Education:
AAS Advertising Design and Illustration, SUNY @ M.V.C.C.
BS Education, SUNY @ New Paltz
BFA Painting, Syracuse University
Woodstock School of Art: Oil Painting Technique Hong Nian Zhang, Advanced watercolor with Richard Segalman, Abstract Painting, Jenny Nelson
Affiliations: Signature member : Central New York Watercolor Society. Cazenovia Watercolor Society
Awards/ Residencies:
Solo Watercolor Show “Finding Beauty in Unexpected Places, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, N.Y. 2024
Cooperstown National Juried Exhibition 2024
Cooperstown National Juried Exhibition 2023
New England Watercolor Society Biennial, Duxbury, Mass. 2020
Castle Hill Center for the Arts: Edgewood Residency, Truro, Mass. 2019
Loring Coleman Award: New England Watercolor Society juried show, September 2018.
Merit Grant and Residency: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. February 2018
Agora Gallery International Art Competition, Cash award of $1000 2018 Jurors: Kathy Battista, Sharon Matt Atkins, Amanda McDonald Crowley
Recipient of the Syman Art Painters Award: Cooperstown Art Association 2009
Recipient of the Margaret Bevier Wright Memorial Prize Cooperstown Nationals 2015
Exhibited: Cooperstown 2020 National Juried exhibition
Cooperstown 2020 Regional Juried exhibition
New England Watercolor Society Biennial Show, Duxbury, Mass.
Arkell Museum, Juried Show , Canajoharie, New York
Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY : Solo show 2022
Cooperstown National and Regional show 2021 Schweinfurth Museum and Art Center, Auburn, New York, “Made in N.Y.” Juried exhibition 2019 New England Watercolor Society Biennial Show, Duxbury, Mass. 9/18 Skaneateles Arts Council Juried Art Show and Sale July 2018, Skaneateles, New York Broad Street Gallery, Hamilton, N.Y. Solo Exhibition June 2018 Cooperstown Regional Juried Show, Cooperstown Art Association, 2018 Schweinfurth Museum and Art Center, Auburn, New York, “Made in N.Y.” Juried exhibition 2018 Broad Street Gallery, Hamilton, New York 1/2018 Cooperstown National, Juried Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association, 2017 The Smithy Gallery, 55 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown, NY, Group Show: Abstracts, 2017 Cooperstown National, Juried Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association, 2016 The Smithy Gallery, 55 Pioneer Street, Cooperstown, NY, Member Show 5/2016 Cooperstown Art Association Regional Art Show, Juried Exhibition, Cooperstown, N.Y. 20016 Schweinfurth Museum and Art Center, Auburn, New York, Juried exhibition 2016 Woodstock School of Art Group Exhibition, Woodstock, N.Y 11/2015 Cooperstown National, Juried Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association, 2015