EDUCATION:

1989 M.S. Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
1983 Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
1980 B.S. Fine Art, Painting/Printmaking, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR

EMPLOYMENT:

Present-1997 Associate Professor of Art, Master of Fine Arts Program Co chair, Art Education Advisor Portland State University, Portland, OR

Summer 2000 Visiting Professor, University of Ulsan, Korea

1997-1983 Secondary Art Teacher, Crater High School, Central Point, OR

1994 Secondary Art Teacher, Brumby Comprehensive School, Scunthorpe, England; Fulbright Teacher Exchange

1993-1991 Adjunct Professor, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR

SELECTED CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:

2002 University of Ulsan, International Invitational Exhibition Ulsan, South Korea

2002 Palm Springs Desert Museum National Exhibition, Palm Springs, CA

2002 Expressions West Juried Exhibition, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR

2001 Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, WA

2001 2001 National Small Works Juried Exhibition, Schoharie Arts Center, NY

2001 Expressions West Juried Exhibition, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR

2001 Realism 2001 National Juried Exhibition, Stage Gallery, NY

2001 Another View: Selected Works in Contemporary Printmaking National Juried Exhibition, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

2000 College of Design, University of Ulsan, Korea, 30th Year Commemorative Invitational Exhibition

1999 Springfield Art Museum, Prints U.S.A. 1999, National Juried Biennial Exhibition, Springfield, MO

1999 Sacramento Center for the Visual Arts, 44th International Juried Exhibition, Bold Expressions, Sacramento, CA

1999 Visual Arts Alliance, Sixteenth National Juried Exhibition, Houston, TX

1999 Boise State University, 5th Biennial National Juried Exhibition “Re-Presentation”, Boise, ID

1999 Del Mar College, 33rd Annual National Juried Exhibition of Drawing and Small Sculpture, Corpus Christi, TX

1999 Autzen Gallery, Current Work, Portland, OR

1998 Long Beach Arts, National Juried Exhibition of Mixed Media and Sculpture, Long Beach, CA

1996 Graven Images Gallery, Current Work, Ashland, OR

1995 Portland Art Museum, Oregon Biennial, Portland, OR

1994 Rogue Gallery, Artists Who Mentor II: William LePore and Jim Romberg, Medford, OR

1993 Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University Faculty Show, Ashland, OR

HONORS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

2000 Learn and Serve Grant, Corporation for National Service

1999 Oregon Art Education Association’s Higher Education Art Educator of the Year

1994 Recipient, Fulbright Scholar, United Kingdom

1994 Recipient, Distinguished Teacher, White House Commission on Presidential Scholars, Washington, DC

1993 Who’s Who in American Education Art Educator

1992-1990 Crater High School, Central Point, OR, Talented and Gifted School with a School (four-hour daily block course)-Applied Studies

1991 Milken Family Foundation Award for Excellence in Education, National Educators Award for $25,000.00

1991 Oregon Art Education Association’s Nominee for the National Art Education Association’s Oregon Secondary Art Educator of the Year

1990 Oregon Art Education Association’s Nominee for the National Art Education Association Pacific Region Award for Secondary Art Educator

1990 Oregon Department of Education, Program Design Grant recipient, award for $35,000.00

1987 U.S. West Nominee Outstanding Teacher Award Program

1979 Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, Art, Southern Oregon University

1978 Mural Painter, Jacksonville Museum, National Historical Society Grant

1978 Humbird Dickey Art Scholarship, Southern Oregon University