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Education                            


2008 - Masters of Fine Art - Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield 
Hills, Michigan

2006 - Bachelors of Fine Art in Visual Art, Cum Laude, with an emphasis in sculpture Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia

2000 - High School Diploma, Cum Laude
South Point High School, South Point, Ohio

Selected Honors


2008 - Cranbrook Museum Purchase Award 

2007 - Recipient of an Emerging Artist scholarship, Jan and Marsha Miro, Fanfare 2007 
         - Faculty juried Merit Award Scholarship recipient, Cranbrook Academy of Art 
         - Accepted into Chrysler Financial Services juried exhibition 

2006 - Nominated for the International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award
         - Awarded a First, a Second, and a Third place prize in Sculpture, Mixed Media, and Advanced Drawing categories: Marshall University’s 19th Annual Student Juried Exhibition

2005 - Marshall University Dean's List
         - President of Marshall University Sculpture Club
         - Marshall University Dean's List
         - Emerging Artist Scholarship, Huntington Museum of Art

2004 - Emerging Artist scholarship, Huntington Museum of Art

2003 - Marshall University Dean's List

2002 - Continuing Excellence Scholar and Scholarship Recipient Ohio University
         June Ohio University Dean's List

2001 - Ohio University Dean's List
         - Ohio University Dean's List
         - Ohio University Dean's List

2000 - Ohio University Dean's List
         - Freshman Excellence Award and Scholarship Recipient Ohio University
         - Graduate Cum Laude, South Point High School, South Point, Ohio

Professional Experience


2008 - Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Sculpture, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan. Taught by Amy Feigley.

2007 - Ideas & Processes Tour Guide, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

2006 - Installation assistant, electrical tech. "Representations: Mine. Yours. Ours." St. James Arcade, Downtown Huntington, West Virginia. Works by Seth Cyfers, Clay Mcnearney, Allen Toney, and Chris Worth

2005 Assistant Installation Coordinator of Sculpture Senior Show at Joan C. Edward’s Playhouse
         - Removal and Packing of Willie Cole’s “The Elegba Principle” Installation, Huntington Museum of Art

2003 - Installation of Community Works Project, Guyandotte, WV
         - Marshall University Sculpture Studio Technician & Work Study

Selected Exhibitions                                 

2014 - "Morsels & Minutiae," Apartment Earth Gallery, Charleston, WV

2014 - Alumni Juried Exhibition, Marshall University Visual Arts Center Opening, MU VAC, Huntington, West Virginia

2008 - “Here & Now,” International Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
         - “Vibrio,” Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
         - “Un-Shelved: An Altered Book Project,” Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, Michigan (Image of work featured in the Detroit Free Press, Fri. Feb. 8th)

2007 - Annual Sculpture Department Exhibition, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
         - “Exquisite Narratives,” Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
         - Chrysler Financial Services juried exhibition and one-year art loan program, Chrysler financial services, Farmington Hills, Michigan 
         - Group Show: "Show Me What You're Working With!" Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

2006 - Group Show: “Appalachian Landscape: Bob Ross Don’t Live Here No More.” Pullman Square Ancillary Gallery, Huntington, West Virginia, Curated by Seth Cyfers, to benefit Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
         - Group Show: "Social Fabric-Ation," Student Juried Exhibition, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
         - Accepted into Marshall University’s 19th Annual Juried Exhibition in three separate categories
         - Accepted into Marshall University President’s Gallery Juried Exhibition

2005 - Advanced Drawing Exhibition: Morris Gallery, Downtown Huntington, West Virginia
         - Accepted into Professor Juried Exhibition at Joan C. Edward’s 
Playhouse in 2D and 3D Categories
         - Accepted into Marshall University’s 18th Annual Student Juried 
Exhibition 
         - Group Show: "Representations: Mine. Yours. Ours." St. James Arcade, Downtown Huntington, West Virginia. Works by Seth Cyfers, Clay Mcnearney, Alan Toney, and Chris Worth.
         - Accepted into Marshall University’s 19th Annual Student Juried 
Exhibition in three separate categories
         - Accepted into Marshall University President’s Gallery Juried Exhibition

2005 - Advanced Drawing Exhibition: Morris Gallery, Downtown Huntington, West Virginia
         - Accepted into Professor Juried Exhibition at Joan C. Edward’s 
Playhouse in 2D and 3D Categories
         - Accepted into Marshall University’s 18th Annual Student Juried 
Exhibition 

Related Experience


2008 - Structural soldering demo/workshop and introduction to low and standard voltage, ac and dc electrical wiring. Multiple courses of sculpture at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan. 

2008 - Guest lecturer, project assistant, “Automate,” a section of Introduction to Sculpture course through the Mentor Program at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan. Taught by Chido Johnson.

2005 - Willie Cole Assemblage Workshop, Huntington Museum of Art

2004 James Watkins Glass Casting Workshop, Huntington Museum of Art

Selected Collections


Cranbrook Museum of Art
39221 Woodward Ave. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48303


Maxine & Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art
1671 Lochridge Rd. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48302



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