MFA Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Printmaking
BS Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Art Education
Exhibitions and Honors
2017
- Residual Impact, invitational at The Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, Illinois
- Cedarhurst Biennial, Juried Competition for Southern Illinois, Mitchell Art Museum / Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
- Making It In Crafts III, invitational international show at The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Lafayette, Indiana.
2016
- Patron of the Arts 2016: Susan Bostwick, invitational show at Edwardsville Arts Center, Edwardsville, Illinois.
- Material Revival, curator and participant, Innovations in Textiles 10 exhibition, Edwardsville Arts Center, Edwardsville, Illinois. http://materialrevival.blogspot.com
- Fiber Focus, juried competition for Innovations in Textiles 2015, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.
- Transformed by Time, invitational show at Stone Bridge Valley Art Center, Michael, Illinois 62065
- Cedarhurst Biennial, Juried Competition for Southern Illinois, Mitchell Art Museum / Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
- SCC Fibers Invitational, an Innovations in Textiles 10 exhibition, curated by Christine Holtz, St. Charles Community College, Cottleville, Missouri
- From the Inside Out, curator and participant, for the international exhibition at Art and Design West Gallery, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. http://exhibition-fromtheinsideout.blogspot.com
- ARTEAST Studio and Exhibition Tour, group show at studio of Erin Vigneau Dimick, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Contemporary Fiber Arts group show, J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.
- EAC:TWO Juried Competition, Edwardsville Art Center, Edwardsville, IL Honorable Mention
- Collaboration: Reaping and Sewing, curator and participant, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, Illinois. Part of Innovations, a Biennial Textile Event.
- Fiber Focus, a nine state juried competition, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
- SCC Invitational, St. Charles Community College, St. Charles, Missouri
- Fiber: Twenty Ten juried competition, The Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri
- Edwardsville Art Center's First Juried Competition, Edwardsville, Illinois
- JAC Juried 2010, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, IL
- Elements, Main Street Art Gallery, Edwardsville, IL
- Farm Girl Landscapes--Solo exhibition at Boswell Gallery, Kaskaskia College, Centralia, Illinois
- ARTEAST Studio and Exhibition Tour, Edwardsville Fitness Studio, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Natural Selection, group show at By Design Gallery, Alton, Illinois
- Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition, Mitchell Art Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
- ARTEAST Small Works Group Show, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, Illinois
- Heads and Threads for Love Fashion Show, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, Illinois
- Ex-Pat Show at the Our Common Ground Art Walk, Northcott House, Greenville, Illinois
- ARTEAST Studio and Exhibition Tour, Maryville, Illinois
- Featured Artist Holiday Show, Ten Talents Gallery, Greenville, Illinois
- Texture, Main Street Art Gallery, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Fiber Nine-Regional Juried Survey of Contemporary Art in Fiber, Christopher Art Gallery, Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, Illinois -- BEST OF SHOW
- ARTEAST Small Works Group Show, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, Illinois
- Fiber Fusion 2008, The Quilted Garden, Edwardsville, Illinois
- CUSP: Conjunctions, Ubjects, Stories and Places, featured artist by invitation at The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center, Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, Illinois
- Art Work in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, by invitation at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
- Patterns and Pixels juried competition, Art Saint Louis Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
- May Day Fashion Show and Trunk Show, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, Illinois--FIRST PRIZE
- SIUE 50th Anniversary Alumni Juried Exhibition, University Museum Gallery, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Fiber Fusion 2007, The Quilted Garden, Edwardsville, Illinois
- A Common Thread--Innovations in Textiles Exhibition, by invitation at Main Street Art Gallery, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition, Mitchell Art Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
- Sentimental Pentimento--Solo Exhibition, Rowland Gallery, Maves Art Center, Greenville College, Greenville, Illinois
- Awards of Excellence, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, Illinois
- ARTEAST Studio and Exhibition Tour, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Art Saint Louis XXII juried competition, Art Saint Louis Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
- Fiber Arts national juried competition, Madden Arts Center, Anne Lloyd Gallery, Decator, Illinois
- Traditions and Transitions--SIUE Textile Club juried exhibition, University Museum Gallery, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Jacoby Arts Center Second Annual Juried Competition, Alton, Illinois--THIRD PRIZE
- Small Works Invitational, Main Street Art Gallery, Edwardsville, Illinois
- It's Not Your Granny's Quilt Show, Our Common Ground Exhibition at Rowland Gallery, Maves Art Center, Greenville, College, Greenville, Illinois
- Layered, Stitched, Assembled juried competition, Art Saint Louis Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
- Award of Excellence 2006 exhibition, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, Illinois
- Fiber Fusion 2006, The Quilted Garden, Edwardsville, Illinois
- ARTEAST Studio and Exhibition Tour, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Re-Visions Group Show, Chesterfield Arts Gallery, Chesterfield, Missouri
- Fiber Focus 2005--Nine State Regional Juried Exhibition, Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
- Fiber Fusion 2005, The Quilted Garden, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Where Fiber Reigns: Pouch, Pocket, Purse, Invitational, Main Street Art Gallery, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Jacoby Arts Center Inaugural Juried Competition, Alton, Illinois--FIRST PRIZE
- Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition, Mitchell Art Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois--BEST OF SHOW
- Those Who Teach--Do, Our Common Ground Exhibition at Rowland Gallery, Maves Art Center, Greenville College, Greenville, Illinois
- A Dash of Estrogen, juried competition, Art Saint Louis Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
- ARTEAST Studio and Exhibition Tour, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Surfaces: Within and Without, juried competition, Art Saint Louis Gallery, St. Louis, MO--AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
- Art Saint Louis Honors Exhibition, Art Saint Louis Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
- Selections from Art Saint Louis Honors Exhibition, William and Florence Schmidt Art Center, Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, Illinois
- Mapping Memory, juried competition, Art Saint Louis Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
- Fiber Fusion 2004, The Quilted Garden, Edwardsville, Illinois and at the Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, Illinois
- ARTEAST Studio and Exhibition Tour, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Our Common Ground Gallery, Summer and Fall Group Shows, Lebanon, Illinois
- Art Saint Louis XIX, The Exhibition--juried competition, Art Saint Louis Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
- Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition, Mitchell Art Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
- Fiber Focus 2003--juried competition, Art Saint Louis Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri--AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
- Big Show From Edwardsville--group show, Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri
- Off the Road Exhibition, Our Common Ground Gallery, Greenville, Illinois--BEST OF SHOW--FIBERS
- Farm Girl Landscapes in the Age of Horror Vacui--Thesis Exhibition, New Wagner Gallery, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Graduate Student Juried Exhibition, New Wagner Gallery, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- ARTEAST Studio and Exhibition Tour, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Research Grant for Graduate Students, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Friends of Art--Annual Art Auction Student Competition, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville--FOUNDER'S AWARD
- Graduate Student Juried Exhibition, New Wagner Gallery, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville--BARBARA DYCK MEMORIAL AWARD FOR FIBERS
- ARTEAST Studio and Exhibition Tour, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Graduate Printmakers of Illinois Traveling Exhibition, tour included: SIUE, SIUC, ISU--Normal, NIU--Dekalb, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- From the Inside Out Exhibition Catalog, published May 2016.
- Fiber Art Now magazine. Summer issue, release date June 8, 2013. My shibori rust art featured in article on eco-dyeing/printing by Wendy Feldberg.
- Art of Survival, Women, Healing and the Arts, edited by Elka Kazmierczak. c 2006 Elka Books, Carbondale, Illinois for Art4Empowerment.art4e.org (Two works are included in this collection of essays and art.)
- SIUE 50th Anniversary Alumni Art Exhibition 1957-2007 Exhibition Catalog, edited by Dan Anderson. c 2007 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Printed by LuLu.com
- Ubjects I Exhibition Catalog for the first community history project CUSP, Conjunctions: Ubjects, Stories and Places. c2008 Schmidt Art Center, Belleville, Illinois.
- Southern Illinois Artists Open Competition Exhibition Catalog. c2009 Cedarhurst Center for the Arts.
- Meadowood Spa, St. Helena / Napa Valley, California
- Mitchell Museum of Art at Cedarhurst, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
- Washington University School of Medicine, Farrell Learning and Teaching Center, St. Louis, Missouri
- Kaskaskia College, Centralia, Illinois
- Hepler Broom Law Firm, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Albers Studio and Design, Inc., O'Fallon, Illinois
- SCI Engineering, Inc., O'Fallon, Illinois
2015
- Curator for Material Revival, Edwardsville Arts Center, Edwardsville, Illinois
- Curator for From the Inside Out - Felt, Paper, Textiles: Revelaions in Natural Mark Making, Art and Deisgn West Gallery, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Visiting Artist: Textile Department, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Curator for Collaboration: Reaping and Sewing, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, Illinois
- Curator for Our Common Ground Quilt Show, Maves Art Center, Greenville College, Greenville, Illinois
- Adjunct lecturer: Art Appreciation, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Adjunct instructor: Printmaking, Maryville University, St. Louis, Missouri
- Adjunct instructor: Printmaking, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri
- Graduate school teaching assistant: printmaking, drawing, print lab, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Art department chair (1983-2000), Notre Dame High School, St. Louis, Missouri
- Art teacher: crafts, ceramics, Collinsville High School, Collinsville, Illinois
- Art department chair (1974-1977), Mater Dei High School, Breese, Illinois
