Education
M.A. - Photography and Graphic Design, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1979
B.A. - Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1976
Recent Selected Exhibitions
(Women) Artists from the Collection, 1800-2022, The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph Missouri, June, 2023
Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon - April, 2023 through April, 2024
I Hope You Find What You're Looking For, PLACE Galeria, Portland, Oregon, December, 2022 (One woman show)
Visage, Cassilhaus Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February - May, 2022
Hope in All Things, Baldwin Art Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, February – March, 2019 (One woman show)
In Gratitude, LightBox Gallery, Astoria, Oregon, November, 2018 (curated by Laura Valenti)
Dreams and Other Things, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, November - December, 2018 (One woman show)
To Everything There Is a Season, Spiva Art Center, Joplin, Missouri, October – December, 2018 (One woman show)
Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, March, 2018 through March, 2019
The Eclipse Show, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, August, 2017 (Curated by Christopher Rauschenberg)
Recent Photography Acquisitions, Portland Art Museum, March - July, 2017
Embodied, University of Kentucky Art Museum, January - April, 2017
The Photo Review Best of Show, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2016
The Kansas City Collection, Rotating Exhibition throughout Kansas City, 2016 - 2017
Unbound 5! Candela Books and Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, June, 2016
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri, December 2015 – February, 2016 (One woman show)
Photography as Life, Lishui International Photography Festival (China), November, 2015 (curated by Laura Valenti)
Looking At Appalachia, Traveling Exhibtion, opening June, 2015 (Curated by Roger May)
Seen/Unseen, Snapshot Gallery, Kansas City, MIssouri, May, 2015 (Two person show)
Eccentric Visions, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, Kansas, April, 2015
Conversation on Troost, EthnicArt Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, June, 2014 (Two person show)
The Middle, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, January, 2014 (Curated by Daniel Coburn)
Currents 2013, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, December, 2013 (Gordon Stettinius, juror)
About Face: Contemporary Portraiture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August, 2013 (Curated by Jane Aspinwall and April Watson)
Can You See Me Now? A Mid-Career Retrospective. The Bohemian Gallery, Overland Park, Kansas, June, 2013 (one woman show)
Early Works, Newspace Gallery, Portland, Oregon and Rayko Photography Center, San Francisco, California (curated by Laura Moya and Laura Valenti Jelen) 2013
Looking at Ourselves: Portraits featured on Lenscratch, Guate Photo Festival, Guatamala City, Guatamala. November, 2012 (curated by Aline Smithson)
Uganda: New Color Work, Mayson Gallery, New York, NY, May, 2012 (One woman show)
4xAfrica, Rayko Center for Photography, San Francisco, California, February, 2011
Uganda, Newspace Gallery, Portland, Oregon, January, 2011 (Two person show)
100 Portraits/100 Photographers, FotoWeek DC 2010 Festival, Washington DC, November, 2010 (Curated by Andy Adams and Larissa Leclair)
Familiar: Portraits of Proximity, The Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary, Overland Park, Kansas, November, 2010
Director’s Choice, Newspace Gallery, Portland, Oregon, September, 2010
River Market Regional Exhibition, Kansas City Artists Coalition Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, July, 2010 (Curated by Barbara O’Brien)
The Sea Series, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, April, 2010 (One woman show)
PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, March, 2010 (Deborah Klochko, juror)
Hide and Seek: Picturing Childhood, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, September, 2009 (Curated by Jane Aspinwall and April Watson)
Small Works Portfolio Exhibition, Susan Maasch Gallery, Portland, Maine, April, 2009
Uganda, White Sturgeon Art Gallery, Water Resources Education Center, Vancouver, Washington, March, 2009 (One woman show)
Collectible, Wallspace Gallery, Seattle, Washington, December, 2008 Texas Photographic Society 17: The National Competition, to travel throughout 2008 (Lisa Sutcliffe, juror)
PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, May, 2008 (Rod Slemmons, Juror)
Uganda, Leopold Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, April, 2007 (One woman show)
Portrait 2000, Truman Presidential Library, Independence, Missouri, February, 2008 (Two person show)
Convergence, Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, Colorado, February, 2008 (One woman show)
Group Photography Show, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, April, 2007
The Art of Photography, Lyceum Theatre Gallery, San Diego, California, April, 2007 (Tim Wride, Juror)
PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, April, 2007 (John Paul Caponigro, Juror)
100 Women in Photography, Women in Photography International, 2006 (Online exhibition)
Selections from the Contemporary’s Flat Files, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, July, 2006
Summer Show, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, July, 2006
PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, May, 2006 (Keith Carter, Juror)
Women Artists: Selections from the A.G. Edwards Corporate Collection, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, May, 2006
The Space Between, Studio 2131, Kansas City, Missouri, October, 2005 (One woman show)
Among the Ashes, Silver Eye Center for Photography Member’s Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August, 2005
Urban/Suburban, Epsten Gallery at Village Shalom, Overland Park, Kansas, August, 2005
The Children’s Hour, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, Michigan, May, 2005
PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, April, 2005 (Robert ParkeHarrison, Juror)
ID = ♀, The Photography Room, Grand Rapids, Michigan, March, 2005
Recent Selected Awards/Honors
First Place Award, PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, 2016 (Sean Kernan, Juror)
Selected as Fellow, Midwest Jewish Artist Lab, 2015
First Place Award, PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, 2013 (Natasha Egan, Juror)
Honorable Mention, The Julia Margaret Cameron Award, 2010
Director’s Choice Award, Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2010 (Christ Bennett and Laura Valenti, Jurors)
2nd Place Award, PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, 2010 (Deborah Klochko, Juror)
Juror’s First Prize Award, State of the Arts Exhibition, Prairie Village, Kansas, 2009 (Mark English, Juror)
Dr. Phyliss and Robert A. Bernstein Humanitarian Award, Jewish Family Services, Overland Park, Kansas,2009
Bodhisattva Award, Rime Buddhist Center/ Tibetan Institute of Studies, Kansas City, Missouri, 2008
Nominated for UNICEF Photographer of the Year Award, 2007
3rd Place Award, PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, 2007 (John Paul Caponigro, Juror)
Juror’s Award, Art at the Center 2007, Overland Park, Kansas (Dean Mitchell, Juror)
Honorable Mention, PhotoSpiva, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri, 2006 (Keith Carter, Juror)
Juror’s Choice Award, Art at the Center 2006, Overland Park, Kansas (Sangram Majumdar, Juror)
Recent Publications
I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For, Yellow Bird Press, 2022
The Sun Magazine, December, 2022 (cover and inside spread)
New Letters Magazine, Vol. 86, Numbers 1 & 2, 2020
The Sun Magazine, November, 2019 (cover)
New Letters Magazine, Vol. 85, Numbers 2 & 3, 2019
New Letters Magazine (cover included), Vol. 84, Number 2 & 3, 2018
Series of Dreams, contributing photographer, Skeleton Key Press, 2018
Black + White Photography (UK), featured photographer, February 2017
The Photo Review Competiton Issue, 2017
Shots Magazine, Issue #135, 2017
Shots Magazine, Issue #131, 2016
The Sun Magazine, October, 2015 (cover)
Zeitjung Online Magazine, December, 2014
Feature Shoot Online Magazine, December, 2014
Missouri Arts Council, “A Passion for Photos in Black and White,” November, 2014
The Kansas City Star Magazine, “Number 11 and Me,” March 16, 2014
The Sun Magazine, July, 2014 (cover)
Harper’s Magazine, February, 2014
Lenscratch Online Magazine, May, 2013
Black + White Photography (“60 Second Exposure” feature), Issue 144, December, 2012
New Letters Magazine (cover included), Volume 78 Nos. 3 & 4, 2012
Photo District News Online Magazine, July 12, 2012
New York Times Lens Blog, June 29, 2012
Ode Magazine (The Online Community for Intelligent Optimists) September, 2010
Fraction Magazine, Issue 18, 2010
New Letters Magazine (cover), Volume 76 No. 3, 2010
Kutuuka, Yellow Bird Press, June, 2009
The Sun Magazine, February, 2009 (cover)
New Letters Magazine, Volume 74, Number 4, 2008
Shots Magazine, Summer, 2008
Talking With The Wheel: The Ceramics of Ken Ferguson, contributing photographer, Silver Gate Publications, 2007
The Sun Magazine, May, 2007
Present Magazine, (online magazine) Spring, 2007
Ensemble Jourine, (online magazine) March, 2007
New Letters Magazine (cover and portfolio), Volume 73, Number 1, December, 2006
F-Stop Magazine, (online magazine) September, 2006
Present Magazine, (online magazine) Spring, 2006
The Sun Magazine, (cover), October, 2005
The Studio Potter, (“Remembering Ken Ferguson”) Volume 33, Number 2, June, 2005
The Sun Magazine, April, 2005
Ceramics Monthly, (“Ken Ferguson: A Remembrance”) March, 2005
Selected Collections
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
The Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
The University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Nerman Contemporary Gallery of Art, Overland Park, Kansas
Sprint Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri
Devos Children’s Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
American Century Investments, Kansas City, Missouri
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
H & R Block World Headquarters, Kansas City, Missouri
Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, Missouri
The Cassilhaus Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The Baldwin Photographic Collection and Archive, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri
The University of Oregon
Permanent Installations
The Pembroke Hill School, Kansas City, Missouri
Shawnee Mission Medical Center, Overland Park, Kansas
Village Shalom, Overland Park, Kansas
Operation Breakthrough, Kansas City, Missouri
The Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy, Overland Park, Kansas
Gallery Representation
White Bird Gallery
Cannon Beach, Oregon
Rental and Sales Gallery, Portland Art Museum
Portland, Oregon
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