Selected Exhibitions and Awards 1991 -Best Portfolio Award-Birdville School District-Ft. Worth, Tx 1992 -Trinity Arts Council Exhibition-Portfolio Award -Best Portfolio Award-Birdville School District -Award Scholarship Texas Wesleyan, Ft. Worth 1993 -Awarded “Most Artistic” Richland High School, Ft. Worth -Best Portfolio Award-Birdville School District -Texas Wesleyan Student Exhibition-Drawing Award -Rehabilitation Center Mural Project, Ft. Worth Tx 1995 -Main Street Arts Festival-National Selected Juried exhibition, Ft. Worth, Tx (not the festival) 1996 - Laughing at the Sun Art Gallery-juried exhibition-“Summer Show”-Austin, Tx 1996-2001 -Featured Artist-Multiple exhibitions at Laughing at the Sun Art Gallery, 2209 S. 1st St. -Austin, Tx -“Figurative show” 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 -“Who Killed Mona Lisa?” 1997 -“Christmas Show” 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 -“Summer Show” 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 -“New Year Show” 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 -Laughing at the Sun studios, 1996-2001 1997 -University of Texas, Student Exhibition-Solo Show -Wimberly festival of Glass Blowers, Wimberly, Tx-exhibitor 1998 -Texas Music festival, selected artist-Austin, Tx-exhibitor -Artist Harvest, juried artist-Austin, Tx 1999 -Manager, Laughing at the Sun Art Gallery -Curator-selected exhibitions “Roving Art Gallery”, Austin, Tx- (under Laughing at the Sun) -Laguna Gloria Art Festival-demonstrating artist, Austin, Tx 2001-2002 -Blue Genie Christmas Show, Austin, Tx -Blue Genie Studios, Austin Tx -Clarksville Gallery,N. Lamar, Central Market Plaza- Austin, Tx- National Niche Top Ten-Gallery-selected exhibitions: -Artist Market Shows 2001-2002 -Craft Emergency Relief Fund benefit-2001-2002 exhibitor and organizer for Clarksville Gallery 2003 -Café Mundi Exhibition, Austin, Tx-exhibitor -Studio K-Thronton Road Studios, Austin, Tx-teaching, studio space, exhibiting 2004-Present -Benefit Exhibition-Breast Cancer- Sculpture entry Fire House Gallery, Dance of Life, Ft. Worth, Tx -Benefit Auction Exhibition, Spinal Cord Research for Jared Dunten, Austin, Tx -eBay virtual gallery-Martha League-Calhoun Gallery -Exhibiting in Wimberly, Texas at “La Madera” Center 111 Old Kyle Road. -"Endangered Landscape" Solo Exhibition, Spicewood Vineyards, Spicewood, Tx Education: 1993 Texas Wesleyan University- School of Art, Drawing/Painting Ft. Worth TX 1994 University of North Texas- School of Art, Drawing/Painting Denton TX 1995-1999 Studied under Daryl Colburn, metal sculptor,Austin, Tx Studied under Rita Ross, metal sculptor, Austin, Tx 1995-1996 Texas Hill Country Arts Foundation-Kerrville Studied under Naomi Brotherton, national watercolorist and Janice Yow Hines, oil painting-plein air artist 1997-1999 University of Texas, School of Art “If I can create a new world, a world which the viewer never knew existed, a world that shows some truth or that can ignite a spark n the mind of just one viewer; then I have succeeded.” -Martha League Calhoun GALLERY