Resume

EDUCATION

2019-2022 MFA University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

2015-2018 BFA Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

2014-2015 Owens Community College, Toledo, OH

AWARDS

2022 Best of Show, The Lakeland Art Guild 50th Annual Melvin Gallery Art Online Exhibition, Lakeland Art Guild, FL

2022 Best in Show, The Virtual Art Show Gallery, heartsneedart.org/gallery

2021 Special Merit, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery

2018 Medici Circle Cup Best of Show, BFA Show, Bowling Green State University, OH

2017 The Bev Fisher Award, Findlay Art League Fall Show, Findlay Art League, Findlay, OH

2017 Honorable Mention, Findlay Art League Fall Show, Findlay Art League, Findlay, OH

2017 Bowling Green Arts Council People’s Choice Award, NOWOH Exhibition, Bowling Green, OH

2017 Toledo Federation of Arts Societies Award, NOWOH Exhibition, Bowling Green, OH

2017 Honorable Mention in Digital Imaging, Student Show, Bowling Green State University, OH

2017 Honorable Mention in Painting, Student Show, Bowling Green State University, OH

2015 First Place, Juried Student Show, Owens Community College, Toledo, OH

2015 Third Place, Juried Student Show, Owens Community College, Toledo, OH

2015 Honorable Mention, Juried Student Show, Owens Community College, Toledo, OH

2014 Third Place, Juried Student Show, Owens Community College, Toledo, OH

SCHOLARSHIP

2021 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

2020 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

2019 Research Assistantship, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

2017 James W. Strong 2D Tuition Scholarship, Bowling Green State University

2017 Ringholz Art Supplies Award In 2D Studies, Bowling Green State University

EXHIBITIONS

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2022 BETWIXT & BETWEEN, MFA Thesis Exhibition, MFA Gallery, Louisville, KY

2022 Asia in Motion, Cressman Center for Visual Arts, Louisville, KY

2020 Closer: A Curated Digital Gallery Experience, Toledo, OH

2019 ‘On Being’ Travel Art Exhibitions

– Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI,

– Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN,

– Artspace/Lima – Art Gallery, Lima, OH

2017 Winner’s Circle Exhibition, Four Corners Center, Bowling Green, OH

JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2022 The 76th Ohio Annual Exhibition–ONLINE, Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, OH

2022 The Lakeland Art Guild 50th Annual Melvin Gallery Art Exhibition–ONLINE, Lakeland Art Guild, FL   

2022 WITHIN Juried Online Exhibition, Art-Fluent Online Gallery, art-fluent.com

2022 2021″I No Longer Fear Death, I Fear Not Living” Art Show, The Virtual Art Show Gallery, heartsneedart.org/gallery

2022 FIGURES Juried Online Exhibition, Art-Fluent Online Gallery, art-fluent.com

2021 OSL Juried Exhibition, Cressman Center for Visual Arts, Louisville, KY

2021 FATE: Infrastructure 2021 Juried members (Virtual) Exhibition

2021 10th Annual ‘All Women’ Online Art Exhibition, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery

2020 Five Themes Project Exhibition “Weathered,” Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2018 BFA Juried Exhibition, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

2017 Freedom of Expression Exhibition, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA

2017 NOWOH 2017, BGSU Fine Art Galleries, Bowling Green, OH

2017 Findlay Art League Fall Show, Findlay Art League Gallery, Findlay, OH

2017 Juried Student Show, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

2015 Juried Student Show, Owens Community College, Toledo, OH

2014 Juried Student Show, Owens Community College, Toledo, OH

BENEFIT EXHIBITIONS

2018 TSA Undisclosed, Toledo School of Art, Toledo, OH

2017 TSA Undisclosed, Toledo School of Art, Toledo, OH

WORK EXPERIENCE

2022-Now Adjunct Faculty, Owens Community College, Perrysburg, OH

2022-23 Mural Painter, Graphite Design and Build, Crane Creek State Park, Oak Harbor, Toledo, OH

2020-22 Teaching Assistant, 2D Design. University of Louisville, KY

2018-19 Mural Painting Assistant, Graphite Design and Build ProMedica Museum of Natural History, Toledo, OH

2018 Mural Painting Assistant, Premedical Park Garage, Toledo, OH

2010-11 Digital Art Instructor, Digital Art Studio, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China

2007-10 Book Editor, Tianjin Yang Liu Qing Painting Society Publishing House, Tianjin, China

2005-07 Book Illustrator, Tianjin Diversified Cartoon Company, Tianjin, China

PUBLICATIONS

2022 The Melvin Gallery 50th Annual Art Exhibition 2022, May 14, 2022. YouTube.

2022 Award-Winning Artists Interview, “I No Longer Fear Death, I Fear Not Living” Virtual Art Show.

2022 Artists Talk with LVA, Asia in Motion Art Exhibition 2022, January 19, 2022.

2020 Toledo Blade, Art Supply Depo exhibition explores coronavirus, May 21, 2020, p.16.

2019 Artists Talk with LVA, Open Studio Weekend LVA’s Artebella On The Radio, October 24, 2019.

2019 On Being, Realism and BGSU School of Art Painting and Drawing Program, June 29, 2019

2018 Prairie Margins, Bowling Green State University. p. 41-44. Front Cover and Back Cover.

2016 Prairie Margins, Bowling Green State University. p. 43.

2010 Illustrations for Children Book, The Children of Captain Grant. China Publishing Group Corp.

2007-11 Serialized Comics, Roams, Sina Com.

2007 Illustrations for Children Book, Variety Closet- Pretty Princess. Diversified Cartoon Company. Hubei Children’s Publishing House.

2006 Illustrations for Children Book, Variety Closet-Fantasy Elves. Diversified Cartoon Company. Hubei Children’s Publishing House.

2006 Illustrations for Children Book, Reading, and Drawing. Diversified Cartoon Company. Printing Industries Publishing House.

2006 Illustrations for Children Book, Elf Princess (Coloring Book). Diversified Cartoon Company. Hubei Children’s Publishing House.

2006 Illustrations for Children Book, Elf Fairy (Coloring Book). Diversified Cartoon Company. Hubei Children’s Publishing House.

JUROR

2017 Juried Student Show, Owens Community College, Toledo, OH

NOMINATION

2020-2021 Faculty Favorites Award Nomination, University of Louisville, KY