PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate professor of Art, Art + Design Department, East Stroudsburg University of PA 1996 - 2021
Gallery Director, Madelon Powers Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg University of PA 2010 - 2020
Chair of Art + Design Department, 2009 - 2020
EDUCATION
1985 Master of Fine Art, Tama Fine Art University, Tokyo, Japan.
1976 Bachelor of FIne Art, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Walking Meditation, solo exhibition, Brodhead Creek Heritage Center, Analomink, PA
2022 Women in Nature, group exhibition, Antoine Dutot Museum, Delaware Water Gap, PA
2021 25> solo exhibition, Madelon Powers Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg University of PA
2021 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Mural Project, Northampton Community College, PA
2020 Art of the State Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA
2019 Gassho, solo exhibition, Romano Gallery, Blairstown, NJ
2018 Group Invitational, Gamut Gallery, Stroudsburg, PA
2018 Earth Speaks IV, Pocono Arts Council, national juried exhibition
2016 Art of the State Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, award, sculpture
2015 Recent Work, Loomis Gallery, Mansfield University of PA, Mansfield, PA, solo exhibition
2015 Meditations, Sykes Gallery, Millersville University of PA, Lancaster, PA, solo exhibition
2014 On the Wall, Pocono Community Theater, East Stroudsburg, PA, 2 person exhibition
2014 AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA, 2 person exhibition
Home Instead, inaugural juried exhibition, Center for American Craft, Lancaster, PA
Ceramic Sutra, international juried exhibition, Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
Northeast PA Regional Art Exhibition, Suraci Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton, PA
Northeast PA Regional Art Exhibition, Linder Gallery, Keystone College, Wilkes Barre, PA
Going Forward in Reverse, one person exhibition, Madelon Powers Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg University, PA
A Woman’s Perspective, PASSHE Women’s Consortium Juried Exhibition, West Chester University
In Your Face, group exhibition, Goggleworks, Reading, PA
One Invites Two, group exhibition, Artspace Gallery, Stroudsburg
The Artful Woman, group exhibition, The Banana Factory, Bethelehem, PA
One person exhibition, Madelon Powers Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg
Sum’r Pots/Sum’r Paintings, 2 person exhibition, Artspace Gallery, Stroudsburg
East 2 West, 2 person exhibition, Madelon Powers Gallery, East Stroudsburg
Outside/In Invitational, Open Space Gallery, Allentown, PA
Women in the Arts, Harrisburg, PA
Clay Invitational Luckenbach Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan
Genkan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Artisans Three Gallery, Springhouse, PA
Millersville State University Art Gallery, PA
59th St. Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Craft Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Retail craft shows include: PA State Designer Craftsmen shows, Baum School of Art Show, Peters Valley Craft Show, Philadelphia Celebrates Crafts, Rosen Craft Market
2010 - present
2010 - present
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Co-chairperson, Annual Pocono State Craft Festival, 1997 - present
Organize major craft event of up to 80 juried craftspeople, an event co-sponsored by the Pocono PA Guild of Craftsmen, the Pocono Arts Council and Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm
Project Organizer/Liaison, PA Partners in the Arts, 1999 - 2020
Wrote for and received grants to organize and oversee exhibitions and workshops presented by professional artists.
Rostered artist on the PA Council on the Arts Artists in Residence program, 1990 - 2008
Conducted workshops for arts and educational organizations.
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2016 Art of the State Pennsylvania, sculpture award
2015 Visual Artist of the Year award, Pocono Arts Council
2014 Sterling and Dorothy Strauser award for contributions to the arts COTA
2014 Bizzy Award, Faculty Innovator award with colleague Darlene Farris LaBar
1996, 1998 – 2015, 201, 2018 PA Council on the Arts Partners in Art Grant
2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2018 ESU Foundation Grant
2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2016-2018 ESU Faculty Development Grants
Japan Ministry of Education (Monbusho) Fellowship, Rotary Foundation Graduate Scholarship