EDUCATION:
Millersville University, Millersville, PA   Bachelor of Arts (Major - Fine Arts), May 1985, Magna Cum Laude Graduate
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Private Art Instructor, Watercolor Workshop Instructor, Etching Workshop Instructor, Portfolio Building Class for
pre-college students -  DeLaurentis Studio, Lancaster PA, 1995 - 2005.
Adjunct Instructor - Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Watercolor Studio Credit Course, 1999.
Fine Art Photography instructor, full time, Linden Hall School, Lititz PA 1985-1987. Taught courses in black & white
photography, cyanotype & other alternate processes, art history.
PUBLICATIONS:
Watercolor Artist magazine, 10 page article - Driven to Abstraction - December 2009 issue
Color - The 12-Hue Method, by Christopher Willard, Rockport Publishing - 10 watercolor paintings published in book.
American Artist magazine, 7 page article - Capturing Energy In Your Paintings - September 1996 Issue
SIGNATURE MEMBERSHIPS:
Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Philadelphia Water Color Society.
ART COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:
Arts to the Core Schools, Board of Directors, potential charter school Visual Arts advisor, 2014-2015
Juror of Awards - Annual  Garden & Floral Member Show - Lancaster County Art Association  - 1995, 2015
Scholastic Arts Juror, Regional Scholastic Arts Competition, 1993 through 2002, 2014
Juror for Lancaster County Young Artists - County-wide student art competition - 2010, 2014 through 2018
Juror of Awards - Pennsylvania Watercolor Society - Annual Members Exhibit - July 2011
Juror of Awards - Landis Woods Art Show - September 2004
Juror for the Mount Gretna Art Show - May 2004
Juror of Awards - York Art Association Member Exhibit - April 2004
Juror Panelist for the Artists in Education Program, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 2002, 2001;
Member of Echo Valley Art Group, 1996-present, Vice-President, 1999; President 2000, Treasurer 2001-present.
Juror of Selection & Awards for visual art- Penn State Univ. Harrisburg  - Literary/Visual Arts Magazine: Tarnhelm, 1996
Lancaster Summer Arts Festival, Board of Directors -  Visual Arts Program Director - 1992-1994
Curator for the Art of Nature, a national invitational exhibit, North Museum, Lancaster PA, June 1993, 1994
Lancaster County Art Association Board of Directors - 1990-1991
RECENT ART EXHIBITS and AWARDS:
Pennsylvania Watercolor Society - Annual International Juried Exhibit - 2015, 2009, 1994, 1992
Lancaster Museum of Art - Print Show Invitational - 3 fine art prints exhibited - Lancaster PA, February 2015
Demuth Foundation - Invitational Exhibits - Lancaster PA - 2018-2012, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1999, 1997
Boston International Fine Art Exhibit - exhibited with Emerge Fine Art artists - Nov. 2013 - Boston, MA
Emerge Fine Art - recent watercolors exhibited - Cary, NC, January-February 2013
Solo Exhibit - Between Spaces - new series of watercolors - Red Raven Art Company - August 2012 - Lancaster, PA
Emerge Fine Art - recent watercolors exhibited at opening of new gallery, Cary, NC, January 2012
Pennsylvania Watercolor Society - awarded the Savoir Faire Award - 32nd Annual International Juried Exhibit - 2011
Goggleworks Center for the Arts - Five person invitational - Red Rose Artists - Reading PA, September 2011
Marietta Art House - Two new watercolors exhibited (part of Echo Valley Art Group exhibit) - April 2011 - Lancaster
Elizabethtown College - New photogravure and monotype exhibited in Flight - September 2010 - Elizabethtown, PA
Solo Exhibit - Cities Revisited - new series of watercolors - Red Raven Art Company - May 2010 - Lancaster, PA
Echo Valley Art Group - 65th Anniv. Exhibit - Lancaster Museum of Art - April 2010, & dWest Chester Univ. Feb.2011
Philadelphia Water Color Society - Annual International Juried Exhibit - October 2009, Berman Museum, Ursinus
College, awarded the Frank Nofer Memorial Award for Transparent Watercolor
Solo Exhibit of New Works - William Ris Gallery, Stone Harbor, NJ, May-June 2009
Exhibit of new watercolor paintings - Lancaster Icons, May 2008, Red Raven Art Company,  Lancaster PA
Invited Artist of the Month - Hamilton Club, Lancaster, PA, April 2008 and October 2013
Philadelphia Water Color Society - Annual International Juried Exhibit; invited to be the watercolor demonstrator for
the event, November 2007, Phillips Museum, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Women’s Expressions - national invitational exhibit of women artists - Lancaster, PA - April 2007
Lancaster Museum of Art - Solo Exhibit of New Work - The City Within - Lancaster PA, September 2005
The Sovereign Center - Rhythms in Vision - a 3 person exhibit of paintings - Reading, PA - May, 2004
Central Market Art Gallery - Solo exhibit - Here and There, watercolors/etchings - Lancaster, PA - May, 2003
Franklin and Marshall College, 180 Degrees – Echo Valley Art Group exhibit, Lancaster, PA 2003
Women’s Expressions - national invitational exhibit of women artists - Lancaster, PA - May 2002
Rosenfeld Gallery - Small Works Show - annual group invitational,  Philadelphia, PA December  2001, 1996,  1994
William Ris Gallery - new solo exhibit of watercolors of  Stone Harbor and Avalon - Stone Harbor NJ - August 2001
Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery, Lebanon Valley College - Invitational Group Exhibit - Trains of Thought- The Railroad
in Contemporary Art - Annville PA - May - June, 2001
Central Market Art Gallery - Solo exhibit - Precisely Lancaster, new watercolor paintings - Lancaster PA - April, 2001
William Ris Gallery - Solo exhibit - paintings of Stone Harbor & Avalon - Stone Harbor, NJ - June 2000
Ganser Gallery, Millersville Univ. - Echo Valley Annual, Homage to 20th Century Artists - Nov. 1999
William Ris Gallery - Solo Exhibit - recent work - Camp Hill, PA - Nov., 1999
Philadelphia Watercolor Club Annual International Juried Exhibits - November  1998, 1995, 1994, 1993,
Strathmore Paper Award of Excellence - 1995.
Permanent Collection Premiere Exhibit,  Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster PA - October 1998
Perkins Center for the Arts - Annual Juried Watercolor Exhibit - Moorestown, NJ - April, 1998
Historic Yellow Springs Juried Art Show  - Chester Springs, PA   April 1998 - 1994
State Museum of Pennsylvania - Solo Exhibit - Museum and Historical Offices - Harrisburg, PA - July 1997
Rosenfeld Gallery - Solo Exhibit - 113 Arch St. Philadelphia, PA - February 1997
North East Watercolor Society - Annual Juried Exhibit - Edinburgh NY, October 1996
Susquehanna Art Society - 11th Biennial Northeast Regional Juried Exhibit, 2nd Place Award - July 1996
Lancaster Graphics Gallery - Solo Exhibit - "Steeples and Domes - Heavenbound" Lancaster PA, June 1995
Rosenfeld Gallery - Four Young Realists, group exhibit, Philadelphia PA,  June, 1994
Art of the State - 26th Annual Juried Exhibit, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg PA, May - August 1993
Community Gallery of Lancaster - Solo Exhibit - Major exhibit of new work, April 1993
Lancaster City Arts Grant Winner - April, 1990
MUSEUM and CORPORATE COLLECTIONS include:
Lancaster Museum of Art, Roman Haas Inc. Philadelphia, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Lancaster General
Hospital, Hamilton Club, High Industries, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. New York, Summit Life Insurance Corporation,
Lancaster Newspapers, Inc., Cardiology Associates, Warfel Construction Co., Bent Creek Country Club, Apple Hill
Medical Center, Anne Barsinger Cancer Center in Lancaster.