EDUCATION
MFA, Creative Writing, The New School, New York City
MFA, Painting, New York Studio School, New York City
BA, Literature, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
TEACHING
Associate Professor of Art, Marymount University, Arlington, VA (2017-present)
City University of New York, Kingsborough Community College (2014-2016)
Marymount Manhattan College (2011-2016)
New York Academy of Art (2015)
University of California, Santa Barbara, Summer Arts Institute, College of Creative Studies (2007 & 2008)
EXHIBITIONS
Bethesda Painting Awards Exhibition, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD, June 6-30, 2024
“Life in Layers,” Prince George’s County Juried Exhibition, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Maryland, Nov. 13, 2023 – Jan. 6, 2024
“10 x 10 Invitational,” Pyramid Atlantic – Helen C. Frederick Gallery, Hyattsville, MD, Dec. 2023
”Big and Little Inks” Pyramid Atlantic - Helen C. Frederick Gallery, Hyattsville, MD, October 13-November 26, 2023
”Digging In”: Laurie Fader, Mary Proenza, Barbara Weissberger, Cody Gallery, Marymount University, Arlington, VA, Sept. 14 - Oct 27, 2023
Truth Comes Slowly collaborative book (with Jervey Tervalon and Jeff Abshear) and “Memoir” solo exhibition, funded by an
NEA Arts Project grant. Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, MI, April 22 - May 27, 2022
"Cladogram," 2nd International Juried Biennial, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, July 11-Sept. 19, 2021
"One in a Year," The Painting Center, New York City (online), Feb. 20-Apr. 20, 2021
Torpedo Factory Artists Association Painting Competition Exhibition, Mosaic Gallery, Fairfax, VA, July 21 - Aug. 22, 2021
Maryland Federation of Art 10th Annual All-Painting Competition, juried by Barry Nemett, October 29-November 27, 2021
31st National Drawing and Print Competitive Exhibition, Notre Dame of Maryland University (in gallery, March 2020; online, Fall 2020)
New York Studio School Alumni Exhibition (online), 2020
"Personal Worlds," solo exhibition, Barry Gallery, Marymount University, Arlington, VA (2018)
"A Sense of Place," (solo exhibition, part of Hinge Arts Residency Fellowship), Historical Society Museum, Fergus Falls, MN (2017)
Wide Open 7 (Juried by Beth Saunders, Metropolitan Museum of Art), Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (2016)
”Rip Off,” Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC (2012)
The New Show, Parsons The New School for Design, NYC (2010)
”The Figure in Print,” Manhattan Graphics Center, NYC (2010)
Benefit Show and Auction for Manhattan Graphics Center, Bloomsbury Auctions, NYC (2008)
MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York Studio School, NYC (2007)
New York Design Center Juried Show, NYC (2006)
Works from Observation and Invention, Governors Island, NYC (2006)
”San Francisco Cityscapes,” Newmark Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2004)
”Bay Area Figurative Art,” Worth-Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA (2004)
Visual Aid, San Francisco, CA (2003)
”California Landscapes,” Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley, CA (2003)
PUBLICATIONS & COMMISSIONS (click on the Art in America and The Brooklyn Rail links to read the reviews)
Woodcut published on the cover of Fiction International 56: Refugee (2023)
The McGraw-Hill Guide: Writing for College, Writing for Life, 4th Ed.: from "One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series" (2018)
The Brooklyn Rail: Kyle Staver Tall Tales at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, NYC (2015)
The Brooklyn Rail: Carolyn Salas sculptures at Koenig & Clinton Gallery, NYC (2015)
The Brooklyn Rail: One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series at MoMA (2015)
The Brooklyn Rail: True Monotypes at International Print Center New York (2015)
Art in America: Leon Berkowitz at David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (2014)
Exhibition catalog essay: “Hallie Cohen’s Drug of Choice," Fox Gallery, NYC (2013)
Art in America: Leonardo Drew at Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, NYC (2013)
Art in America: Terry Winters at Matthew Marks, NYC (2012)
Art in America: Jess and Elizabeth Bishop at Tibor de Nagy, NYC (2012)
Cover painting for What You Wish For by Janet Dawson (John Daniel & Co., 2012)
Art in America: Graham Nickson at Knoedler, NYC (2012)
Art in America: Stephen Westfall at Lennon, Weinberg, NYC (2011)
Rosebud: “I Remember The Rockford Files” (personal essay and drawing) (2011)
Cover painting for Portrait of a Chair by Marie Krohn (John Daniel & Co., 2011)
Cover painting for Devorah in Exile by Barbara Cherne (John Daniel & Co., 2009)
Steinberg-Fleezanis Carnegie Hall mural commission (77 x 144", 47 portraits; 2005-07)
Drawing published in The Undressed Art: Why We Draw by Peter Steinhart (Knopf, 2004)
Cover painting for Keeping Warm by Max Schott (John Daniel & Co., 2004)
Cover painting for Keep on the Sunny Side: Bluegrass Salutes the Carter Family (CMH Records, 2002)
Cover painting for Rhythm of the Mountains: Bluegrass Explores Its Roots (CMH Records, 2002)
Drawing commissioned for Calf’s Head and Union Tale by Archie Green (University of Illinois Press, 1996)
Cover painting for Elder Roma Wilson: This Train (Arhoolie Records, 1995)
Paragraph: short-short story (1994)
AWARDS
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - Residency, July-Aug, 2024
Mid Atlantic Arts Creative Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2022
Mednick Fellowship, Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges, 2020
Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, CA - Residency, 2019
Faculty Development Grant, Marymount University, 2019
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - Residency, 2018
Summer Writing Fellowship, Marymount University, 2018
Springboard for the Arts - Hinge Arts Creative Placemaking Residency, Fergus Falls, MN, 2017
Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, WY, 2017
New York Mills Cultural Center - Residency, 2016
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - Endowed Residency Fellowship, 2016
Williams Prize in Drawing, Finalist, 2015
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico - Residency Fellowship, 2013
LCU Foundation Grant, 2006 & 2007
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico - Residency Fellowship, 2006
TALKS
Artists’ Talk with Laurie Fader and Barbara Weissberger for “Digging In,” Cody Gallery, Marymount University, Arlington, VA
Panel Discussion: “Doing Justice, Making Peace: Art, Spirituality, and Nonviolence,” All Souls Episcopal Church, co-sponsored by the Prince George’s African American Museum & Cultural Center (2020)
Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC: Panel Discussion: "Trajectories in Education and Art" (2018)
Artist's Talk, Historical Society Museum, Fergus Falls, MN (2017)
Artist's Talk, Regis University, Denver, CO (2017)
PRESS
Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2017: link
Minneapolis Star Tribune, September 3, 2017: link