Résumé

September 2009-present, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, MFA Artisanry - Ceramics Program.

September-December 2008, Internship, North Dakota State University Ceramics Dept.

March-May 2008, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC: "Fired, Not Fried" Concentration with Kent McLaughlin.

July 2007, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT: "Soda in the Fire" workshop with Gail Nichols.

August 2002-May 07, North Dakota State University, Magna cum Laude, Fargo, ND: BA with majors in Art, emphasis Ceramics, and English, emphasis Literature.

August 2006, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO: "Colorful Gestural Tableware" workshop by Lisa Orr.

 

Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE: "National Juried Cup Exhibition" April 2- May 29, 2010. Linda Arbuckle, Juror.

Campbell Library, East Grand Forks, MN: "Jack Frost Art Exhibit" December 2009.

Star Store, UMass-Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA: "Day of the Dead Altar Show" October 2009.

University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth: Graduate Assistantship, September 2009-present.

Gallery 244, New Bedford, MA: "Glimpse" Exhibition, September 2009.

Pekin, ND: "Pekin Days Art Show," Walter Piehl Jr., Juror, Third Place- Ceramics/Pottery division, June 2009.

North Dakota Council on the Arts: Recipient, Professional Development Grant to attend NCECA, March 2009.

River City Jewelers, Grand Forks, ND: "Sweet Art Show and Sale," January 2009.

First National Bank Building, Grand Forks, ND: "An Evening With the Arts: The Grand Picture" Show and Silent Auction to benefit the North Valley Arts Council, January 27, 2009.

"Arts Dakota" juried traveling art show: 10 galleries across North Dakota, North Dakota Art Gallery Association, September 20, 2008-March 10, 2010.

Downtown Grand Forks, ND: "Art and Wine Walk," July, September, and October 2008.

Bismarck, ND: "A Capital A'Fair," juried art fair, Bismarck Art & Galleries Association, August 2-3, 2008.

Grand Forks, ND: "Grand Cities Art Fest," juried art fair, North Valley Arts Council, June 14-15, 2008.

Downtown Leadership Group, Grand Forks, ND/East Grand Forks, MN: Selected as an Emerging Artist for Grand Cities Art Fest, June, 2008.

North Valley Arts Council, Grand Forks, ND: Recipient, Professional Development grant to attend "Fired, Not Fried," Concentration with Kent McLaughlin at Penland School of Craft, March 2008.

Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC: Recipient, Full Work-Study Scholarship to attend "Fired, Not Fried," March-May 2008.

Buyers Market of American Craft, Philadelphia, PA: Selected by Red River Regional Council, North Dakota Small Business Development Center, and North Valley Arts Council as one of ten ND artists to participate in Art Up! Program though a booth at BMAC, February 2008.

North Dakota Council on the Arts: Recipient, Professional Development Grant to attend "Soda in the Fire," July 2007.

Reineke Visual Arts Gallery, Fargo, ND: Baccalaureate show: "Cups," April 30-May 4 2007.

NDSU Downtown Campus Gallery, Fargo, ND: "Arts and Humanities Summit," October 2006.

Commission of 12 plates to the University of North Dakota's IHLUAC committee, May 2006.

NDSU Downtown Campus Gallery, Fargo, ND: "Billboard Show" : winner, "green bowl," photo of bowl posted on full-size billboard at corner of NP Avenue and 7th Street North, Fargo, ND, March through June 2006.

Reineke Visual Arts Gallery, Fargo, ND: "NDSU Annual Juried Art Show," James R. Dean, Juror. Honorable Mention, "Untitled" lithograph, March 2006.

 

T.A., Clay Class (community ed.), Muddy Waters Clay Center, Grand Forks ND, April-June 2009.

Ceramics Monthly: February 2010, p. 80, Comment: Response to "The New Factory."

Grand Forks Herald: Friday, June 13 2008.