about
While pursuing a career in Engineering, my days were filled with specifications and data, but my daydreams were of artistic shapes and designs. I saw a new path and the artist behind the desk was freed.
I am influenced by nature and almost everything. I have been fortunate to have traveled extensively and those adventures through other cultures have greatly influenced my work.
It has been the realization of a dream to participate in the top shows in America and a tremendous honor to have my work featured by The Smithsonian and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
I create only one. I believe everyone deserves an original.
Honors & Shows, to date:
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2021 Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2021 The Smithsonian Craft Show
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2020 Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2020 The Smithsonian Craft Show
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2020 National Basketry Organization, Members in Print 2, Juried Exhibition
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2019 Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2019 Philadelphia Guild of Craftsmen, Benchmark Award, Resolved Design
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2019 Philadelphia Guild of Craftsmen, Master Artisan status
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2018 Goggleworks, Reading, PA - First
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2017 Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, First basket weaver
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2016 Rochester Museum & Science Center, First basket weaver
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2016 Art in the Gardens, First place, Judge's Award, Canandaigua, NY
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2016 Lincoln Center, New York City, NY Best New Artist
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2015 Art in the Gardens, First place, Judge's Award, Canandaigua, NY
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2015 Judge's Merit Award (1 of 10 awarded out of 425+ artists) Clothesline Festival, Rochester, NY
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2012 Chestnut Hill, PA - Second, Crafts division
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2012 Pearl S. Buck, National Historic Landmark Museum, Bucks County, PA; first basket weaver
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2010 First reed and tools - The Country Seat, Ms. Angela Wagner. Ms. Wagner's quality materials have given form and life to my dreams and inspirations. Her encouragement has been a significantly memorable part of this wonderful journey. www.countryseat.com
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It's not often that you'll find me in a pitching gondola on a choppy canal. I'm usually behind the camera biting my lip.
The Grand Canal, Venice.
"Whatever your hands find to do,
you must do with all your heart".
John Hiatt