Curriculum Vitae

Exhibitions

2024

Endless

Solo show at Northern-Southern

Austin, TX

2023

NADA New York

New Art Dealers Alliance

New York City, NY

2022

A Commitment is

Northern-Southern

Austin, TX

What is Before You

2018

Why Annual

Northern-Southern

Austin, TX

2017

Secret Objects

Cloud Tree Gallery

Austin, TX

2016

Invitation

Northern-Southern

Austin, TX

CraftTexas

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Houston, TX

Carry-Ons

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport

Austin, TX

2013

Texas Basket Weavers

Mesquite, TX

Best in Show, Naturals

Viewer's Choice Award

Association

2011

All Things Considered

Fuller Craft Museum

Boston, MA

FiberArts Texas

Texas State Capitol

Austin, TX

Annual Faculty and Student

Southwest School of Art

Best in Sculpture, Other Media

San Antonio, TX

Exhibition

2010

Latitude

Long Beach Museum of Art

Long Beach, CA

River of Grass

Long Beach Convention Center

Honorable mention

Long Beach, CA

National Basketry Organization Invitational

The Bascom Gallery

Highlands, NC

2009

San Antonio, TX

First place in Basketry

Viewer's Choice Award

Handweavers Guild of America Award

San Antonio

Handweavers Guild

2008

Beyond Basketry

The Dairy Barn

Athens, OH

All Things Considered

Arrowmont School of Craft

Gatlinburg, TN

Small Expressions

Tampa Museum of Art

Tampa, FL

2007

Trail of Tears Art Show

Cherokee Historical Center

Tahlequah, OK

Best in Category, Basketry

Radical Nautical

Gallery Lombardi

Austin, TX

Education

Sauveterre-de-Béarn, France

2024

Sculptural forms covered in flax paper with Jacqueline Mallegni

Oaxaca, Mexico

2023

Intensive study in natural dyes and mordants used in Mexico

Intensive study in types of indigo vats and dyeing with indigo

Intensive study in cohineal dyeing

Workshop in shibori techniques using indigo, marigolds, and cochineal

2022

Intensive study into embroidery on leaves, seedpods, bark and other plant material

Oaxaca, Mexico

Intensive study into marbling on paper and fabric

Workshop on papermaking and bookbinding

Intensive study into creating lake pigments from natural dyes

Intensive study of teneriffe lace

Using paste resists with natural dyes

Intensive in building and weaving on a backstrap loom

Willow baskets with Jo Campbell Amsler

2019

Marysville, WA

German style skeined willow with Bill Roeder

Decorah, IA

Willow creels, square, and round baskets with Steen Madsen

Dallas, TX

Austin, TX

2018

Assisted Patrick Daugherty with his installation piece, Yippee Ki-Yay in Pease Park

Stowe, VT

Intensive in Black ash Shaker miniatures with JoAnn Kelly Catsos

Brasstown, NC

2017

Cedar bark and wire sculptural basketry with Polly Adams Sutton

Austin, TX

Willow baskets (Catalan bases and ribbed) with Anne Mette Hjørnholm

Sweetgrass coiling with Dianne Stanton

Stowe, VT

2016

Willow ribbed baskets with Jo Campbell Amsler

Dallas, TX

Black ash baskets with Eric Taylor

Chair caning with Lori Hopkins

San Juan Guelavia, Oaxaca, Mexico

Russian Birch Bark Baskets with Vladimir Yarish

Willow baskets with Bonnie Gale

Japanese twill weaving with Keiko Takeda

Traditional Oaxacan processing and weaving with carrizo

Intensive in black ash Shaker miniatures with JoAnn Kelly Catsos

Brasstown, NC

Black Ash Shaker baskets with JoAnn Kelly Catsos

2015

Round Rock, TX

Willow ribbed baskets with Jo Campbell Amsler

Stowe, VT

Shaker and Nantucket basketry with Nathan Taylor

Willow scallomed (oval, square, and rectangle) baskets with Mary Butcher

Decorah, IA

Danish willow intensive with Anne Lynsgard and Eva Seidenfaden

2014

Mesquite, TX

Pine needle coiling with Pam Hermann

Black ash basketry with Eric Taylor

Ti Twining with Sally Anaya

Black ash Shaker quatrefoil with JoAnn Kelly Catsos

Decorah, IA

Using antlers in baskets

Wheat weaving

Ribbed basket variations and handles with Anne Bowers

Willow and willow bark intensive with Judy Zuglish and Eva Seidenfaden

Deer Isle, ME

Two week intensive in bamboo and Japanese weaving techniques with Jiro Yonezawa

Stowe, VT

Nantucket baskets with Joni Dee Ross

Nantucket baskets with Nathan Taylor

2013

Houston, TX

Decorah, IA

Rush basketry and hat making with John Excell

Bias plaited twills with Dianne Stanton

Intensive in Native American skeined willow- coiling, plaiting, and twining with Margaret Mathewson

Processing and weaving of Oaxacan carrizo with Guillermo Sosa

Stowe, VT

Oaxaca, Mexico

Mentor, OH

2012

Stowe, VT

New Braunfels, TX

Long Beach, CA

Miniature twill baskets with Annetta Kraayeveld

Black ash basketry with Nathan Taylor

Coiling and Twining with Sally Anaya

Gretchen Rims with Brenda McKinnon

Cedar bark twilling with Sally Anaya

Miniature black ash Shaker baskets with JoAnn Kelly Catsos

Native American pine needle coiling

Willow baskets, scalloming and fitching with Anne Mette Hjørnholm

Appalachian backpacks with Cass Schorch

Ply-split twining with Linda Hendrickson

Using recycled/repurposed materials in art and basketry with Aaron Kramer

Sculptural bamboo with Judy Zuglish

2011

Dripping Springs, TX

Houston, TX

Boston, MA

Round reed bases, rims, and handles with Flo Hoppe

Black ash Shaker basketry with JoAnn Kelly Catsos

Birch bark and hex weave with Cass Schorch

Shaping, Josephine knots, handles, and bases with Flo Hoppe

Nantucket creel with Deanna Kampstra-Savoy

Plaited paper baskets and silk fusion with Wendy Durfey

Processing river cane and weaving the Eastern Cherokee double-walled basket with Rowena Bradley

Stowe, VT

White oak plaited baskets with Billy Owens

2010

San Antonio, TX

Stowe, VT

Mentor, OH

Nantucket baskets with Fred and Kay Kohler

Waxed linen and cedar bark with Sally Anaya

Fishing Creels with Flo Hoppe

Japanese twills with Keiko Takeda

Waling, randing, handles and miniatures with Mary Smith-Stokes

Intensive in bias-plaited twills with hand-painted watercolor paper with Jackie Abrams

Black ash Shaker baskets with JoAnn Kelly Catsos

2009

San Antonio, TX

Portland, OR

Mentor, OH

Shaping and flat reed constructions with Dianne Gleixner

Round reed basketry: randing, handles, and bases with Flo Hoppe

Bias plaited twills with hand painted watercolor paper with Jackie Abrams

Constructing, warping, and weaving a portable Navajo style loom

Black ash basketry with Eric Taylor

Shaker quatrefoil with JoAnn Kelly Catsos

Intensive sculptural basketry forms in round reed with Herman Guetersloh

Stowe, VT

Nantucket baskets with Joni Dee Ross

2008

Cathead forms and variations with Judith Olney

Mentor, OH

Round reed basketry: randing, handles, and bases with Flo Hoppe

Black Ash Shaker baskets with JoAnn Kelly Catsos

Western cedar bark harvesting, processing and construction with Sally Anaya

Tampa, FL

Using animal gut in basketry with Judy Dominic

Coiled basketry for jewelry with Rwandan basket makers

Cedar bark and wire sculpture with Polly Adams Sutton

2007

Gatlinburg, TN

Intensive in harvesting, processing and construction of black willow bark twilled baskets with Jennifer Heller Zurick

2006

Sculptural basketry with Mary Hettmansperger

Grand Rapids, MI

Athens, OH

Black ash Shaker Baskets: harvesting, processing and weaving on a mold with JoAnn Kelly Catsos

1997

Received BA in Anthropology and Art History

University of Texas at Austin

1996

Western Cherokee double-walled baskets with Mavis Doering

Guthrie, OK

1994

Ribbed baskets and pine needle coiling with Rebecca Vogt

Austin, TX