Professional Experience
2011/present
-Adjunct Professor - Jewelry and Metal
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL USA
2010/2011
-Visiting Assistant Professor - Craft/Material Studies - Metal
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
2008 - 2010
-Lecturer/Instructor - Jewelry and Metalsmithing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
2008
-Curator - “METALism”, Exhibition of works by 12 young artists, Bacaro Lounge, Champaign, IL, USA
2007
-Lecturer - “TECHNEEK”, RTV silicone mold making, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Education
2010
-Master of Fine Arts in Metals and Jewelry,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Il, USA
2005
-Bachelor of Fine Arts, Metals and Jewelry, Minor concentration in Japanese Language and Culture
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA
Scholarships and Awards
2010
-"Best In Show" Award, Textural Patois Exhibition, Allen Priebe Art Gallery
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
2009
-Lucy Morgan Fund Scholarship, 2009 Summer Workshop, Penland School of Crafts
-MFA Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2008
-SNAG Educational Endowment Scholarship, Society of North American Goldsmiths
-Work-Study Scholarship, 2008 Summer Workshop, Penland School of Crafts
-MFA Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship, School of Art and Design
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-NICHE Student Awards, Finalist in Metal Non-wearable, Functional Category
2005
-Louis & Nellie Skalny Scholarship, School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology
Solo/Dual Exhibitions
2011
-Material Play - Indi-Go Artist Co-op, Champaign, IL
-Flower that Speaks, Flower that Understands - Indi-Go Artist Co-op, Champaign, IL
-Material Play - Solo Exhibition, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA
-Flower that Speaks, Flower that Understands - Solo Exhibition, FAB Gallery,
School of the Arts Building, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2010
-Tradition - Dual Exhibition by artists Willemijn de Greef and Soyeon Kim
Caroline Van Hoek Contemporary Jewelry Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2009
-A Solo Show in 16 Parts - Link Gallery, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
Group Exhibitions
2011
-COSTUME COSTUME, Opulent Project, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA
-"The earring galore”, Heidi Lowe Gallery, Reoboth, DE
2010
-Ornamented & Adorned, McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
-RIT Metals Alumni Exhibition, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
-Adornment and Excess: Jewelry in the 21st Century, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH, Featured through Ethical Metalsmiths’ Radical Jewelry Makeover project
-No Boundaries, SNAG 2010 Student Exhibition, Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference, Houston, TX
-Textural Patois, Allen Priebe Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
2009
-The Enamel Show, Velvet da Vinci gallery, San Francisco, CA
-Exposition des Bijoux Contemporains, Herbarium St. Valery, France
-“The earring galore”, Heidi Lowe Gallery, Reoboth, DE
-Resurrect, Mesa Contemporary Arts at Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AR
-Metal Evolution, SNAG 2009 Student Exhibition
Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference, Philadelphia, PA
-“e-merge”, Emerging Artists Exhibition
Heidi Lowe Gallery, Reoboth, DE
-30th ANNUAL CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS
Mesa Contemporary Arts at MESA ARTS CENTER, Mesa, AR
-Materials: Hard & Soft, Meadows Gallery, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX
-5x5x5, Target Gallery, Torpedo Art Factory, Alexandria, VA
2008
-The Pendant Show, Velvet da Vinci gallery, San Francisco, CA
-Multiples, 4th Annual Group Exhibition, Heidi Lowe Gallery, Rehoboth Beach, DE
-Fine Contemporary Crafts 2008, National Biennial Juried Show, Art Space Gallery, Raleigh, NC
-Craft Forms 2008, Annual national Contemporary Crafts, Wayne Arts Center, Wayne, PA
-Materials: Hard & Soft, Meadows Gallery, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX
-29th ANNUAL CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS
Mesa Contemporary Arts at MESA ARTS CENTER, Mesa, AR
-NICHE Student Awards, Finalist, online exhibition, Metal Non-wearable, Functional category
-REFINED:Abundance, The Art Center @ The Opera House
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
-Cresting:SNAG Juried Student Digital Image Exhibition
Society of North American Goldsmith’s Conference, Savannah, GA
-Close to the Skin: Juried Works of Jewelry & Personal Adornment
Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
-Wearable Expressions 2008, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
-Precious Compulsion, Annual Student Metals Exhibition, Link Gallery,
University of ILlinois at Urbana -Champaign, Champaign, IL
2005
-Senior Thesis Exhibition, Bausch & Lomb World Headquarters Center, Rochester, NY
2004
-Humor in Art, Gallery r, Rochester, NY
2002
-Emerging Metal Artists, Mellon Center, Society of Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
Workshops Attended
2009
-“Herbarium” with Willemijn and Marij de Greef, Atelier en Route, Quesnoy le Montant, France
-“Radical Jewelry Makeover” by Ethical Metalsmiths Organization
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
-“3D Design with Rhinoceros” by Nicole Jacquard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2008
-“Body as Site” - metal workshop by Sondra Sherman, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
-“Mechanisms” by Tom Muir, University of ILlinois at Urbana-Champaign
-“Wire Soldering” by Ben Neubauer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2005
-“Fold Forming and Fusing Niello” by Tomoyo Hiraiwa
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Selected Publications
-Recycled Jewelry book by Heather Anderson
-Rings Book by Nicolas Estrada
-Ornament Megazine, vol.31, No.5. p23, The Art & Craft of Personal Adornment
-METALSMITH Megazing, vol.28, no.5, p53, Society of North American Goldsmiths
-500 Plastic Jewelry Lark Books, Asheville, NC
-500 Pendants & Lockets Lark Books, Asheville, NC
-500 Enameled Objects Lark Books, Asheville, NC
-Radical Jewelry Makeover: a traveling community mining and recycling project, documentary film