EDUCATION
- Master of Fine Arts/Painting, University of California Santa Barbara
- Bachelor of Art/Drawing, California State University, Northridge, CA
- San Francisco Art Institute

EXPERIENCE
Instructional:
1992- present - Associate Professor of Art, Newcomb College Art Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1989-1992: - Assistant Professor of Art, Newcomb College Art Department
1985-1989. - Assistant Professor of Art, Department of Art and Art History, University of Miami,
Coral Gables, FL

ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2007 - Palma Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2007 - The Academy Gallery at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
2006 - Appalachian State University, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (Solo Exhibition, Retrospective), Boone, NC
2006 - Northwestern State University (Solo Exhibition, Figures) Natchitoches, LA
2005 - Palma Gallery (Solo Exhibition), New Orleans, LA
2005 - Northwestern State University (Abstract Realism), Natchitoches, LA
2003 - University of Western Alabama (Solo Exhibition, Windows)
1999 - Still-Zinsel Gallery, (Solo Exhibition), New Orleans, LA
1996 - Still-Zinsel Gallery (Solo Exhibition), New Orleans, LA
1994 - Still-Zinsel Gallery (Solo Exhibition), New Orleans, LA
1992 - Still-Zinsel Gallery (Solo Exhibition), New Orleans, LA
1990 - Still-Zinsel Gallery (Solo Exhibition), New Orleans, LA
1990 - Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University (Solo Exhibition), New Orleans, LA
1989 - Phyllis Morris Gallery (Solo Exhibition), Los Angeles, CA
1988 - Gellert Fine Arts Gallery (Solo Exhibition), Bay Harbor Islands, Miami, FL
1988 - Vero Beach Center for the Arts (Two Person Exhibition), Vero Beach, FL
1987 - Sculpture Space Gallery (Solo Exhibition), South Miami, FL
1987 - O.K. South Gallery (Solo Exhibition), South Miami, FL
1985 - The New Gallery (Solo Exhibition), Coral Gables, FL
1984 - Herbert Palmer Gallery (Solo Exhibition), Los Angeles, CA
1984 - Bank of Los Angeles (Two Person Exhibition), Los Angeles, CA
1979 - Herbert Palmer Gallery (Solo Exhibition) Beverly Hills, CA

INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 - Huntsville Art Museum, "Views of the Collection: Recent Acquisitions," Huntsville, AL
2006 - Carroll Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2006 - The Academy Gallery at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, "Annual Miniature Exhibition," New Orleans, LA
2005 - UCT Irma Stern Museum, "Lithographs," Cecil Road, Rosebank, South Africa
2005 - The Academy Gallery at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, "Annual Miniature Exhibition," New Orleans, LA
2004 - Contemporary Arts Center, "Postcard Art," New Orleans, LA
2004 - The Claiborne Collection, Baton Rouge, LA
2003 - Huntsville Art Museum, "Views of the Collection: Recent Acquisitions," Huntsville, AL
2003 - Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, "Go Figure," Boone, NC
2003 - Birmingham Art Museum, "Recent Acquisitions," Birmingham, AL
2002 - St. Tammany Art Association, Clark Gallery, Southeastern University, "Real Women," Hammond, LA
2002 - "Realist Women Painters: Harris, Lockwood, Deckbar," Spring Hill College Eichold Gallery, AL
2001 - White House Visitors' Center (The White House Bicentennial Celebration - Part Two of Four Calendars featuring artists from the 50 states and the Districtof Columbia), Washington, D.C.
2001 - Morris Museum, "Recent Acquisitions," Augusta, GA
2001 - Jack Wright Gallery, New York, NY
2001 - RVS , Southampton, NY
2001 - Hanson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2000 - White House Visitors' Center, Washington D.C.
2000 - Jack Wright Gallery, New York, NY
2000 - RVS ,Southampton, NY
2000 - Still-Zinsel Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1999 - Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1999 - Harris Gallery, Houston TX
1999 - RVS Fine Arts, Southampton NY
1999 - Hemphill Fine Arts Gallery, Washington D.C.
1999 - Louisiana Division of the Arts Traveling Exhibit, Baton Rouge Gallery in Baton Rouge, LA; Clark Gallery at Southeastern University in Hammond, LA; Alexandria Museum; Loyola Gallery in New Orleans, LA
1998 - Hemphill Fine Arts Gallery, Washington D.C.
1998 - Still-Zinsel Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1998 - The Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
1997 - Hemphill Fine Arts Gallery, Washington D.C.
1997 - Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1997 - Still-Zinsel Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1996 - Churchill Gallery, Newbury, MA
1996 - Still-Zinsel Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1996 - Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1995 - Still-Zinsel Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1994 - Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1993 - Pensacola Art Museum, Pensacola, FL
1993 - Still-Zinsel Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1993 - Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1992 - Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1992 - Still-Zinsel Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1991 - Capricorn Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland
1991 - Still-Zinsel Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1990 - Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, NY
1990 - Still-Zinsel Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1989 - Phyllis Morris Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1989 - Gellert Fine Arts Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Miami, FL
1988 - Marilyn Wilson Gallery, Birmingham, AL
1988 - The New Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1988 - Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
1988 - O.K. South Gallery, South Miami,
1988 - "Invitational: Fact/Fiction/Fantasy, Traveling Exhibit," Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN; Clemson University, Clemson, SC; Moody Gallery of Art, University, AL; Carroll Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN; Wake Forest University Art Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2004 - Claiborne Collection, Baton Rouge, LA
2002 - Huntsville Art Museum, Huntsville, AL
1999 - Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA.
1994 - Louisiana Women Artists, Baton Rouge, LA
1988 - Orlando Art Museum, (Group Exhibition) Orlando, FL
1988 - FL Pastel Association, (Group Exhibition) Hollywood, FL, Merit Award
1988 - Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, (Group Exhibition) Coral Gables, FL
1988 - Thomas Center Gallery, (Group Exhibition) Gainsville, FL
1988 - Capitol Building, (Group Exhibition) Tallahassee, FL
1988 - Broward Art Guild, (Group Exhibition) Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1988 - Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Women's Caucus for Art 2nd Biennial
1987 - Exhibition, Coral Gables, FL \Second Place
1987 - Society of the Four Arts, (Group Exhibition) Palm Beach, FL
1987 - Boca Raton Museum of Art, (Group Exhibition) Boca Raton, FL
1987 - Broward Art Guild, (Group Exhibition) Ft. Lauderdale, FL Best in Show
1987 - Center for Contemporary Art/Women's Caucus for Art, (Group Exhibition) Tampa, FL
1987 - Continuum Art Center, (Group Exhibition) Miami, FL
1987 - Miami Dade Public Library/Women's Caucus for Art, (Group Exhibition) Miami, FL
1986 - Society of the Four Arts, (Group Exhibition) Palm Beach, FL

REVIEWS and PUBLICATIONS
2005 - Natchitoches Times, January 15th and 22nd
2005 - Alexandria Town Talk, January 23rd
2005 - Times Picayune, "Lagniappe," August 14th and November 1st
2001 - Public Television Channel 57, "Art and Eros - The Art Symposia Group"
1999 - Radio interview "Inside the Arts" by National Public Radio (NPR).
Times-Picayune by Douglas McCash, August 27
1999 - Interviewed in Inside Tulane by Robin Loda, October 15
1999 - Tulanian, Fall/Winter
1999 - Reviewed in Gambit
1998 - Anne Higonnet, Pictures of Innocence: The History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood (Thames and Hudson: London, 1998).
1998 - Painting used for book cover Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Subject to Biography, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Writing Womens Lives (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1998).
1997 - "Lagniappe," Times-Picayune
1996 - New Orleans Art Review, New Orleans, LA
New American Painters(Open Studio Press: Hampton, 1995)
1992 - International Art Reference
1991 - International Art Reference
The New Orleans Art Review, "Pornography's Essentials," The Times Picayune
1989 - WCA Miami Chapter , "The Way of the Woman Artist" video by the Dade County
Television (Educational Channel 1)
1988 / Nov. - Art News
1988 / Winter - Boca Raton Magazine, "In Sharp Focus"
1988 / Sept. - Art Review, The Miami Herald>
1988 / Sept. - Catalog/Reproduction, "Wilson, Wilson, Wilson, Harris & Loeffler" Boca Raton Art Museum
1987 / Fall - Art Line, Student Publication , Dept. of Art and Art History, University of Miami
1987 / Aug. - Art Review, Fort Lauderdale News/Sun Sentinel
1987 / July - Catalog/Reproduction, "Fifteen Southeast Artists" Birmingham, AL
1985 / Aug. - Art in America
1984 / Aug. - Art in America
1984 / Mar. - Art in America
1984 / Mar. - Art Review, Los Angeles Times
1982 / May - Art Review, Los Angeles Times
1979 / July - Television Interview with P.M. Magazine

UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2006-present - LAS Curriculum Committee
2002-2003 - Admission Committee
1998-2001 - Newcomb Honor Board
1996-1997 - Freshman Advisor, Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University
1996 - Faculty Search Committee, Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University
1996 - Newcomb Fellow Program for Visiting Artist Yang Keshan
1994 - Faculty Search Committee, Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University
1993-1994 - Graduate Coordinator, Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University
1993 - Freshman Advisor, Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University
1992 - Freshman Advisor, Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University
1990-1992 - Newcomb Fellow Program for Visiting Artists. Organized 2-D Visiting Artists: Bruce Everett, Betye Saar, Carolyn Brady, Shirley Pettibone, Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University
1990-1991 - Freshman Advisor, Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University
1990-1991 - Student Appeals Review Committee, Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University
1990-1991 - Art and Sculpture Advisory Committee, Tulane Medical Center Hospital and Clinic Expansion
1989-1990 - MFA Thesis Committee, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1988-1989 - Coordinator of Foundation Drawing Program, Department of Art and Art History
1987-1988 - Chairperson, AdHoc Committee on Departmental Policy for Student and Faculty Exhibitions, Miami, FL
1987-1988 - Student Appeals Review Committee
1987-1988 - Scholarship Committee
1986-Present - Foundations Committee
1986-Present - Exhibitions Committee
1986-1987 - AdHoc Committee on Departmental Policy for Student and Faculty Exhibitions
1985-Present - Undergraduate Advisor
1985-Present - Graduate Review Committees
1977-1978 - Director, Visiting Artists Program

COMMUNITY SERVICE
2005 - Juror, Art Council of New Orleans, Percentage for the Arts Grant
2000 - Juror, Louisiana Women Art Competition
1999 - Juror-5th Annual Black History Art Contest, Cox Communication
1998 - Juror Overture Arts Scholarship Program for High School Seniors
1997 - Juror, Earth Day Competition
1991-1996 - Art donations to NO/AIDS Task Force for "Artists Against AIDS Christmas Benefit," New Orleans, LA
1989 - Juror, Annual Deerfield Beach Festival of the Arts
1988 - Juror, Plantation Junior Woman's Club, "Art in the Park"
1988 - Juror, Broward Art Guild, "Riverwalk Art Festival"
1988 - Juror, City of Miami's Royal Poinciana Fiesta's Florida Flora Art Exhibition
1987 - Juror, Florida International University's Annual Student Exhibition
1986 - Juror, Miami-Dade Public Schools, "Olympics of the Mind"

LECTURES and WORKSHOPS
2000 - Slide presentation/panel, Tenth Juried Exhibition of Women Artists, Baton Rouge, LA
1999 - Slide presentation/panel, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
1997 - Slide presentation/panel, New Orleans Art Museum, New Orleans, LA
1991 - Slide presentation/panel, Slidell Cultural Center, Slidell, LA
1989 - Slide presentation/lecture, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1987 - Slide presentation/lecture, Carnegie-Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
1986 - Slide presentation/lecture, Florida International University, Miami, FL
1985 - Slide presentation/lecture, University of Miami, Miami, FL

HONORS and AWARDS
2006 - Joan Mitchell Grant, New York, NY
2006 - Katrina Relief Grant, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
2001 - Faculty Research Award, Tulane University, Liberal Arts and Sciences Commissioned by the White House Historical Association
2000 Commemorative White House Calendar Project
1998 - Louisiana Division of the Arts Grant
1998 - Who's Who in South and Southeast Art
1998 - Who's Who in American Art
1998 - Who's Who in American Women
1998 - Dictionary of International Biography (26th Edition)
1996 - Who's Who in American Art
1993 - Summer Fellowship, Senate Committee on Research, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1991 - Newcomb Foundation Grant, Newcomb College, New Orleans, LA
1990 - Summer Fellowship, Senate Committee on Research, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1990 - Newcomb Foundation Grant, Newcomb College, New Orleans, LA
1988 - Merit Award, Florida's Pastel Association
1988 - Merit Award, Broward Art Guild, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1987 - Purchase Award, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL
1987 - Second Place, Metropolitan Museum and Art Center
1987 - Best in Show Award, Broward Art Guild, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1987 - Certificate of Excellence, International Art Competition, Scarsdale Art Society
1986 - Max Orovitz Summer Research Award for the Arts and Humanities, University of Miami
1985 - Research Grant, University of Miami
1984 - Certificate Winner, International Art Competition, Los Angeles Art Society
1979 - Second Place, San Bernardino County Art Fair
1977 - Finalist - American Academy in Rome
1977 - Best in Show and First Place, Santa Barbara County Fair
1977 - Art Affiliates Fellowship Award
1976 - Travel Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1975 - Anna Arnold Bing Award, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1974 - First place in Student Show, California State University, Northridge, CA
1973 - Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute

TEACHING SPECIALIZATIONS
- Painting
- Figure Drawing
- Drawing
- Studio Fundamentals
- Illustration
- Design Fundamentals
- Color Theory

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
- New Orleans Museum of Art
- Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL
- Eric Bitters of Bitter's Motor Company, West Germany
- Marshall Bennett of Chicago, IL
- Dr. and Mrs. Gottsegen, New Orleans, LA
- Interloom Incorporated, Atlanta, GA
- Southeast Bank, Miami, FL
- Robert and Lillian Turchin
- New Orleans Art Council
-Morris Museum, Augusta ,GA.
-Huntsville Art Museum,GA.