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Education:
2005 Masters of Fine Arts: Craft and Material Studies
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2000 Bachelors of Fine Arts: Glass Sculpture
Double Major in Political Science, Minor in Printmaking
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1996 The American School in London, England

Areas of Specialization: Glassworking (blowing, hot sculpting, hot casting, kiln casting and fusing), Sculpture (casting, metal fabrication, woodwork & CAD design), and Installation Art.

Awards/Grants/ Fellowships:
2018 Professional Artist Fellowship, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, VA
Professional Artist Fellowship in Sculpture, Vermont Studio Center, VT
2017 Project Grant, 1708 Gallery, VA
2015 *Nominated for The Joan Mitchell Grant and The Borowsky Prize
2012 Bullseye Glass “Kiln Caster Award” E-Merge International Glass Competition, OR
2012 Virginia Commonwealth University Alumni Award: Dedication to the Field and Education, VCU School of the Arts, VA
2011 Penland School of Crafts Lucy Morgan Scholarship NC
2007 Artspace Third Place Award “Radius 250, VA
2003-05 Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate School Scholarship, VA
2004 Pilchuck School of Glass Merit Scholarship, WA
The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass Merit Scholarship, NY
2003 Virginia Commonwealth University John Roos Memorial Scholarship, VA
2000-02 Penland School of Crafts Merit Scholarship, NC
2000 Pensacola Museum of Art “Best in Show.” FL

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 Forget Me Not Lorrie Saunders Gallery, Norfolk, VA
2011 Sayaka Suzuki Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
2010 Shut Up and Cook! Vault Space, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA
2008 Parallel Existence Worn Gallery at The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2005 907 Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2002 Reconstructing the Hoop Pensacola Museum of Art, FL
2000 Trickling Effect Martin LaBorde Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Selected Invitational Exhibitions
2018 9th International Printmaking Biennial, Museu do Douro, PORTUGAL (catalogue)
Aspire Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue)
Work House Art Center, Lorton, VA
2017 Three-Person Exhibition 3x3: Drifting Dreamers 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
Curriculum Lab Studio 23, Richmond, VA
3rd Global Print Côa Museum in Foz Coa City, PORTUGAL (catalogue)
Equality Virginia Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016 LaVista Yokohama, JAPAN
2015 Revival Project Beijing, CHINA (catalogue)
2014 Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
2013 Future Perfect Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
2012 E-Merge New Mexico Museum of Art, NM (catalogue)
Glass Masters of Japan Bowling Green State University, OH
I Like Soup Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, VA
Four-Person Exhibition Four Petals Lorrie Sanders Gallery, Norfolk, VA
National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA: 13th Annual Glass Exhibition (catalogue)
Phantasmogoria-Allegorical-Glass Gallery A, Richmond, VA (catalogue)
2011 Asian Heritage Festival, Capitol One Gallery, VA
Achtung FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA
Tacit Visual Art Center of Virginia, Richmond, VA
2010 Pilchuck Gallery, Stanwood, WA
2009 Art and Artifice Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Garden of Earthly Delights Linden Row Inn, Richmond VA
2007 OPTIONS 2007 Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran” Edison Place Gallery, Washington DC (catalogue)
2006 Two-Person Exhibition That Moment and This Moment William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA
2005 Chance Encounters School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
EnvironMent Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2004 Top Shelf Barrel Factory, Richmond, VA (catalogue)
PYT Flat International, Richmond, VA
Candid Plant Zero, Richmond, VA
Kasserole Art Works, Richmond, VA
2003 Wo(a)nder FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA
2000 Retrograde Carroll Gallery, New Orleans, LA


Selected Juried Exhibitions
2018 “Concept 2018” Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi-do, KOREA
2017 Uproot Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NYC
Convergence Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA
YICCA (International Contest of Contemporary Art) Fondazione Museo Crocetti Rome, ITALY (catalogue)
2016 10th Annual International Exhibition, Goggle Works Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
Bling it Out! The Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA
2015 30th Annual International Exhibition, Meadows Gallery, University of Texas, Tyler, TX
Cross Over and Composites A.D. Gallery, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, NC
2014 Scorch Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
2013 Evolve RCBA Gallery, Emeryville, CA
2012 E-Merge Biennial International Competition, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR and San Francisco, CA
Catch-22 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2011 Made New Hope Arts Center, New Hope, PA
2009 Animal Nation Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA
The Art of Communication Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA
2008 Small Wonders Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD (catalogue)
30th Contemporary Craft Exhibition Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ
2007 The Green Show The Show Room, Spartanburg, SC
Pleasant Under Glass Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA
2006 The Provincial Grand Forks Art Gallery, BC, CANADA
Dispersal Tactics Artspace, Richmond, VA
2005 3 Cities Against the Wall Montreal, QC, CANADA
2004 Graduate Sculpture Exhibition FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA
HoDge PoDGe FAB Gallery, Richmond, VA
2003 Made in Virginia Longwood University, Farmville, VA
2002 Paperwork Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Juried Exhibition Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival, Alexandria, LA
2001 No Dead Artists Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2000 100-Mile Radius: New Orleans Pensacola Museum of Art, FL

Publications:
3C Richmond (The Creative Change Center) Featured Artist May 2012
1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse by Garth Johnson, Rockport Publishers/Quarry Books
ALTDaily Featured Exhibition: Four Petals, March 2012
Art Papers January/February 2008 edition
Belle Magazine October 2009
CAST by Jen Townsend and Renee Zettle-Sterling, Schiffer Publishing
E-Merge Biennial International Glass Competition
Kansas City Review Vol. 5. No 6: “Unnatural Materials”
New Glass Review 33 International Glass Competition
Sustainable Eating Volume 2: “Food Activism”
Style Magazine Richmond, VA

Artist Residency:
2018 Vermont Studio Center, VT.
2015 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, ME
2014 The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, NY (Collaboration with Boyd Sugiki & Lisa Zerkowitz)
2007 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, NE
2005 The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, NY