Artist, educator, and curator.
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CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Gallery Coordinator and Director
Current - 2017
The Leonor R. Fuller Gallery at the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts, Sound Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, WA.
Adjunct Instructor of Art
Current - 2017
South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, WA.
Beginning/Intermediate Drawing
Beginning Sculpture
Introduction to Art
EDUCATION
Pacific Northwest College of Art
MFA Visual Studies
Graduate Merit Scholarship
Portland, OR
2016 - 2014
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Post Secondary Art Education
Fairbanks, AK
2010 - 2009
University of Kansas
BFA Painting
Merit Award Scholarships
Lawrence, KS
1999 – 1997
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
South Puget Sound Community College, Olympia, WA
Current - 2017
Adjunct Instructor Art
Beginning/Intermediate Drawing
Beginning Sculpture
Introduction to Art
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Kuskokwim Campus, Bethel, AK
2011 - 2001
Adjunct Instructor Art
Beginning Drawing
Watercolor
Art Appreciation
Lower Kuskokwim School District - Kilbuck Elementary
Bethel, AK
2004 - 2001
Art Program Coordinator - Artist in Residence
Grades 3 -6
Grant coordinator
Fundraising
Exhibitions
Yupiit School District
Akiachak, Akiak, Tuluksak, Alaska
2006 - 2002
Art Program Coordinator - Artist in Residence
Grades 3 -6
Grant coordinator
Exhibitions
COMMITTEES / BOARDS
The Leonor R. Fuller Gallery Committee
Gallery Director
South Puget Sound Community College
Current - 2017
Petersburg Council on The Arts
Petersburg, Alaska
2017
Kuskokwim Art Guild
Co-Founder
Bethel, AK
2014 - 2002
Academic Review Committee
Academic Career Advisor
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Bethel, AK
2014 – 2011
Alaska State Council on The Arts Visual Arts Advisory Committee
Anchorage, AK
2011
Bethel Council on The Arts
Bethel, AK
2004 - 2002
AWARDS / INVITATIONS
Arts Innovation Award
Futures Rising Exhibition - The Leonor R. Fuller Gallery, SPSCC, Olympia, WA
2020
Best in The West Grant
Studio renovations, Bethel, AK
2012
Alaska State Council of The Arts Percent for Art
Lower Kuskokwim School District, Bethel, AK
2009
“Making Art Outside of Your Own Culture”, Guest Speaker
Haskell Indian Nations University and The University of Kansas, Lawrence
2007
Governor’s Awards for The Arts and Humanities Alaska Artist Centerpiece
Fairbanks, AK
2007
COLLECTIONS / PUBLIC ART
Alaska State Council of The Arts Contemporary Art Bank
Anchorage, AK
2010
State of Alaska One Percent for Art - Morning Light Ascending
Lower Kuskokwim School District, Bethel, AK
2009
Lower Kuskokwim School District - Portrait of Gladys Jung
Bethel, AK
2009
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, KUC - Mural Project
Bethel, AK
2007
Yupiit School District - Mural Project
Akiachak, AK
2005
Akiachak Tribal Community - Elder Portraits
Akiachak, AK
2005
Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center Museum
Bethel, AK
2002
RESIDENCIES
Caldera
Sisters, OR
2015
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2019 Faculty Exhibition, The Kenneth J. Minnaert Gallery at SPSCC, Olympia, WA
2018 Arts Walk, Capitol Florist, Olympia, WA
2017 Faculty Exhibition, The Kenneth J. Minnaert Gallery at SPSCC, Olympia, WA
2017 Wild Things, The Kenneth J. Minnaert Gallery at SPSCC, Olympia, WA
2017 Fragments of the Anthropocene, Miele Gallery, Petersburg, AK
2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland OR
2016 Chromophobia, Stall Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 What I’ve Tasted of Desire, What I Know of Hate, PNCA, Portland, OR
2015 Shadows of Ash, The Lodge Gallery, Portland OR
2015 Heaps of Light, Valentine’s, Portland, OR
2015 MFA VS First Year Exhibition, Disjecta Gallery, Portland, OR
2014 Altered Ground, MFA VS, The Lodge Gallery, Portland, OR
2013 Just in Time, Yupiit Cultural Center Museum, Bethel, AK
2007 Artique LTD, Anchorage, AK
2006 Lost and Found, The Art Guild Gallery, Bethel, AK
2003, 2004 Yupiit Cultural Center Museum, Bethel, AK
2003 – 2014 The Art Guild Gallery, Bethel, AK
2002 Passages, Yupiit Cultural Center Museum, Bethel, AK
1996, 1997 Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS