Awards & Affiliations

Education

University of Strasbourg, France 1978

Operation Crossroads Africa (Independent Study) 1979

Trinity College, BA 1980

Awards, Grants, Fellowships, Residencies

Lecturer, Buffalo Museum of Science, Fairchild Travel Talks (slide lectures) - "Au Coeur Du Mali" (1995), "Savannah and Charleston" (1996), "Images of Buddha" (1998)

Honorable Mention - Western New York Regional, 1996 (Walter Prochownik, Juror)

Photography Award - Western New York Regional, 1997 (Charles Rand Penney, Juror)

Special Opportunity Stipend Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts (Spring 2000, Summer 2000, Summer 2003)

Panelist, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo ABC Grants (for the arts in Buffalo Public Schools, 2004)

NYFA MARK Art Fellowship program participant (2009)

Lincoln Center Learning Lab participant (2015)

Saltonstall Foundation Retreat (2020)

Collectors, Collections

Represented by Edith Graves Art Advisor (2012 - present)

Eight pieces accepted into the permanent collection of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York, 2015

Numerous private and corporate collectors

Gallery/Museum/Arts/Community Affiliations

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Art with Artists teacher, 1998 - 2001

Rental Sales/Collector's Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (exhibiting member 1999-2010)

Bryant Street Studio art teacher, 2002-2008.

Buffalo Seminary, Director of Development, 1993-1994

Buffalo Society of Artists (exhibiting member) 1998-present

Buffalo Artist and Gallery Guide volunteer, 2003- 2009

Burchfield-Penney Art Center (member and volunteer) 1990-present

City Honors School Foundation, board of directors, 2010-2015

City of Buffalo Arts and Cultural Funding Advisory Board (now defunct) 1994-2004

City of Buffalo Arts Commission 2010-2014

Empire State Partnership parent representative, Olmsted Schools and Just Buffalo Literary Center, 2007-2011

Erie County Department of Environment and Planning/Center for Great Lakes Environmental Education, grant writer/fundraiser, 1998-2000

Friends of the Japanese Gardens advisory board, 2007-2015

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, board member 1992-2008, board president 1999- 2001

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Chair of Capital Campaign, 2004-2006

Halwalls Contemporary Arts Center, President’s Council 2013-present

Indigo Art Gallery Advisory Board, 2009-2019

Irish Classical Theatre, first capital campaign consultant for new theatre, 1996-1998

Just Buffalo Literary Center, teaching artist, 2010-2019

Milton Rogovin: The Making of a Social Documentary Photographer, primary researcher, interviewer and contributing author, 2001-2007

Neglia Ballet Storytime Explorers, teaching artist, 2006-2015

Olmsted School Foundation, founder and president, board of directors 2007-2011

One Hundred Thousand Artists and Poets for Change, Buffalo, NY 2012, 2013, 2014

Park School of Buffalo, Director of Development, 1992-1993

Roswell Park Cancer Institute Art Committee, 2001- 2003

University at Buffalo Friends of the School of Architecture and Planning, coordinator of community lecture series and programs 1990-1992

VIVE La Casa - designed and taught an art program for the refugee children, 2008-2010

Westminster Early Childhood Program - designed, organized and implemented first annual art exhibition for all daycare and pre-school students, 2006

Young Audiences of Western New York, teaching artist, 2018-2020