EDUCATION

2007           M.A., Creative Writing, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

2006           B.F.A., summa cum laude, Painting, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

2005           Early Renaissance Studies, Lorenzo de'Medici Academy, Florence, Italy


PUBLICATIONS

2010 Amy Inspired, a novel

2007 Feeling for Bones, a novel


SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2014            Untitled Installation, MAHEC Family Medicine Center, Asheville, North Carolina

2012            Specimens, The McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, Virginia

2011            Milieu Intérieur, Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, Virginia  

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Still Life Invitational, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina

2024 A Beautiful Still Life, Summer & Grace Gallery, Ontario, Canada

2023 The Small Hours, The Cotton Mill Studios, Asheville, North Carolina

2022 Winter Show, The Greenhill Art Center, Greensboro, North Carolina

2021 Group Show, Summer, The Haen Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina

2019           SWEET, The Greenhill Art Center, Greensboro, North Carolina

Who’s Afraid of Red? Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, North Carolina

2016            Winter Show, The Greenhill Art Center, Greensboro, North Carolina

2015            Art Biologic, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY

                   Asheville Percussion Festival, The Odyssey School, Asheville, North Carolina

         Alumni Show, The McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, Virginia

2011           Third Annual Regional Juried Art Show, Riverviews Art Space, Lynchburg, Virginia

2010           New Members Show, The McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, Virginia

2009         Bethesda Foundation Art Project, Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio                                                   

                  Annual Cultivate Beauty Exhibition, The 930 Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky

2008          The Human Form in Contemporary Art, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

                   Annual Cultivate Beauty Exhibition, The 930 Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky

2007         Transforming Culture, VAM Gallery, Austin, Texas

2005          Reunion Exhibit of Works in Oil, Middletown Art Center, Middletown, Ohio            

                   Allotropy: Art & Music Showcase, Primary Colors, Indianapolis, Indiana

                   Emerging Artist Exhibition, The Mockbee Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio              

2003         Whitewater Valley Annual Art Competition, Indiana University East, Richmond, Indiana

2001          Regional Ohio Governor's Youth Award Exhibition, James A. Rhodes Office State Tower, Columbus, Ohio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023-present Consultant, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina

2016-2021 Senior Associate, The Haen Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina

2010-2013 Resident Artist and Gallery Committee Member, The McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, Virginia

2007-2010 Visiting Instructor, Miami University, Oxford Ohio and The University of Dayton, Dayton Ohio

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2012 “Inspirational Fiction & The Promiscuous Reader,” The Festival of Faith and Writing, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan

“The Writer as Reader,” panel discussion with Kevin Brockmeier & Carey Wallace, Calvin College

2011 “Pinpointing Genres,” panel discussion, The Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, Virginia

2007 Panel discussion and book signing with author Martha Moody, Books by the Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio

Exhibitor Author, The NYC Book Expo, New York City, New York

Reading and book signing, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Graydon Head and Ritchey, Cincinnati, Ohio

Siemens Family Law, Asheville, North Carolina