Curriculum Vitae.

PRESENT EXHIBITIONS

2020

• Round Hole Square Peg: Lubeznik Center For the Arts, Michigan City, Indiana

2019

• Not Just Another Pretty Face: Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois

• My World My Wall: McCormick Gallery Pop-up, Chicago, Illinois

• Barbie Series - Even the Brunettes were offended: Pop-up space, Sawyer, Michigan

LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Bridge Program: 10 week professional development led by Claudine Isa; 2020

• Experimental Station Board of Directors; 2018 - Present

• Bridge Program: 10 week professional development led by Jim Dempsey; 2017

• Hyde Park Art Center Board Chair. Led and completed a $6.5M Campaign for the Art Center’s 75th Anniversary. This campaign heralded forward new innovative programming such as: Center Program, Visual Arts Certificate Program, International/National Residency, Ground Floor Exhibition. It afforded deeper financial support towards existing programs and to those working in the Art Center community such as teens and teaching artists. It afford the opportunity to build the Guida Family Creative Wing. And, the campaign raised money for a reserve fund, then matched by MacArthur Foundation, bringing the total reserve to $1M; 2010 - 2016

• Hyde Park Art Center Board of Directors. Throughout the many years of being involved with the Art Center, have served on numerous committees, including; Engagement, Development, Campaign, Education, Finance, Nominating; 2007 - Present

• Red Moon Theater Board of Directors; 2004 - 2007

• Director of Exhibitions; Delaplaine Art Center, Frederick, Maryland; 1987 - 1989

PAST EXHIBITION HISTORY AND AWARDS

1994

• Fiber Invitational: Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL

• USART: Annual National Art Fair, San Francisco, CA

1993

• New Art Forms: Annual International Art Fair, Chicago, ILEclectic Eclectic: Center of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

• Artists In Silk: Evanston Art Center, Chicago, IL

• Neon Ninety-Three: 12th Annual Neon Show, Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC

1992

• US Artists: Native to Neon: Annual National American Art Fair. Philadelphia, PA

• Telling Stories: Loyola’s Fine Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

• Art And The Garden: Kornbluth Gallery, Fair Lawn, NJ

• Electric Glass: Michigan Gallery, Detroit MI

• Bring In The Light: New East Side, Chicago, IL

• Artists for A.R.T.: J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, IL

• Kansas City Fiber Direction: Wichita Center For The Arts, Wichita, KS

1991

• National Juried Craft Exhibition: Mari Gallery, Mamaroneck, NY

• Headwaters National: Bemidji Arts Gallery, Bemidji, MN, second prize winner

• Under Cover: Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA

1990

• Leave It To The Weaver: Mary Condon Hodgson Art Gallery, Frederick, MD

• Divine Line: Galeria Mesa, Mesa, AZ, two year traveling exhibition

1989

• What A Stitch: Facets Gallery, Frederick, MD

• Paper/Fiber XII: The Arts Center, Iowa City, IA

• Women In Her Place: Erector Square Gallery, New Haven CT, Juried by Faith Ringgold

1988

• New York - 1988 International Art Competition Certificate of Excellence in Fiber/Sponsored by; Art Horizons, Larchmont, NY

• Artists’ Liaison: Mindscapes Gallery, Evanston, IL, national competition winner

• Artists’ Liaison: Del Mano Gallery, Pasadena, CA, national competition winner

• Fiber Forms: Chiaroscuro Gallery, Chicago, IL

1987

• Contemporary Viewpoints: Crafts in our changing world, New Art Center, Takoma Park, MD

• Erasing The Lines: Crafts as fine art, fine art as craft, Foundry Gallery, Washington, D.C., juried by John McIntosh

PUBLICATIONS

1993

• Tapestry, Reflection and Beyond - work featured on cover, Heinle & Heinle, publishers

• The Crafts Report - March issue, article: When Artistry Marries High-Tech

1992

• Textile Design, coffee table book, PBC International, publishers

• Art Today - Volume VI, No. 2, featured on cover

• Chicago Magazine

1991

• Chicago Tribune

1989

• The New Paper - feature article/review section

• Fiberarts Magazine - news and notes section

1988

• Fiberarts Magazine - review section