ART EDUCATION
“From the Ashes,” 2024 Conference of the Mid America Print Council, October 2-6, 2024,
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
June 2023, Workshop “From Block to Book,” Karen Kunc, Constellation-Studios, Lincoln, NE
Winter term 2019, Business Practices for Artists, Art and Design 495 at Northern
Michigan University taught by Dennis Staffne.
Fall term 2018, Why America Looks This Way, Art and Design 265 at Northern Michigan
University taught by Mitsutoshi Oba.
Fall term 2015, Drawing and Painting, Art and Design 220 at Northern Michigan
University taught by artist Taimur Cleary.
Winter term 2015, Drawing, Art and Design 120 at Northern Michigan University taught
by artist Michael Letts.
March 2012, Workshop on Woodblock Printing taught by woodcut artist Nick
Wroblewski at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, MN.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, The Guild of Artists and Artisans, Ann Arbor, MI
Member, Huron Valley Council for the Arts, Highland, MI
Member, The Hive at Macon Creek, Clinton, MI
Member, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Traverse City, MI
Member, Mid America Print Council, Nashville, TN
Instructor, Michigan Folk School, Ann Arbor, MI
Awards and Exhibitions
Artist-in-Residence:
May 19-25, 2024, Bonifas Arts Center, Escanaba, MI.
August 8-October 3, 2023, Olepangi Farm, Timau, Kenya.
March 6-13, 2022, May 19-25, 2024, Bonifas Arts Center, Escanaba, MI.
August 9-29, 2021, Mackinac Island Historic Park, Mackinac Island, MI.
October 11-31, 2019, Homestead National Historical Park, Beatrice, NE.
June 20-August 12, 2018, Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Seney, MI.
Exhibitor:
Westside Art Hop, Ann Arbor, MI. June of 2025 and 2026
Art on the Mountain, Lake Superior Art Association, Marquette, MI, September 11-12, 2021.
Art on the Rocks, Lake Superior Art Association, Marquette, MI, July 27 – 28, 2019.
Teacher:
“Woodblock Printing” and “Block Printing 101” at Michigan Folk School January-June 2026 at Michigan Folk
School; “A Printmaking Workshop” in May 2024 and “Block Printing for Nature Lovers” in March 2022 at Bonifas
Arts Center; Mackinac Island in August 2021; Homestead National Monument in October, 2019; Marquette City Art
Center, January and April, 2019; Porcupine Mountains Folk School in August, 2019; Seney National Wildlife
Refuge and Erickson Center for the Arts, June-July 2018; Alberta House, October, 2016.
Solo Gallery Shows:
November 7-29, 2026, Whitewater Arts Alliance, Whitewater, WI
June 12-October 28, 2025, The Hive at Macon Creek, Clinton, MI.
January 27-March 1, 2025, Huron Valley Council for the Arts, Highland, MI.
May 25-June 21, 2024, Lake Effect Arts, Manistique, MI.
February 2020-September 2021 at Marquette City Hall, Marquette, MI.
Summer, 2017, at Erickson Center for the Arts in Curtis, Michigan.
October, 2016, Alberta House Gallery of the Sault Ste. Marie Art Guild, Sault Ste.Marie, MI
July, 2016, SmallWorks Gallery, Arts and Culture Department, Marquette, MI.
Awards:
“Tall Ship” – 2026 North American Print Biennial, Boston Printmakers, Boston, MA,
September 2-November 21, 2026.
“Holding the Fort” – “Secret Spaces,” Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI, October 10-November 1, 2025.
“Kenyan Roadside” – “Highways and Byways,” Crooked Tree Arts Center, Traverse City, MI,
September 9-October 25, 2025.
“Tall Ship” – “2025 Great Northern Art Explosion,” AuSable Artisan Village, Grayling, MI, August
22-September 7, 2025.
“Tall Ship” and “Six Days” – “Scapes,” Gutman Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, May 30-June 28, 2025
“The Story of Homesteading” series, “Culture and Agriculture 2025,” Q Artists Cooperative,
Stevens Point, WI, March 1-April 22, 2025.
“Gallup Park Triptych,” “Fishing Shanties” and “No Concert Tonight” – Crooked Tree Arts Center,
Traverse City, MI, January 14-February 22, 2025.
“The Dialectic” and “Mt. Kenya” – “Surface Impressions 2024,” LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln,
NE, June 21-August 31, 2024.
“Hey, USA, Tear Down Your Dividing Walls” - “Awake! Printmaking in Action,” Ann Arbor Art
Center, Ann Arbor, MI, April 14-May 28, 2023.
“Lake of the Clouds” and “Island Team” – “3rd Annual Juried FPG Print Exhibition,” Fresno
Printmakers’ Guild, November 14-December 31, 2022.
“Earth, Wind, Water and Fire” and “Smoothing the Rough” – “The Four Elements – Earth, Air,
Fire, Water,” MVA Art Gallery, Bethlehem, PA, November 4-29, 2022.
“Sled Dog Team” – “Wonder,” pour-d gallery, Rockford, MI, November 5, 2022-January 14, 2023.
“Island Team” – “Surface Impressions 2022” exhibition, LUX Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE,
June 3-August 26, 2022.
“Carriage Ride” – Mackinac Art Contest, Mackinac State Historic Park, May – October 2022
Bonifas Arts Center, Escanaba, MI, annual “Northern Exposure” Fall Exhibition
2023 – “Lake Superior” woodcut book and “Eden”
2022 – “Island Team” and “Sturgeon River Rapids”
2021 – “Sand River Bay” and “Above Deep Waters”
2020 – “The Story of Homesteading” series of five woodcuts
2019 - “Rocks Along the Shore”
2018 - “Seney National Wildlife Refuge: The Ponds, Marshes and Forests,”
Purchase award: Bay de Noc Community College.
2017 - “Mackinac Bridge”
2016 - “Chickadees”
2015 - “Waves” and “The Sentry”
2014 - “Marquette Light” and “Sled Dog Team”
2013 - “Upper Tahquamenon”
“Earth, Wind, Water and Fire” - “Call and Response” exhibition, Crooked Tree Arts Center,
Petoskey, MI, September 21-December 18, 2020.
“Flowers” and “Night at the Lake” - “Fantastical Flora and Fauna” exhibition, South Haven
Center for the Arts, South Haven, MI, September 25-November 7, 2020.
“The Story of Homesteading” series of five woodcuts -
“Voices of the Midwest,” Fine Line Creative Arts Center, St. Charles, IL, 2020.
“13th Annual North of the 45th,” Devos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University,
Marquette, MI, August 14-September 30, 2020,
“Flowers” - Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center “2020 Michigan Fine Arts
Competition,” July 10 – August 27, 2020, by Juror Kevin Grogan.
“Seney National Wildlife Refuge: The Ponds, Marshes and Forests” – Triptych
“42nd Annual Whitewater Valley Art Competition,” Indiana University East,
October 23-December 31, 2020.
“97th Annual All Media Exhibition,” Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI,
October 18 – November 15, 2019.
“ORIGINAL: Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Prints,” Crooked Tree Arts Center,
Traverse City, MI, September 7-November 14, 2019
“12th Annual North of the 45th Parallel Exhibition,” Devos Art Museum, Northern Michigan
University, June 18-August 9, 2019
“26th Parkside National Print Exhibition,” University of Wisconsin-Parkside Fine Arts
Gallery, Kenosha, WI, May 1 – June 30, 2019
“Flowers” - Lake Superior Art Association Member Exhibition 2020, First Prize
“Lupine” - “Printed Image 7,” Alice Sabatini Gallery, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library,
Topeka, KS, September 7 – October 21, 2018
“Pines” - “11 Annual North of the 45th Parallel Exhibition” exhibition for the summer of 2017,
Devos Art Center, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI.
“Ore Dock” and “Waves” - “Art Now: Printmaking” Exhibition, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor,
MI, February 3 – March 4, 2017
“Skier” – “Wintercharm" exhibition, Lake Superior Art Association, February, 2017.
“Sled Dog Team” - "Wintercharm" exhibition, Lake Superior Art Association, February 2014
