Exhibitions:

"Culture and Agriculture," New Visions Gallery, Wisconsin, July 11, 2011-Sept. 2, 2011
Iowa Exhibited XXVI," June 12, 2011-August 25, 2011
Des Moines Women's Club 103rd Annual Exhibition," February 2011
Des Moines Women's Club 102nd Annual Exhibition, March 2010
Greater Des Moines Exhibited 16 juried show,
Nov. 16, 2009-Jan. 28, 2010
Featured Artist, Iowa State Library, November 2009
Featured Artist, North Wing Gallery, Des Moines Botanical Center,
September 26-October 15, 2009
Featured Artist, St. John's Lutheran Church, Des Moines,
September 2009
Iowa Exhibited 24 juried show, Jun 7-July 31, 2009
Des Moines Women's Club 101st Annual Exhibition, March 2009,
Honorable Mention
Solo exhibition, Des Moines Botanical Center, July-August, 2008
Des Moines Women's Club 100th Anniversary Art Show, 2008
Rural Lands and Rural Livelihoods juried competition,
Drake University Law School, 2007
Solo exhibition, Hawthorn Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama, 2006
Polk County Heritage Gallery "Making Faces," 2005
Des Moines Women's Club (1996, honorable mention 1997, 2nd prize 2001; 2000, 2003, 2005)
Iowa State Fair, 1995, 2000, 2004, 2006
All-Member shows and solo exhibitions at The Artists' Gallery, Des Moines, 1995 to 2002
Solo exhibition, The Des Moines Playhouse, October-November 2002
Solo exhibitions at Monty Stabler Galleries, Birmingham, Alabama, 1999, 2001, 2003
Polk County Heritage Gallery, "Des Moines Women Exhibited," October 1998
Embassy Club, Des Moines, 1997
Mary Greeley Hospital, Ames, Iowa, 1997
St. John's Lutheran Church, Des Moines, 1996
Group show, Space 111, Birmingham, Alabama, 1993
Group show, Gallerie le Logge, Assisi, Italy, 1992

Author, Art of the New South: Women Artists of Birmingham 1890-1950, published by the Birmingham Historical Society, 2004.

Education:
Master's degree in art history from the University of Alabama at
Birmingham
Undergraduate studio art courses at the University of Alabama at
Birmingham
Drawing and painting classes at the Birmingham Museum of Art,
the Greater Birmingham Arts Alliance, and Space 111 in Birmingham.
1992 month-long painting workshop in Assisi, Italy, taught by
Ada Pulini Brown of Los Angeles, California
1997 week-long plein-air workshop in Tuscany taught by
Maddine Insalaco
1998 two-week workshop in Connemara, Ireland, led by Ann OConnor