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education
2006 MFA | Virginia Commonwealth University, VCUarts, Ceramics Concentration, Richmond, VA
1999 BFA | Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Ceramics Major w/teaching certification, Philadelphia, PA
1996 AFA | Keystone College, La Plume, PA
exhibitions
2021 Spot Light, Alma’s Gallery, Richmond, VA
2020-21 Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat | The Second Decade, Hope Horn Gallery at University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
2021 Calling to Who We Are, 2020 NCECA Concurrent Exhibition (rescheduled due to COVID-19 Shut Down), Cincinnati, OH
2020 VCUarts Ceramic Alumni Exhibition, (canceled due to COVID-19 Shut Down) the Anderson, Richmond, VA
2019 Think Small 9, Art Space, Richmond, VA
2019 Mother’s Memory, workshop in partnership with VISarts, Richmond, VA
2019 Materials Hard + Soft, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX
2018 Bling it Out! II, Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA
2018 Studio Apartment, Gallery Madison Park, New York, NY
2018 Remnant Accumulation, Solo Show, Sediment Gallery, Richmond, VA
2018 Errant, Solo Show, UpFront Gallery at ArtSpace, Raleigh, NC
2018 Mother’s Memory, workshop in partnership with Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
2017 Mother’s Memory, workshop in partnership w/ VCU Health System opening the New Mothers Unit, Richmond, VA
2017 Think Small 9, Art Space, Richmond, VA
2017 Mother’s Memory, workshop as an extension of 1708 gallery 3×3 summer series, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2017 Mother’s Memory, workshop, VCU’s Cabell Library, Richmond, VA
2017 Now See Us Hear Us, Sediment Gallery, Richmond, VA
2017 Within Reach, ArtSpace Gallery, Richmond, VA
2017 Tasmeem 2017 Analogue Living in A digital World, VCUQatar/VCU Richmond, Doha, Qatar
2016 RVAclay Tour, Location: VCUarts FAB Building, Richmond, VA
2016 VCUhall pop-up exhibition, NCECA, Kansas City, MO
2016 Bling it Out!, Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA
2015 New Ceramics in the Old Dominion, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
2015 Think Small 8, Art Space, Richmond, VA
2015 VCUhall pop-up exhibition, NCECA, Providence, RI
2014 Exquisite Corpse, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2014 We Brought This in a Mini Van NCECA, Gallery 218, Milwaukee, MI
2014 Visual Textures, FCCA Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA
2014 Miles to Go Before I Sleep, co-lab with Sonya Clark at her Reynolds Gallery solo exhibition, Richmond, VA
2013 Small Works, The Shirt Factory Gallery, Glenn Falls, NY
2013 Think Small 7, Art Space, Richmond, VA
2012 Sphere of Influence, Linder Gallery, Keystone College, LaPlume, PA
2012 Contemporary Clay Invitational, J. Ferguson Gallery, Farmville, VA
2011 Tacit, True F. Luck Gallery, Richmond, VA
2011 Think Small 6, Art Space, Richmond, VA
2010 Let There Be White, Birey Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 My Country Loves Me and Someday I’ll be President, Solo Show, Quirk Gallery Vault, Richmond, VA
2010 Alumni Show, Tyler School of Art Ceramic Philadelphia, PA
2009 Happy Birthday, FE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Spatial Relationships, FFA Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2008 Turned for Use II, Gallery 5, Richmond, VA
2008 From the Ground Up, FE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Alumni Exhibition, VCUarts Ceramics, Slaughterhouse Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 Hush/Lush, Piedmont Art Center, Martinsville, VA
2007 Undone, Art6 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2007 Master Quirks 2007, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA
2006 Unrest, Solo Show, AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA
2006 No Face – No Show, One Night Stand Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Amazing Clay Three, Staunton Arts Center, Staunton, VA
2006 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
2006 Group Exhibition, Gallery Five, Richmond, VA
2006 Select Works, Capitol One, Richmond, VA
2006 The W/E Exchange, Claremount University, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Marge Brown Kalodrner Graduate Student Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
2005 VCU MFA Candidacy Exhibition, Plant zero, Richmond, VA
2005 Surrealist Works, Gallery Five, Richmond, VA
2005 Sweet Invitations, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2005 VCU MFA Select Works, pearl gallery, Baltimore, MD
2005 Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA
2004 Anticipation, VCUfab gallery, Richmond, VA
2004 AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA
2004 Deitric Gallery, Tunkhannock, PA
2004 EMCA Gallery, Tunkhannock, PA
2003 Prints and Sculpture, EMCA Gallery, Tunkhannock, PA
2004 AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA
2001 Clay Girls, Tudor Gallery, Clark Summit, PA
arts community fundraising events
2010-18 Monster Drawing Rally, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016-18 Bling it Out!, Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA
2017-18 Cabin Fever, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
special awards/residencies
2021 Fiskars AiR, Fiskars, Finland (was 2020 reschedules due to COVID-19)
2019 Monson Residency, Monson, ME
2018 Mass MoCa, North Adams Residency, Boston, MA
2018 Pop Up Residency, ArtSpace, Raleigh, NC
2017-18 Research Fellow, Arts Research Institute, VCUarts, Richmond, VA.
2017 Soaring Gardens Residency, Ora Lerman Trust, Montrose, PA
2016 Distinguished Faculty Service Award, Virginia Commonwealth University, VCUarts, Richmond, VA
2016 MFA Sculptor in Residence in connection w/the Rodin Exhibition, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
2015 Soaring Gardens Residency, Ora Lerman Trust, Montrose, PA
2013 F. Lommat Belin Arts Scholarship Finalist, Waverly, PA
2012 F. Lommat Belin Arts Scholarship Finalist, Waverly, PA
2006-07 Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute Tuition Scholarship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2006 F. Lommat Belin Arts Scholarship Finalist, Waverly, PA
2005-06 Graduate Assistantship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Graduate School, Richmond, VA
2004 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Virginia Commonwealth University, VCUarts, Department of Craft/Material Studies, Richmond, VA
2003 Ever Care Resident Artist, a residency Sponsored between the Everhart Museum and CMC hospital, Scranton, PA
2002–04 Resident Ceramic Artist, Keystone College, La Plume, PA
invited lectures/interview/colloquia
2020 Moderator for Relic Drift Virtual Artist Talk Relic Drift Artist Talk, Sediment Gallery, Richmond, VA
2020 Invited artist/educator to Sonya Clark’s beading class, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
2020 Invited artist/educator to Pam Lawton’s master class, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2019 Invited artist/educator to Pam Lawton’s PHD/master class, VCU, Richmond, VA
2018 Oregon College of Art and Craft, Visiting Artist Lecture in connection with Portland Textile Month, Portland, OR
2018 Errant Gallery Talk, ArtSpace, Raleigh, NC
2017 Professional Practices Guest Speaker, Chrysler Museum Glass Intern Program, Norfolk, VA
2017 Lecture, Glenn Allen High School, Glenn Allen, VA
2016 Assembler, led conversation around Molly Lowe’s exhibition, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016 MFA Panel held by VCU’s Graduate Student Planning, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2015 Lecture, Glenn Allen High School, Glenn Allen, VA
2012 AP Studio Art Faculty Colloquium, AP College & University Services, Chicago, IL
2006 Gallery Talk, AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA
press and exhibition catalogs
2018 VCUarts ARI news, online news
2015 New Ceramics in the Old Dominion Catalog (Cover), University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
2012 Contemporary Clay Invitational Catalog, J. Ferguson Gallery, Farmville, VA
2011 Tacit Catalog, True F. Luck Gallery, Richmond, VA
2010 Quirk Gallery Vault Space Catalog, Richmond, VA
2010 Let There Be White Catalog, Birey Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Hush/Lush Catalog (Cover), Piedmont Art Center, Martinsville, VA
2006 WVIA, a PBS and NPR affiliate, interview with Erika Funke, Scranton, PA
web portfolios
Artaxis.org, Juried Contemporary Clay Database
Ceramicsnow.org, Invitational Contemporary Clay Database and Journal
curation projects
2020 Tran-Scendent: the T is Not Silent, Artist Mac McCusker, Iridian Gallery Venue Organized Concurrent Exhibition During the 54th NCECA Conference, Richmond, VA
2020 Relic Drift, Artists Rebecca Murtaugh, Jackie Brown, Gretchen Mull, and Tiny Badger, Sediment Gallery (Venue Organized Concurrent Exhibition During the 54th NCECA Conference pending approval by NCECA), Richmond, VA
2018 HEArts, Arts Research Gallery, VCUarts, Richmond, VA
2018 Storefront, Artists Kiara Pelissier, Meg Arsenovic, and Jeanne Medina Sediment Gallery, Richmond, VA
2017-18 Shapeshifter, Arts Research Gallery, VCUarts, Richmond, VA