EDUCATION
2001 Maryland Institute College of Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts
2005-2009 Art Students League of Denver
HONORS
2008 Director’s Choice Award, WOW Show, Fort Collins, CO
2007 Featured Artist, Centennial Galleries, Fort Collins, CO
2007 2nd Place in the Estes Park Plein Air Quick Draw event
2007 Juried into the Art Students League of Denver Summer Art Market
2006 Featured Artist, Centennial Galleries, Fort Collins, CO
2004 The Bouguereau Award, Annual juried art show, Colorado Coalition of Artists
2001 Accepted into the student section of the Society of Illustrators Annual
2001 Maryland Institute College of Art Scholarship
2000 Juried into the Society of Illustrators West web annual
1997 Dresher Foundation Scholarship
1997 Maryland Distinguished Scholar, Talent in the Arts
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009 Article “Public Art: Creating Sense of Place”, The Beet Street Blog
2009 Article “City Finds There’s an Art to Solving Crime”, Fort Collins Coloradoan
2008 Article “Art in the Alleys”, City News
2008 Article “Painted Ponies”, Fort Collins Now
2007 Article “Femme Fatale”, NextNC
2007 Article “Creating the Scene”, NextNC
2004 Article “All the Lonely Artists”, Rocky Mountain Bullhorn Magazine
2004 Article “Paint by Number”, Rocky Mountain Bullhorn Magazine
2001 Book Cover for Pigeon English by Yash Nandon
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2006-2009 Teacher of private oil painting lessons
2003-2009 Member & Volunteer of the Colorado Coalition of Artists (COCOA)
2008 Mentor for the Poudre High School International Baccalaureate program
2007-2008 Coordinator for ArtsAlive Fort Collins
2004-2008 Organizer and participant in the 12 hour Art-A-Thon, Ft. Collins, CO
2006 Coordinator for “Paint the Poudre - Paint the Town” plein air event
2004-2006 Coordinator for a community portrait group, COCOA, Ft. Collins, CO
2006 Member of a team that built community art studios, Denver, CO
2005 Director of the Colorado Coalition of Artists
2004-2005 Instructor at Westin Arts Academy, Ft. Collins, CO
2003 Instructor at Flying Colors Art School, Ft. Collins, CO
2001 Mentor for Community Arts Partnership program, Baltimore, MD
2000 Intern for the Gomez Gallery in Baltimore, MD
COLLECTIONS
2009 In various private & corporate art collections
2008-2009 Transformer Cabinet Mural Project, Fort Collins Art in Public Places
2008 Rearing To Go, 10’ painted horse sculpture, Front Range Village
2005 The Riparian Corridor permanent installation, Pioneer Park, CO
2004 Interpretive wildlife signs along the Frasier-to-Granby Trail, CO
2004 Interpretive wildlife signs along the Colorado Scenic Byway
2003 Watchable Wildlife interpretive signs for Colorado State Wildlife Areas
EXHIBITIONS
2009 Estes Park Plein Air Exhibition and Sale, Estes Park, CO
2009 Sedona Arts Festival, Sedona, AZ
2009 Rio Grande Arts & Crafts Festival, Albuquerque, NM
2009 Crested Butte Arts Festival, Crested Butte, CO
2009 Summer Art Market, Art Students League of Denver, CO
2009 Process & Projects of Art in Public Places, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO
2009 The Gallery Underground, group show, Fort Collins, CO
2009 Artist Association of Northern Colorado National Art Exhibition & Sale
2008 April Showcase, Colorado Coalition of Artists, Fort Collins, CO
2008 Absolute Art Show, Oriental Theater, Denver, CO
2008 Solo exhibition, Coopersmith’s Brewery, Ft. Collins, CO
2008 Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction, Rist Canyon, CO
2008 Summer Art Market, Art Students League of Denver, CO
2008 Main Street Art Festival, Breckenridge, CO
2007 Paint The Town, Poudre River Arts Center, Fort Collins, CO
2007 Summer Art Market, Art Students League of Denver, CO
2007 Estes Park Plein Air event, Earthwood Collections, CO
2007 Lyric Cinema Café, group show, Ft. Collins, CO
2007 Art-a-Thon show, COCOA, Ft. Collins, CO
2007 Anniversary Show, COCOA, Ft. Collins, CO
2007 Femme Fatale II Show, Oriental Theater, Denver, CO
2007 Artist Showcase, National Art Materials Trade Association, Chicago, IL
2007 Bigger Is Better, The Vault, Ft. Collins, CO
2007 The W.O.W. Show, Core New Art Space, Denver, CO
2007 Portrait Show, COCOA, Ft. Collins, CO
2007 Unhinged, Café Ardour, Ft. Collins, CO
2007 Human Organics, Lincoln Center, Ft. Collins, CO
2007 pARTy, Capsule Gallery & Event Center, Denver, CO
2006 Procession of the River Species, New West Fest, Ft. Collins, CO
2006 Paint the Poudre-Paint the Town, COCOA, Ft. Collins, CO
2006 The Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction, Rist Canyon, CO
2006 Anniversary Show, COCOA, Ft. Collins, CO
2006 Human Organics, Sustainable Living Fair, Ft. Collins, CO
2005 New West Fest, Ft. Collins, CO
2005 The Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction, Rist Canyon, CO
2005 Human Organics, Sustainable Living Fair, Ft. Collins, CO
2005 Anniversary Show, COCOA, Ft. Collins, CO
2005 Natural Resources Art Show, Lincoln Center, Ft. Collins, CO
2004 Solo exhibition, Coopersmith’s Brewery, Ft. Collins, CO
2004 Annual Juried Art Show, COCOA, Ft. Collins, CO
2004 Richard Schmid Fine Art Auction, Rist Canyon, CO
2004 Human Organics, Sustainable Living Fair, Fort Collins, CO
2004 Fine & Funky, Opera Galleria, Ft. Collins, CO
2004 Emerging Artists Show, R.L.Foster Gallery, Denver, CO
2004 Natural Resources Art Show, Lincoln Center, Ft. Collins, CO
2004 Art & Soul Gala, Art Students League of Denver, CO
2003 Solo exhibition, La Luz, Ft. Collins, CO
2003 Solo exhibition, Surfside Seven, Ft. Collins, CO
2003 Art & Soul Gala, Art Students League of Denver, CO
2001 MICA Juried Undergraduate Show, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2000 Cities in the 90’s, Fell’s Point Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
2000 Showcase of the Arts, NAACP convention, Baltimore, MD
1999 Junior Illustration Show, Pinkard Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD
1998 Foundation Show, Meyerhoff Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD