Education
Master of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Master of Education, Human Resource Education: e-Learning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
Bachelor of Science, Painting and Graphic Art, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Exhibition Record
Solo Exhibitions
2024. Atmospheric Conditions. College of Lake County, Grayslake IL.
2023 Out of the Blue. ARC Gallery, 1463 West Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL
2021 Shadow Walks - ARC Gallery, 1463 West Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL
2018 Glimmer ARC Gallery. 1463 W. Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL
2008 Girls, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL
2000 “Tipped Planes” McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL
1998 “Landscape Series II” Barrington High School Art Gallery, Barrington, IL
1997 “The Space Between” Graphic Source Art Gallery, Barrington, IL
“Landscape Series I” Graduate Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
1996 “What-A-Color” BAAC Gallery at Barrington Area Library, Barrington, IL
1994 “Harvest Series” BAAC Gallery Walk, Graphic Source Art Gallery, Barrington, IL
Three Person Exhibitions
2001 “Tipped Planes” Gallery 510 Arts Guild, LTD, Decatur, IL
Juried and Group Exhibitions
2024 Doomscapes and the Digital Beyond, ARC Gallery. Chicago. Curator and Juror Curtis Anthony Bozif.
2023 In View 2024 The Art Center Highland Park. Highland Park, IL
Internal Perspectives. Ceres Gallery 547 W 27th St, New York, NY
Recent Works. Wright Gallery, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
Absurdity, In Dada We Trust. The Art Center Highland Park. Highland Park, IL. Juror Sally Edelstein.
Absurdity, In Dada We Trust. Stola Contemporary, Chicago IL. Juried.
Resolute. ARC Gallery, 1463 West Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL
2022 ID Show. Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
49th Annual Members Show. ARC Gallery, 1463 West Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL
Small Works. Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 Small Works. Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Imagining Futures. ARC Gallery, 1463 West Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL
2020 ARC Gallery Member’s Show, ARC Gallery, 1463 West Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL
Faculty Show, Wright Gallery, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL.
2019 NOW: 46 Years and Counting. Members Show ARC Gallery, 1463 West Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL
McHenry County College Art Faculty Exhibit, MCC, Crystal Lake, IL
ID Show Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
2018 ARC Gallery Pop-Up Members Exhibit. ARC Gallery, 1463 West Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL
“ID Show” Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
"Faculty Faculty" Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, IL
"Taking a Risk" ARC Members Exhibit. ARC Gallery, 2156 N. Damen, Chicago, IL
2017 "It Figures" ARC Gallery, 2156 N. Damen, Chicago, IL
2017 Quad-State Biennial. Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL - Honorable Mention Award
“Seeing RED” ARC Gallery, 2156 N. Damen, Chicago, IL
McHenry County College Art Faculty Exhibit, MCC, Crystal Lake, IL
2014 McHenry County College Art Faculty Exhibit, MCC, Crystal Lake, IL
2012 McHenry County College Art Faculty Exhibit, MCC, Crystal Lake, IL
2008 Members Show, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Around the Coyote, Flat Iron Arts Building, Studio 344, Chicago, IL
Flat Iron Art Festival, Flat Iron Arts Building, Studio 344, Chicago, IL
2006 “Icons and Alters, Artist’s Interpretations of Their Inner Spiritual Life” Northwest Cultural Council, Rolling Meadows, IL
“Icons & Alters”, Bloomingdale Park District Museum, Bloomingdale, IL
2003 "16th Annual Northern National Art Competition" Nicolet College Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI.
"Planet Earth: Landscapes and Vistas" Prairie State College Christopher Art Gallery Chicago Heights, IL
“Women’s Works 2003" Northwest Area Arts Council, Woodstock, IL
"Icons and Altars" Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
McHenry County College Art Faculty Exhibit, MCC, Crystal Lake, IL
2002 “Untitled” Erman B. White Gallery, Butler County Community College, El Dorado, KS
"52nd Annual Quad-State Exhibition" Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
“The Broad View” Group 22, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
“2 x 2 x 2” Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL
2001 "Living on the Prairie, Living on the Plains" Coutts Memorial Museum of Art, El Dorado, KS
"51st Annual Quad-State Exhibition" Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
"Winterthaw 2001" Gallery 510 Arts Guild, LTD. Decatur, IL
"Urban Edges V" Barrington Area Arts Council, Barrington, IL
"Me, Myself and I", 22 Group, Brickton Gallery and Art Center, Park Ridge, IL
Columbia College Art Faculty Art Exhibit, Columbia College, Crystal Lake, IL
"Me, Myself and I", 22 Group, Barrington Area Arts Council, Barrington, IL
McHenry County College Art Faculty Exhibit, MCC, Crystal Lake, IL
2000 57th Annual Salon Show, Northern Indiana Arts Assoc., Munster, IN
"Winterthaw 2000" Gallery 510 Arts Guild, LTD. Decatur, IL
"Urban Edges IV" Barrington Area Arts Council, Barrington, IL
7th Annual Members’ Show, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Books, Boxes, and Small Work", Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
"Seeding the Snow" Prairie View Preservation Center, Crystal Lake, IL
1999 "Seeding the Snow" Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
"The Garden Show" Brickton Gallery and Art Center, Park Ridge, IL
"49th Annual Quad-State Exhibition" Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
"Women’s Works 1999" Northwest Area Arts Council, Woodstock, IL
"Urban Edges III" Barrington Area Arts Council, Barrington, IL
1998 "The Garden Show" Brickton Gallery and Art Center, Park Ridge, IL
"Small Packages" Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
"22 on View Presents: Books and Boxes", A.R.C., Chicago, IL
"The Gift of Art" Barrington Area Arts Council, Barrington, IL
Grand Opening, Deiber Fine Arts, Lombard, IL
"The Art Around Us" Barrington Area Arts Council, Barrington, IL
Awards and Honors
2017 "Honorable Mention" 2017 Quad-State Biennial. Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
1999 “Best of Show”, WinterThaw, Gallery 510 Arts Guild, LTD. Decatur, Illinois
- Work also selected by juror for show postcard
1999 “Honorable Mention”, Women’s Works, NAAC, Woodstock, Illinois
1999 “Honorable Mention”, Urban Edges, BAAC, Barrington, Illinois
1998 “Award of Merit”, BAAC Members show, Barrington, Illinois
Publications
2000 “Art of the Prairie,” Northwest Herald. Reproduction of work on front page of paper.
2000 “Field Art, Inspired Landscapes,” Rolling Meadows Review
1999 Seeding the Snow, Reproduction of artwork on Winter edition cover.
Teaching
Current
1998 - Present: McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL
Art Appreciation, Art History I, Art History II, Contemporary Art History, History of Photography, Humanities Through the Arts, Non-Western Art Forms, Beginning Drawing and Composition, Beginning and Advanced Watercolor, Independent Study Watercolor, Color Theory, Art Appreciation - Honors Section
2001 - present: Columbia College of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri - Online Campus
2007 - 2019: Columbia College Study Abroad Program. Travel with students each May and teach related art course(s).
2019: Ecuador and Galapagos Islands.
2018: China. Course - Three Perfections: Chinese Poetry, Painting, and Calligraphy. English and Art Interdisciplinary course
2017: Peru. Course - Art and Architecture of Peru
2016: Scotland and London. Course - Image and Word - British Romanticism. English and Art Interdisciplinary course
2015: Italy - Rome, Sicily, Pompeii. Course - Art and Architecture of Italy: Rome, Sicily and Pompeii
2014: Central Europe: Berlin, Prague, Dresden, Auschwitz, Krakow, Budapest. Course - Art, Architecture, and Design of Central Europe: Austria-Hungary in 1890 – 1920, German Expressionism, the Bauhaus, and the Nationalist Socialists campaign against Modernist and avant-garde art in the 1930’s
2013: Belize and Guatemala: Lamanai, Xunantunich, Uaxactun, Tikal. Course - The Maya: Sacred Landscape and Cosmology
2012: Turkey and Greece. Courses - Art of Greece and Turkey and Geometry of Turkish Ceramics. Co-taught with instructor of Math
2011: France: Paris, Nice, Monaco, Arles, Avignon, Loire Valley. Courses - Nineteenth Century French Art and French Impressionism and Post Impressionism
2010: Spain: Barcelona, San Sebastian, Madrid, Seville, Cordoba, and Morocco. Course - Art and Architecture of Spain
2007: Italy: Rome, Assisi, Florence, Verona, Venice, Italian Riviera, and Milan. Course - Art and Architecture of Italy
Additional Travel: Southern Africa 1989 - 1991
1999 - 2001: Columbia College Nationwide Campus, Crystal Lake, IL
Color Theory; Watercolor III, IV, V
1999 - 2012: University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL
American Art History; Exploring the Fine Arts; Understanding Literature and Arts - Interdisciplinary Course
Current Research
Aesthetic Theory
Recent Research
“The Cult of the Theotokos: The Function of Post-Iconoclastic Icons in Constantinople”
“The Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh (“Compendium of Chronicles”) and the Role of Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ilkhanid Manuscript illumination”
“Beauty, Spectacle, and the Sublime - Immanuel Kant and Guy Debord: Beauty and Spectacle in Contemporary Culture”
“The Codex Azcatitlan: Indigenous and European Imagery of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec"
“On Alain Badiou’s The Communist Hypothesis”
Additional Experience
Assistant Gallery Director 1991-1998 Graphic Source Art Gallery, Barrington, IL. Organized show schedules with Director. Curate and hang monthly exhibits. Created ad campaigns for gallery events and promotion of art shows.