EDUCATION

2008

MFA The University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, Georgia

2001

BA Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

 

 

AWARDS, GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2008

Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant

SECAC Artist's Fellowship

International Sculpture Center Student Achievement Award Honorable Mention

The Dean's Award, The University of Georgia

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, The University of Georgia

 

2007

John D. and Marilyn Kehoe Scholarship, $2500 towards study in Cortona, Italy

Winner, Best Animated Short Film, Bald Shorts Film Festival

 

2006

Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts Graduate Research and Performance Grant
The University of Georgia. A $1000 grant for research materials

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, The University of Georgia

 

2005

Recruiting Assistantship, The University of Georgia

 

2004

Art Concierge Award, North American Sculpture Exhibition, Golden, Colorado
* Juried by James Surls

 

2001

Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award, a $17,000 grant for travel, study, and production of artwork
* Juried by Sam Gilliam and Dean Snyder

Selected as cover artist for “The Vanderbilt Review,” Volume XVII

 

 

EXHIBITIONS

2009

Something Remembered, Snow Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee (solo)

 

2008

Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition, The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia

Mad Zoo People, Clayton Street Gallery, Athens, Georgia

La Mostra: Cortona Reunion Exhibition, Lamar Dodd School of Art Courtyard Gallery, Athens, Georgia

 

2007

Convergence, Lamar Dodd School of Art Courtyard Gallery, Athens, Georgia

Random Narrative Experiments, William J. Thompson Gallery, Athens, Georgia

La Mostra, Museo dell'Accademia Etrusca, Cortona, Italy

Me Bike, Westergasterrein, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Volume I, Lamar Dodd School of Art Main Gallery, Athens, Georgia (solo)

Opening The Music Box, Cine, Athens, Georgia—Collaboration with Andrea Trombetta

Sculpture Eyedrum, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
* Juried by Bill Spence and Corrina Mensoff

 

2006

SECAC/MACAA Members Exhibition, The Parthenon Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
* Juried by Eleanor Heartney

Remember, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, Georgia (solo)

Vanderbilt Alumni Show, E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Music Box, Floorspace, Athens, Georgia—Collaboration with Andrea Trombetta

31st Juried Exhibition, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, Georgia
* Juried by William Fagaly

 

2005

The Down East Sculpture Exhibition, Emerge Gallery, Greenville, North Carolina
* Juried by Tom Grubb

And Yet And Yet, William J. Thompson Gallery, Athens, Georgia (two person)

Hamblet Reunion Show, Sarratt Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee

 

2004

North American Sculpture Exhibition, Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado
* Juried by James Surls

The 31st Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana
* Juried by Randall Griffey

6th Renaissance Regional Art Exhibition, Renaissance Center, Dickson, Tennessee
* Juried by Bob Kucher

52nd Midstates Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum, Evansville, Indiana
* Juried by Michael Bergt

 

2003

12th Ave. Arts Collective Annual Show, 1212 12th Ave., Nashville, Tennessee

Kinetic Diagrams, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee (solo)

A Natural History, Antics Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee (two person)

 

2002

A Collection of Local Artist’s Work, 1212 12th Ave., Nashville, Tennessee

 

2001

Hamblet Award Competition, Cohen Building, Nashville, Tennessee
* Juried by Sam Gilliam and Dean Snyder

 

SCREENINGS AT FILM FESTIVALS


2007

CamboFest: Siem Reap Edition, Siem Reap (Angkor Wat City), Cambodia

D.C. Shorts Film Festival, Landmark E Street Cinema, Washington, DC

CamboFest, Venue-X, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

3rd Annual Bald Shorts Film Festival, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia
* Winner Best Animated Short

 

2006

3rd Annual Secret City Film Festival, Oakridge Community Playhouse, Oakridge, Tennessee

 

VISITING ARTIST LECTURES

2008

The University of Oklahoma Weitzenhofer School of Art, Norman, Oklahoma
Presentation on my research to faculty and students

The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Presentation on my research to faculty and students

 

2007

Gainesville State College, Gainesville, Georgia
Presentation on my work to Instructor Jenn Manzella's Art Appreciation classes

The University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy
Presentation on my sculpture and animation to study abroad students and faculty

 

2005

The University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Presentation on my work to Associate Professor Amy Kirschke’s 20th Century Art History class

COLLECTIONS


Vanderbilt University, Sarratt Visual Arts Center, Permanent Collection
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital, two sculptures on permanent public display
Ann Frisch, private collection, Charlotte, North Carolina
Russell Love, private collection, Nashville, Tennessee
Chris Carlson, private collection, London, England

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Beth Sale, "Redefinition," Flagpole, Apr. 11, 2007
Beth Sale, "Designing a New Reality," Flagpole Apr. 4, 2007
Cathy Fox, "Sprawling Sculpture Feast Exudes Grass-Roots Charm," Atlanta Journal- Constitution, Jan 28, 2007
Beth Sale, "Best of the Local Scene," Flagpole, Feb. 22, 2006
Alan Bostick, "Power Mechanics," The Tennessean, Dec. 22

 

CONFERENCES

2006

Annual Southeast College Art Conference, Nashville, Tennessee
* Panelist for Top Ten Art School Gripes, chaired by Carl Billingsley and David Feinberg