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EXHIBITIONS:
2014/2022
• Wild Life Exhibition, LAPS, Center for the Art, Eagle Rock, CA 2022
• 107th Annual Membership Exhibition, California Society of Printmakers
• World on Fire, Center for the Art, Eagle Rock, CA 2021
• Pressing Voices, Columbia Museum of Fine Art, Columbia, SC, 2021
• ImMigration Project, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
• Trumped 2.0. Gallery FAB, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO, 2020
• Contemporary Conversations, curated by Eleanor Heartney, GCCA, Greenville, SC, 2020
• Works on Paper, Webster Art Center, St. Louis, MO 2019
• Sweet Earth/ Bitter Earth, LAPS, Arts Center at Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA 2019
• Imprint Two 2018, VAM Gallery, Austin, TX 2018
• Air, Water, and Earth, LAPS, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA 2018
• Solo Exhibit, Zuckerberg Museum, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, 2017
• Confluence, Print Exchange Exhibition between Taiwan’s Idea Station Studio and the
Contemporary Print Collective, GCCA, 2017
• Contemporary American Lithography, Museum of Lithography, Tidaholm, Sweeden, 2016
• CPC First Annual Print Fair, GCCA, Greenville, SC, 2016
• Then and Now, Krantz Gallery, Jefferson Community and Technical College, October, 2016, Louisville, KY
• Perpetual/Surrender, One Person Show at Governor’s School for the Arts, Greenville, SC
• Perpetual/Surrender, One Person Show at River Works Gallery and Greenville Technical College, Greenville,
SC and Greer, SC, 2016
• Festival of Flowers Art Exhibition, Greenwood Art Center, Merit award, Greenwood, SC 2016
• Anderson Annual Juried Exhibition, Merit award, Anderson Art Center, Anderson, SC 2016
• Law and Order, Southern Graphics Council Conference International, Knoxville, TN, 2015
• Drawn From the McClung Museum, McClung Museum, University of Knoxville,Knoxville, TN, 2015
• One Person Exhibition, Pickens County Art Museum, Dec. 2014
• Thing You Should Have Learned in School, Southern Graphics Council Conference International, Knoxville, TN,
2015
• Awake @ 4 am: Wrecking Balls, and Quicken (ing), Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
COLLECTIONS
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Nelson Museum of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester University, Rochester, NY
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC.
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI.
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.
Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA.
Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Frans Masereel Center for Graphics, Kasterlee, Belgium
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO.
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, OH.
Duke Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Kennedy Museum of American Art, Athens, Ohio.
Gertrude Herbert Institute, Augusta, GA.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Janet Turner Museum, Chico State University, Chico, CA
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Printmaker Emeritus, Southern Graphics International, 2017
Emeritus Faculty, Clemson University, 2015
Deans CAF Funding, College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities, 2008
Alumni Distinguished Professorship, Clemson University, 2006-ongoing
Dean’s Award for Outstanding Service, Clemson University, 2005-06
Honorary Member of the Council, Southern Graphics Council, SGC Conference,
Washington D. C., 2005
Provost Scholarly Achievement Award, $5000, Clemson University, 2000
President’s Commission Outstanding Woman Faculty Award, Clemson, 2000
Small Projects Grant, South Carolina Arts Commission, $1000, 2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Currently, Part time art faculty, California State University of Northridge, CA, 2019-ongoing
Guest Artist, Collage Society, San Fernando Art Center, Encino, CA, 2019
Guest Artist, Print Club, University of California, Long Beach, CA 2018
Keynote Speaker, Southern Graphics Council International, Kennesaw State University, GA, 2017
Print Fair, assisted in organizing the CPC First Annual Print Fair, GCCA, Greenville, SC, 2016
Artisphere, Organizer, Printmaking demonstration booth, Greenville, SC, 2016
Organizer, Contemporary Print Collective, Organization of regional artists interested in the matrix
as foundation to their studio practice, 2015—-ongoing (monthly meetings)
Board Member, Education Committee, Art Center of Clemson, Clemson, SC, 2015-2017
Drawn From the McCLung Museum, Co-organizer and curator, International Portfolio Exchange with 27 artists, McClung Museum, University of Knoxville, Knoxville, TN.
Juror, 1st Annual Collegiate Invitational Art Exhibition, Spartanburg County Library 2013
Juror, First Edition, Juried Printmaking Exhibition, Riverworks Gallery, Greenville 2013
Natural History: Critical Condition, Organized 22 national artists, exhibited at SGC, Chicago 2009
Caught in the WEB: New Narrative, Panel Chair, SGC Conference, VCU, Richmond, VA, 2008
Juror, Upstate Visual Artists, Artist Exhibition and Reedy River Art Walk, Greenville, SC, 2006
Consultant, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, Member of Evaluation Team for the BFA & BA degree, 2005
Juror, First Print Biennale, North Georgia State College and University, Dahlanega, GA, 2002
Faculty Consultant, Advanced Placement Program, Trenton, New Jersey, 2003-2005
Print Odyssey 2001 Symposium, Presenter, Written on the Body Panel, Cortona, Italy, 2001.
National Portfolio Exchanges
Law and Order, organized by Richard Peterson, College of the Sequois, 2014
Thing You Should Have Learned in School, organized by Wayne Kimball, 2014
Awake @ 4 am: Wrecking Balls, and Quicken (ing, organized by Rosie Bernardi, 2014
Drawn From the McClung, organized with Althea Murphy and Beauvais Lyons, UT, 2014
ASU Alumni Portfolio Exchange, organized by Andy Rubin, Tandem Press, Madison, WI
Frogman’s, organized by Lloyd Menard, Beresford, South Dakota, 2005—09
Terra Firma, organizer, Richard Peterson, College of the Sequois, Vallsaya, CA
Communication and the Art of Deception, Clemson University, 2007.
Crossing the Digital Divide, organized by Johntimmothy Pizzutto, USD, Vermillion, SD, 2007
Black Box, organized by John Hilton , Eastern Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 2004
Girls and Boys, organized by Jim Bryant & Nicole Hand, Murray State University, Murray, KY, 2003.
Saints and Sinners, organized by Georgia Deal, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C. 2001.
Drawn to Stone , organized by Beauvais Lyons and Tom Christison, SGC, 1997, edition size-30.
Color Print USA, organized by Lynwood Kreneck, Texas Tech University, 1998, edition size--52.
Epicenter, organized by Sergio Soave, University of West Virginia, 1995, edition size--28.
GUEST TEACHING, WORKSHOPS, AND LECTURES
College of the Sequoias, Lithography, Visalia, CA, 2016
Frogman’s Print Workshop, Lithography, USD, Vermillion, SD, 2015
Frogman’s Print Workshop, Lithography, USD, Vermillion, SD, 2009
Workshop & Lecture, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, 2005
AP Summer Institute, Drawing, Columbia College, Chicago, Ill, 2005
Workshop & Lecture, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, 2004
Lecture, The Body Odyssey, National Association for Humanities Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2003
CREDENTIALS: Alumni Distinguished Professor of Art, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.
Master of Fine Arts, Arizona State University, 1980
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Northern Arizona University, 1977