1974 Born in Bonne Terre, Missouri
Currently lives and works in Lee’s Summit, Missouri
Education
2003 MAT, Webster University, Kansas City, Missouri
1999 BSE, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
1996 BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Art in the Park, Lawrence, Kansas
2024 Westport Art Fair, Kansas City, Missouri
2024 Art in the Park, North Kansas City, Missouri
2024 Mulvane Art Fair, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
2024 Homage, Solo Exhibition, All Souls Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2024 Smoky Hill River Festival, Salina, Kansas
2024 Art Spoken, Valdosta National 2024, Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta, Georgia
2023 Winter Artists Market, Art School Gallery, Lee’s Summit, Missouri
2023 Small Works Show, 80 Santa Fe Gallery, Overland Park, Kansas
2023 Artists Who Teach, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri
2023 Fall Into The Arts, Columbia, Missouri
2023 Art Fest, Chive and Transparent Brewing Company, Grandview, Missouri
2023 Peaceworks Art Fair, Kansas City, Missouri
2023 Kansas City Art Institute Alumni Show, Southmoreland Inn, Kansas City, Missouri
2023 Art In the Park, Lawrence, Kansas
2023 Art Westport 2023, Kansas City, Missouri
2023 Trauma-In-Place: Chautauqua National Juried Exhibition, Eastern Kentucky University, Kentucky
2023 Great Northern Art Explosion, Grayling, Michigan
2023 Works on Paper, The Firefly Artists Gallery, Northport, New York
2023 Made in the USA: Freedom of Expression, TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2023 Downtown Overland Park Art Festival, Overland Park, Kansas
2023 Lincoln Arts Festival, Lincoln, Nebraska
2023 Smoky Hill River Festival, Salina, Kansas
2023 Mulvane Art Fair, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
2023 “Environments”, Kavanagh Fine Lines Gallery, Saint Charles, Illinois
2023 MidWinter Art Fair, Ward Parkway Center, Kansas City, Missouri
2022 Solo Exhibit, The View, Grandview Arts Council, Grandview, Missouri
2022 “Artists Who Teach,” Ellington-White Contemporary Gallery, Fayetteville, North Carolina
2022 Art Fest, The Chive, Grandview, Missouri
2022 Art in the Park, Lawrence, Kansas
2022 “State of the Arts,” R.G. Endres Gallery, Prairie Village, Kansas
2022 LANDSCAPE ART Special Event, Life in the West Art Gallery, Bloomfield, Colorado
2022 Arts KC Now Showing, Community America Credit Union, Kansas City, Missouri
2022 “2nd Annual We’re Doing It ALL Wrong” Art Exhibition, Ed Dixon Gallery, Dayton, Ohio
2022 Mulvane Art Fair, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
2022 “Bold Color, Bold Works,” Tim Murphy Gallery, Merriam, Kansas
2022 “Long Story Short”, Webster Arts Center, Webster Groves, Missouri
2022 “35th Northern National Art Competition”, Nicolet College Lakeside Center, Rhinelander, Wisconsin
2022 Solo Exhibit, The Chive, Grandview, Missouri
2022 “Mid Winter Art Fair,” Ward Parkway Center, Kansas City, Missouri
2022 Arts KC Now Showing, Garmin Headquarters, Olathe, Kansas
2022 Valdosta National 2022, Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta, Georgia
2021 Art North International 27, Friends of the Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, Minnesota
2021 Small Works Member Show, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri
2021 Open Call Juried Show, MVA Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2021 Fall Into The Arts, O’Fallon, Missouri
2021 Art in the Park, Lawrence, Kansas
2021 Westport Art Fair, Kansas City, Missouri
2021 “Viral Hope,” Bitfactory Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2021 “Tangled Roots,” InterUrban Art House, Overland Park, Kansas
2021 Arts KC Now Showing, Waldeck & Patterson, Prairie Village, Kansas
2021 MidSummer Art Fair, Ward Parkway Center, Kansas City, Missouri
2021 Floyd Center for the Arts 2021 Juried Exhibition, Floyd, Virginia
2021 Kansas City Water Garden Tour, Belton, Missouri
2021 “Women’s Works 2021,” Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, Illinois
2021 Laumeier Art Fair, virtual art fair, St. Louis, Missouri
2021 “Art At The Center,” Johnson County Arts and Heritage Center, Overland Park, Kansas
2021 “Missouri Art Now,” multiple locations, state of Missouri
2021 “The Healing Power of Art,” Fine Line Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, Illinois
2020 “Tangled Roots,” InterUrban Gallery, Overland Park, Kansas
2020 “Emerge,” D’Art Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2020 Phoenix Gallery Show, Lawrence, Kansas
2020 “Political Discord,” Las Laguna Gallery, online exhibit, Laguna Beach, California
2020 “First Annual Fiber Exhibition,” Stockyards Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2020 “Artists Who Teach,” Ellington-White Contemporary Gallery, Fayetteville, North Carolina
2020 “Politically Charged,” Blue Line Arts, Roseville, California
2020 Solo Exhibit, The Chive, Grandview, Missouri
2020 Laumeier Art Fair, virtual art fair, St. Louis, Missouri
2020 “Bank of the Arts National Juried Exhibition,” Cravens Art Gallery, New Bern, North Carolina
2020 “Liturgical and Sacred Art 2020,” Springfield Arts Center, Springfield, Illinois
2020 Mid Winter Art Fair, Ward Parkway Center, Kansas City, Missouri
2020 “Finding Your Voice in America Today,” Kelwood Contemporary Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2020 “Digraph//Reservoir,” Intersect Arts Center, St. Louis, Missouri
2019 Solo Exhibit, Lee’s Summit City Hall, Lee’s Summit, Missouri
2019 “Speaking of Fibers, Stories of Importance,” Maryville University, St. Louis, Missouri
2019 “Out of My Comfort Zone,” Lillian Yahn Gallery, O’Fallon, Missouri
2019 “Look Me In The Eye, Portraits of Kansas City”, Epsten Gallery, Leawood, Kansas
2019 “Innovative Artists Series,” Alaris, Kansas City, Missouri
2019 Art Westport 2019, Kansas City, Missouri
2019 “Tangled Roots,” InterUrban Gallery, Overland Park, Kansas
2019 Arts KC Now Showing, Burns & McDonnell Solo Exhibit, Kansas City, Missouri
2019 “May Group Show,” Jones Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2019 Missouri Art Educators Member Show, Kansas City, Missouri
2019 “March Group Show,” Jones Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2019 Mid Winter Art Fair, Ward Parkway Center, Kansas City, Missouri
2018 “Summit Art Group Show,” Got Art Gallery, Lee’s Summit, Missouri
2018 “Taos Art Insurgency: The New Protagonists,” Greg Moon Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
2018 Missouri Art Educators Member Show, Branson, Missouri
2018 “Art At The Center,” juried show, Tomahawk Ridge Community Center, Overland Park, Kansas
2018 “Mid Winter Art Fair,” Kansas City, Missouri
2018 “Abstract,” Paper Birch Gallery, North Kansas City, Missouri
2016 “Blue”, Colors of Humanity Gallery colorsofhumanityartgallery.com
2010, 2009, 2008 “Feminine Perspective,” Black Door Gallery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
2007 “River Market Regional Exhibition,” Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri
1999 “Dot’s Art,” National Juried Show, Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
1999 “Art for the Health of It,” Southeast Missouri Hospital, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
1996 “The Writing on the Wall,” Laubauch Literacy Center, Kansas City, Missouri
Awards
2019 First Place, fiber, Missouri Art Educators Member Show, Kansas City, Missouri
2018 First Place, printmaking, “Mid Winter Art Fair,” Kansas City, Missouri
2018 Third Place, printmaking, Missouri Art Educators Member Show, Branson, Missouri
1999 Best in Show, “Art for the Health of It,” Southeast Missouri Hospital, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Artist Residency
2023 Newnan Art Rez, Four Weeks, Newnan, Georgia