Born: 1949 Utica, NY Died: 2021 Rosendale, NY
Education
State University of New York, College @ New Paltz, BFA Painting
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Al Frente y Al Reverso, Galería Nacional, San José, Costa Rica
2005 Storytelling, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2002 Traces, Floating Foundation for Photography @ Gabriels, Kingston, NY
1998 Circles in the Dirt, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY
1996 Shelters & Symbols, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
1990 Song Source, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
1986 In the Painted Garden, Dance Theatre Workshop, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 To Sleep A Better Sleep, Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY
2012 Nature Speaks, Galería Nacional, San José, Costa Rica
2011 Hand, Voice, Vision: Artists’ Books from Women’s Studio Workshop, Grolier Club, New York, NY
2011 Linking Collections, Building Connections: Works from Hudson Valley Visual Art Collections Consortium, Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
2011 Group Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kingston, NY
2010 Marks that Matter, Ulster County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY
2006 Art as a Journey Into Awareness, Casa del Arte, Highland, NY
2005 Annual National Juried Exhibition, Art Institute & Gallery, Salisbury, MD
2005 Art Inter/National, here & abroad, Boxheart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2003 Selected Works, WSW @ Westchester Arts Workshop, White Plains, NY
2003 Artists’ Books & Works on Paper, Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter, NY
2000 Land & Water, Green County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY
1998 The Ancient In Us, Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz, NY
1998 Cover To Cover, Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY
1995 Sonorous Color, Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY
1994 WSW Artists’ Books Traveling Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Indiana University, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Grinnell College, East Carolina University
1994 WSW XX YEARS, A Retrospective 1974-1994, SUNY New Paltz, NY
1993 Artists’ Books - WSW at Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY
1990 Painted, Marked & Torn, Multi Media Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1989 New Prints Northeast, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
1988 Books, Art, Bookarts, HERA Gallery, Wakefield, RI
1988 The Graphic Voice, Wunsch Arts Center, Glen Cove, NY
1987 Artists’ Books Exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
1985 Well Read and In the Pink, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
1982 Bookworks: 1982, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1978 ARTWOMEN: a celebration of women artists working in Ulster County, Smiley Art Gallery, SUNY New Paltz, NY
Artists’ Books
4 X 4, Sea Ribbons
First Marks
Garden Spots
Selected Awards
2008 Residency, Julia & David White Artist’s Colony, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica
2007 Residency, Julia & David White Artist’s Colony, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica
2004 Residency, Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France
2003 Residency, Weir Farm Trust, Wilton, CT
2002 Work Study Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2002 Special Opportunities Stipend, NY Foundation for the Arts
2001 Residency, Fundación Valparaíso, Mojácar, Spain
2001 Special Opportunities Stipend, NY Foundation for the Arts
1999 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1999 Special Opportunities Stipend, NY Foundation for the Arts
1994 Residency, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
1993 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1991 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1987 Residency, Cummington Community for the Arts, Cummington, MA
1986 Artists Space Individual Artist’s Award, Solo Exhibition, Dance Theatre Workshop, NYC
Art-Related Professional Experience
1995-2017 Development Director, Co-Founder, Women’s Studio Workshop,
& 1974-80 (WSW), Rosendale, NY
WSW provides professional studio facilities and technical support for artists working in printmaking, papermaking, photography, book arts & ceramics. Juried international opportunities for artists include Artist-In-Residence Programs, studio education programs, internships for emerging artists, an artists’ books publishing & distribution program, and an Artists’ Books Archive.
1989-92 Writer, The Binnewater Tides, Quarterly Journal, WSW
1986 Interview, Around New York, WNYC, New York, NY with host Ruth Dreier. Improvisatory music & the artist’s Music Tribute Series on exhibit at Dance Theatre Workshop, New York, NY
1986 Book Commission, First Marks
1980-81 Coordinator, Visual Arts Exhibitions/Multi-Media Events
Creative Music Studio, West Hurley, NY
1979, 1976 Coordinator, Women’s Work in Film & Video
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
1974-77 Instructor, Department of Innovative Studies & Experimental Studies
State University of New York, College @ New Paltz
1974 Co-Founder, Women’s Studio Workshop
Selected Museum & Corporate Collections
Albright-Knox Art Museum, Buffalo, NY Trust for Public Land, NY, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY University of Delaware
Cleveland Institute of Art University of Kentucky
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY University of Pittsburgh
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Library of Congress, Washington, DC Vassar College Library
Massachusetts College of Art Vassar College Library
Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY Virginia Commonwealth University
New York University Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Pennsylvania State University Washington University, St. Louis
Rochester Institute of Technology Yale University Library
Southern Tier Institute
Professional Associations, Additional Studies
Alliance of Artist Communities
Clay Mentorship with Ayumi Horie
Manhattan Graphics Center
Onggi Potters of South Korea, Workshop, SUNY New Paltz, NY
Penland School of Crafts
Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts
Women’s Studio Workshop
Language Studies, French & Spanish: Alliance Française, SUNY New Paltz, Ulster County Community College, Ulster BOCES
Art-Related Travel
Pacific Northwest - Canada & United States
Southwestern United States concentrating on prehistoric sites
Central & Western Mexico
Western Europe concentrating on prehistoric sites in Southwestern France, Spain & England