and Museum of Art, – Eastport, ME
2015             Artist in Residence, Crooked Tree Arts Center – Petoskey, MI
2015             Visiting Artist in Printmaking, Maine College of Art  - Portland, ME
2014/13       Artist in Residence, Stone Trigger Press – Abiquiu, NM
2010             Artist in Residence – Acadia National Park, ME 


Solo Exhibitions
2023

Surface Tension (upcoming)
Copper Country Arts Center | Hancock, MI
2022
Here Before
Burnet Fine Art | Wayzata, MN​
2021

McKnight Printmaking Fellowship Exhibition
Highpoint Center for Printmaking | Minneapolis, MN
2020
No Trace
Form + Content Gallery | Minneapolis, MN
2019

Somewhere Behind Us 
Melvin Peterson Gallery | University of Evansville | Evansville, IN
Land Revision 
The New Gallery | Little Rock, AR
2015

Great Casing|Lost Migration  (Installation as Artist in Residence)
Tides Institute and Museum of Art | Eastport, ME
2014
The Desert Dreams Mountains
Paper Workers Local | Birmingham, AL
2013

18 Walks 
Susan Maasch Fine Art | Portland, ME


Selected Exhibitions/Projects
2022
NEXT, 2022: National Biennial of Contemporary Printmaking
PrintMatters and Ellio Fine Art | Houston, TX3
Juried by Paola Morsiani, Director of the Brodsky Center
Thoughtful Dialogue: 15 Years of Form+Content
Form+Content Gallery | Minneapolis, MN

2021
New Prints 2021/Summer
IPCNY (International Print Center New York) | NYC, NY
Juried by Christiane Baumgartner

Approaching Maximum: The Climate Crisis Now
VAE Raleigh | Raleigh, NC
12th Annual Drawing Discourse: International Contemporary Drawing Exhibition
University of North Carolina Asheville  | Asheville, NC
Juried by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum

2020
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Printmaking In The Rockies and On The Great Plains
The Brinton Museum | Big Horn, WY
Pickwick Independent Press: Anniversary Portfolio
PPL Lewis Gallery | Portland, ME

Tilde: At The Coming Of Night w/The 181 Collective
Mission Street Arts | Jemez Springs, NM
Spring Catalogue Showcase
Burnet Fine Art Gallery | Wayzata, MN

2019
Environmental Justice
Howard Conn Gallery | Minneapolis, MN

HABITATS
Torpedo Factory/Target Gallery | Alexandria, VA
Shifting Baselines
Form+Content Gallery | Minneapolis, MN | Curated by Mark Ostapchuk​

2018
2018 Pacific States Biennial North American Print Exhibition 
University of Hawaii (Hilo) | Juried by Helen Frederick
2018 National Small Works Competition & Exhibition
Washington Printmakers Gallery | Washington DC
Me, You, And A Few Of Our Friends
Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery
Georgetown College | Georgetown , KY

9th Annual Printmaking Biennial (Bienal Do Douro)
Bienal de Arte Contemporânea | Douro, Portugal

Curated by Nuno Canelas
2017-2018 Jerome Foundation Emerging Printmakers Exhibtion
Highpoint Center for Printmaking | Minneapolis, MN

Fresh AIR
Crooked Tree Arts Center | Petoskey, MI
Prints on Ice
Winona Arts Center | Winona, MN

2017          
3rd Global Print (International Printmaking Exhibition)
Douro, Portugal
Now & Then: PPL's Collection Reconfigured
Lewis Gallery | Portland, ME
The Turbid Tides , installation/performance,
Practice Gallery | Philadelphia, PA 
2016        
Yesterday Has Not Been Born Yet
, w/The 181 Collective

Taiga Art Space | St. Petersburg, Russia
Prints on Ice
Highpoint Center for Printmaking | Minneapolis, MN

The Division Mound Exploration, installation/performance with the 181 Collective
Vicki Projects | Newburgh, NY

Space Studios Summer Show II (juried)
SPACE Gallery | Portland, ME

Instructor Exhibition 
Haystack Mountain School of Craft/MCA | Deer Isle, ME

MAPS (travel edition)
SPACE Gallery | Portland, ME

2015  
15 Performances, part of the Carnegie Mellon School of Art series Services 
w/The 181 Collective
Neu Kirche Contemporary Art Center | Pittsburgh, PA

MAPS 
Munakata Shiko Memorial Art Museum | Aomori, Japan
There Is Hope But Not For Us, installation/performance with The 181 Collective
The Unity Gallery, Maharishi University | Fairfield, IA

New England Emerging Artists
St. Botolph Club Foundation | Boston, MA 
Book Arts Bazaar
Kate Cheney Chappell 83 Center for Book Arts, 
University of Southern Maine | Portland, ME
3 in 1: Take Two (A Collection of Prints) 
Reinberger Project Space | Cleveland, OH
​2014        
E.A.S.T.
L.P.M. Gallery (featured show of Austin Studio Tour) |  Austin, TX

Caring for the Commons
California College of Arts | 
Oakland, CA
Featured Group Portfolio, Caring for the Commons – SGC | San Francisco, CA
2013        
Everybody Wins - MFA Thesis Show
Crane Arts Building | Philadelphia, PA

Graphically Sneering 
Creative Vision Factory | Wilmington, DE

2012
Circles of Commotion and Moving Pauses –
with the 181 Collective 
Space Gallery |  Pittsburgh, PA

Swing Song Centripetal,  w/the 181 Collective
Cose Cosmische #3, Galleria Artra | Milan, Italy.
Painting
Pierre. S. DuPont Gallery | Wilmington, DE

2011        
New Blood 
Crane Arts Building | Philadelphia, PA

2007 - 2009         
Under Pressure (group show of Northeast Ohio printmakers)

Chagrin Valley Art Center | Chagrin Falls, OH
Ataraxia 
E. 72nd Building | Cleveland, OH
      
First Annual Emerging Artist Series 
Gallery West | Parma, OH
     
BFA Thesis Show 
Joseph McCullough Center | Cleveland, OH


Collections/Commissions
-The Walker Art Center, Permanent Collection | Minneapolis, MN
-Minneapolis Institute of Art, Permanent Collection | Minneapolis, MN
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Douro Museum (Museo do Douro) Permanent Collection | Douro, Portugal 
-Georgetown College - Georgetown, KY
-Thos. Moser Furniture: commissioned a series of winter themed drawings 

-Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum of Art – Aomori, Japan
-Maine College of Art, Printmaking Teaching Archive – Portland, ME
-Morris Library, University of Delaware: Artstor Shared Shelf Commons:
Archived Sound Installation/Performance with the 181 Collective, 
-Zuckerman Museum of Art, Permanent Collection/Printmaking Archives – Kennesaw, GA
-California College of Arts (CCA), Permanent Collection/Printmaking Archives – Oakland, CA
-Acadia National Park, Permanent Collection – Bar Harbor, ME
-Maine Home & Design Magazine and Maine Magazine, Permanent Collection 
-Cleveland Institute of Art, Permanent Collection     
-North River Retreat, Delray, WV

Teaching History
2014           Adjunct Professor, Printmaking and Drawing - Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
2013           Instructor of Record: Intro to Printmaking- University of Delaware
2012           Instructor of Record: Expanded Print Media - University of Delaware 


Workshop Teaching History
2019           
Highpoint Center for Printmaking (MN) - Carborundum and Collograph Printing
2018           Breck School (MN) - Journal As Journey (artist books, drawing, polyester plate lithography), grades 9-11
2017           Paper Workers Local (AL) - 
Carborundum and Collograph Printing
2017           Highpoint Center for Printmaking (MN) - Carborundum and Collograph Printing
2017           Breck School (MN)- Drypoint and Collograph 
2016           Haystack Mountain School of Craft (ME) - Carborundum Collograph Printing 
2015           Tides Institute and Museum of Art (ME) - Polyester-plate Lithography and Drawing
2o15           Crooked Tree Arts Center (MI) - Monoprint and Relief Printing
2015           Maine College of Art (ME) - Color Intaglio Techniques
2015           Maine College of Art (ME) - Picture Framing 101 (Continuing Ed.)
2014           Pickwick Independent Press (ME) - Extended Techniques for Intaglio
2014           Paper Workers Local (AL) - Chine-collé and Copper
2010           Acadia National Park (ME) - National Junior Ranger Day: Naturalist's Sketchbook


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