Born in Los Angeles, CA

Moved to Portland, OR,

EDUCATION /WORKSHOPS

Primarily self - taught artist educated through personal study, travel, professional classes, workshops and the aspects of life.
2012   "Kickstarter for Creatives Workshop", RACC, Kickstarter, Office of Mayor Sam Adams              
2012   "Make the Leap from Studio Art to Public Art", Workshop, Hillsboro Arts and Culture Council
2011   "17th Annual Glen Workshop West: Acts of Attention: Art as Discovery",                                   
       Week long porcelain sculpture workshop Ginger Geyer - Instructor, Santa ,NM
2011   "Internet Law for Small Business", L & C Law School, SBLC and Stoel Rives, LLP, Portland, OR               2011   "Writing Strong Grant Proposals", Oregon Cultural Trust, Portland, OR                                     2010   "Agent of Change", Sustainability Project Training:10 week workshop,Center for Earth Leadership,Portland,OR 2010   "Marketing and Entrepreneurship for Artists: Maximizing Your Practice", CAA, OCAC, PNCA & MOCC            2010   "Fundraising Tools for Artists", New York Foundation for the Arts & RACC, Portland, OR                    2010   "Social Marketing", I Heart ART: PDX, The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft                             2010   "Contracts for Artists & Creative Professionals", Hillsboro Arts and Culture Council                       2010   "Copyrights for Artists & Creative Professionals", Westside Cultural Alliance                             2009   "Grant Writing for Success-The Second Step/Intermediate Level", Westside Cultural Alliance                2009   "Will Click For Art: Online Marketing for Artists and Organizations", Regional Arts & Culture Council     2009    Media Workshop,"How to Promote Your Arts Event in 2009", Westside Cultural Alliance                      2008   "4Culture Art Registry Workshop", Public Art 4 Culture                                                    2007   "Going Digital:Submitting Application Materials in New Media Formats", Regional Arts & Culture Council     2007   "Grantwriting for Success", Regional Arts & Culture Council                                               2007   "Legal Issues for Artists", Regional Arts & Culture Council                                               2007   "Making Art/Work for a Public Space: the Ins and Outs of Public Art Fabrication, RACC
2007   "The Balancing Act: Making Art and Making Money", Regional Arts & Culture Council                         2007   "Artists Wanted: Public Art from A to Z", Regional Arts & Culture Council                                 2006   "Selling and Marketing Your Artwork on the World Wide Web and ebay,Beaverton Arts Commission & WCA    
2001   "Making Your Art Permanent: Fabrication Alternatives for 2-D Artists", Regional Arts & Culture Council    2000   "Copyright Issues for Artists", Regional Arts & Culture Council                                          1989    Drawing, The Drawing Studio/Phil Sylvester                                                              1989    Video Production, Portland Cable Access (Work on a series about creativity, the local arts & artists)

EXHIBITIONS/Projects                                                                                               2013     "Child of DESTINY & Honduran Womans Day". 4 collaborative projects, Project Creator/Leader,Honduras, CA
2012     "enigmas seen through velvet filters", Solo Show, Streff Gallery, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR 2011     "Walking in YOUR DESTINY? 12 Days of summer". Independent Healing Art Project with Childrens Village,     Tegucigalpita, Honduras, Central America
2011     "The Love Show", Gallery Homeland & Launch Pad Gallery, Portland, OR
2010     "Nuts, Bolts and Slabs of Steel @ OMCC ", Juried Show, Beam Gallery, Portland, OR                     2010     "10 x 10", Gallery @ 902G, Portland, OR
2010     "Facing Fear", Juried Show, Launch Pad Gallery, Portland, OR
2010     "Rainy Day Wildfire", Juried Show, Portland City Arts, Portland, OR
2009     "Exhibition of Women Artists", 2nd International SWAN Day PDX Celebration, Invitational,Portland,OR
2009     "The Open Show", Group Show, Lake Oswego Festival of The Arts, Lake Oswego, OR
2007     "Con-tem-po-ra-ry, birth of the new", Group Show, City of Gresham, Visual Arts Gallery, Gresham, OR       2007     "Art in Mountain Park, 2 Person Show, Mountain Park Gallery , Lake Oswego,OR                           2006     "Showroom Extravaganza Gallery Opening, First Thursday Show - Poster Garden, Portland, OR
2006     "NINTH ANNUAL JURIED ART EXHIBITION, City of  Gresham Visual Arts Gallery, Gresham, OR
2006     "The Open Show, Lake Oswego Festival Of The Arts, Lake Oswego, OR
2005     "Group Show, Holiday Exhibition - Urban Art Network:  Portland, OR
2000     "Solo Show, First Thursday-CARGO:   "Complexity of Simplicity - spiritual scrolls", Portland, OR
1990     "Assemblage":jewelry First Thursday, Gango Gallery,Portland, OR
1989     "New Works", SABA, Beaverton, OR
1988     "Public Hanging: an unjuried exhibition", Marylhurst Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR

Grants/Honors
2006     Change, Inc., a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation grant
2007     The Artist's Fellowship Trust grant
2008     Regional Arts and Culture Council, Professional Development grant
2011     Image Journal, 17th Annual Glen Workshop West: Scholarship, Santa Fe, NM
2011     Clackamas County Cultural Coalition, Special Opportunity Grant
2011     Regional Arts and Culture Council, Professional Development grant
                                   Collections                                                                                                        Mark O. Hatfield Library, Shepherd's Door Women and Children's Shelter, Portland, OR (Series of 10 pieces)      McMaster House, Portland, OR
New Beginnings, Portland, OR