EDUCATION
2012    M.S., Educational Leadership, concentration on University Administration
               A.B.D.  Higher Education, University Administration concentration
               Florida International University, Miami, Florida

1990     B.A. with Honors and Distinction, Intercultural Studies/History & Political Science
               Warren Wilson College, Asheville, North Carolina
 

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2024    Creative Support for Individuals Grant in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, Minnesota

             Artist Development Grant. Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, Minnesota. Funded by the McKnight Foundation, Mankato, Minnesota
2022    Creative Support for Individuals Grant in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, Minnesota
2021    Creative Support for Individuals Grant in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, Minnesota

2020    Artist Development Grant. Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, Minnesota. Funded by the McKnight Foundation, Mankato, Minnesota

2019    Artist Development Grant. Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, Minnesota. Funded by the McKnight Foundation, Mankato, Minnesota
              Semi-Finalist. McKnight Fiber Artist Fellowship, McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2018    Ringholz Foundation Art Prize, Jackson, Wyoming

              Artists on Main Street grant via the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota in partnership with Springboard for the Arts and with support from the Bush                                            Foundation, Mankato, Minnesota
              Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council Small Arts Project Grant, Mankato, Minnesota

2016    Artist Development Grant. Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, Minnesota. Funded by the McKnight Foundation, Mankato, Minnesota
 

ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS
2024     Federal Performing Arts Association, Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C., PORTRAITS, World Premiere, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. 

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AWARDS

2024    Honorable Mention - Fiber, Category 7, 113th Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, St. Paul, Minnesota
               People's Choice. Juried Exhibition. Carnegie Art Center, Mankato, Minnesota
               People's Choice. Juried Exhibition. 410 Project, Mankato, Minnesota

2023    Third Place - Fiber, Category 7, 112th Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, St. Paul, Minnesota
2022    Federal Performing Arts Association, Gay Men's Chorus Washington. Artist Commission, Portraits, Washington, D.C.

2020    Bill Murray's Honorable Mention. Co Lab 2020. The Show Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota

2019    Best in Show. Juried Exhibition. 410 Project, Mankato, Minnesota
               Best in Show. Juried Exhibition. Twin Rivers Arts Center, Mankato, Minnesota

2018    Third Place - Painting, Category 1, 107th Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, St. Paul, Minnesota

               Ringholz Foundation Art Prize, Jackson, Wyoming

2017    First Place. Juried Exhibition. 25th Annual Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council Exhibition, St. Peter, Minnesota

              Best in Show. Juried Exhibition. 410 Project, Mankato, Minnesota
2015    Best in Show. Juried Exhibition. Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota

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ART RELATED EXPERIENCE
Poetry Out Loud, National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation                   
2020 - Present
Accuracy Judge for the Poetry Out Loud Minnesota state championship. Poetry Out Loud is a national program created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. High school students throughout the United States participate.
 

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program                                           
January 2019 – December 2020

Elected to serve a two-year term as a curatorial panelist for the museum dedicated to exhibiting and supporting artists living and working in Minnesota. An elected artist panel representing the Minnesota visual arts community selects fellow artists to exhibit their work at the museum. All artists who live and work in Minnesota are welcome to participate: submitting exhibition proposals for panel review, nominating and electing artist panelists, and attending the MAEP’s annual meeting. The work presents contemporary art within the context of an encyclopedic art museum, inserting the state’s artists into a broader discourse about history, art, and culture. The program has featured solo and group shows, site-specific installations, retrospectives, and the once-every-decade “Foot in the Door” exhibitions and has often been the first major exposure for artists who have gone on to critical and commercial success.

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Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, Southern Minnesota (9 county region) 2011 – 2017, Executive Board Secretary (Summer 2013 – 2014), Vice President (Summer 2014 – 2015), President (Summer 2015 – Summer 2017)
The Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council is one of eleven regional arts councils in Minnesota committed to supporting, nurturing, and expanding the arts by providing promotional, technical, and developmental assistance, policy-making, and grants to non-profit arts organizations, community groups, schools, and individual artists. Supported via Minnesota tax revenue it provided over $550,000 annually to local communities. Across Minnesota, the tax has generated more than $1 billion dollars for Legacy projects since its inception and over $1.2 billion in annual economic impact.
 

Director’s Assistant, External Affairs

Smithsonian Institution, American Art Museum, Washington, DC                                           
May 1990 – August 1991

Co-developed marketing materials on the importance of giving philanthropic support and assisted in the publicity, marketing, and production of the bi-annual American Art Forum tour. Tours included private estates, collections, and museums of America’s finest holdings for a highly selective group of private donors throughout the United States.