EDUCATION
- 2004-2006 Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, MI - M.F.A. / Painting
- 2000-2004 Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD - B.F.A. / Painting Major, Liberal Arts Minor
PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 2012-Present Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art Bloomfield Hills, MI - Collections / Library Manager
- 2012-Present Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, MI - OPEN(STUDIOS) Event Chair
- 2009-Present Butter Projects Royal Oak, MI - Co-Founder / Director
- 2009-Present Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, MI - Alumni Circle Committee Member
- 2006-2012 Anton Art Center Mount Clemens, MI - Exhibition / Events / Education Coordinator
- 2006-2008 ArtWorks DaimlerChryslerMetro Detroit, MI - Curator for traveling exhibition
- 2006 Cranbrook Art Museum Bloomfield Hills, MI - Serious Moonlight Art Auction Coordinator
- 2006 Cranbrook Summer Institute Bloomfield Hills, MI - Instructor –Painting in a World of Color
- 2004-2006 Cranbrook Art Museum Bloomfield Hills, MI - Preparator’s Assistant
- 2004-2006 Network Gallery(CAA Alumni Gallery) Bloomfield Hills, MI - Gallery Assistant
- 2002-2004 Zolla Lieberman Gallery Chicago, IL - Gallery Intern / Seasonal Assistant
- 2000-2002 Contemporary Museum of Art Baltimore, MD - Exhibitions Volunteer
AWARDS / GRANTS
- 2008 Daimler Artist Travel Grant
- 2004-2006 Cranbrook Academy of Art Scholarship
- 2003-2004 Competitive Merit Scholarship
- 2003 Winifred M.Gordon Foundation Grant
- 2001-2004 Language and Literature Scholarship
- 2000-2004 Academic Honors Scholarship
- 2000-2004 Presidential Scholarship
- 2000-2004 Maryland Institute College of Art Scholarship
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- 2012 Weasel Camp Flatlanders Gallery - Blissfield, MI
- 2011 Objecthood Compuware - Detroit, MI
- 2011 Who Dares Wins The Butcher's Daughter Gallery - Ferndale, MI
- 2011 The Public Art Project Lemberg Gallery Billboard - Ferndale, MI
- 2011 Painting Coast to Coast Elaine L. Jacob Gallery - Detroit, MI
- 2010 Bandits, Pirates & Outlaws Lost Coast Culture Machine - Fort Bragg, CA
- 2010 Animal Farm Gallery Project - Ann Arbor, MI
- 2010 Blooms, Bugs and Beasts Scarab Club - Detroit, MI
- 2010 Something, Everything Butter Projects - Royal Oak, MI
- 2010 In Spite of the Evidence Gallery Project - Ann Arbor, MI
- 2010 Presence/Absence Paint Creek Center for Art - Rochester, MI
- 2009 Vienna Art Fair - Vienna, Austria
- 2009 Pure Detroit Art Channel - Beijing, China
- 2008 Made in Detroit Galerie Eva Bracke - Berlin, Germany
- 2008 Changing Cities: Bregenz Lisi Hammerle - Bregenz, Austria
- 2008 Holiday Objects Up & Down Paint Creek Center for Art - Rochester, MI
- 2008 People’s Art Festival Russell Industrial Center - Detroit, MI
- 2008 BUY THIS Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2008 Moving Walls: Berlin MONA - Pontiac, MI
- 2008 Drawn Together Community Arts Gallery - Ferndale, MI
- 2008 A Spring Happening Next Step Studios - Ferndale, MI
- 2008 Souvenir Gescheidle Gallery - Chicago, IL
- 2008 HatchBack Juried Show 1923 - Hamtramck, MI
- 2008 Changing Cities: Detroit Three Walls Gallery - Chicago, IL
- 2008 Mailed & Mounted The Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2007 Pin Up Museum of New Art - Pontiac, MI
- 2007 Art Execution The Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2007 Actual Size Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit - Detroit, MI
- 2007 Moving Walls Museum of New Art - Pontiac, MI 2007 Mi Casa es Su Casa VCU Residency Studio - Richmond, VA
- 2006 Degree Exhibition Cranbrook Art Museum - Bloomfield Hills, MI
- 2006 n-tûrprt Northville Art House - Northville, MI
- 2006 Just a Squirrel Tryin’ to Get a Nut Forum Gallery - Bloomfield Hills, MI
- 2006 Cheap Trick Forum Gallery - Bloomfield Hills, MI
- 2006 A Real Allegory Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit - Detroit, MI
- 2005 Beggars Can’t Be Choosers Berkley Front - Berkley, MI
- 2005 Actual Size Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit - Detroit, MI
- 2005 Tiny Billboards Forum Gallery - Bloomfield Hills, MI
- 2004 Summer Love Zolla Lieberman Gallery - Chicago, IL
- 2004 Valentines Exhibition OXOXO Gallery - Baltimore, MD
- 2004 Thesis Show Maryland Institute College of Art - Baltimore, MD
- 2003 Holiday Invitational OXOXO Gallery - Baltimore, MD
- 2003 International Exhibition Center for Art and Culture - Aix-En-Provence, France
- 2003 Mobility Exhibition Meyerhoff Gallery - Baltimore, MD
- 2003 Painting Exhibition Woodward Gallery - Baltimore, MD
COLLECTIONS/ COMMISIONS
- Private collections throughout the United States, Europe and Asia
SELECTED CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
- 2012 “Rising and Falling” Butter Projects - Royal Oak, MI
- 2012 “RAW” Forum Gallery - Bloomfield Hills, MI
- 2012 “Proportional Scale” Butter Projects - Royal Oak, MI
- 2011 “Convergent Currents” Forum Gallery - Bloomfield Hills, MI
- 2011 “Small Wonders” Anton Art Center”- Mount Clemens, MI
- 2011 “An Irresistible Impulse” Butter Projects - Royal Oak, MI
- 2011 “Magic & Mysticism” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2011 “Nude” Butter Projects - -Royal Oak, MI
- 2011 “Cabinet” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2011 “Non-Native” Butter Projects - Royal Oak, MI
- 2010 “Bigger Butter” Butter Projects - Royal Oak, MI
- 2010 “Figure / Ground” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2010 “Spark” Butter Projects - Royal Oak, MI
- 2010 “Doodle” Petitpren Community Gallery - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2010 “Start.Stop.Repeat.” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2010 “Something, Everything” Butter Projects - Royal Oak, MI
- 2009 “Masked” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2009 “Invented Memories” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2009 “Collected” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2009 “Faces” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2008 “Blood Bath City” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2008 “Buy This, Wear That” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2008 “Material Matter” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2008 “Process” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2008 “Mailed & Mounted” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2007 “Pin Up” Museum of New Art - Pontiac, MI
- 2007 “Art Execution” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2007 “Whisper It’s True Name” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2007 “HERE” Museum of New Art - Pontiac, MI
- 2007 “in-stal-la-tion” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2007 “Shoot!” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2007 “ArtWorks” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2007 “ArtWorks” Max M. Fisher DSO - Detroit, MI
- 2006 “ArtWorks” Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2006 “ArtWorks” Max M. Fisher DSO - Detroit, MI
LECTURES / WORKSHOPS / SEMINARS
- 2011 Panel Discussion, Wayne State University - Detroit, MI
- 2010 Artist Talk, Wayne State University - Detroit, MI
- 2010 Artist Talk, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
- 2009 “Successful Submissions” Seminar, Anton Art Center - Mount Clemens, MI
- 2008 “Changing Cities” Artist Talk, Three Walls - Chicago, IL
- 2006 “Studio Practice and Progress” Lecture, Cranbrook - Bloomfield Hills, MI
- 2005 Artist Lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art - Bloomfield Hills, MI
- 2004 Artist Talk, Homewood Flossmoor High - Flossmoor, IL
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Del Valle, Robert, “D-Days Welcome Back” Real Detroit Weekly, November 16, 2011
- Hodges, Michael H., “Art Galleries Pack a Punch this Fall” The Detroit News, October 5, 2011
- Del Valle, Robert, “Stage and Canvas” Real Detroit Weekly, August 9, 2011
- Del Valle, Robert, “Still Spread Across the Board… & On the Walls” Real Detroit Weekly, March 15, 2011
- Hodges, Michael H., “Take In a Feast of Artistic Styles” The Detroit News, January 27, 2011
- Carducci, Vince, "Spark Goes Out Tomorrow" Motown Review of Art, July 23, 2010
- O’Neil, Megan, “The Art of Losing” Metro Times, February 3, 2010
- Meyer, Anouk, "Stilvoller Niedergang", Neues Deutschland, December 10, 2008.
- Ruthe, Ingeborg, "Melancholische Grüße aus Detroit", Berliner Zeitung, December 5, 2008.
- Mazzei, Rebecca, "City of Possibilities", Metro Times, July 23-29, 2008, 24.
- Weinberg, Lauren, “Eminem Domain”, Time Out Chicago, March 20-26, 2008
- Wise, David Mark, “Review: Changing Cities: Detroit / Three Walls”, Newcity Art, March 6, 2008
- Voss, Elizabeth H., "Windy City Trade", The Oakland Press, February 24, 2008, F-3.
- Scott, Melanie, “Mt. Clemens curator is artist in her own right”, “Detroit Free Press”, March 18, 2007, 1.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- “The Trace of Memory and Archive” Exhibition Catalogue, December, 2009
- From Here On Out, Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Book, 2006
