SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
Natural Progressions, Lireille Gallery, Oakland, CA 2011-2012
Objects of Status, Power and Adornment, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA 2011
Alchemy Juried International Enamel Exhibition
Arrowmont College Gatlinburg, TN;
Knoxville Museum of Art Knoxville, TN;
National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN 2011-2012
Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts, San Francisco, CA 2011 New Student Scholarship
ADC Craftsmanship 2010 Exhibition, Tempe, AZ 2010
Fiber Open Juror Carol Sauvion, Camarillo, CA 2009
The Teapot Redefined Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA 2008
Summer 2008 Exhibit Perlow-Stevens Gallery, Columbia, MO 2008
Animales Facèré Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 2008
The Teapot Redefined Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA 2007
Imaginations in Metal Oakland Museum, CA 2006
Golden Opportunity Ethical Metalsmiths Virtual Exhibition.
Presented in Chicago, IL & London, England 2006
Wearable Expressions Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 2005-2006
Small Expressions Juror Michael E. Monroe, Mableton, GA 2005
Small Expressions Juror Arline Fisch, Denver, CO 2004
Small Expressions Juror Melissa Leventon, Houston, TX 2003
Essential Elements—Jade Big Sur, CA 2003
Wearable Expressions Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 2002 The Artist’s Studio Award
Small Expressions Juror Ron Kong, Vancouver, British Columbia 2002
Cross Currents Basketry Exhibition Vancouver, British Columbia 2002
Small Expressions Juror Randall Darwall, St. Louis, MO 2001
All Things Considered Jurors Michael Davis and Flo Hoppe, Gatlinburg, TN 1999
Absolutely Beads Juror David Chatt, Bellevue, WA 1998 Award of Merit
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Art Jewelry magazine, March 2012; featured on page 44
Heat, Color, Set & Fire, Mary Hettmansperger, Lark Books, 2012
Art Jewelry magazine, May 2011; featured in Beyond Jewelry
Art Jewelry magazine, November 2010; featured on page 45
Crafthaus, Featured Solo Artist, September 19-25, 2010, www.crafthaus.ning.com
SNAG homepage, Featured Artist, June-September, 2010, www.snagmetalsmith.org
Wrap, Stitch, Fold & Rivet, Mary Hettmansperger, Lark Books, 2008
500 Baskets: A Celebration of the Basketmaker’s Art, Lark Books, 2006
Fabulous Woven Jewelry, Mary Hettmansperger, Lark Books, 2006
Lapidary Journal magazine, August 2006
GUEST LECTURES
Metal Arts Society of Southern California Demo Days, Long Beach, CA 2011
Art, Science and the World of Insects, U.C. Davis, CA 2007, 2008
Friends of Fiber Art, International, San Francisco, CA 2005
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Mobilia Gallery Cambridge, MA
EDUCATION
Apprentice to Master Weaver Carole Beadle, Textile Program Chair, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1970-1972
University of Arizona, Bachelor of Science in Entomology and Botany June 1978, Minor in Art
Numerous Classes and Workshops with Textile and Metal Artists. Instructors include Jerry Bleem, Andy Cooperman, Megan Corwin, Cynthia Eid, Arline Fisch, John Garrett, Lindsay Ketterer Gates, Mary Lee Hu, Lissa Hunter, Donna Kaplan, Susan Kingsley, Betty Helen Longhi, Deb Lozier, Barbara Minor, Jennifer Moore, Marilyn Moore, Jane Sauer, Jo Stealey, Carol Webb and Susan Wood.
International Study of Traditional Textiles. Countries include Guatemala, The Gambia and Ghana West Africa, and British Virgin Islands.
AFFILIATIONS
Central Coast Weavers Guild
The Enamelist Society
Los Angeles Basketry Guild
Metal Arts Society of Southern California
Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild
Society of North American Goldsmiths