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Education:
Master of Fine Arts (Jewelry Design and Metals): Miami University Oxford, OH Jun '11

• Graduate Teaching Assistantship (2008-2011)
• Instructor of record for course ART 165 Beginning Metals (2008-2010)
• Instructor of record for course ART 264 Jewelry Design and Metals I (2010-2011)   
• Studio monitoring responsibilities and supply ordering
• Grant research and writing for equipment and funding
• Designed a new course and a new workshop that were approved to be taught during the summers of 2009 and 2010
• Participation in and completion of ART 601 Graduate Student Teaching Enhancement
• Graduate Study in Metals and Advanced Research Problems with Distinguished Professor Susan Ewing
• Graduate Assistant Seminar with Professor Tracy Featherstone
• Feminist Art History Seminar with Dr. Ellen Adams
• Graduate Student Teaching Enhancement Program with Dr. Cecilia Shore
• Participant and organizer in Miami Metals annual jewelry sale
  
  

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Crafts: Jewelry, Metals, and Enameling): Kent State University Kent, OH Dec '06

• Graduated Magna Cum Laude
• Art Scholarship
• Trustee Scholarship
• President's and Dean's List
• Jewelry and Metals I with Megan Auman
• Textile Arts: Pictorial Weaving with Professor Janice Lessman-Moss
• Enameling and Advanced Enameling with Professor Katy Bergman Cassell
• Textile Arts: Pattern and Textile Arts: Feltmaking with Professor Robin Haller
• Advanced Jewelry and Metals I with Professor Kathleen Browne
• Metalsmithing with Corey Ackelmire
• Textile Arts: Tapestry with Professor Christine Mastroianni
  
  

Areas of specialization: textile techniques in metalsmithing and enameling

Exhibitions:
2014:

• Earthly Delights: Metalsmiths Inspired by Nature, Chicago, Illinois
• Best of 2014, traveling exhibition, Columbus, Ohio

2013:

• Coalescence: revisited, solo show, Hudson, Ohio
• COATED Innovative Jewelry and Nail Exhibition, Brooklyn, New York
• Best of 2013, traveling exhibition, Columbus, Ohio

2012:

• Works in 3-D, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
• 9th Annual Fiber Arts Show, Peninsula, Ohio
• Natural Systems, two person show, Columbus, Ohio
  

2011:

• Alchemy, Enamelist Society traveling exhibition, Gatlinburg, TN
• Coalescence: crochet and wire works, MFA exhibition, Oxford, Ohio
• Plastic+Metal, Crafthaus online exhibition
• Best of 2011, traveling exhibition, Columbus, Ohio
• Centennial Alumni Exhibition II: Nexts, Kent, Ohio

2010:

•  First Bagues Masriera International Enamel Award, Barcelona, Spain 
•  Reassembled (KSU Jewelry/Metals/Enameling Alumni Exhibition), Kent, Ohio
•  Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio 
•  Emerging Artists, Columbus, Ohio
•  Best of 2010, traveling exhibition, Columbus, Ohio
•  Crocheted Cavalcade, solo exhibition, Los Angeles, California

2009:

•  Intro: Art and Fashion Competition, semi-finalist, Los Angeles, California
•  3-D Invitational, Richmond, Indiana
•  L'art de la Joaillerie (Art of Jewelry), Crestview Hills, Kentucky
•  Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Columbus, Ohio
•  Open Forum, Oxford, Ohio

2008:

•  Undecided, Oxford, Ohio

2007:

•  Fusion, Enamelist Society exhibition, Columbus, Ohio

2006:

•  The Artists Within Show, Kirtland, Ohio
•  Home Away from Home, BFA exhibition, Kent, Ohio

Public Art:

• St. Leo's Church Mural, designer and director, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2009

 
Grants and Awards:

• 2010 Thesis Research Award
• 2010 Graduate Achievement Award (fall semester)
• 2010 Grant for Graduate Award Holder to Improve Teaching
• 2010 Graduate Achievement Award (spring semester)
• 2010 Graduate Student Association Travel Award 
• 2009 Grant for Graduate Award Holder to Improve Teaching
• 2008 Sinisa Lenac Graduate Studio Award

Publications:

• 2013 Textiel Plus, included in Signalment, a section dedicated to showcasing artists’ websites
• 2013 Showcase 500 Art Necklaces, color photo of Sabellida Motif Collar
• 2012 The Columbus Dispatch, exhibit review of Natural Systems
• 2012 Showcase 500 Rings, color photos of Blue Ring and White Ring
• 2010 antennamag.com, solo exhibition mentioned in article
• 2009 The Columbus Dispatch, Pineapple Vessel mentioned in State Fair article
• 2006 "The Business of Body Adornment," essay, Authors of Tomorrow, published

Memberships/ Professional Societies:

• Golden Key International Honour Society
• Society of North American Goldsmiths 2009-2011
• Metals Arts Guild 2010-2011
• Ohio Designer Craftsmen 2010-2012
• Crafthaus 2009-2012
• Ohio Art League 2011-2012