Solo Exhibitions:

  • Solo Exhibition, "Studio One Gallery", Crossroads Art Center, Richmond, VA,

      May - July, 2010

  • “Artful Places,” Katie’s Coffee House, Great Falls, VA, April 2009

 

Group Shows:

  • Rehoboth Art League, 38th Annual Members  Fine Art Show, August 20, 21, 2011
  • Artists Atelier Group Show, Center for the Arts, Manassas, VA, May 6 - June 17, 2011
  •  “ArtFest,” Juried one day arts festival, presented by MPA, McLean, VA, October, 2010
  • ValeArts Spring Show,  Vale Schoolhouse, Oakton, VA, May 2010
  • Hill & Knowlton Corporate Art Program, April through August, 2010
  • "Art at the Mill", Spring Show, Berryville, VA, April-May, 2010
  • "From Meadow to Marsh",  joint show with Jill Garity, VanderZee Gallery, Alexandria, VA, April, 2010
  •  “Coastal Colors,” AerieArt Gallery, Rehoboth, DE, August through Labor Day, 2009
  • “ArtFest,” juried one day arts festival, presented by MPA, McLean, VA, October, 2009
  • Annual Great Falls Studios Tour, Great Falls, VA, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
  • “A Year of Painting Together,” Artists’ Atelier Show, GF Library, Great Falls, VA, 2007   

 

Awards:

  • Distinguished Alumni Award, Class of 1973, The Tatnall School, Wilmington, DE, 2008
  • Lyrix Design, Top Twenty-Five Woman-owned Businesses in the DC Area by The Washington Business Journal, 2000, 2001

 

Experience and Community Arts Involvement:

  • Instructor, Great Falls School of Art, Landscape Painting, January - March, 2012
  • Juror, "Off the Wall" Student Exhibition, Center for the Arts, Manassas, VA, December, 2009
  • Founding member, President, Great Falls Foundation for the Arts, 2007 to 2010
  • Founder, Rehoboth Beach Museum Guild, 2006 to present
  • Founding member, The Artists Atelier working artist studios, Great Falls, VA, 2005 to present
  • Student advisor and guest lecturer, Graduate Design Program, the George Washington University Campus at Mount Vernon, 1996 – 2003
  • Founding partner, LyrixDesign, Inc., 1986 – 2003

 

Memberships:

  • Washington Project for the Arts
  • Oil Painters of America
  • Vander Zee Gallery Painters
  • Great Falls Studios
  • Rehoboth Art League

 

Education:

  • Vander Zee School of Painting, 2006-present
  • Gavin Brooks, 5 Day intensive Landscape Workshop, Stratford Hall, VA, May, 2011
  • Kevin Macpherson, “Painting Inside and Out,” Salamagundi Club, New York, February, 2010
  • Robert Liberace, “Sketching the Figure,” June, 2007, The Art League in Alexandria
  • Robert Liberace, , “The Classic Figure A Modern Approach to Alla Prima Figure Painting,” Great Falls school of Art, January, 2009
  • Robert Johnson, Oil Painting Workshop:  Still Life and Floral, November, 2008, The Art League in Alexandria
  • Sara Linda Poly, “Painting en Pleine Aire,” Loudoun Academy of the Arts, Leesburg, VA, June, 2008
  • Maggie Siner, “Oil Painting Fundamentals”, 2007, and “Oil Painting – Focusing on Color”, 2008, Loudoun Academy of the Arts, Leesburg, VA
  • The George Washington University at Mount Vernon College, Bachelor of Arts, Interior Design, 1977