Brief resume
 
SELECT INVITATIONAL, COMMISSIONED AND COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS

• Drop IN/Pop UP Waiting Room Project, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, Fall 2012

• The Waiting Room: Lost and Found, (Grant Supported), multi-media interactive installation, that examines women's health and health care through aesthetic, scientific, cultural, political, economic and literary lenses. 

       Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, College of Saint Catherine, St. Paul, MN, 2010 
       Sabatini Gallery, Topeka, KS, 2012

• The Simulated Garden: Consuming Nature, (Curated, Traveling), ExhibitsUSA, Kansas City, MO, 2013-2016
  
• Edge of Life: Forest Pathology Art, (Curated Group), The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art, Nacogdoches, Texas The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, Texas, January 21-March 26, 2011

        Eagle Exhibit Hall, Environmental Education, Science and Technology (EESAT) Building, University of North Texas, Denton, TX,
       April 20-July27, 2011    

• Floating World: A Camping Ground/Tent City For Displaced Human And Bird Song, temporary public art piece in collaboration with Robin Lasser. Sound, light and sculpture. Commissioned by the City of San Jose, CA for the Zer01 Biennial, September 2010. The work remained on view through October 2011.
  

• Collect(ive), (commission) multi-sited, community based public art project, curated by the Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, IA. Part of the larger city-wide project Culturing Community: Projects about Place, September 17, 2010 - December 12, 2010. The public art components are still on site as of January 15, 2012.

•  Below the Surface: A 21st-Century Look at the Prairie, (Group Invitational) Faulconer Art Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, 2009.
•  Niche: Nature Morte in the Simulated Garden, (Commission), The Commons at Spooner Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2008-09. Large-scale site-specific, architecturally integrated installation project.
• Prairie Earth: An Installation Exploring the Kansas Native Landscape and Urban Sprawl, (commission) in collaboration with Bruce Scherting, Wichita Art Museum Interactive Gallery 2006-2007, site-specific artwork and interactive activity stations.
• Wonderland, Paradise Recast From Wilderness to Garden to Mall, The Catherine Murphy Gallery, College of Saint Catherine, Saint Paul, MN, 2006.
• Paradise Recast, (Solo-invitational), Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, 2005.
• Reveal/Conceal, (Solo-invitational), Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO, 2003.
• Systematic, (Solo-invitational), Loyola University Crown Center Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2002.
• Diagnostik, (Invitational) in collaboration with Bruce Scherting, Medical Museum, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, 2000 - 2001.
  
• Observation/Revelation: Plants and Insects Through the Lens of Art, (Group Invitational), Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID March - May 2000 and The Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, June - July 2000

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

• Lucas Artists Fellowship, Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA.
    July 2011
  
• Artist Residency, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, July, 2010 
• Sweet Summer Sabbatical, UK research grant, June/July 2008 & July 2011

        Invitations to work in UK museums collections and archives.

• Joy Scholarship Fund, the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, 2008
• A. Roy Myers Excellence in Research Award, Washburn University, 2008
• Artist Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL, 2000, 2003, 2005 & 2011
• Artist Residency, Anderson Center for the Interdisciplinary Arts, 2001

ACADEMIC AFFILIATION

•  Associate Professor, Art Department, Washburn University, Topeka, KS