Galleries and Exhibitions:
Ethnikologie representation, Lagos, Nigeria, 2022-present.
Tampa Regional Artists, Faces and Figures, 2022. First Place award.
Sweetwater Organic Farm Cafe, Tampa, 2021-present. Solo show July 2021.
Morean Arts Center, Orange Exhibit, 2021, President’s Choice Award, in the collection of First Citrus Bank.
Coastal Properties/Christie’s International Real Estate exhibit, Artfully Aligned, February, 2023.
Warehouse Arts District exhibit, Elements of Nature, 2022. Unexpected Combinations, 2022.
Gulf Coast Artists Alliance exhibit, Abstract 2021; My Environment 2022.
Tampa Regional Artists juried exhibition, Escape Into Abstraction 2021, First Place.
Florida Craft Art Sunrise Sale, 2022, 2019.
Eye Institute of St Petersburg Exhibit, 2021, 2022.
Beach Art Center Exhibition Poetry in Motion, 2022.
Tampa Regional Artists juried exhibition, Art in the Garden, 2020 and 2021.
Tampa Regional Artists, juried Bay Area exhibition, 2020, 2021, 2022.
Morean Arts Center, Pelican Proud, 2020.
Morean Arts Center Members Show 2020, 2022. Holiday exhibit 2022.
Gulf Coast Artists Alliance online competition, 1st and 2nd Place, 2018.
Come Out St Pete Woodfield Fine Art, Finalist 2018.
Spectrum Miami Art Fair, Circle Foundation for the Arts Finalist, 2018.
Woodfield Fine Art Gallery, 2017-2020.
St.Pete ArtWorks Gallery, 2016-2020.
Florida CraftArt, greeting cards, 2017-present.
Tampa Regional Artists juried exhibition, Merit Award, April, 2018.
Morean Art Center, member 2017-present.
Come Out St. Pete 2017.2018.
Cider Press exhibit, "All the World's a Stage", August, 2017." Female Persuasion" 2018. “Life Aquatic” 2018. “Souvenir” 2019.
Suntan Art Gallery, St. Pete Beach, 2015-present. members show honorable mention, 2016; 1st place 2017.
Davidson Fine Art Gallery exhibit, St. Petersburg, Sept., 2016.
Sarasota Fine Arts Festival, March, 2016.
100 Artists Show, St. Petersburg, Nov., 2015, Feb., 2016, Nov., 2016, Feb., 2017, Nov., 2017, Third place open award show.
Dallas Contemporary Design District Market, August, 2014.
Momo’s in the Quadrangle, Solo show, Dallas, 2012-2013; and 2014.
Irving Art Association, TX & Neighbors Regional jurored exhibit, April 2012.
Crooked Tree Coffeehouse, Solo show, Dallas, October 2011.
McKinney Avenue Contemporary member show, August 2011.
League for Innovation Exhibition, representing Brookhaven, at Mountain View College, February 2010.
Under the Influence of Water, The Cedars Gallery, February 2010.
Irving Arts Center, August 2009; 2014.
Trinity Arts Guild, jurored exhibit, May, 2009.
Irving Arts Center, regional jurored exhibit, April 2009.
Studio 2600, 2007.
Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Hallworks, July 2005, June 2004.
Brookhaven Community College, Dallas, Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Spring and Fall 2003.
Texas Visual Arts Association, Dallas, May 2005, October 2003, May 2003, 2001.
Rockwall Artists League, national juried exhibition, juror: Charles Wylie, Dallas Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art, November 2002.
500X, 1999.
Ann Cushing Gantz Studio, 1998.
Professional Organizations:
National Oil and Acrylic Painters’ Society
St Pete Art Alliance
Warehouse Arts District Association
Morean Art Center
Dali Museum
Artists of Tampa Bay
Gulf Coast Artists' Alliance
Florida Craft Art
Women’s Caucus Florida
Education:
Studied painting in Texas, New Mexico, Florida and California under: Carolyn Anderson, Michael Workman, Kim English, Ellen Soderquist, Connie Connally, Marla Ziegler, Suzanne Kelly Clark, Jane Starks, Chong Chu, Don Taylor, Ann Cushing Gantz, Carol Scott, Neverne Covington, and Chancellor Page.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing, St. Louis University
Master of Science in Psychiatric Nursing, St. Louis University
Artwork in the Collections of:
Ethnikologie, Lagos, Nigeria; First Citrus Bank; PLAN of North Texas; Human Rights Initiative, Dallas; Nancy Beck; Mary McDermott Cook; Webb and Debby Spradley; Lakshmi Nayer; Hicks and Vicki Morgan; Dick and Annette Lentz; Claire and John Christian; Sara and Larry Baitch; Mark and Joanne Donheiser; Paul and Patty Walnick; Camille and Scott King; Ezell and Becky Autrey; Peter and Colleen Bowler; Jon and Susan Maxwell; Missy and Michael Collins; Lise Dearborn; Dan and Betsy Garner; Charlotte and Robert McGuire; Valentina and Daniel Doyon;; Monica Bailey; Ashley Cook; Bee Tennyson, all of Dallas; David and Jennifer Sortino, San Francisco; Marie Johnson, San Diego; Javier and Nancy deAnda, Laredo; Christine Truhol Swanson, North Carolina; Barb and Arnie Smith, Houston; Barb and Dan Garton, Wisconsin; Scott and Maria Schaffer, Delaware; Karen Touche Lightstone, Nova Scotia; Eric Dazey, Van Buren, Missouri; Tom and Mary Logan; Philip DeWitt and Pam Gipson; Christoper Gipson; Elizabeth Durbin; Margaret Madden; Glenn and Cathy Vatterott; David and Tina Danforth, all of St. Louis. Barb and Mark Morganfield, Virginia; Patty and Paul Walnick, Colorado; Ann Pritchett Palms, Oklahoma; Lakshmi Nayar, Dallas.
Professional Service:
Online auction of my paintings, donations for Ukraine, 2022.
Pass-A-Grille Woman's Club Fundraiser donated painting, 2018.
Art support group volunteer instructor at CASA (Community Action Stops Abuse), St. Petersburg, 2017-2019.
Empath/Suncoast Hospice Fundraiser, Wine, Art and Heart, St. Petersburg, 2017.
Initiated art program at Planned Living Assistance Network (PLAN), which provides support for persons with severe mental disorders; instructor of painting January 2006-2014.
Curated and hosted art exhibit of PLAN members’ work at Continental Lofts Gallery, September 2008 and April 2010.
Initiated art program at Austin Street Shelter, 2007; instructor of painting 2007-2011.
Conducted research on the use of visual art as a means of self-expression in adolescent drug abusers at the State Psychiatric Hospital, St. Louis.
Art donated to Dallas Contemporary auction, 2010.
Art donated to Aids Services of Dallas auction, 2012.
Art donated to The Hockaday School of Dallas auction, 2000, 2006.
Art donated to Human Rights Initiative, Dallas, 2013, 2019.
Art donated to Genesis Women’s Shelter, Dallas, 2014.
Art donated to Cancer Support Community North Texas fundraiser, 2012.