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e d u c a t i o n

1991 School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA - 5th Year Program
1990 School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA - Diploma
1982 Cincinnati Art Academy
1966 Columbia University, BA in Art History
1968 Columbia University, MA in Education, Teachers’s College

e x h i b i t i o n s

2002 Round Top Center for the Arts, solo show, Damariscotta, ME
St. Botolph Club, solo show ’Odysseys’ Boston, MA
2001 Nielson Gallery- ‘Spirit of Landscape’ invitational, Boston, MA
2000 Copley Society- ‘Women Artists in the Back Bay’, Boston, MA
1999 Maine Coast Artist-’Lyrical Abstraction-3 painters 3 views’,Rockport,ME
Nielsen Gallery- ‘Spirit of Landscape’Invitational,Boston,MA
Between the Muse Gallery, Group Show, Rockland,ME
Cushing Historical Society, ME
1998 Between the Muse Gallery Group Show,Rockport, ME
Nielsen Gallery- ‘Spirit of Landscape’ Invitational,Boston,MA
Brickbottom Artist’s Gallery- ‘Small Works Show’,Somerville,MA
1996 Between the Muse Gallery Solo Show,Rockland, ME
1995 Closson’s Gallery, Solo Show, Cincinnati, OH
1994 Contemporary Art’s Center Collection Show, Cincinnati, OH
John S. Ames Gallery Group Show, Belfast, ME
Maine Coast Artist Annual Auction, Rockport, ME
1993 Brickbottom Open Studies, Somerville, MA
1992 Gallery 68 solo show ‘Artist Over Time’, Belfast, ME
1991 The Castle ‘Art Boston’, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts ‘5th Year Traveling Scholars Show, Boston, MA
Grossman Gallery,SMFA, ‘5th Yr Travel Scholarship Exhibition’, MA
1990 Grossman Gallery,SMFA, ‘First Show of the Last Decade’, Boston, MA
Wooden Tent Gallery, Invitational Guest Show MV, MA
1989 Grossman Gallery,SMFA, ‘Annual’, Boston, MA
Copley Society, ‘Salute to Abstraction’, Boston, MA
Closson’s Gallery Solo Show, Cincinnati, OH
1988 Brickbottom, Somerville, MA
1986 Closson’s Gallery Solo Show, Cincinnati, OH
1985 Woman’s Art Club, ‘92nd Annual’, Cincinnati, OH
Gallery at the Old Post Office, ‘Artist Views the City’, Dayton, OH

H i g h - l i g h t e d C o l l e c t i o n s

Cincinnati Art Museum, RSM Collection
Cincinnati Bell Telephone
Margaret Minster
Paul Sittenfeld
Virginia Mattern Collection
C L Reed Collection
Charles Watts
Other private collections

p r i z e s

2002 Fellowship to Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
1991 Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholarship Award, SMFA
1991 Albert H. Whitin Traveling Scholarship Award, SMFA
1991 Copley Society, First Prize
1990 Copley Society, Honorable Mention
1989 Copley Society, ‘Salute to Abstraction’ First Prize
1989 SMFA, Print Department Prize for the Year
1989 Copley Society Group Show, Fifth Prize