After years of fermentation, three once separate parts of my life, macro-photography, quilting, and botany; now come together in my fiber art.

  • Education.

    1985 BA in Fine Arts from Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania

    1983 AA Fine Arts Montgomery County Community College, Bluebell, Pennsylvania

  • Professional Experience.

    Creative Coordinator at the Council for the Arts Chambersburg PA

    Independent Textile Artist Chambersburg, PA
    Southampton, PA

    Photographer & Social Media

    Snavely's Garden Corner, Chambersburg, PA

    The Foundry Art Market, Chambersburg, PA

    Downtown Business Council, Chambersburg, PA

    Artful Dimensions Co-op Fredericksburg, VA

    Teacher

    Quilt Design Classes
    Traditions at the White Swan
    Sew'n Place
    Gettysburg Quilt Shop
    Country Quilt Shoppe

    Foundry Art Market summer - camp & craft classes
    Southampton Recreation Department
    camp & craft classes

  • Exhibitions.

    Fiber Options 2022 (juried) Maryland Federation of Art Annapolis, Maryland

    Form, Not Function 2022: Quilt Art at the Carnegie (juried) Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, Indiana

    Art in the Time of Corona (juried) online gallery Dab Art Co, Los Angeles, California

    Hand Crafted 2022 (juried) BlackRock Center for the Arts Germantown, Maryland

    Material 2022 (juried) d’ Arts Center Norfolk, Virginia

    State of the Art 2021 Pennsylvania State Museum Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

    Surface Design Association
    2021 Earth Matters Watermark Art Center Bemidji. Minnesota

    Virginia Quilt Museum Harrisonburg, Virginia
    2021 No Bounds
    2021 What the Bee Sees solo

    Fiber National 2020 the Workhouse Lorton, Virginia
    Surface Design Association Award of Excellence

    SAQA
    2021 Simple Lines, McLean Textile Gallery, McLean, Virginia
    2021 Textiles in Translation, Gallery at Penn College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania
    2020 No Limits – virtual gallery
    2020 Working with the Muse Strathmore Mansion, Bethesda, Maryland
    Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons Maryland

    Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition 2020 Washington County Museum Hagerstown Maryland

    Edith J. Carrier Arboretum Harrisonburg Virginia solo exhibition 2019

    Franklin County Art Alliance shows Chambersburg Pennsylvania
    2019 Best of Show, First & Third place sculpture
    2018 Second place Florals
    2017 Skip Shull Memorial Award
    2016 First place Florals

    Council for the Arts Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
    1999 Dual Exhibition
    2017 Solo Exhibition: Painting with Fabric
    Miniature Juried show
    2018 Honorable Mention
    2019 Best of Show
    2021 Wearables
    2021 I am Art

    Adams County Arts Council: Annual Juried Show Schmucker Art Gallery Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania
    2018
    2019
    2021
    2022

    Carlisle Arts & Learning Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
    2020 On Thin Ice (juried)
    Member shows
    2022 Going for the Gold
    2021 I RED it somewhere
    2020 True Blue

    Artful Dimensions, Fredericksburg, Virginia
    Dimensional Expressions
    2018 Second Place & Viewer's Choice
    Solo: 2019 Botanical Interests

    SHAPE Gallery, Shippensburg. Pennsylvania
    2018 dual Exhibition: Not Your Grandmother's Art show

    The Barns of Rose Hill Berryville, Virginia
    2019 Into the Woods

    The Foundry Art Market, Co-op Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

    Permanent Public Collections

    WellSpan Health Campus: Patrick O'Donnell Pavilion
    54-40 or Fight

    Cross Keys Village: Art Walk Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
    Helianthus annuus II: Helios quartam

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