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