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Education:

Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture, The University of Alabama, 2007
B.F.A., Painting, B.S., Biology, Mathematics Minor, Birmingham-Southern College, 2000

Exhibitions:

2008

UP: An exhibition of hovering, folding, inflating or wheeling sculpture, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts,
Grand Rapids, MI
University of Alabama Sculpture, Malone Gallery of Fine Arts, Troy, AL
The Impossible Dream, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Tampa, FL
Bohemian Rhapsody (Collaborative Dance & Sculpture), Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre (ARDT), Morgan Theater, Tuscaloosa, AL
Department of Art All Faculty Show, Sarah Moody Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL

2007

Simple Truths, Group Exhibition, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
2007 Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Combined Talents: Florida International, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
“Between Space” Lobby installation, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Twenty-fourth Juried Open Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, TX
Southworks National 2007 Juried Exhibition, Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation, Watkinsville, GA
Grand Opening Reception, Kronos Gallery, Staunton, VA
Empirical Nature, M.F.A. Solo Exhibition, Woods Hall Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL
2nd Birmingham Biennial, Schedler Minchin Fine Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2007 Bi-State Art Competition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS 
“Celebrating Architecture with Art” 2007 National Juried Exhibition, Memphis Germantown Art League, Collierville, TN
The Texas National 2007, SFA Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX
ASL Juried Exhibition, Woods Hall Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL
Projekt30 Juried Exhibition, Online Exhibition, www.projekt30.com
All Media, National Juried Exhibition, Gallery 180, The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago, IL
Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition, Dupont Gallery II, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
National Art Premiere 2007, Elmhurst Artists’ Guild Gallery, Elmhurst, IL
National Juried Art Show 2007, Englewood Cultural Arts Center, Englewood, CO
21st International Juried Show, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

2006
West Alabama Juried Art Show, Arts Council of Tuscaloosa, Jr. League Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL
Nature of Habit, M.A. Solo Exhibition, Woods Hall Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL
The Down East Juried Sculpture Competition, East Carolina University, Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC
University of Alabama Graduates Show, Woods Hall Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL
ASL Art Students Relief Auction, Woods Hall Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL
University of Alabama Graduates Show, Huntingdon Art Gallery, Montgomery, AL
Assistance group show, Woods Hall Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL

2005
The Down East Juried Sculpture Competition, East Carolina University, Emerge Gallery, Greenville, NC

Professional Experience:

Full-time Temporary Instructor, The University of Alabama, 2008-2009
Part-time Temporary Instructor, The University of Alabama, 2007-2008
Graduate Teaching Assistant, The University of Alabama, 2004 – 2007
Chair of the Exhibitions Committee, Art Students League, 2006/2007
International Sculpture Conference- Crossroads Cincinnati 2006
Southeast College Arts Conference (SECAC) in Little Rock, Arkansas, 2005
extensive volunteer renovation of Arts Construction Building for University of Alabama Sculpture Students, 2005
Land Surveyor Draftsman for Brooks & Brooks, Inc., 2005-2007
Student Coordinator of Auction Events for Fund Raiser, Dept of Arts & Sciences, University of Alabama, 2005
Assistant to Tara Donovan for Installation at Birmingham Museum of Art, 2005
Painting and photography in New Zealand, 2003
Arts in Provence, France; Painting under Instructor Richard Kenton Webb of the Slade School of Fine Arts, 1999

Awards (Fellowships, Grants):

Merit Award, “Celebrating Architecture with Art” 2007 National Juried Exhibition, Memphis Germantown Art League, Collierville, TN
B.J. Sprankle award, Twenty-fourth Juried Open Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, TX
Director’s Award, Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Purchase Award, 2007 Bi-State Art Competition, Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS
Runner-Up, Living Artists, 15th Edition 2006 Cover Contest, Art Network
National Alumni Association Graduate Fellows 2004-2005 Stipend
University of Alabama Travel Grant to attend International Sculpture Consortium’s Sculpture Conference in New Orleans, LA