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Selected Fellowships and Awards
| 2005 | Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant |
| 2005 | SNAG Minority Outreach High School Workshop Grant |
| 2003 | Art Jewelry Forum Emerging Artist Award |
| 2003 | NICHE Student Awards Finalist |
| 2002 | Society of North American Goldsmith Educational Endowment |
| 2001 | Society of North American Goldsmith Minority Scholarship |
| 2001 | Ronald Anderson Scholarship |
| 2001 | NICHE Award Finalist |
| 2000 | Vilas Graduate Fellowship |
| 2000 | Edith L. Gilbertson Scholarship |
| 2000 | 72nd Annual Juried Student Art Show Committee Special Recognition Award |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2006 | “Sparkle Plenty 2” Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA |
| 2006 | “The
Necklace Show” Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA |
| 2006 | “ Life INsight: The Human Experience” Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY |
| 2006 | “Investigating Space: Positive and Negative/Illusion and
Trompe L’oeil” “Aaron Faber Gallery, NY |
| 2005 | “Artist’s Choice” Aaron Faber Gallery, NY |
| 2005 | “200 Brooches”, traveling exhibition by invitation Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA |
| 2005 | “Refined”, juried exhibition Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX |
| 2004 | “200 Rings”, traveling exhibition by invitation Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA |
| 2004 | “Sensuous Matter”, juried exhibition June Fitzpatrick Gallery at MECA, Portland, ME |
| 2003 | SOFA-Chicago, The Works Gallery |
| 2003 | “Current Directions: Studio Art Jewelry”, juried exhibition,
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE |
| 2003 | “Evocative Objects - Contemporary Studio Metalsmithing and
Jewelry”, exhibition by invitation Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI |
| 2003 | Portal Wisconsin On-line Gallery, juried exhibition |
| 2002 | “Wisconsin Metalsmiths”, exhibition by invitation Artspace, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI |
| 2002 | “Innovative Tools for Personal Use”, 3M/SNAG competition Center for the Visual Arts, The Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO |
| 2002 | “Future Prospects”, Society of North American Goldsmith
National Student Juried Exhibition Center for the Visual Arts, The Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO |
| 2001 | “Home Turf” CitiArts Space, Madison Municipal Building, Madison, WI |
| 2001 | “Dancing the Tightrope”, juried exhibition The Dahl Arts Center, Rapid City, SD |
| 2000 | “Seduction of Metals”, juried exhibition LeMoyne Art Foundation, Tellahassee, FL |
| 2000 | “Riveting Metal”, juried exhibition Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center, Burlington, VT |
| 1999 | “Garbed - Extending the Body: Experiments in Clothing”
734 Gallery, Madison, WI |
Works Published:
| 2006 | "500 Necklaces", Lark Books |
| 2006 | The Art and Craft of Making Jewelry |
| 2005 | "500 Brooches", Lark Books |
| 2004 | "1000 Rings", Lark Books |
| 2003 | Metalsmith Magazine, "Observations". Spring 2003, Vol 23, No 2, p.14 |
| 2002 | Metalsmith Magazine, Exhibition In Print 2002, Vol 22, No 4, p.14 |