Education

2016
Independent Study in Woodworking, The Folk School, Fairbanks, AK (studied with Master Word Worker, John Manthei)

2004
MFA, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1998
Vermont Studio Center

1997 - 1998
Post-undergraduate studies, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

1997
BA, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

Exhibition History

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Cyrano’s Art Gallery, Anchorage, AK

2020
Pioneer Park Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK

2019
Georgia Blue Gallery, Anchorage, AK

2018
Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

2015
Blue Hollomon Gallery, Anchorage, AK

2014
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

2012
Kenai Peninsula College, Kenai, AK

2011
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
Pioneer Park Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK

2009
Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK

2008
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, AK
The Alaska House Art Gallery, Fairbanks, AK

2005
Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK

2002
Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK

1998 
Site 250, Fairbanks, AK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020
All Alaska Juried Exhibition, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK

2019
64th Parallel, juried exhibition, Pioneer Park Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK

2018
64th Parallel, juried exhibition, Pioneer Park Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK

2017
Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK

2016
64th Parallel, juried exhibition, Pioneer Park Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK

2015
Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK

2014
Well Street Art Company, Fairbanks, AK

2013
64th Parallel, juried exhibition, Pioneer Park Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
Blue Hollomon Gallery, Anchorage, AK

2012
64th Parallel, juried exhibition, Pioneer Park Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
Faculty Exhibition, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
In a Time of Change: The Art of Fire, juried exhibition, Pioneer Park, Washington, DC
In a Time of Change: The Art of Fire, juried exhibition, Pioneer Park, Fairbanks, AK

2011
64th Parallel, juried exhibition, Pioneer Park Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
Faculty Exhibition, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
Bowery Gallery Members Exhibition, New York, NY

2010
All Alaska Juried Exhibition, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK

2009
64th Parallel, juried exhibition, Pioneer Park Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK

2008
Faculty Exhibition, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

2007
64th Parallel, juried exhibition, Pioneer Park Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK
Faculty Exhibition, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

2006
Faculty Exhibition, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
All Alaska Juried Exhibition, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK

2005
Installation Art, The Annex, Ester, AK

2004
Jacob Lawrence Gallery, MFA Candidate Exhibition with CAA, Seattle, WA
Henry Art Gallery, MFA Exhibition, Seattle, WA
The Annex Opening Exhibition, Ester, AK
Faculty Exhibition, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

2003
Summer Arts Festival Faculty Exhibition, UAF gallery, Fairbanks, AK
64th Parallel, juried exhibition, Pioneer Park Bear Gallery, Fairbanks, AK

2002
All Alaska Juried Exhibition, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK

2001
The Alaska House Art Gallery, Fairbanks, AK

Public Art Commissions

2013 - 2014
The Four Elements, Margaret Murie Life Science Building, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK (collaboration with David Mollett)

Awards

2016
2nd place and Honorable Mention, 64th Parallel Juried Exhibition, Fairbanks, AK

2012
2nd place and Honorable Mention, 64th Parallel Juried Exhibition, Fairbanks, AK

2010
Rasmuson Project Grant, Rasmuson Foundation
Juror’s Award, All Alaska Juried Exhibition, Anchorage

2006
Juror’s Award, All Alaska Juried Exhibition, Anchorage

2005
Career Opportunity Grant, Alaska State Council on the Arts

2002 - 2003
Scholarship Award, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2000
Honorable Mention, 64th Parallel Juried Exhibition, Fairbanks, AK

Teaching

2000 - Present
Adjunct Lecturer in Art, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

2016 - Present
Workshop Instructor, Museum of the North and Well Street Art Company

2000 - 2002
Middle and High School Art Teacher, Monroe Catholic High School

Bibliography

Haakanson Jr., Sven D. and Steffian, Amy F., “Creative Alaska: A Ten-Year Retrospective of Support for Alaska Artists, 2004-2013,” project of Rasmuson Foundation 2016, pages 180-81

Glendinning, Terry, “Observing the Abstract,” The Ester Republic, July 2006

“Local Artists Finish New York Exhibit,” Fairbanks Daily News Minor, August 4, 2005