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