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Studio Jeweler, jewelry teacher, mother.

My jewelry incorporates the tactile contrasts of metal, handmade felt, and various found materials. I am driven by the act and challenge of creating, which is like an ever changing dialogue between my materials and ideas; each reshaping the other.

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Education:
1992 Revere Academy, San Francisco, CA
1990-91 College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
1991 Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA
1990-91 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1986-87 San Francisco State University, S.F., CA
Awards:
1995 1st Place Jewelry, Sausalito Art Festival,
Saualito, CA, juror : Virginia Breier
Virginia Breier Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 Gold Award, California Discovery Awards,
Napa, CA
judges (partial list): Kenneth Trapp, Curator
of Decorative Arts, Oakland Museum
Oakland ,CA

Exhibitions & Invitationals:
2009 Find,Make,Wear
Victoria Albert Museum online, curated by Dorothy
Hogg
2009 Stick it to'em- Pins Behaving Badly
Crafthaus online, curated by Michelle Pajak-Reynolds
2009 Birdahus
Crafthaus online, curated by 2Roses & Emily Watson



2008 Transformations, New Jersey Arts Annual:
Crafts, New Jersey State Museum,
Trenton, NJ
2008 Transforming the Elements, Artisans Center
of Virginia, Waynesboro,VA
Juror- Mark Newport (featured on postcard
and website)
2008 Wearable Expressions, International
Biennial, Pablo Verdes Art Center
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (catalog)
Jurors- Arline Fisch,Charles Lewton-Brain,
Rebecca Grown-Thompson
2007 Exploring Boundaries: Evolutionary Metal
Bevier Gallery, Rochester Institute Of ,
Technology (postcard &website)
Rochester, NY
2003 Cache: New Horizons in Craft, New Jersey ,
Arts Annual (catalog) Noyes Museum of Art
Oceanville NJ, Curators - A.M. Weaver,
Paul J. Smith
1996 Sausalito Arts Festival, Sausalito, CA
1995 Valentine Invitational, Nancy Sachs Gallery,
St. Louis, MO

Selected Juried Shows:

2008 Westchester Craft Show
1995-97 Sausalito Art Festival, Sausalito, CA
1994-96 American Craft Council Shows,
Baltimore, MD, Columbue, OH
1995-96 Buyer's Market of America,
Philadelphia, PA

Teaching: 1999- Present, Instructor, Newark Museum
2004 - Present, Faculty, Center for Visual
Arts, Summit, NJ
Affiliations: Member- American Crafts Council, Society
Of North American Goldsmiths
Founder- New Jersey Metal Arts Guild
njmag.com


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