Resume
Exhibitions/Craft Shows:
2016
DC Current: Top Talent from the Smithsonian Craft Show Messler Gallery, Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Rockport ME
Hudson Hewn: New York Furniture Now, Boscobel House, Garrison NY
Made For You: New Directions in Contemporary Design Samuel Dorsky Museum SUNY New Paltz, NY
Furniture with Soul II Gallery NAGA Boston,MA
2012
Poplar Culture: The Celebration of Esherick’s Tree, Historic Yellow Springs, Chester Spring, PA
2009
Craft Forms 2009 Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA
2008
ARAC@AAM: Anderson Ranch at the Aspen Art Museum Aspen, CO
New Work by Faculty Messler Gallery Center for Furniture Craftsmanship Rockport, ME
2006
Inspired By China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY & Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Home Is Where The Art Is Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
2004
The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Wood 4 Mass Gallery, School of Art & Design, SUNY Purchase
Studio Furniture: Expression & Function Emory & Henry College, Emory VA
2002
Objects for Use: Handmade by Design American Crafts Museum, New York, NY
Made In New York: The Art of Wood Cooperstown Art Assoc. Cooperstown, NY
New York State Crafts Biennial The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY Oswego
1999
Art/Furniture gallerymateria, Scottsdale, AZ
SOFA NYC (gallerymateria, Scottsdale, AZ) New York, NY
Contemporary New York State Crafts New York State Museum, Albany NY
1997
Penland Instructors Show Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
African-American Craft National Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY
1993
Tops and Bottoms Sauder Museum, Archbold, OH, Ohio Crafts Museum, Columbus, OH, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH
HONORS, AWARDS
2015
Guest Artist Australian National University School of Art, Canberra Aust. Renwick Alliance Artist of Distinction
2013
African American Art on the Cultural Trail: A New Public Art Competition, finalist, Arts Council of Indianapolis
2010
Artist Presentation, California College of Art & Craft 2010
2009
Smithsonian Craft Show Silver Award
2005
Special Arts Award, African-American Fine Arts Society
Trustee Furniture Society
New York Foundation for the Arts Grant (crafts)
Niche Award, finalist
1994
Empire State Craft Alliance (grant)
1993
Merit Award, African-American Craft National