EDUCATION
Xavier University - Cincinnati, OH 1988-1990
Columbus College of Art and Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Summa Cum Laude 1993
GRANT/COMMUNITY SUPPORTED PROJECTS
*GLOBAL MINDS “Language Tree Mural”
Worked with 25 ESL students and 25 native English speaking students to design and paint language trees in Wilkins School Community Center. Financial support from Pittsburgh Cares, in-kind support from Global Minds and Wilkins School Community Center
*2017 Welcome to Fineview and Perry Hilltop/ Unity Corner
Working with artist, Linda Wallen, Fineview and Perry Hilltop Communities and the students of the Pittsburgh Project to create a mosaic welcome sign for park-let located at Perrysville Ave and Federal St.
*2016 Negro Baseball League Public Murals.
Worked with high school students at The Pittsburgh Project to restore abandoned lot and create 9, 4x8'panels featuring famous Negro League baseball heroes and celebrate the league. Project enriched the students’ skills and enhanced their sense of their racial identity. Improved the street-scape in an urban area and educated the community about positive African American role models. The panels erected in The Corner of Hope formerly the Josh Gibsonlot at the intersection of Wilson and Burgess Street in Perry Hilltop. Students honored by Pittsburgh Pirates, 2017.
*2014 $1000 Artist Opportunity Grant from The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
To ship artwork to Santa Fe International New Media Festival and ZaneBennett Contemporary Gallery
Selected microprocessor driven works exhibited in Santa Fe International New Media Festival, Circuitscapes and figurative works exhibited in ZaneBennett. In connection with the Pittsburgh Technology council.
*2011$15,000 Art and Design Oriented Neighborhood Projects forLantern
A public art project commissioned by the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Grable Foundation as a part of the Charm Bracelet Project Fund. The sculpture made in collaboration with The Pittsburgh Project and Jill Joyce, architect. The Lantern is a replica of an 1850’s lantern used by escaping slaves. Stainless steel footprints represent a path towards freedom. Landscaped grassy area also contains bench and 3 Japanese Maples. The area where the Lantern green space is now located used to be a rubble filled lot where two homes used to stand. It was not functioning in a positive way for the community. Now groups meet at the Lantern, light shines from it at night creating a safer area, and families can play in the grass. There has been farmer’s markets and other community events such as the walk for peace started at the Lantern. 10’ x 10’ x 22’ steel lantern, 100’x 82.5’ public green space. The Big Dipper and Little Dipper constellations have been cut into the steel top of the lantern, allowing the light to shine out. Lanterns of this kind were used to lead slaves towards freedom. The project inspires community members to remember the past and the strength it took for slaves to reach freedom.
Completed summer of 2012
*2009 $25,000 Voices of Youth: Art in the Public Grant Award, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Grable Foundation
$3,000 Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Supporting Grant.
Funds used to create LISTEN! The North Side Girls Have Something to Say! This is a youth driven public artwork that helped teenage girls develop self-confidence through exploring their identity as young African American women living on the Northside. Collaborating with girls chosen from youth service organizations; The Pittsburgh Project, Manchester Youth Development Center, Project Destiny and New Hope Neighborhood, along with arts organizations; Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Artists Image Resource and theChildren’s Museum of Pittsburgh to create an interactive map. The sixth, seventh and eighth grade girls, usingvideo monitors installed in a bas-relief, silk screened map tell what it is like for them to grow up on Pittsburgh’sfractured North Side.
2008, 2012$6,000 Art and Design Oriented Neighborhood Projects
A Path to Peace
Public art project, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Grable Foundation as a part of the Charm Bracelet Project. Designed in collaboration with The Pittsburgh Project and Perry Hilltop Community. Four etched polycarbonate coke bottle green pieces with famous quotes about peace. Originally installed in Peace Garden in Fowler Park. Reinstalled in 2012 in Terraced Garden located at The Pittsburgh Project.
COLLECTIONS
2016Dick Blick Art Supply LLC
2015Butler County Health System
2011-15Pittsburgh Technology Council (interactive awards)
2014Magee Women’s Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2011WEBB Law, One Gateway, Pittsburgh, PA
Cirque Du Soleil, Lynn Heward, Creative Director, Quebec, Canada
2006Del Monte, Pittsburgh, PA
2004St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Diocese of Columbus, OH
Asbury Automotive, New York, NY
2002Citizens Bank, Pittsburgh, PA
The Public Employees Retirement System of the State of Ohio
Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business, Columbus, OH
2001Bishop Hartley High School, Columbus, OH
1999St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Diocese of Columbus, OH
1994Larson Drawing Collection at Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
COMPLETE PUBLIC ART LISTING
2017This is Fun P&G Diner Shadyside
2017Unity CornerCreated with Linda Wallen and Pittsburgh Project Middle School Students
2016Corner of Hope Created with The Pittsburgh Project High School Students
2015Space Cat and Friends P&G Diner Mt Lebanon
2012Lantern, North Side- Pittsburgh, PA
2011Articulture Community supported art program modeled after Farmers markets
2010VolunTeen Art Exhibit 2010, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
LISTEN! The North Side Girls Have Something to Say! Pittsburgh, PA
2009A Path to Peace, Pittsburgh, PA (re-installed 2012)
2008Sunfish, Citiparks, Pittsburgh, PA
2007Pamela’s Does Disco, (mural) Squirrel Hill, PA
2006Fastball, (mural) for MLB All Star Game in collection of City of Pittsburgh
New Perspective, (mural) Oakland Business Improvement District, PA
20051920’s Brilliant Pharmacy, (mural) Lincoln Pharmacy and P&G Diner, Pittsburgh, PA
Pamela’s Does the 60’s, (mural) Oakland, PA
Shadyside Industries, (concrete bas-relief) Pittsburgh, PA
It’s in the Attic, (mural) Millvale, PA
Bass Fish with B. Reneski, C. Seifert, for Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh
2004Welcome to the Strip, (mural) Pittsburgh, PA
Millvale Children’s Mural, Millvale, PA
2003A Walk Through Millvale, (mural) Millvale, PA
Industrial Strength Corn, Columbus, OH
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015Bridging the Landscape, BE Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
2012Circuitscapes BE Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
2007A Variation of Unknown Medical Significance Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016ReNew Festival Juried Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA
2014Currents Santa Fe International New Media Festival2014 (Pittsburgh Tech Council) New Media Transforms Tradition, ZaneBennett Contemporary Art Santa Fe NM
Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2014, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg
2012-16BRA-Breast Reconstruction Awareness Exhibition, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA
2010Art of the State: Pennsylvania 2010, The State Museum of Pennsylvania
Art and Technology Exhibit, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh Technology Council.
20092009 Art + Technology Annual Exhibition (Carnegie Mellon Univ. CREATE Labs)
2008In The Making 250 Years, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
The Intersection of Art and Technology, Pittsburgh Technology Council
Altered States Pittsburgh Print Group juried exhibit, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
2005Anatomy of a Community, UC Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University
Oxidation group exhibition, Le Poire Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2004AMP juried exhibition, Andy Warhol Museum
2002Miami University National Young Painter’s Competition (Finalist)
65th Annual Midyear Exhibition, Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, OH
2000Hoyt Regional Juried Exhibition, Hoyt Institute of Fine Art ,New Castle, PA
64th Annual Midyear Exhibition, Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, OH
120 Miles, Studio 615, Cleveland, OH
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/INTERVIEWS
2015Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Bridging the Landscapes, Review by Kurt Shaw
2012Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Circuitscapes, Review by Kurt Shaw
2011National Public Radio WPSU, morning broadcast about Articulture, March 4
2010New American Paintings, 15th Anniversary Issue (Juried Magazine)
StudioVisit, Vol 15 (Juried Magazine)
Printmakers Today Edited by Jeffery B. Snyder, cover art and pgs 132-135
2009Pittsburgh Tribune Review Putting it in Print review by Kurt Shaw 1/1
2008Studio Visit, Vol. 4 (Juried Magazine)
2006The Bridges of Pittsburgh by Rob Regan, photos by Tim Fabian
2004It’s the Neighborhoods WQED/R. Sebak documentary for PBS
Pittsburgh Tribune Review City and Region section 9/18
New American Paintings, Vol. 51 (Juried Magazine)
2003Columbus Dispatch, Industrial Strength Corn, Accent Section, 11/12
Pittsburgh Tribune Review 8/30, 9/9, 10/8
WPXI July 19 evening, July 20 morning Newscast (Millvale)
2001New American Paintings, Vol. 33(Juried Magazine)11/3/18
Pittsburgh City Paper, Review 4/16
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
*2010 - present The Pittsburgh Project
Visual Art Instructor 2-12 grades
Sequential arts instruction to children whose families have fewer financial resources with which they can purchase private instruction.
2014, 2016Foster Elementary School Mt Lebanon.
Artist Residency
Worked with 4th and 5th grade students to create their Library Mural showing the difference between Fiction and Non-fiction. (2014). In 2016 we focused on abstract expressionist, color field and action painting.
2011-2015Father Ryan Arts Center
Visual Arts Instructor
Saturday morning classes. Reader’s Theater Program
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OTHER EXPERIENCE
2006-2008 Phil Fraley Productions
Exhibit Preparator
Samples of jobs: Restoration and duplication of Dryosaurus, T-rex, Corythosaurus, Camptosaurus for Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Gray Fossil site for East Tennessee State University, and Four Seasons a Mural for Inwood Nature Center Manhattan
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