Education
Certificate to Teach Visual Arts K-12
University of Maine at Augusta (spring 2021) and Machias (fall 2021)
Master of Fine Art in Illustration 2013
Academy of Art University in San Francisco CA
Bachelor of Fine Art in Illustration 2007 Cum Laude
University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth MA
Certification
Initial teaching license for Visual Arts grades 5-12 (MA)
Conditional teaching license for Visual Arts grades K-12 (ME)
Experience
April 10, 2023- current, Social Media and Marketing Assistant, IDSVA
2023 Project Coordinator for Creative Portland’s spring juried show, “Resilience” (contractor)
May 2023, Workshop Instructor “Painting with Gouache 2.0”, Cove Street Arts (contractor)
March 2022, Workshop Instructor for “Painting with Gouache”, Cove Street Arts (contractor)
April 2021 - August 31, 2021, K-1 Enrichment Teacher, Creative Explorations, Windham, Maine
August 31, 2020 - January 2021, Preschool Teacher, Community Arts Center, Gorham, Maine
October 4, 2012 – July 17, 2020, Gallery Manager, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine
2016 - 2018, Gallery Director and Curator, Vestibule 594, Portland, Maine
2012, Art Consultant, Dzian Gallery, Natick Massachusetts
2009, 2010 Art Teacher at Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Massachusetts
2009 Counselor of Art, Long Lake Camp for the Arts in Long Lake, NY
Curatorial Work
2016- July 2020 exhibition co-designer for Greenhut Galleries
2019 (October 12 - December 7), exhibition co-designer for “Real and Remembered” at Cove Street Arts
2017 (May - June), Jeff Woodbury "Pathways", Vestibule 594 finale show
2017 (March – April), Maia Snow “A Long Blink”, Vestibule 594
2017 (January – February), Chris Eaton “This is Not a Political Show”, Vestibule 594
2016 (November – December), Chris Beneman “Lineations”, Vestibule 594
2016 (October – November) UMVA group show “Monsters!”, Community Television Network, Portland, Maine
2016 (September – October), Dietlind Vander Schaaf “Exhalation”, Vestibule 594
2016 (July – August), Gibrian Foltz & Anika Wilson, “Collage Cutouts”, Vestibule 594
2016 (May – June), Colby Myer “Super | Natural”, Vestibule 594
2016 (March – April), Michael Lewis “Bird I Wish I Could Have Met You”, Vestibule 594
2016 (January – February), Jon Blatchford “Physical Image”, Vestibule 594
2015 (Dec. 31, – Jan. 4), pop up exhibit, Craig Winslow “Future is Inevitable”, Vestibule 594
2015 (November – December), “Featured Shoot” group photography show, Vestibule 594
2015 (September – October), Liz Long “Keepsakes”, Vestibule 594
2015 (July – August), Susan Winn “Hanging By A Thread”, Vestibule 594
2015 (May – June), Jenny Scheu & Lindsay Hancock, “Oil & Water Do Mix”, Vestibule 594
Publications
3x3 Magazine “Honorable Mention” 2022
Cover art for 2021 MWPA Chapbook winner, “The Rabbit” by Coco McCracken
February 19, 2017 Portland Press Herald “Abstraction goes long at Greenhut Galleries” by Daniel Kany
May 7, 2017 Portland Press Herald article reviewing Jeff Woodbury’s “Pathways” by Daniel Kany
2016 Community Television Network (Portland Media Center) interview with Lesley MacVane “Member Highlight- UMVA Monsters”
Membership
SCBWI
The Union of Maine Visual Artists