EDUCATION

M.A., Creative Writing, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

B.F.A., Painting, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

Lorenzo de'Medici Academy, Florence, Italy

PUBLICATIONS

Amy Inspired, a novel

Feeling for Bones, a novel

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2014 Untitled Installation, MAHEC Family Medicine Center, Asheville, North Carolina

2012 Specimens, The McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, Virginia

2011 Milieu Intérieur, Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, Virginia  

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Tableau: Contemporary Still Life, (forthcoming) Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina

2024 A Beautiful Still Life, Summer & Grace Gallery, Ontario, Canada

2023 The Small Hours, The Cotton Mill Studios, Asheville, North Carolina

2022 Winter Show, The Greenhill Art Center, Greensboro, North Carolina

2021 Group Show, Summer, The Haen Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina

2019 SWEET, The Greenhill Art Center, Greensboro, North Carolina

2019 Who’s Afraid of Red? Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, North Carolina

2016 Winter Show, The Greenhill Art Center, Greensboro, North Carolina

2015 Art Biologic, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY

2015 Asheville Percussion Festival, The Odyssey School, Asheville, North Carolina

2015 Alumni Show, The McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, Virginia

2011 Third Annual Regional Juried Art Show, Riverviews Art Space, Lynchburg, Virginia

2010 New Members Show, The McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, Virginia

2009 Bethesda Foundation Art Project, Bethesda Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio                                                   

2009 Annual Cultivate Beauty Exhibition, The 930 Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky

2008 The Human Form in Contemporary Art, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

2008 Annual Cultivate Beauty Exhibition, The 930 Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky

2007 Transforming Culture, VAM Gallery, Austin, Texas

2005 Reunion Exhibit of Works in Oil, Middletown Art Center, Middletown, Ohio            

2005 Allotropy: Art & Music Showcase, Primary Colors, Indianapolis, Indiana

2005 Emerging Artist Exhibition, The Mockbee Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio              

2003 Whitewater Valley Annual Art Competition, Indiana University East, Richmond, Indiana

2001 Regional Ohio Governor's Youth Award Exhibition, James A. Rhodes Office State Tower, Columbus, Ohio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consultant & Registrar, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina, 2023 - present

Senior Associate, The Haen Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina, 2016 - 2021

Resident Artist and Gallery Committee Member, The McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2010 - 2013

Visiting Instructor, Miami University, Oxford Ohio and The University of Dayton, Dayton Ohio, 2007 - 2010

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

“Inspirational Fiction & The Promiscuous Reader,” The Festival of Faith and Writing, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan

“The Writer as Reader,” panel discussion with Kevin Brockmeier & Carey Wallace, Calvin College, 2012

“Pinpointing Genres,” panel discussion, The Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2011

Panel discussion and book signing with author Martha Moody, Books by the Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2007

Exhibitor Author, The NYC Book Expo, New York City, New York, 2007

Reading and book signing, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 2007

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Graydon Head and Ritchey, Cincinnati, Ohio

Siemens Family Law, Asheville, North Carolina