SELECTED EXHIBITS AND ENTRIES
C=commendation
E=exhibition
2019 "Coming Of Age" (C)
Race and Revolution project
Curated by Katie Fuller
Old Stone House
Brooklyn, NY
2017 Group, "Ancestors" (E)
Affirmation Arts Studio
New York, NY
2016 Group, “Love, Not War” (E)
New York Open Center
New York, NY
2016 Group (summer tenant, open studios)
"Family" (E)
"Upper East Side" (E, see 2009)
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
2015 Group, “Aminah’s Daily Bread” (E)
ACA Galleries
New York, NY
2013 “Page Turners” (C)
Somerset County, NJ Libraries
Bridgewater, NJ
2012 Solo (E)
The Actors Fund Home
Englewood, NJ
2009 Video of assemblage, (C)
“Upper East Side,”
for the 30 Seconds
series, filmed at
The Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
2005 “Cherry Trees” (C)
The National Cherry Blossom Festival
Washington, DC
2005 “Big B” (C)
American Artist magazine
SELECTED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
2018 Charles White Printmaking Workshops
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
2016 & Summer tenant (non-member)
2009 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
2011 Advanced drawing
Daniel Bozhkov
Hunter College
New York, NY
2009 Stone lithography intensive
The Robert Blackburn
Printmaking Workshop
New York, NY
2000- Fine arts and art history
2003 Susan Brenner, Jamie Franki
UNC-Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
1986- Copy editor/writer/book reviewer
2002 The Charlotte Observer
Charlotte, NC
BIOGRAPHY: DETAILS FOR THE LISTINGS ABOVE
I was born in Detroit, Michigan, where I attended the public schools and earned a BA in social science at Wayne State University. I was a social worker for nine years in Michigan, then a copy editor, writer and book reviewer for 16 years at
The Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. While still at the newspaper, and with staff encouragement, I began to study art at Central Piedmont Community College. Soon after that, the same year my son graduated from college, I enrolled post-degree at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte and completed two years of the four-year fine arts curriculum.
After moving to Teaneck, NJ, in November 2006, to be closer to family and especially to help care for my mother, I embraced the opportunities in nearby New York City. I completed new work during two summers, 2009 and 2016, at a studio sublet at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, where I also took a weekend course in stone lithography. I also completed an exhilarating third-year advanced drawing course – 12 weeks, 100 drawings – as a post-degree student at Hunter College in 2011.
Since then, I continue showing my work and discovering other opportunities to keep learning.
