education

	2003	Art Teaching License Coursework, Miami University, Oxford, OH
	1996-99	M.F.A., Jewelry/Metals, Kent State University, Kent, OH
	1995-96	M.A. Coursework, Jewelry/Metals, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN
	1988-93	B.F.A., Jewelry/Metals and Painting, Miami University, Oxford, OH
	1997-2008	Craftsummer Workshops, Miami University, Oxford, OH

	2007	• Koffenya Coffeehouse, Oxford, OH
	2006	• Kona Bistro and Coffee Bar, Cincinnati, OH
	2004	• Commingled, Thomas More Gallery, Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, KY
	2003	• Kona Bistro and Coffee Bar, Oxford, OH
	2001	• North Star Tattoo, Middletown, OH • Kona Bistro and Coffee Bar, Oxford, OH
	2000	• Strange Dolls, and visiting artist honorarium, Peabody Gallery, Oxford, OH • Little Bo-Peep Show, Gilchrist-Moore Gallery, Oxford, OH

	2009	• Oregon Inkspot Print Exchange, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
	2008	• Art Now for Autism, Washington, DC, website and online auction, artnowforautism.com • Artists Respond to Fear, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY • Split, The Drawing Room, Portland, ME, www.drawingroomportlandmaine.com • International Fiber Collaborative, Syracuse, NY, www.internationalfibercollaborative.com
	2007	• Dia de Los Muertos Exhibit, Maud Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR • Oregon Inkspot Print Exchange, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR • Innovators’ 2007 Art & Addiction Juried Exhibition, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, and College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Quebec, Canada • The Best of 2007, Ohio Designer Craftsmen, Columbus, Portsmouth and Wooster, OH
	2006	• Exhibition in Print, Metalsmith Magazine, August 2006
	2005	• Family Room, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH • Question Reality: Surrealism in Contemporary Art, Claypool-Young Gallery, Morehead State U., Morehead, KY • Art All Over, Studio Tour, Oxford Community Arts Center, Oxford, OH • Realities of Time and Place, Chequamegon Bay Arts Council, Washburn Museum, Washburn, WI & website • 2nd Fridays, Oxford Community Arts Center, Oxford, OH • Mail Art Show, Perkins County Arts Council, Grant, NE and website: www.perkinscountycreators.com
	2004	• Educators/Educated: Jewelry/Metals in Ohio, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, and Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH • Pyramid Hill Art Fair, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum, Hamilton, OH • How Would You Spend $1,000,000? Monticello Community Center, Monticello, MN • Ekecheiria, General Consulate of Greece, Schopf Gallery on Lake, Chicago, IL • Best of 2004, Ohio Designer Craftsmen, Columbus, OH, and Wayne Center for the Arts, Wooster, OH • Art All Over, Studio Tour, Oxford Community Arts Center, Oxford, OH • Walls, Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV and website: www.wwc.edu •Attitudes, Media Bridges, Cincinnati, OH
	2003	• Hammered and Forged, Metals Alumni Exhibition, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH • Secrets, University of the Arts Printmaking Gallery, Philadelphia, PA • Mail Art Collage, Scientist Sam, Spokane, WA • The Secret Club Project, 26 Union St., Northampton, MA • Kings, Queens, Skulls and Fairies, Marie Meier, Dettwiller, France • Slang Postcard Art Collection, Fluxusart, Rockville, MD • Art All Over, Studio Tour, Oxford, OH • Watercolors, Claudio Jaccarino, Via dei Tulipani 7, Milano, Italy • Animals in Mail Art, Zoologisches Institut, Hamburg, Germany • R/Elation, Curated Exhibition, Museum of Oddities and Large Cats, Oxford, OH • Fairies, 41 Service Road Moe, Victoria, Australia • Three Valley Conservation Trust, Benefit Auction, Oxford, OH • Lost Childhood Memories, 4315 Drolet, Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Stitched Sex, Hiestand Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH • Polaroid Photos, B.Jerkovic 215/17-11000, Beograd, Yugoslavia • My Postman, Paysandu 2307-c.p. 1744, Moreno BS AS, Argentina • Postal Impressions, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN • Civil Rights/Human Rights Show, www.geocities.com/kirk_civil_human/
	2002	• Holiday Showcase Exhibition, Art Institute & Gallery, Salisbury, MD • Elvis Week 2002 Art Contest and Exhibit, Graceland, Memphis, TN • Thinking Words, www.geocities.com/thinkingwords • Craft Gallery, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ • Art with a Heart 2002, Ritter House, San Rafael, CA • The Edge of Whimsy, KZF gallery, Cincinnati, OH • Postcards from All Over, Irving Art Association, Irving, TX
	2001	• 2nd Great Austin Center Postcard Project, Austin center, Washington, DC • Push the Envelope II, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO • National Women’s Music Festival Fine Arts Exhibit, Muncie, IN • Craftsummer Faculty Exhibition, Hiestand Galleries, Oxford, OH • Ring Around the Rosy, Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Hamilton, OH
	2000	• Craftforms 2000, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA • Couplets: Duality in Clay, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA • 5th International Enamel Exhibit, Velvet Da Vinci Gallery, San Fransisco, CA • Toys Designed by Artists, Decorative Arts Museum, Little Rock, AR • WWW.WOMENSWORK.COM, Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY

	2006	• Yellow Springs Community Foundation Grant and Y.S. Educational Endowment Grant to build the Yellow Springs HS and McKinney MS Art Programs
	2005	• Two Community Connection Grants from Butler Rural Electric Cooperative, Oxford, OH for the Preble Shawnee Photography and Graphic Arts Programs • Best Buy Teach Grant for the Preble Shawnee Graphic Arts Program
	2003	• Research Grants: For travel to Greece to study Tamatas, religious tooled metal effigies; from the Foundation for Hellenic Studies, American Hellenic Institute Foundation, Washington, DC and the Department of Art, CELT, and Fine Arts Department, Miami University, Oxford, OH
	2002	• Third Place Award, Non-Professional Division, Elvis Week 2002 Art Contest and Exhibit, Graceland, Memphis, TN
	2000	• Visiting Artist Honorarium; Artist Lecture and Little Bo-Peep Show, Miami University, Oxford, OH

	2004	• TM Gallery, Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, KY
	2001	• Art Building Auditorium, Craftsummer Program, Miami University, Oxford, OH
	2000	• Peabody Hall Auditorium, Miami University, Oxford, OH

	2006	• Williams, Arthur, Beginning Sculpture-textbook, Davis Studio Series, p. 12, review/reproduction. • Metalsmith, Exhibition in Print 2006, p. 36, review/reproductions. • Pearce, Sara, Family fills up the Fitton Center, Cincinnati Enquirer, review/reproduction, Jan. 6, 2006. • Creative Soup Zine, Warminster, PA, March 2006.
	2005	• Jones, Richard, Oxford family’s art on display at Fitton Center, The Oxford Press, review/rep., Dec. 16, 2005. • Jones, Richard, Oxford family subject of exhibition, Hamilton & Middletown Journals, review/rep., Dec.12, 2005. • Reis, Jennifer, Question Reality: Surrealism in Contemporary Art, Arts Across Kentucky, review Fall 2005. • Reality in question, The Independant, review Aug. 26, 2005. • Heath, Benita, Morehead’s not-so-fantastic voyage, Lexington Herald-Leader, review Sept. 18, 2005. • Farr, Jory, Passion, creativity and surprise await in metals exhitbit, Business First, review Jan. 7, 2005. • Yalkut, Jud, The Fab 140, The Art of Metals in Ohio, Dayton City Paper, review Jan. 5-11, 2005.
	2004	• Starker, Melissa, Good Education, Alive, review Nov. 24, 2004. • Cartmill, Shane, Heavy Metal, Outlook News.Com, website review, 2004. • Kotwal, Kaizaad, Moments in Metal, The Columbus Dispatch, review Dec. 12, 2004. • Workman, Michael, Ekecheiria, NewCityChicago.com, website review, 2004. • Press Release, saeamerica.org, Council of Hellenes Abroad, website review, 2004. • Exhibit Honors Olympic Truce, NBCOlympics.com, website review, 2004. • About the Current, schopfgalleryonlake.com/current.html, website review, 2004. • Ekecheiria, catalog, 2004.
	2003	• Hammered & Forged, catalog, 2003.
	2001	• Johnson, Dana, Not your Average Appetizer, The Miami Student Amusement, review/rep., Oct. 2001 • Poston, Benjamin, Want some art with your cup of coffee?, The Oxford Press, reproduction/review July, 2001. • Jones, Richard, Fitton Center Exhibitions Linger On Duality, The Journal-News, reproduction/review Feb.2001.
	2000	• Toys Designed By Artists, catalog, 2000. • Birthing Stories, printed exhibition, 2000.

	2007-present	• Art Teacher, Hollingsworth East Elementary School, Eaton, OH: K-2 Art
	2006-07	• Art Instructor, Miami University, Oxford, OH: Art for the Elementary Teacher • Art Teacher, Yellow Springs High School, Yellow Springs, OH • Art 1, 2, & 3 and 7th grade Art: exhibited student work continuously, developed curriculum and cross-curricular lessons with other teachers, and developed rapport with colleagues, students, administration, parents and community. I created a space where students could develop individually directed projects based on skills and career opportunities, and the students were producing professional quality work which they were selling.
	2004-06	• Art/Photography Teacher, Preble-Shawnee High School, Camden, OH • Art 2, Photography 1 & 2, and 7th grade Art: have exhibited student work continuously, worked with art faculty to produce the annual art show, and developed cross-curricular lessons with other teachers. I have developed curriculum based on Fine Arts Standards, passed the Praxis 3 training, and have received my 5-year Ohio Professional Teaching License.
	2003	• Student Teacher, Kramer Elementary, Oxford, OH/ Lakota West High School, West Chester, OH
	2002-03	• Visiting Professor, Miami University, Oxford and Hamilton Campuses, 3 courses per semester: • 2-D and 3-D Design, & Senior Capstone: a professionalism course for seniors entering into a career in the arts, where I developed the curriculum and worked with the exhibition coordinator to produce an exhibition of their artwork. During one semester of 3D, a sculpture graduate student attended my classes, to learn how to teach 3D. She participated in critiques, daily instruction and mentor discussions with me about teaching as a profession.
	2001	• Instructor, Craftsummer, Miami University, Oxford, OH, Beginning Jewelry: developed curriculum
	2000	• Visiting Professor, Miami University, Oxford, OH, Architecture: team-taught with an architect