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Education
2006-2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, Summa Cume Laude
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2017 Don't Worry About the Government Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington Delaware
Walls Could Talk University City Arts League, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2014 B-SIDES St. Joseph’s University Gallery, Philadelphia
Earthly Delights (with Jon Weary) Fjord Space, Philadelphia
2013 Little Libraries Griesing Law Gallery, Philadelphia
2012 Gotta Catch ‘em Metropolitan Gallery, Philadelphia
2010 I Made It Myself Solo BFA Show, Atrium Gallery Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Preservation: Objects Registering the Past and Future The Clay Studio, Philadelphia
2016 All You Need Is Paper, Heavy Bubble Gallery, Philadelphia
2015 Ahead of the Curve: Creative Thinkers/Unconventional Makers, Dow Studios, Deer Isle, Maine
Archie Bray Resident Exhibition, Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, Spokane, Washington
Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia & NCECA Providence, Rhode Island
2014 BOXESes & PIECESes, a traveling exhibition of 10 works made during Project Network Residency at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark. The works were displayed in Skælskør, Denmark; Stockholm, Sweden; Kielce, Poland; Seoul, Korea; Kansas City, USA; New Orleans, USA; Philadelphia, USA; Red Deer and Halifax, Canada; Reykjavik, Iceland; Munich, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark before returning to Skælskør, Denmark and becoming part of the permanent collection of Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center
And the Villagers Never Liked You Anyway, Knockdown Center, New York, New York
Hot Shop, Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Shop on the Square II, The Art Alliance, Philadelphia
2013 World Cup, Applehouse Gallery, Guldagergaard, Skælskør Denmark
In Front of Strangers, I Sing, 72nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA
Recent Graduates, City Hall, Philadelphia
Small Favors VII, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia
Best in Show, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia
2012 Shop on the Square, The Art Alliance, Philadelphia
The Cat Exhibition, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia
The Work Exchange Exhibition, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia
2011 Our Community, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia
2010 Material Mastery, International Juried show at Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas
Tyler School of Art NCECA Juried Ceramics Show, Tyler School of Art
2009 All School Juried Show, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
2008 Esposizione Gruppo, Villa Caproni Galleria, Rome, Italy
Artist Residencies
2015 Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
2013 Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Skælskør, Denmark
Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine
Awards
2015 1st Place, 4th Annual Delaware State Employee Art Exhibition
2014 Winterthur Ceramics Conference Scholarship, Winterthur Museum
2013 Kiln God Award, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts
2011 Windgate Fellowship, Center for Craft, Creativity, & Design
Rudy Staffel Award, Tyler School of Art
2010 Diamond Research Scholars Award, Temple University
2009 Tyler School of Art/Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Scholarship
Student Scholarship to the American Craft Council, Creating a New Craft Culture Conference American Craft Council
2008 Diamond Ambassador Scholarship, Temple University
Selected Private Collections
Archie Bray Foundation
Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center Permanent Collection
The Franklin Institute
Sacred Heart Oratory
Graphology Consulting Group
Temple University Provost Art Collection
Selected Commissions
2012 Replica Osurarries for Dead Sea Scrolls Traveling Exhibition, nine replicas of ossuaries from Roman Palestine for The Franklin Institute’s staging of Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition. The ossuaries were approved by Israeli Antiquities Authority for exhibition.
Custom Ceramic Replicas of Two Canaanite Vases, a pair of four foot tall ceramic vases for Sacred Heart Oratory, Wilmington Delaware