Education

B.F.A. Photography with Honors; Indiana University, 1997

M.A. Art Education with Honors; Indiana University, 2002

M.F.A. Photography candidate; Indiana University

 

Exhibitions

Extremely Shorts 9

Aurora Picture Show, 2006

Houston, TX

National Juried Film & Video Festival

 

HERshorts International Film & Video Festival

Plugged Video Collective, 2006

Tuscon, AZ

International Juried Film & Video Festival

 

The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction: 1st Annual Juried Erotic Art Show

Indiana University, 2006

Bloomington, IN

National Juried Art Exhibition

 

Being in Body

Weber State University, 2006

Ogden, UT

“refuge” narrative video

National Juried Photograpy Exhibition

 

7x7:  A Collaborative Experiment in Transition and Interpretation

 Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2005

Invitational MFA Photograpy Exhibition

 

IDEAS Festival (interactive digital environment, art & story telling)

Neal Marshall Black Culture Center, Indiana University, 2005

Bloomington, IN

Juried digital arts festival.  Best Narrative Award.

 

Fuller Project, 7x7 Collaborative Exhibition

McCalla School, 2005

Bloomington, IN

Group exhibition

 

DigitalART Show

School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana Unversity, 2005

Bloomington, IN

Invitational group exhibition

 

Five Indiana Photographers

Prima Gallery, 2005

Bloomington, IN

Invitational group exhibition

 

ArtsWatch

Louisville, KY, 2001

Juried exhibition with two additional artists

 

ZONA Gallery

Cambridge, MA, 2000

Invitational solo exhibition

 

Whispers ‘97

San Diego, CA, 1997

Juried exhibition

 

National Society of Arts and Letters

John Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington, IN, 1995, 1996, 1997

Juried exhibition

 

Awards and Honors

IDEAS (interactive digital environment, art & story telling) Festival Prize

Indiana University, 2005

Best Narrative for 5 minute video, “Refuge”

 

Grant-in-Aid Scholarship

Indiana University, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, 2005

 

Pi Lambda Theta Education Honor Society

Indiana University, School of Education, 2002

Honored for outstanding achievement in education

 

Della Fricke Award

Indiana University, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts and School of Education, 2001

Honored for outstanding achievement in art teaching and fine arts

 

Lowell Scholarship

Indiana University, School of Education, 2001

Honored for outstanding achievement in art teaching

 

Outstanding B.F.A. Student

Indiana University, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, 1997

Highest award in fine arts program given to one B.F.A. undergraduate selected among all art departments

 

Outstanding B.F.A. Photography Student

Indiana University, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, 1994 & 1995

 

Eleanor Kahn Memorial Award for Photography

National Society of Arts and Letters, John Waldron Arts Center, 1997 & 1998

 

Honors Grants

Indiana University, Honors Division,1995, 1996, 1997

 

Teaching Experience                                  

Indiana University, Henry Radford School of Fine Arts, Bloomington, IN

Associate Instructor, Spring 2005

Adjunct Instructor, Spring 2004

Assistant Instructor, Spring 1996

Fundamentals of Photography, S291. Taught technical, formal, and conceptual aspects of black and

white photography.

 

Monroe County Community School Corporation, Bloomington, IN

Full-time art teacher, Tri-North Middle School, 2002-2003 and 2005-present Principal, Dr. Gale Hill

Part-time art teacher, Templeton Elementary School, 2003-2004 Principal, Catherine Deirsing

Part-time graphic design teacher, Bloomington High School South. 2003-2005  Principal, Mark Fletcher

 

Brown County School Corporation, Nashville, IN

Substitute teacher for multiple classrooms, Brown County High School, Spring 2002

Student teacher for multiple art classrooms, Brown County High School.  Supervising professor, Deb Strother;  Supervising teacher, Steve Fitzgerald, Spring 2002

 

Indiana University Wright School of Education, Bloomington, IN

Assiociate Instructor 2001-2002

Supervised art education student teachers in prestigious Saturday Art School program for students ages 4 – 13, 2001 & 2002.  

Team-taught photography and bookmaking to middle school students, 2000

 

Monroe County Youth Shelter, Bloomington, IN

Instructor of photography for adolescents in local youth shelter under the guidance of Dave Torneo

Summers 2001 and 2002

 

John Waldron Art Center, Bloomington, IN  1997-1998; 2001

Art teacher and recreational leader for city program, Project Break Away, for at-risk middle school-aged youth and teens from Aurora Alternative High School , 2001

Art teacher for community intervention program, Leave Out ViolencE (LOVE), with guidance by Dr. Miriam

Davidson, 2001-2002

Instructor of black and white photography, teen and adult classes, 1997-1998

 

Certification

Indiana Visual Arts Standard; K-12 Teaching License, July 2002

 

Other Employment

Graduate Assistant, Indiana University, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Fall 2004

Mantained color and black & white darkrooms.

 

Professional Freelance Photographer, Boston, New York, Indiana, 1998 - present

weddings, social events, portraits, etc.

 

Custom Black and White Printer, ZONA Professional Photographic Labs, Cambridge, Mass, 1999-2000

Provided custom commercial and fine art printing for artists such as Henry Horenstein and Annie Leibovitz

 

Custom Black and White Printer, Magnum Photography, New York, NY, 1999

Printed black and white prints for Magnum’s 50th Anniversary book

 

Photographer/Videographer/Production Assistant, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 1997-98

Collected and organized media for interactive marketing CD-ROM which included a virtual reality tour of campus. Shot hundreds of stills and created more than 250 panoramas.  Project received Summit Marketing Award, among other awards.

 

Custom Printer, Bloomington, IN 1996

Assisted Professor Jeff Wolin printing his exhibition for “Written in Memory:  Survivors of the Holocaust

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