curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL (2017)
American Academy of Art, Chicago, IL (1992) 
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL , Certificate Non-Profit Management (2020)

Art Facilitation and Instruction

Teaching Artist } 2021 CAPE, West Chicago, IL
Contract, 3rd-4th grade

Printmaking } 2020 Naperville Art League,
2018 - 2019  Expressions Graphics • Oak Park, 

Artist Facilitator } 2014 - 2016
The Douglas Center, Skokie, IL. -
Working with special needs adults creating mosaic and mixed media artwork

Precious Metal Clay } 2007 - 2017
Fine Line Arts Center • St. Charles, IL

NEWSWORTHY

2022 Northern PR (poetry/art thoughts)

2021 Fox Valley Art Beat

2020 Glancer Magazine Article 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 July  Down the Rabbit Hole, Cornucopia Tea Shop • Aurora, IL 

2024 April-May *about a girl, Elmhurst Artists' Guild Gallery • Elmhurst, IL 

2023 July-Aug heARTtales, Marlene Deuel Gallery, PCPL • Streamwood, IL

2022 May-June, Lofty Ideals, Village Hall 2nd Floor Gallery • Bartlett, IL

2022 February-March, HeartTales, If These Walls Could Talk • Aurora, IL

2021 September In Light of Shadow, Vogt Visual Arts Center • Tinley Park, IL

2021 August In Light of Shadow, Gary Brown Art Gallery • Aurora, IL

2021 July Inside Voice Revisited, Prairie Center for the Arts, Herb Aigner Gallery • Schaumburg, IL

2020 Inside Voice, Prairie Center for the Arts • Schaumburg, IL

2019 Maiden, Expressions Graphics • Oak Park, IL 

2017 Perspectives, Addison Center for the Arts • Addison IL

JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2024 - Awarded: First Place: “Feather Journey” Midwest Collage Society, Pieces, Crete, IL

2023 October/November : RED, white cube gallery, Chicago, IL 

2023 July/July : POP Art, Aurora Public Art Gallery, Aurora, IL 

2023 June/July : Inspired by Warhol, Elmhurst, IL

2022 June : ReMix, Aurora Public Art Gallery, Aurora, IL 

2021 Dovetail, Exhibition, Intersect Arts Center, St. Louis, Missouri

2021 Engaging Frida, Elmhurst Artist's Guild, Elmhurst Illinois

2021 - Awarded: Third Place: “Always Empty” Midwest Collage Society, Archeological Imagination, Bloomingdale, IL 

2019 - Awarded: First Place: “Soul Sitting” Midwest Collage Society, Thoughts Woven, Park Forest, IL 

2019 - Awarded: Third Place: “Telling the Bees: Delicate Deconstruction”
Midwest Collage Society, Outside the Ordinary • Downers Grove, IL 

2018 - Art Prize Artist, Harris Building • Grand Rapids, MI “She Picked Roses” Woodblock Relief with Oil

2018  Awarded: Honorable Mention: “Of The Same” Midwest Collage Society, Bits n Pieces • St. Charles, IL 

2018 Awarded: Second Place, “Unkept” Studios630 Open Show, Lombard, IL

2018 Awarded: Third Place, Of The Same Creative Insights, Addison Center for the Arts • Addison, IL

2018 Art@the Cafe, Elmhurst College • Elmhurst, IL “Tears or Ice Cream” - mixed media illustration

2018 Her Voice, Expressions Graphics • Oak Park, IL

2017 Art@the Cafe, Elmhurst College • Elmhurst, IL “She Picked Roses” - woodblock relief with oil
“The Power” - Linocut, multi-color reduction print 

2016 ecletík, Park Arts Center • Villa Park IL

PUBLIC ART

2024 Mural: "Chasing Fireflies" - Batavia Art Initiative and The Conservation Foundation, Batavia, IL 

2023 Windows: "Social Portrait" Downtown Aurora, Aurora, IL 

2023 Windows: "Light as a Feather" 1 East Benton, Aurora, IL 

2023 Windows: "Poppy POP" Downtown Aurora, Aurora, IL 

2023 Hydrant: "POPPED" Wheaton Public Art Commission

2020 Mural: "From Darkness" Aurora Public Art Commission

2020 Window “Readers Series” Wheaton Public Library/Arts DuPage

2020 Window, “I Smell Snow” Village of Dundee, Dundee, IL

2020 Window, “Creature Comforts” Village of Dundee, Spa Bleu, Dundee, IL

2020 Window, “Joy to the World” Village of Dundee, Dundee, IL

2018 Mosaic Mural, “Freedom” in collaboration with Chris Zonta and clients
of The Douglas Center, Skokie, IL 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Collage Sisthars Collaborative, Cloth. Paper. Sisthars.

2019 Collage Sisthars Collaborative, Keep Your Edges Glued Down

2020, 2019 - Alliance of Fine Art, Best of the Best Show

MEMBER EXHIBITIONS
2024  Midwest Collage Society, Chromatic Alchemy
2019 Midwest Collage Society, Endless Possibilities • Lemont, IL 
2019 Fall EAG Member Show Awarded:Third Place, “Held High”
2019 Summer EAG Member Show Awarded:Honorable Mention, “Vintage Beach Beauties”