Curriculum Vitae

Education

1984 Master of Fine Art in Sculpture, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

1981 Bachelor of Science in Textile Design, Minor in English, Buffalo State College

1979 Exchange Student, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland

Grants and Awards

2006 Gloucester New Arts Festival Honorarium/Grant, Gloucester, MA

Partner with an Artist Grant from seARTS, Gloucester, MA

1985/6 Artist-in-Residence, Henry Street Settlement, Lower East Side, New York City,

1983 Project Director, Collaborative Mural funded by University of Massachusetts Art Council

Solo Exhibitions

2007 Dream House, Partner With an Artist Grant exhibition at Bananas, Gloucester, MA

2006 Long Strange Trip or All Roads Lead to Gloucester, series of works on the theme of mapping as part of the Gloucester New Arts Festival, installed at Gloucester City Hall, Dale Avenue, Gloucester, MA

2005 Three Graces, Installation, Gloucester New Arts Festival, at Mystery Train Records, Gloucester, MA

1986 Summer Works, One-Woman Show, The Painted Lady, Provincetown, MA

1985 Installation: The Feminization of World Politics, Student Union Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1983 Window Installation, Gallery 345, Manhattan, NY

Passion of the Sacred Heart, MFA Thesis Show, UMass, Amherst

1981 Energy, Matrix Room, HallWalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 Weather, Rocky Neck Art Colony Juried Spring Show, Gloucesterr, MA

200 Pathways For Children Chairs For Children Project, one of 44 artists chosen to create original artworks on Adirondack chairs to be displayed and auctioned for the benefit of Pathways’ children’s programs

Rocky Neck Goes to Town Winter Show, Main Street, Gloucester, MA

Inhibition/Exhibition, Exhibition/Inhibition – A Celebration of the Human Form, Rocky Neck Art Colony Juried Spring Show, Gloucesterr, MA

2005 Rocky Neck Goes to Town Winter Show, Main Street, Gloucester, MA

2004 New Members Show, Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA

1986 Group Material’s MASS Project, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, touring internationally

Images of Power: Heroic Females, New York Feminist Art Institute, New York City

SpiRITUAL: Acts of Faith, Artists-in-Residence group exhibition, Henry Street Settlement, Lower East Side, NYC

1985 Homeless at Home: A Public Project, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City

Group Exhibition, NADA Gallery, Lower East Side, New York City

World Festival of Youth Exhibition, Moscow, USSR

Microwave, Smallworks Show, NOW Gallery, East Village, New York City

Massive Political Art Show II, ABC No Rio Gallery, Lower East Side, NYC

Auction Show, Limbo Gallery, East Village, New York City

Diversity, Group Show at Avenue A Restaurant, East Village, NYC

Choice Works, Central Hall Gallery, SoHo, NYC

Reflections, Ceres Gallery at the New York Feminist Art Institute, NYC

State of Mind – State of the Union, Women’s Interart Center, NYC

Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ

1983 Against Apartheid, Westbeth Gallery, Greenwich Village, NYC

Artitide, Limbo Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, East Village, NYC

Artists Call Against Military Intervention in Central America, Work Gallery, East Village, NYC

1983 4 by 27: Women Collaborate, installation, work created at the Visual Artists Exchange For Collaborative Art at the NY Feminist Art Institute, Gallery 345, NYC

1982 39^th Annual Western New York Artists Exhibition, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

1981 Works, Two-Person show with painter Kevin Kintner, Gallery 229, Upton Hall, State University College at Buffalo, NY

Murals and Related Work

1986 The Mural in the Community, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, NYC

The La Lucha Murals, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, NYC

1985 Organizer and Muralist, “La Lucha Continua (The Struggle Continues)” Mural Project, East 9^th Street, NYC

“Self-Determination: Popular the World Over,” 12’ x 20’ individual mural, part of “La Lucha Continua” Project

1983 Sammy Pyramid, temporary chalk drawing on Fine Arts Center exterior as part of Graduate Anti-Thesis Project

Collaborative Work

2006 Pathways For Children Chairs For Children Project, one of 44 artists chosen to create original artworks on Adirondack chairs to be displayed and auctioned for the benefit of Pathways’ children’s programs

2005 Ten Pound Island Project, Gloucester New Arts Festival, created art on an island in Gloucester Harbor

1986 International Shadow Project marking the 40^th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Anti-Racism Banners, collaboration at New York Marxist School, New York City

1983 Collaborative Artist, Visual Artists Exchange for Collaborative Art, New York Feminist Art Institute, New York City

Teaching and Public Speaking Experience

2005

2004-present Little Red Studio, Gloucester, MA, Art Instructor, group and individual lessons and mentoring

1992-93 McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, Art Therapy Volunteer, along with an Occupational Therapist,

1986 Henry Street Settlement, NYC, Artist-in-Residence, taught art classes as an Artist-In Residence

1983 Gallery Talk on Art and Politics in New York City, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1983-84 University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Teaching Assistant, Two and T hree-dimensional Design

Publications

2003 Annual Town Report, Cover Photo, Town Of Rockport, Massachusetts

Offices Held

2005-6 Vice-President, Rocky Neck Art Colony

1982 Vice-President, Graduate Art Student Association, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1983 Member, Arts Council, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1982 Vice-President, Graduate Art Student Association, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1983 Member, Arts Council, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Memberships and Affiliations

Rocky Neck Art Colon

Society for the Encouragement of the Arts

College Art Association