Education:     B.A. Knox College

M.A. Yale University

Other workshops and courses at School of the Art Institute of Chicago,

Oxbow, College of Santa Fe, Institute of American Indian Art, Anchor

Graphics, Julia Ayre’s Studio in Tulsa OK, MakingArtSafely in Santa Fe,

Peacock Press in Aberdeen Scotland

Solo Exhibits:

Dinosaurs & collages at Glen Ellyn Public Library January 2018

Dinosaurs at the Downers Grove Recreation Center Aug-Dec 2017

“Dinosaurs and Strange Birds” Gallery 777 Lisle Nov-Dec 2016

“Garden Companions & Roadside Distractions” with Terry Niccoli at Woodridge Public Library July 2015—also Gallery of Nature April 2017

Dinosaurs at the Downers Grove Public Library August 2016

Show with Pat Lagger at Congregation Beth Shalom April 2016, 2017

                        “Transformations in Printmaking and Collage” Lisle Gallery 777 2014-15

Downers Grove Public Library 2006 (etchings & monotypes) also Sept. 2015

“Messages” Renaissance Court Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center, July and

August, 2009 (two woman show partnered with Pat Lagger)

Indian Prairie Public Library, Darien 2017, 2008, 2002

Woodridge Public Library, Woodridge, IL 2014, 2013, 2007, 2005

Glen Ellyn Public Library Glen Ellyn, IL 2007

DeKalb Area Women’s Center 2005

Marmion Academy 2018, 2005,  2014 two person show  Geri Greenman

First Street Playhouse 2004

Selected Group Exhibits:

Downers Grove Artists Guild at DG Library August 2018

CAVA members art show at Beverly Arts Center May-June 2018

Art Barn School of Art, May-June 2018 Merit Award

Midwest Collage Society group show at Downers Grove Library April 2018

Nature Artists Guild of the Morton Arboretum February 2018

“Pollinators” Mayslake Peabody Estate, DuPage Co. Forest Preserve Feb-April 2018

“Open Spaces” If These Walls Could Talk Gallery in Aurora November 2017

“Fall into Fall” with Downers Grove Artists Guild Indian Prairie Library October 2017

Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists Mayslake Peabody Estate October 2017

National University Health Sciences Lombard Arts Coalition October 2017

Woodridge Community Art show at the public library October 2017

“Off the Beaten Path” at Bloomingdale Museum October 2017

“Remnants and Remembrances” at the Chicago Cultural Center Renaissance Court         Gallery as part of the Midwest Collage Society group show   Aug—Oct 2017

“Some Like it Hot” with Downers Grove Artists Guild August 2017

“Enigma” at Burning Bush July 2017

“Illumination” at Naperville Art League July 2017

Aurora Public Arts Commission “The Collective Muse” with Midwest Collage Society October 2016

Visual Music in Our Souls” with MCS at the Vogt Art Center July 2016

“Curious Discoveries” with MCS at Downers Grove Public Library April 2016

Poets and Artists at Lisle Library April 2016

CAVA at Oak Park Library March 2016

“Felissia Fest” celebrating model Felissia at the Palette and Chisel July 2015

“Illinois Prairie” with DGAG at Brigantine Gallery June 2015. Also April 2015

1st Annual Art Educator Show, Bridgeport Art Center May-June 2015

“Homes” with MCS at Downers Grove Public Library April 2015

Spark 2” Lemont Center for the Arts with the Illinois State Poets’ Society Feb 2015

“Journeys, Passages, Retreats”, Tall Grass Gallery Jan-Feb 2015

“Later Impressions” Senior Artists Network Chicago Cultural Center Dec. 2014

Art at City Hall, 2014 “XI” Aurora Public Art Commission June 2014—Jan 2015

15^th Annual Juried Illiana Artists Exhibition 2013

Reclamation Mayslake Midwest Collage Society 2013

Off Balance/Balance ZhouB Gallery 2013

Downers Grove Art Guild 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006

IAEA Electronic Gallery 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, others

Midwest Collage Society, Beverly Arts Center 2012

Addison Center for the Arts, Midwest Collage Society, 2012

Norris Gallery, Midwest Collage Society May-July 2011

ARTSpace 357, Chicago, small group shows, May and July 2010

“Best of the Best” DuPage AFA Mayslake Peabody Estate, 2015, 2010

“Small Works” FermiLab Gallery,   Batavia, IL 2009

Elmhhurst Museum “Best of the Best” 2007

Tall Grass Arts Association, Midwest Collage Society 2007

Beverly Arts Center/Anchor Graphics 2006

Juror Awards:

Second Place “Remnants and Remembrances” at Chicago Cultural Center 2017

Best of Theme Award at Naperville Art League “Illumination” July 2017

Third Place “Visual Music in Our Souls” Vogt Gallery July 2017

Honorable Mention “The Collective Muse” August—October 2016

Second Place 125^th Anniversary Downers Grove Public Library April 2016

Honorable Mention Downers Grove Art Guild spring show at Brigantine 2015

Honorable Mention “Journeys, Passages, Retreats” Tall Grass Gallery 2015

Third place 9 pieces “Things Seen and Unseen” Illiana Artists Exhibition 2013

Honorable Mention 3 pieces from “Things Seen and Unseen” MCS 2013

Third place for “Sea Green”, Downers Grove Art Guild, May 2013

Third place for “Be Not Afraid” Downers Art Guild, February 2013

Shared Award IAEA Electronic Gallery, November 2012

Honorable Mention Printed Plant Media, Downers Grove Art Guild, August 2012

Honorable Mention “Autumn Leaves” MCS Beverly Arts Center. July 2012

Honorable Mention“The Accidental Peacock” Downers Grove Art Guild Aug 2011

Third Place for “Pansy Silhouette” Downers Grove Art Guild. August 2010

Second place “Wires by Moonlight” Downers Grove Art Guild, February 2010

Second place for “This Little Piggie”, Downers Grove Art Guild 2009

Third Place IAEA Electronic Gallery “Silhouettes---Birds on Wires” 2009

Special Award for “North Sea Oats”, Downers Grove Art Guild 2008

Honorable Mention for “Electrical Perspectives Triptych”, DG Art Guild 2006

Member: Current: Downers Grove Artists Guild. Midwest Collage Society, Naperville Art League, Chicago Area Visual Artists (CAVA) Studio 630/Lombard Arts Coalition, Nature Artists Guild of the Morton Arboretum, IRAEA (Illinois Retired Art Educators Association), Illinois Artisans 2014, 2015