Education
Master of Fine Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Interdisciplinary Arts, Book and Paper Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Photography & German Literature
Certificate in Art History, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
Selected Exhibitions
2024 In(formal), Water Street Studios, Batavia, IL
2023 Spilled Milk, Mana Contemporary Chicago
2023 No Place Like Home, Schingoethe Center, Aurora University
2020 Art In Place, Terrain Exhibitions, North Branch Chicago River
2020 Process and Material, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 The Art of Being Dangerous, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2018 Welcome Blanket, Museum of Design Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
2017 Welcome Blanket, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2014 Refresh, Werkspace, Chicago, IL
2014 From the Heart, Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, WI
2013 Power Down, Pixel Study, The Bakery Gallery, Davenport, IA
2012 Hybrid, Center for Green Technology, Chicago, IL
2011 Natural Cycles: Sustainability in the Book and Paper Arts, Ryerson Woods Gallery, Deerfield, IL
2010 Wunderbar, Logsdon 1909, Chicago, IL
2010 A Retrospective, Vespine Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Broke, Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Peoria, IL
2009 About Time, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL
2009 Lines and Landscapes, Vespine, Chicago, IL
2009 Superstition, Logsdon 1909, Chicago, IL
2008 Photography in Book Arts and the Book in Photography, Harrisonburg, VA
2008 Because There Is This Briefest Moment, Vespine Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Enter Into Circulation: An Alternative Library, The Finch Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Wanderlust, Lanza Studio, Chicago, IL
2007 A Few Things You Should Know, Vespine Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Safe Harbor: Books in Boxes, Bayview Book Arts Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2005 New Editions Books: Old, Newand Digital, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, CA
2004 Liminal, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
2000 Them, Institute of Visual Art, Milwaukee, WI
2000 In This Body, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
Permanent Collections
Columbia College Chicago, Center for Book and Paper Arts
Golda Meir Library, Special Collections at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, School of the Art Institute Chicago
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Special Collections at the University of Iowa Libraries
Awards | Residencies
Roger Brown Artist Residency, New Buffalo, MI
Hyde Park Art Center, Center Program
Center for Book and Paper Arts, Artist-In-Residence
Aiko residency grant (Switzerland, Austria and Germany)
Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) grant
Publications
WERKS spring 2018: International Contemporary Art Magazine (Volume 1)
In(formal) exhibition catalog, 2024
Teaching
School of the Art Institute Chicago, Contemporary Practices and Undergraduate Division