I explore the world of the Ancients in my approach to creating art. Mixing natural earth minerals into paints, I integrate the mysteries surrounding their art, techniques and early language roots in style, signs and pictographs. The images that emerge on canvas, I also create in clay sculptures, using natural minerals and pit fires.
Education:
Master’s Degree: Initiatives in Educational Transformation, George Mason University
Thesis: Multi-modal Approaches to Education to Include Art, Graduated with Honors
BLS in Art and Languages, Mary Washington University, Graduated with Honors
Teacher Certification: Primary Education, Mary Washington University, Graduated with Honors
CESMA Formazione e Cultura – College with Canavese Archaeological Museum and Art Restoration, Cuorgne’, Italy: Study of gold leaf application, fresco painting, and illuminated writing and symbolism – http://www.cesmaonline.org/cesma-formazione-corsi-gratuiti-torino-chi-siamo/
Current: Artworks in Public Places
Hat Ranch Gallery, 27 San Marcos Rd. “The Turquoise Trail”, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Silver Peak Gallery, 786 Main St. Cambria, CA 93428 (Bronze, Silver & Gold Gallery)
Art Experience:
2022-23 November-January: One Woman Exhibition, Nevada City Winery-Art Gallery
2022 September-October: Center for the Arts Exhibition, Grass Valley CA
2022 October: Open Studios Tour Nevada County West
2022 July-September: “Off Center” Ceramic Art, Blue Line Arts
2022 June: Crocker Art Museum Auction, Big Names, Small Works
2022 March: NCECA-Ceramic Exhibition, Sierra Foothills Clay Arts at Blue Line Arts
2022 March: Sun City Artists Group talk and Demonstration: Earth Artist Processes
2022 March: Blue Line Arts Talk on Mineral Paints in Painting and on Sculpture
2022 January: Wild and Scenic Film Festival Art Exhibition, Grass Valley/Nevada City, Jurors Award
2021 November-December: ASIF Small Works Show
2021 September-October: Center for the Arts Exhibition, Grass Valley CA
2021 October: Open Studios Tour Nevada County West
2021 October: Nisenan Heritage Days Art Exhibition “Art through Visibility” & Commission
2021 August: Workshop for Nisenan tribe, Natural Mineral Paints
2021 June-July: Nevada City Winery Art Exhibition, One Woman Show
2021 July: Art through Visibility Exhibition (Nisenan), Talk Art Processes Nevada City CA.
2021 August: Blue Line Arts Talk on Earth Artist Processes in Painting
2021 January: Wild and Scenic Film Festival Art Exhibition, Grass Valley/Nevada City, Jurors Award
2020-21 December-March: Manhattan Arts Online Art Exhibition “HerStory”
2020 October: Open Studios Tour Nevada County West
2020 October: Nisenan Heritage Days Art Exhibition “Art through Visibility
2020 August-September: Nevada City Winery Art Exhibition, One Woman Show
2020 June: Earth Art Workshop, Cascina Rodiani, Italy – Cancelled (COVID)
2020 May: From My Studio (Stay at Home) “Chalkin’ It Up!” Across the USA
2020 April: Chalk Art “From My Street to Yours” Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
2020 April: Osborn Woods Gallery: Home Project Nevada City CA
2020 March: “Out From the Fire:” Pit Firing
2020 January-February: Two Day Workshops, Natural Mineral Paints
2019 Year “I Am” Project Art Exhibition Nevada County Arts Council (Belonging Project)
2019 September: Nevada City School of the Arts Talk and Demonstration
2019 September: Nisenan Tribal members Talk/Symposium
2019 September: Hat Ranch Gallery Mineral Paints and gold leaf workshop, Art exhibition, Talk
2019 October: Nisenan Heritage Days Art Exhibition “Art through Visibility”
2019 October: Open Studios Tour Nevada County West
2019 July: Nevada City Winery Art Exhibition, One Woman Show
2019 June: Natural Earth Paints Interview and Featured Artist
2019 May: Hiking the Out Back Australia Cave Art
2019 January-March: Two Day Workshops, Natural Mineral Paints
2019 January: Wild and Scenic Film Festival Art Exhibition, Grass Valley/Nevada City
2019 January: Nevada County Arts Council Featured Artist
2018 Year “Belonging” Art Exhibition, 1 year project
2018 October: Nisenan Art Exhibition “Art through Visibility”
2018 October: Open Studios Tour Nevada County West
2018 January: Wild and Scenic Film Festival Art Exhibition, Grass Valley/Nevada City
2018 January: WSFF Co-taught “Earth Works” Belonging Project with Ruth Chase Boudreau
2012 Private Instructor and small group instruction in Mineral Paint Processes and creating an eco-friendly Studio, Virginia
2011 Galerie Violeta, A Three Women Art Exhibition, Vienna Austria
2010 US Embassy Art Exhibition, Vienna Austria
2009-2011 Private and small group instruction for adults and preschool, Vienna Austria
2007 – 2008: Art School Instructor, DOD Schools, Mannheim, Germany Elementary K – 5
2004-05 Elementary School Teacher K-5, Pilot Program for Spanish Language, VA.
2002-2004 Adjunct Professor at George Mason University, Virginia
1994-2002 Elementary School Teacher 3-4, Pr. William County Public Schools, VA
2000 & 2001 Summer Art Camp, Warrenton, VA – Fauquier County Public Schools
1976 Second Place San Diego Schools all County Art Competition celebrating 1776
1966 Clay Sculpture demonstration San Diego Schools
1964 School Art Show and Sale San Diego Schools
1961 Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego Young Artists Show
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