There are things in life and nature that we can visually engage for hours on end – cloud formations, campfire flames, or waves crashing on the shore – letting our thoughts and imaginations run free.

Favorite Artists:

The unknown artists of prehistoric and ancient paintings, sculptors, and artifacts; Georgia O'Keeffe, Piet Mondrian, Franz Marc, Victor Vasarely, the Impressionists, Thomas Cole and the Hudson School painters, and Giorgione

Travel:

Italy, France, Switzerland, Finland, Sweden, Ahvenanmaa Islands, Estonia, Canada, various Caribbean Islands

Education:

Art training since age 3: drawing, painting, sculpture, metalworking, clay, weaving (on- and off-loom), architecture, graphic design, and jewelry

Bachelor of Art in Art History from Eckerd College, Saint Petersburg, Florida: Prehistoric Art and Archaeology, the Renaissance, Modern Art, Impressionism, Ethnic Arts, 20th Century Women's Art, Print Work, Aesthetics, Soviet Art, Art and the Scientific Revolution, Georgia O'Keeffe Seminar, and Museum Internship

Master of Art in Art History from University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida: Prehistoric and Ancient Art, Early Bronze Age, Archaic Greek, Baroque, Rembrandt Seminar, Romanticism, Conceptual Art, Native American Art, Museum Studies, and Museum Internships

Exhibitions:

Davidson Fine Arts Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL.  “1st Annual Rockin’ the Arts.” April-May 2010.

Air Canada, St. Petersburg, FL.  "Annual Art Exhibition."  April 1999.  2nd Place winner.

Air Canada, St. Petersburg, FL.  "Annual Art Exhibition."  April 1998.  2nd Place winner.

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL.  "Great Beginnings:  Young Artists Yesterday and Today."  June-August 1993.

Publications and Theses:

"Connoisseurship," Seeing Double: Two Versions of Guercino's Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, 2001

Mediterranean Island Cultures: Stone Sculpture and Regional Interrelations from 6000 BC to 2000 BC, Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2000

Current Theories on the Symbolism of the Cave Art of Prehistoric Communities in Southwestern Europe, Thesis, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL 1993