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Education

2007
MFA University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

2002
BA The College of Wooster, OH

Exhibitions

2010
Obscura 1.1, Gallery Art+Fact, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Group, invitational.
World Siberian Pictorial Biennale: PEACE LOVE PINHOLE, Omsk, Russian Federation
Group, invitational, juried.
El transporte de mi mama, Art Chamber, Calangute, Goa, India
Group, invitational, juried.
Light Sensitive Material, Launch Pad Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
Group, juried.

2009
The Hole World, Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Group, juried.
Paraphrase, The New Orleans Darkroom Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA
Group, juried.

2008
Electoral Collage: Art and Politics in 2008, The Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR, USA
Group, juried.
Staff In•Flux•Ion, The Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Group, invitational.
C'est Vendredi, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
Group, invitational.

2007
We're All Doing Just Fine, 7th Floor Gallery, Madison, WI
Solo.

Academic Appointments

2008
Lecturer, introductory woodworking and furniture design, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Course focused on a comprehensive introduction to hand, powered-hand, and powered-floor machine tools used in a fully equipped wood shop. Projects focused on both iterative design processes, and conceptually-driven object-making using wood and wood products as the primary media. Projects involved reductive as well as constructive/additive/joinery techniques.

2007
Adjunct professor, introductory, intermediate, advanced photography, Roane State Community College, Harriman, TN
Stacked courses taught in a shared black and white wet darkroom. Introductory coursework focused on the use of 35mm black and white film media and manual camera controls, as well as basic enlargement and wet-darkroom printing and editing techniques, studio lighting, and pinhole photography. Intermediate and advanced students focused on the completion of a large, semester-long body of conceptual work. Other topics included lectures and student-led presentations on contemporary and historical photographic artists.
Lecturer, introductory photography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Course focused on the use of 35mm black and white film media and manual camera controls, as well as basic enlargement and wet-darkroom printing and editing techniques, and pinhole photography.

2004/2005
T.A., beginning and advanced woodworking, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Assisted professor and students in lecture and studio course geared towards the design, fabrication, and conceptual development of wood-based objects and furniture forms.

Professional activities

2011
Visiting artist, Drake University, Des Moines, IA, USA
Conducted 3-day pinhole photography, cyanotype, and solargraphy workshops; conducted class critiques; delivered a public lecture.
Juror, Roane State Community College Student Art Competition, Harriman, TN, USA
Delivered public lecture on profesisonal practices and personal research.

2007-2011
Head preparator, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Responsible for a full range of exhibition planning, handling, layout, installation and de-installation, including lighting, crate-building, packing, and shipping. Responsible for catalog layout, design, and publication, website maintenance, PR/HTML email and subscriber lists. Collaborated with registrar on permanent collection maintenance and organization.

2009
Instructor, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO, USA
Taught a medium-format film-based pinhole photography workshop in the teens art program.

2008
Visiting artist, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
Delivered public lecture on personal research.

2007
Visiting artist, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Delivered public lecture on personal research; conducted one-day alternative photography workshop.
Guest lecturer, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, USA
Delivered lecture on the New Orleans Kid Camera Project workshops.
Instructor, New Orleans Kid Camera Project, New Orleans, LA, USA
Fabricated 30 wooden 4x5 sheet-film pinhole camera kits for the New Orleans Kid Camera Project; disseminated and used over the course of three consecutive weekend workshops.
Instructor, Madison Children’s Museum, Madison, WI, USA
Taught a 3-day workshop, building a wheeled trash-can pinhole camera with students enrolled in the Summer Art Camp.

2006/2007
Departmental woodshop supervisor, Project Assistantship awarded through the UW Department of Art, Madison, WI, USA
Responsible for consumable supplies acquisition, training and scheduling of student hourly shop safety supervisors, and scheduling and teaching semester-start woodshop safety courses and stretcher-building demonstrations for painting classes.

2005/2006
Woodshop technical supervisor, Project Assistantship awarded through the UW Department of Art, Madison, WI, USA
Responsible for hand, powered-hand, and powered-floor woodowrking machinery maintenance and repair; collaborated with area head and physical plant staff members on all capital equipment acquisition and installation.

Awards

2010
Juror's Special Mention, "El transporte de mi mama," Art Chamber, Calangute, Goa, India
Best In Show, "Light Sensitive Material," Launch Pad Gallery, Portland, OR, USA

2006/07
Temkin Award (Awarded through the University of Wisconsin)
Vilas Travel Fellowship (Awarded through the University of Wisconsin)

2006
Individual student scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO, USA

2005
Individual student scholarship, Anderson Ranch Arts Cente, CO, USA

2003
Juror’s Award for 'Untitled - Chairs', 2003 Ohio Juried Exhibition
Netta Strain Scott Prize in Art (Awarded through the College of Wooster)
Dr. John Gardner Weeks Scholarship (Awarded through the College of Wooster)

1998-2002
College Scholar Award (Awarded through the College of Wooster)