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EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts Degree, University of California, Santa Barbara - Art Major

EXHIBITIONS

2024

2024 Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, City of Laguna Beach, CA – Existential Crisis #300: 

I Am Unraveling, and Her Children Were Only Ever Eggs

ARTVenture Juried Arts Exhibition, City of Costa Mesa, CA – Motherhood: VOID – Distinguished Award (First Place) in Fiber Art

ARTVenture Juried Arts Exhibition, City of Costa Mesa, CA – Existential Crisis #200: The Darkness is Creeping In

OC Fair 2024, Orange County Fair, CA – Existential Crisis #300: I Am Unraveling – Judge’s Award

OC Fair 2024, Orange County Fair, CA – Existential Crisis #200: The Darkness is Creeping In – Staff Choice Award

Art That’s Small at City Hall, City of Laguna Beach, CA – Dementia #1: My Mom is Fading Away – Honorable Mention Award

2023

Threads That Bind Exhibition, Muzeo Museum & Brea Gallery, Brea, CA – Existential Crisis #200 & #300, Salvaged Pieces #1 & #2, Where Are My Babies?

Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, City of Laguna Beach, CA – Existential Crisis #100: The Onslaught

59th Annual Juried Art Show – Anaheim Art Association – Missing Child – Auxilia d’Arts Award

All Media 2023, Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA – Motherhood: VOID

OC Fair 2023, Orange County Fair, CA – Existential Crisis #100: The Onslaught – First Place Award & Division Award

Looking Forward/Looking Back, Fullerton Museum, CA – Her Children Were Only Ever Eggs & Missing Child

Spring Fling Show, Laguna Art Gallery, CA – Motherhood: VOID

2022

Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, City of Laguna Beach, CA – Motherhood: VOID - First Place Award

All Media 2022, Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA - Missing Child

OC Fair 2022, Orange County Fair, CA - VOID & Her Children Were Only Ever Eggs

Made in California 2022, Brea Gallery, CA - VOID & Her Children Were Only Ever Eggs

2017 Unlocked Invitational, Lincoln Art Center, KS - Burning

2013 Flowers & Faces, Lincoln Art Center, KS - 3-person show: Series of 14 Altered Photos

2011 Against the Grain: Canvas Transformed, Lincoln Art Center, KS - She: A series of 9 collages

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

Dorland Mountain Arts, 2024

Brea Gallery, November 2023

Dorland Mountain Arts, 2021

PUBLISHED WORKS (art and/or article)

Where Women Create magazine: 2015

An Altered Existence: Fictitious Stories About Faces from the Past (book) 2013

Somerset Memories magazine: 2013

Somerset Studio Gallery - special publication: 2012

Handcrafted - special publication: 2008, 2007

Somerset Studio magazine: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003

Somerset Life: Vol.1 2007

Creative Techniques magazine: 2007

Legacy Magazine: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003

Somerset Wedding: Vol. 1, Vol. 2

Transparent Art - special publication: 2005