Education:
M.F.A. Bennington College, Bennington, VT
B.S.Mercy College, Detroit, MI
Film and Video:
2009DVD: “Drawing Music”, cellist Nadine Deleury
200DVD: Construction and Installation of ‘Young Flight’ Sculpture,
2004Featured Artist “Art Beat” Detroit PBS Channel 56 TV
1999, 2003Media One Cable TV, Art Profile Interview
1995Development and Production of a CD ROM, Bennington College
1991Art Director and Technical Production Advisor for Video Mirror ofthe Soul
1988 to 1992Assisted in the planning, staging and filming of performance/video
1986Executed drawings for illustration of video produced by PaxChristi, USA
Teaching:
2000 – presentPrivate and group tutoring and mentoring
2004, 05Scarab Club, Figure Drawing workshops
2002, 03College for Creative Studies, Adjunct professor, Drawing I & II
1998 to 2002Wayne State University, Adjunct Professor, Color Theory
1996 to presentDetroit Art Institute, Featured Artist, Drawing in the Galleries
1990 to presentBirmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Painting, Basic and FigureDrawing
1996 to 1998Oakland Community College, Highland Lakes Campus
Workshops:
Figure Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media Painting, Critique, Figure Drawing Intensive, Creativity Basic, Drawing, Color Theory, Multi Art Techniques
Scarab Club, Grosse Pointe Art Association, Port Huron Artists BWAA, Ann Arbor Women Artists, Chelsea Artists, Detroit Art Institute, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Oakland University Education Department, Krasl Art Center (St. Joseph, MI), Visual Art Association of Livonia, Anton Art Center, Mt Clemens Art Association
Professional Consultant:
Artist consultation, review, critique of individual and group art work
Exhibition and Educational Program Committees, BBAC
Architectural Salvage Warehouse
Author, Reviewer, Critic, Ground Up Magazine
Lectures/Presentations:
Farmington Hills Art Association
Detroit Society of Women Painters
Center for Jung Studies of Detroit, Art: An Articulation of the Human Spirit
Captive Audience Series, BBAC, Verbal and Visual Presentation of my work
Lecture, Art and the Spiritual First Presbyterian Church, Northville, MI
Current Work; Books to Michigan Book and Paper Arts Group
Earth Drawing: Imagine /Render Studios, Oxford, MI
Images in Art: presentation and exhibition, Birmingham Unitarian Church
Creative Visual Images, Lawrence Street Gallery, Pontiac, MI
Various Art Groups: Fraser Fine Art Group, Farmington Artists Club
Ann Arbor Women Artists
Juror:
Detroit Festival of the Arts, 2007
Traub Memorial Scholarship Travel Fund. Bloomfield Hills High Schools – 2006
Grosse Ile, ChairARTy Event – 2005
Palette and Brush Club – 2005
Grosse Point Art Association – 2004
Michigan State Fair, Drawing exhibition – 2004
Scarab Club Members exhibition – 2004, 2006
Detroit Society of Women Painters
Ann Arbor Women Artists
Women in the Arts Exhibition, Oakland Community College – 2000
South Oakland Art Association
1997 Fine Arts Exhibition, First Presbyterian Church, Northville, MI
Various art fairs: East Jordan MI, Art in the Park, Port Sanilac MI, Art and Apples
Rochester, MI. Art in the Park, Oxford MI;
P.A.N., Village Fine Arts Association, Milford
Southeast Michigan Scholastic Art Awards, Senior, Drawing Division
Curator
“Painter’s Painting”: Grosse Point Art Association, 2007
“Women Imaging Women”: Scarab Club, 2007
“Urban Alchemy”: Artifacts Transformation,2007 CAID Gallery
“Urban Alchemy”: Artifacts Transformation,2006 555 Gallery and 4731 Gallery.
“…Next” : Exhibition BBAC- 2005 “Luce”, Exhibition BBAC 2001