Résumé

Education

2006 Master of Fine Arts / Glass
  • Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts — Richmond, VA
2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts / Glass
  • Cleveland Institute of Art — Cleveland, OH
2005 / 2003 / 1999 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts — Deer Isle, ME
2002 / 1999 Corning Studio of Glass — Corning, NY
1995 – 2001 Penland School of Crafts — Penland, NC
1997 Pilchuck Glass School — Stanwood, WA
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Employment

2010 / 2009 Penland School of Crafts
  • Fall Concentration Glassblowing Instructor – Material as Concept
  • Glass Instructor Session 2 – Intro to Furnace Working
2008 / 2002 / 2001 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
  • Teaching Assistantships
2008 / 2007 / 2004 Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts — Richmond, VA
  • Glass 251 (Intro) Instructor
  • Glass 351 (Intermediate) Instructor
2006 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
  • Glassblowing Instructor, Session 5
2006 Toyama City Institute of Glass Art — Toyama, Japan
  • Teaching Assistant for Jack Wax
2003 The 16th Niijima International Glass Art Festival — Niijima, Japan
  • Teaching Assistant for Brent Kee Young
2001 – 2003 Michael Schunke, Glassblower — West Grove, PA
  • Full-time Assistant
1998 – 2001 Marc Petrovic, Glass Sculptor — Essex, CT
  • Part-time Assistant
2001 / 2000 Pilchuck Glass School
  • Teaching Assistantships
2001 / 2000 Corning Studio of Glass
  • Teaching Assistantships
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Publications and Lectures

2011 Virginia Living Magazine — October issue
  • “Arrested Movement” by Sarah Sargent
2010 / 2007 Corning Museum of Glass — New Glass Review #31 / #27
2010 Illinois State University — Normal, IL
  • Lecture & Demo
2010 University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point — Stevens Point, WI
  • Lecture & Workshop
2009 R•HOME Magazine — January / February Issue
  • “Sunny Disposition” by Jessica Ronky Haddad / Photography by Patricia Lyons
2008 “Zero Hour” Artist Interview with Tim Bowring on WRIR, Aug. 28
2008 Richmond Home & Garden — February Issue
  • “Ones to Watch” by Carrie Nieman Culpepper
2007 Capital One Artist Lecture Series — Richmond, VA
2007 Southern Illinois University — Carbondale, IL
  • Visiting Artist
2005 Quirk Gallery
  • Lecture
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Grants and Residencies

2007 Creative Glass Center of America at Wheaton Arts and Cultural Center — Millville, NJ
  • 6-week Fellowship Residency
2003 Cleveland Institute of Art — Cleveland, OH
  • 10-week Glass Residency
2003 Contemporary Glass Philadelphia Grant
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Exhibitions and Shows

2011 Office of Senator Mark Warner — Washington DC
2010 Penland School of Crafts Instructor Show — Penland, NC
2009 James Madison University — Harrisonburg, VA
  • “Art and Artifice”
2009 Southern Glass Exhibition — Atlanta, GA
  • Gallery Walk at Terminus
2009 Exhibition at Westminster Canterbury — Richmond, VA
2008 Caldwell Arts Council — Lenoir, NC
  • “Hot & Cold — Works from the Fire” Exhibit
2008 Reynolds Gallery — Richmond, VA
  • “Reflect(s)” Show
2008 Blue Heron Gallery — Deer Isle, ME
  • “Contemporary Blown Glass” Exhibit
2008 Center for Community Programs — Deer Isle, ME
  • “Haystack: Creative Process” Exhibit
2007 The Museum of American Glass — Millville, NJ
  • “Celebrating Connections: Contemporary Glass by Mid-Atlantic Artists”
2007 Quirk Gallery — Richmond, VA
  • “Master Quirks VA 2007”
  • “Pleasant Under Glass Terrarium Exhibition”
2007 Wheaton Arts Fine Art Gallery
  • “2007 CGCA Fellowship Recipient Exhibition”
2007 Art6 Gallery — Richmond, VA
  • “Undone” Exhibition — Joint show with ceramicist Debbie Quick
2007 Baltimore American Craft Council Show — Baltimore, MD
  • Recipient of the Searchlight Artist Award
2006 Reynolds Gallery — Richmond, VA
  • “Almost Famous” Exhibition
2006 Capital One, West Creek Campus — Richmond, VA
  • “Select Works | Exhibition of VCU MFA Candidates”
  • Exhibition Curator
2006 Claremont Graduate University Gallery — Claremont, CA
  • “W/E Trade” Exhibition
2005 Quirk Gallery — Richmond, VA
  • “Watt’s Up?” Inaugural Exhibition
2004 Flat International Gallery — Richmond, VA
  • Solo MFA Candidacy Show
2003 Sandusky Cultural Center — Sandusky, OH
  • “New Glass” Exhibition
2003 Winterpark Sidewalk Art Festival — Winterpark, FL
  • Emerging Artists Program
2001 / 2000 B.K. Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College — Painesville, OH
  • “48 Hours of Making Art”
  • “Recent Regional BFA Exhibition”
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Galleries

Reynolds Gallery — Richmond, VA
www.reynoldsgallery.com
Penland Gallery — Penland, NC
www.penland.org

Private Collections

Richmond, VA
Federal Reserve Bank of Virginia; Bev Reynolds; Allan Kirshner; Jil & Hiter Harris; Terrel & Elliot Harrigan; Capital One, West Creek Campus; Markel Corporation

Millville, NJ
Museum of American Glass

Philadelphia, PA
Diane Dalto & Richard Woosnam

Atlanta, GA
Ed Westreicher & Phillip Hoover

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