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EDUCATION

2007       Master of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2002       Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Art/Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Honors)
1998       North Carolina School of the Arts, High School Diploma



SOLO + TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2006      Crowd My Landscape, Ellis Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

              COOPERATE/COMPETE, Zebra Lounge, Carnegie Mellon University

2005      Photo A Go Go: Camera Obscura, Rebus Works, Raleigh, NC (collaboration with Clare Britt)

2003      Domestic Disturbances, Artspace, September 5 – 28, 2003, Raleigh

1998      Lauren Adams: Retrospective at Eighteen, North Carolina School of the Arts Gallery, Senior Thesis Exhibit



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES / COLLABORATIONS

2008  
Looking Back: Regional Emerging Artists-in-Residence 2000-2004
, Artspace, Raleigh, North Carolina
Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Recipients Exhibition, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY
Meet the Made: Robot 250, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
8-Hour Projects, Boweman Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadeville, PA
Pro/Con: Political Craft, Rebus Works, Raleigh, NC


2007
Findings, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery , Pittsburgh, PA (MFA Thesis Exhibit)

2006
Jungle Tender,  Fraction Workspace, Chicago, IL (two-person exhibit)
Still Showing Signs of Life, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA
Crosscurrents, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina
Outside Project, ex-Turkish Bath, Belgrade, Serbia
Rat Fink's Revenge, Peterson Automotive Museum, Los Angeles (Curator: David Chodosh) (catalogue)
Fly-Over State Perspectives, University of Maryland Union Gallery, College Park, MD (three-person exhibit, Curator: Brian Sykes)
Meta-muse-ical, Kresge Theater, Carnegie Mellon University (collaboration with Jake Peterson and the MFA students of CMU)

2005
Two for the Seesaw, Branch Gallery, Carrboro, NC (Curator: Bill Thelen)
Crosscurrents: Art, Craft, and Design in North Carolina
, NC Museum of Art (catalogue)
Seeing Double: Encounters With Warhol, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Vaguely Positive, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA

2004
The War Room, Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA
Fabrications, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Best of the Triangle, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC

2003
Via Penland, Rebus Works, December 8- January 23, Raleigh, NC  

2002
Loom2, Chatham Label Mill, Pittsboro, N.C. (Co-Curator)
On the Dot, performance under direction of Jen Talbot, LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, NC

2001
Loom, Chatham Label Mill, Pittsboro, NC (Co-Curator)



    GRANTS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES

  2008 Jentel Artist Residency (June - July)
  2007
Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant
GuSH Grant, Carnegie Mellon University
  2006 Outside Project: Belgrade (three weeks in Serbia)
Graduate Conference Funding, Carnegie Mellon University
  2005 GuSH Grant, Carnegie Mellon University
  2004 North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artist Project Grant
  2003 Regional Emerging Artist in Residence, Artspace, Raleigh NC (January-June)
  2002 Frances L. Phillips Travel Scholarship (Europe)
  2001 Allcott Undergraduate Travel Fellowship (Mexico)
Penland School of Crafts (ceramics scholarship)
Jonathan E. Sharpe Scholarship, UNC-CH
Kachergis Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship, UNC-CH
  2000 UNC-CH Robin Hanes Internship award, with muralist Michael Brown



   SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  2008 Quiet Quality, "First Friday Version 03.08, part 1"
Michelle Natale, “Art Picks”, The News & Observer, Raleigh, NC 4/4/08
Kurt Shaw, “Mattress Factory's 'Gestures' exhibit lets visitors meet the robots,” The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh, PA 8/07/08
Mary Thomas, “Mattress Factory's 'Meet the Made' has people behaving like androids,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, PA  8/14/08
Chic Cityrats [blog], “Meet the Made,” www.chic-cityrats.net/enArt, 08/2008
  2007 Sarah Mogin, “Finding Art on Campus,” The Tartan, 4/16/2007
 
2006
Ann Millett, “Crosscurrents,” Art Papers January/February issue
Bad at Sports Podcast, Episode 34
Linda Luise Brown, "Turbulent Waters: Exhibit by NC artists is an eruption of emotion," Creative Loafing, 5/03/2006
  2005 Ellen Sung, “NCMA's 'Crosscurrents' runs in many directions,” News & Observer, 10/9/2005
David Need, “Vision and Time: Photo A Go Go” Independent Magazine, 8/10/2005
  2004 Mollie McClelland, “The War Room,” New People Magazine, Pittsburgh, 11/2004
  2003 Caitlin Cleary, “Textiles’ Not-So-Subtle Subtext,” The News & Observer, 9/12/2003
Dani Nation, “Same Space, New Blood,” Lather Weekly. 3/2003
Elin O’Hara Slavick, “On Target,” Independent Magazine, 3/13/2003
  2002 Kimowan McLain, “Show’s Success Inspires Another Exhibit,” Chapel Hill News, 2/17/2002
Nathan Galgud, "Sophomore Jinx," Independent Magazine
  2001 Mandy Melton, “Students Use Art to tell UNC’s ‘Hidden Truths’,” DailyTar Heel, 4/27/2001
Jonnelle Davis, “Loom of History,” Chapel Hill News, 12/9/2001
Nathan Gelgud, “Loom in Essence,” Independent Magazine, 12/12/2001
  2000 Linda Haac, “La Fiesta Lives on in Memory and Artistry,” Chapel Hill News. 9/2000
 
 
 

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

2008 -               Washington University in St. Louis, Assistant Professor
2007 - 2008        Chatham University, Adjunct Professor of Art (Drawing, Design and Photography)
2007                 Carnegie Mellon University, Adjunct Professor of Art (Painting)
2006 - 2007        Carnegie Mellon University, PreCollege Art Program (Collaborative Installation)



SELECTED LECTURES / PANELS / PRESENTATIONS

“Space Invaders: An Afternoon with the Rat King,” Mattress Factory Robot250 Programming, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2008
“Jentel Presents,” Fulmer Library, Sheridan, Wyoming,  July 2008
"A Select and Somewhat Narrative History of Self-Portraiture," University of Illinois at Chicago, March 2008
"Fly-over State Perspectives," a panel with Zoe Charlton and Jeffry Cudlin at the University of Maryland,
               College Park entitled "Identities: Personal Perspective," September 2006
"On the 100 year anniversary of Sinclair's The Jungle," a Fraction Workspace Workshop with Stacey Kirby,
               April 2006
Artist's Talk, Academy of Lifelong Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, November 2005









last update: august 2008