Education:
2001 Savannah College of Art and Design; Bachelor of Fine Arts: Painting
Solo and Joint Exhibitions:
2021 You/Lift Me Up Roots Up Gallery, Savannah GA (with Mike Henderson)
2019 trampling out the vintage Haley Fine Art, Sperryville VA
2017 Country/No Country Roots Up Gallery, Savannah GA
2015 Televisions Rocket to Venus, Baltimore MD (with Joseph Young)
2014 Woodberry TV Hill Haley Fine Art, Sperryville VA
2012 American Villages 1704Lincoln Gallery, Savannah, GA
2011 LOCAL Local 1110, Savannah GA
2010 Covers Minas Gallery; Baltimore MD (with Joseph Young)
2009 The Rumors Are True Creative Alliance Main Gallery; Baltimore MD
(with Megan Hildebrandt)
2008 Deep Falls Antreasian Gallery; Baltimore, MD (with Joseph Young)
2007 New Encaustic Paintings & Book Swap Hamilton Art Center; Baltimore MD
2006 The Works Greenbelt Community Center, Greenbelt MD
2005 Work Creative Alliance at the Patterson; Baltimore MD
2003 Telescapes Atwell’s Art and Frame; Savannah GA
Selected Juried and Group Exhibitions:
2021 Everyone Quarterly: Issue 2: Architecture The Art Of Everyone, A Publishing Genius Project
2018 Into The Blue Blue Spiral 1; Asheville NC
2017 Artists For Truth Benefit Exhibition Space Camp Gallery, Baltimore MD
2016 Other Words For Nature Cowell Family Cancer Center; Traverse City MI
2016 Paperwork Jordan Faye Contemporary; Baltimore MD
2015 Crankie Fest Creative Alliance at the Patterson; Baltimore MD
2015 Patrons for Provisions The Block; Hudson OH
2015 The Light By Which We See Andalusia Farm; Milledgeville GA
2015 <500 MAP Gallery; Baltimore MD
2015 Fresh 1704 Lincoln; Savannah GA
2014 Practical Feminism Radiator Gallery; Queens NY
2014 Into That Darkness Peering Edgar Allan Poe Museum; Richmond VA
2013 Content, An Exhibition Athens Center for Contemporary Art; Athens GA
2013 Eyesplice: Traces HEREarts; New York, NY
2013 About Face S.P.A.C.E. Gallery; Savannah GA
2013 Preserving A Sense Of Place Ships of the Sea Museum; Savannah GA
2013 Telfair Art Ball Jepson Center for the Arts; Savannah GA
2012 Man in State of Cohen’s Retreat; Savannah GA
2012 Eye to Eye: The Making of We Indigo Sky Gallery; Savannah GA
2012 Southern Discomfort 1704Lincoln Gallery; Savannah GA
2011 Unreliable Narrators Creative Alliance; Baltimore MD
2010 Celestial Fragments Primo Piano LivinGallery; Lecce, Italy
2009 Common Ground; 11 Americans in Lisbon Galleria 9 Arte; Lisbon, Portugal
2009 Local Color Towson University; Towson, MD
2009 SCAD Painting Alumni Exhibition Pei Ling Chan Gallery; Savannah, GA
2009 Encaustic Works 2009 The Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle; New Rochelle, NY
2009 Seven From Savannah 2 Car Garage Gallery; Savannah, GA
2007 Conflict & Peace Columbia Art Center; Columbia, MD
2007 Nudes: Annual Benefit Gala Maryland Art Place; Baltimore, MD
Publications:
2024 Co-Author and Illustrator: Rocks: What Are They Doing? with Michael Make (Westport, Publishing Genius
2018 Illustrator: The Gilded Auction Block by Shane McCrae (NYC, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
2017 Contributing Visual Artist: Daniel Hope: For Seasons Duetsche Grammaphon GmbH, Berlin
2016 Cover Artist: Fiscal Year 2016 Annual Report Maryland State Arts Council. Print.
2016 Illustrator: Amanda by Amanda McCormick. (Baltimore, Ink Press Productions)
2014 Contributing Visual Artist: Parallax Issue Two. Brooklyn, Singing Saw Press. Print.
2014 Cover Artist: Washington Square Review, Summer/Fall. NYU Creative Writing Program. Print.
2014 Cover Artist: Forgiveness, Forgiveness by Shane McCrae (North Amherst, Factory Hollow Press)
2012 Cover Artist: Easter Rabbit by Joseph Young, second edition (Baltimore, Publishing Genius)
2010 Interior Illustrator: I Wasn't Built For A Life Like This by Caleb Stine
2010 Cover Artist: Easter Rabbit by Joseph Young (Baltimore, Publishing Genius)
Grants and Awards:
2021 Maryland State Arts Council Emergency Arts Grant Recipient
2016 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant Recipient
2012 Citizen Advocacy Eye To Eye Artist Fellowship, Savannah GA
Permanent Collections
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Clayton College and State University, Atlanta, GA
Professional Experience:
2024 Board of Directors, MidMountain, Inc
2024 Board of Directors, SnowFort ADK
2016 Workshop Instructor, Make Night; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore MD
2015 Workshop Instructor; The Studios at Key West; Key West FL
2014-13 President; Board of Directors, Flannery O’Connor Home Foundation, Inc
2014-12 Board of Directors, Flannery O’Connor Home Foundation, Inc
2012 Co-founder; Flannery O’Connor Annual Parade, Savannah GA
2013-11 Treasurer, Creative Forces Artist Collective
2012 Visual Art Curator: Savannah Stopover Music Festival
2012 Art Teacher: Salvation Army CAPA Program, Savannah GA
2011 Curator: Ossabaw Works On Paper and Wood; Atwell’s Art & Frame;
Savannah, GA
2011-10 Visiting Artist Program; Ossabaw Island, GA
2010-09 Visiting Artist Lecturer; Maryland Institute College of Art; Baltimore, MD
2009 Co-Curator: Wax Actual Juried Show; Amalie Rothschild Gallery; Baltimore, MD
2009-7 Artist-In-Residence; Creative Alliance At The Patterson; Baltimore MD
2008 Resident Artist: American Visionary Art Museum; Baltimore MD
2007 Visiting Artist, Harford Community College; Bel Air MD
2006 Visiting Artist, Clayton College State University; Atlanta GA
2006 Visiting Artist, Greenbelt Community Center; Greenbelt MD
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