Education
2005 EDGE Professional Development Program for Visual Artists
Artist Trust, Seattle, Washington
1985 Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Exhibitions
2008 ‘Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate’, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana

‘Hand to Hand: 100 Artists Comments on the Iraq War’, Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, Georgia

'08 Preview Show, Museo Gallery, Langley, Washington

2007 ‘High Tech – Low Tech’
South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, Washington
Margo Jacobsen Gallery, Portland Oregon
‘Craft Biennial ‘07: A Review of NW Art &Craft’,Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon
’ANA 35 National Juried Art Exhibition’,Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
‘The Goblet Redefined’, Mobilia Gallery, SOFA NY
‘Salmon for the Sandy’, Western Rivers Conservancy, Portland, Oregon
‘Animalia’, Allied Arts, Richland, Washington

2006 Northwest Designer Craftsmen Confluence Gallery, Twisp, Washington
Society for Ecological Restoration Conference, Galiano Island, British Columbia
‘Beneath the Surface’, Xchanges Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
‘Nature’s Wonders’, Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, Washington
‘Crafts National 40’, Pennsylvania State University
State College, Pennsylvania, Juror: Mark Leach
‘Needle Culture: Contemporary Mixed Media Textiles’
Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, Arizona
‘27th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition’, Mesa Contemporary Arts
Mesa, Arizona, Juror: Jane Milosch
‘Picturing the Corps of Discovery – the Lewis and Clark Expedition in
Oregon Art’, Oregon State Capitol Building, Salem, Oregon

2005 ‘Craft Forms 2005’, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, Pennsylvania
Juror: David Revere McFadden
‘Looking Forward, Glancing Back: Northwest Designer Craftsmen at 50’
Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, Washington, Curator: Lloyd Herman
‘Combined Talents: The 20th Annual Florida International Competition’
Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
‘Craft Biennial ‘05: A Review of NW Art &Craft’
Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon
‘Provoking Thought - One Bead at a Time’, Snohomish County Administration
Building, Everett, Washington

2004 ‘Textile Art 2004 – Northern Fibre V’, Reykjavik Art Museum
Kjarvalsstadir, Reykjavik, Iceland
‘Digital Origins: Emerging American Textile Artists’, Craft Liberation Front
& Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
‘Bead International’, Dairybarn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio
‘26th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition’, Mesa Contemporary Arts
Mesa, Arizona, Juror: David Revere McFadden

2003 ‘Craft Biennial ‘03: A Review of NW Art &Craft’
Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon
’Lewis & Clark Native Plant and Natural History Show’
The Gallery at Columbia Center, St. Helens, Oregon
‘South Seattle Community College 9th Annual Community Art Show’
Seattle, Washington
‘Journey’s End National Art Exhibition: Revisiting the Lewis and Clark
Expedition’, Astoria, Oregon

Collections
Museum of Arts and Design, New York City

Awards and Fellowships
2006 Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center
2005 Honorable Mention, ‘Combined Talents: The 20th Annual Florida
International Competition’
Honorable Mention, ‘Craft Biennial ‘05: A Review of NW Art &Craft’
2004 Earthwatch Institute Art & Archaeology Fellowship
Juror’s Award, ‘26th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition’
Juror: David Revere McFadden
2003 The Lewis Award (3rd), ‘Journey’s End National Art Exhibition’

Residencies
2006 Vermont Studio Center

Bibliography
Kieffer, Susan Mowery, ‘ 500 Baskets: A Celebration of the Basketmaker’s Art’, Lark Books 2006
Krautwurst, Terry, ‘500 Beaded Objects: New Dimensions in Contemporary Beadwork’, Lark Books 2004
Batchelor, Carolyn Prince, ‘Lewis and Clark Revisited – In Beads’, Fiberarts Magazine, Nov/Dec 2003

Affiliations
Northwest Designer Craftsmen
Artist Trust
Surface Design Association
Textile Society of America