Graduate Study in Art History

SUNY Binghamton

2005-2007

GPA: 3.5

BFA Illustration (Design), Magna Cum Laude

Marywood University

2001-2005

GPA: 3.75

-Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress

-Mac and Windows based design

-designed and maintained website for Mount Beacon Fine Art

-Painting in oil and acrylic, oil and chalk pastel, pen and ink, charcoal, colored pencil

-Block and intaglio printmaking

-book layout and illustration

-paper and wire sculpture installations

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Owner/Gallery Director (sole proprietor)

Mount Beacon Fine Art, Beacon, NY 2007-2009

- Designed mailings, website, logo, all stationary and exterior sign.

- Taught oil painting, drawing, portfolio development.

- Ran workshops for costume design and pumpkin carving.

- Curated all exhibitions, maintained exhibition space.

Gallery Assistant

Marywood University Art Galleries, 2001-2005

-Designed postcards for Scholastic Art Awards, 2002-2005.

- Helped curate exhibition space for exhibits.

Freedom & Art, February 2009

Mount Beacon Fine Art and the Mirca Art Group

Artists at Work Silent Auction, October 2009

Beacon Business Association and Mount Beacon Fine Art

Senior Exhibition, April 2005

Marywood University

Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

Beacon Arts Community Association

Graphic Artists Guild

Greater Southern Dutchess Chamber of Commerce

J. Harold Brislin Medal for Distinction in Creative Writing

Delta Epsilon Sigma, National Honor Society for Catholic Universities

Presidential Scholarship, Marywood University

CROP fast 2005

American Heart Association Heart Walk 2004, 2005

Amnesty International

National Cancer Society Relay for Life

Animal Rescue Foundation,

Green Ridge Library Story Hour