EDUCATION

99-02 Columbia College Chicago, MFA, Interdisciplinary Arts

02 Apprentice, Letterpress Printing,  Peter Kruty Editions . Brooklyn, NY

01 Apprentice, Papermaking, Cave Paper,  Minneapolis, MN

00 Apprentice, Fine Bookbinding,  Jan and Jamila Sobota . Locket, Czech Republic 

92-96 East Carolina University, BFA  Communication Arts

Solo Exhibitions

21. Word Matter - Floating Word . Church St . Newark OH

03 Hush, don’t let the neighbors hear . Artemisia . Chicago, IL

03 Hush, don’t let the neighbors hear . Spaces Gallery, Lubeznik Art Center .  Michigan City, IN

Group and Juried Exhibitions

21  Ink & Clay 45: The Art of Type Sapphire Anniversary Pomona CA

21.  6+1 . Hammond Harkins Galleries  .  Columbus OH

03 Chicago Emerging Women Artist Exhibition . NIU Art Museum Chicago Gallery 

03 Quad-State Exhibition . Quincy Art Center, IL

03 black crows everywhere. AM Space . Chicago. IL

02 National Collegiate Paper . American Museum of Papermaking . Atlanta

02 Bound Unbound . Harold Washington Library . Chicago, IL

02 Print Gumbo . Glassworks Gallery . New Orleans, LA 

02 Brute Steele . ARC Gallery . Chicago, IL

01 Texture . Walleye Gallery . Chicago, IL

01 Union League Civic and Arts Foundation . Chicago, IL

00 7 Seeings . Hokin Gallery, Columbia College

99 Fall Out . Columbia College . Center for Book and Paper

99 Muse Exhibition . Gallery 701 . Columbia, SC

Professional + Teaching Experience

15-17 Co-Principal of BookClub Chicago . arts + literacy

02-11 Principal of Loveleaf Press . letterpress printing + bookbinding 

00 - 04 Associate Faculty, Design Dept . Columbia College, Chicago IL 

02 Haystack, Teacher Assistant, Book Arts, Deer Isle, ME

00 University of Georgia, Teacher Assistant, Cortona, Italy 

96-11 Design and Creative Direction

Other 

22 Artist in Residence at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst VA

19-20 Artist in Residence at Dawes Arboretum, Newark, Ohio

00-21 Treewhisper Advocate, community art installation (papermaking and tree stories)

01, 02, 07 Ragdale Resident . Lakeforest . Illinois

01 Joan Flash Collection, Art Institute of Chicago

01 Union League Civic & Arts Foundation . grant 

00 Aiko Fellowship/Penland  NC project residency

01 Graduate Opportunity Award . Columbia College

99 Follett Fellowship . Columbia College