Resume
Born: Nov. 4, 1959. Albany, New York
1993 Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture
M.F.A. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL
Graduate Assistant in charge of hot working facility responsible for starting colored glass melting program
Instructor, undergraduate glass blowing class
Assistant to William Carlson
Assistant to Jose Chardiet
Assistant to Francis Whitehead
Vice-President, Craft Guild, 1993
1991 Master of Art in Studio Glass
M.A., Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Member, Joel Philip Myers Glass Blowing Team
Graduate Assistant/Teaching undergraduate advanced glass blowing courses
and funning colored and clear glass furnaces
Scene Shop Design Assistant, Theater Department 1988
1984 Bachelor of Science in Studio Art
B.S., Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT
Academic Concentration in Sculpture; minor in Biology
In charge of glass shop maintenance for three years
Studied with Shea O’Brien, Master Crystal Cutter from Waterford Crystal; studied
the repair of brilliant period glass, cutting and grinding, New Haven, CT, 1982
Post Graduate
2008 Lectured in glass, Bay Area Glass Institute, San Jose, CA.
2003 Lectured in glass, Cleveland Art institute, Cleveland OH.
1994 Lecturing Professor of Glass, University of Sydney, Sydney Australia
1993 Murano, Italy, Pre Graduate Studies
1992 Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA, Studied with Dick Marquist, Dale Chilhuly, William Warmus, and Lino Tagliapeitra
1990 Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA, Studied with Mark Pieser
1992 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, Assistant to Lino Tagliapietra
1991 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, Assistant to Lino Tagliapietra
1990 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME, Studied with Dick Marquis
Jan-June 1986 New York Experimental Glass Shop, New York, NY, Studied Italian-style glass blowing techniques with William Gudenwrath
1985 Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT, Studied in glass
1984 Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC Studied with Richard Ritter and Stephen D. Edwards
Awards and Grants
2010 Best in Glass Madison art Museum Art Show, Madison WI
2008 Visiting lecturer Grant, Bay Area Glass Institute, San Jose, CA
2008 Best in Glass Sausalito Art Show, Sausalito, CA
2006 Best in Show Three Dimensional, Naples Invitational, Naples FL
2005 Award of Distinction Winter Park Art Fair, Winter Park, FL
2005 Best in Show Old Town Art Fair, Chicago, IL
2005 Jurors Choice Award Ann Arbor Art Fair, Ann Arbor, MI
2004 Best in Glass Plaza Art Fair, Kansas City, MO
2004 Best In Show Naples Invitational Art Show, Naples, FL
2004 Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Cohn Family Trust Award, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Best In glass, Naples Invitational Art Show, Naples, FL
2003 Best in Show, Winter Park Art Festival, Winter Park, FL
2002 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington DC, Awarded Merit Award
2002 Award for Fine Crafts, Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival, Reston, VA
2000 Awarded Merit Award, Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
2000 Awarded Founders Award, American Craft Exposition, Evanston, IL
2000 Awarded Judges Choice Award, Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
1999 Awarded Excellence Award – Best in Show, Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
1997 Awarded Fellows Award, American Craft Council Crafts Show Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
1996 Awarded Fellows Award, American Craft Council Crafts Show Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
1996 Awarded Judges Choice Award, Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, Ann Arbor, MI
1995 Awarded Fellow Award, Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, Ann Arbor, MI
1996 & 1995 Awarded Judges Choice Award, herry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, CO
Summer 1992 Awarded Pilchuck Scholarship
Summer 1992 Awarded Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Scholarship
1992 Corning Museum New Glass Review
Summer 1990 Awarded Illinois State University Pilchuck Scholarship
Summer 1991 Nominated for the Corning Glass Foundation Grant for Pilchuck Glass School
1985 Teaching Assistant, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC, under Michael Meilahn and
Art Reed
Exhibitions and Shows
2010 SOFA Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, IL
2010 Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, Canada
2010 Bergstrum Mahler Museum, The “Venecians”
2010 Palm Beach Fine Craft Show, Palm Beach, FL
2010 Coconut Grove Art Fair, Coconut Grove, FL
2010 American Craft Exposition, Evenston, IL
2010 Washington Craft Show, Washington, DC
2010 Madison Museum of Art Art Show, Madison, WI
2009 Old Town Art Fair, Chicago, IL
2009 Palm Beach Fine Craft Show, Palm Beach, FL
2009 Glass Lovers Weekend, Wheaton New Jersey
2009 American Craft Exposition, Evenston, IL
2008 Sausalito Art Show, Sausalito, CA
2008 Belleview Museum Art Show, Belleview, WA
2008 Washington Craft Show, Washington, DC
2008 Palm Beach Fine Craft Show, Palm Beach, FL
2007 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
2007 Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Palm Beach Fine Craft Show, Palm Beach, FL
2007 Old Town Art Show, Chicago, IL
2007 American Craft Exposition, Evenston, IL
2006 Naples Invitational, Naples, FL
2006 Palm Beach Fine Craft Show, Palm Beach, FL
2006 Philadelphia Museum Of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
2005 Old Town Art Show, Chicago,IL
2005 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
2005 Ann Arbor Art Show, Ann Arbor, MI
2005 Winter Park Art Show, Winter Park, FL
2005 Palm Beach Fine Craft Show, Palm Beach, FL
2004 Naples Invitational, Naples, FL
2004 Philadelphia Museum Of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Plaza Art Show, Kansas City, MO
2004 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
2003 Ann Arbor Art Show, Ann Arbor, MI
2003 Naples Invitational, Naples, FL
2003 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
2003 Winter Park Art Show, Winter Park, FL
2002 Washington Craft Show, Washington, DC
2002 Ann Arbor Art Show, Ann Arbor, MI
2002 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
2002 American Craft Council Show, Baltimore, MD
2002 Coconut Grove Art Show, Coconut Grove, FL
2001 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
2001 Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
2001 American Craft Exposition, Evenston, IL
2001 Participant in SOFA Art Fair, New York, NY
2000 Participant in SOFA Art Fair, Chicago, IL
2000 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington DC
1999 Participant in SOFA Art Fair, New York, NY
1999 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
1998 ARIODANTE Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1998 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
1997 Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY
1997 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
1997 Bergstrum Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI
1997 SOFA Art Fair, Miami, FL
1996 Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
1996 Suzanne Brown Galleries, Scottsdale, AZ
1995 Barucci Gallery, Clayton, MO
1995 Belvitro, Miami, FL
1995 Carol James Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
1995 Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Fish Creek, WI
1995 Gallery W. D. O., Charlotte, NC
1995 Grohe Gallery, Boston, MA
1995 Kristopher-Lindsay Gallery, Sarasota, FL
1995 Marx-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Schaff Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Stein Gallery, Portland, ME
1995 The Artful Hand, Boston, MA
1995 The McMillan Gallery, Madison, WI
1995 The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
1995 Vespermann, Atlanta, GA
1995 Walter White Gallery, Carmel, CA
1994 Habitat Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1994 Owen/Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1994 Kittrell/Riffkind Galleries, Dallas, TX
1994-06 Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
1994 St. Louis Craft Guild, St. Louis, MO
1993 Glass Artist Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1993 Marx Gallery, “Beyond Baroque”, Chicago, Illinois, IL
1993 Glass Lovers Weekend, Wheaton Village, NJ
1990-4 Edgewood Orchard Galleries Door County, Wisconsin, Annual Glass Weekend
1991 Marx Gallery, Chicago, IL, Glass Art from Illinois
1991 Gallery L, Hamburg, Germany
1990 Marx Gallery, Chicago, IL, Glass Vessels
1990 Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL
1985 Slater Museum, Norwich, CT
Public Collections
2010 Renwick Gallery of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
2010 Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2009 Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
1999 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
1993 Illinois State University, Normal, IL
1984 Slater Museum, New Haven, CT
Numerous Private Collections
Of note:
The Mendels
The Baxts
The Minkoffs
The Berliners
