Education

1995    MFA Fine Arts, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

1985    BA Fine Art. Minor, Geology.  Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

Teaching Experience

2008-2017

Adjunct Lecturer, Tri-County Technical College, Pendleton, SC

Art History and Drawing

2008           

Lecturer in Sculpture, University of North Carolina, Asheville, Asheville, NC

3-D Design, Beginning through Advanced Sculpture, Senior Exhibition and Special Topics

 

2004-2007

Adjunct Lecturer, Tri-County Technical College, Pendleton, SC

Art History

 

2003-2004 

Instructor, Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville, SC

3-D Design, Life Drawing

 

2002

Guest Lecturer (Summer), Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Residency Program, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

Sculpture

 

2001

Adjunct Professor, Anderson University, Anderson, SC

Sculpture

 

2000 -2001

Adjunct Professor (Sabbatical Replacement), Clemson University, Clemson, SC

Beginning through Advanced Sculpture

Selected Exhibitions and Commissions

2024

Artisphere, Greenville, SC

 

2023  

As Good as Gold, MFA 50th Anniversary show, Lee Hall Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

 

2022/3

Commissioned by Clemson University to make a second volume of the book component for my 2001 sculpture, P211.T45, on the campus.  This book contains 360 prints of various wild plants.  It will be housed in the Lee Hall Library in the rare books section. See P211T45.com for more information.

 

2021

Constructed the website, P211T45.com as a third component of my sculpture of the same name on the Clemson campus.

 

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2008

Annual Faculty Show, University of North Carolina, Asheville, Asheville, NC

 

2007

It's Only Natural, Current work by artists of the Rudnick Nature Trail, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Hendersonville, NC

 

2006

Four Roses Overturel (site specific), Kennedy Park, Central West End, St. Louis, MO

 

2005

Bell Rhododendron (site specific), Rudnick Nature Trail, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Hendersonville, NC

 

2003

Trizec Exhibition, Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, NC, organized by the Joie Lassiter Gallery

Hollow (site specific), Rocky Mount Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC. Juror:  Patrick Dougherty

 

2002

The Stinging Bee (site specific sculpture), 16th Annual Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.

 

2001

P211.T45 (site specific sculpture), Art Partnership Commission, Clemson University, Clemson, SC. Contact:  Denise Woodward-Detrich

 

2000

National Juried Show, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO.

 

1999

Medicine Ball (site specific), Percent for Arts Commission, Tri-County Technical College, Pendleton, SC

 

1998

National Juried Show, Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA

13th Annual Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

National Juried Show, Masur Museum of Fine Art, Monroe, LA

 

1997

Recent Sculpture (solo show), Miliken Fine Arts Gallery, Converse College, Spartanburg, SC

 

1995 

South Carolina Triennial, State Museum, Columbia, SC

Murmur (site specific), Spring Island, Beaufort, SC

2006

Bell Rhododendron, Hendersonville, NC was recognized as one of the top 40 public art projects in the country by the Public Art Network of Americans for the Arts.

  

2002

Winner of the 16th Annual Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition and Exhibition, 2002-2003, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC for Stinging Bee. Juror: Kerry Brougher, Chief Curator of the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.


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