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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 

2024   4th Annual Paper + Fiber Exhibit, 1202 Contemporary, Gilroy CA

2024   In the Office  Russo Lee Gallery, Portland OR

2023   A Clearing in the Distance, Winter Garden Gallery, Brookfield Place, New York, NY

2019   Unbound  de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA

2018   Stitch Knot Repeat /Solo Exhibition  920 Gallery/Opsis Architecture, Portland OR

2018   Opulence: Not Everything that Glitters is Gold  Center for Book Arts, New York NY 

2017   Chapters  Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles CA

2016   Literally /Solo Exhibition  San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo CA

2016   Transformation  Helson Gallery, Ontario Canada

2015   The Sculpted Fiber  Art Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa CA

2015   Incognito  Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA

2014   Layered Perspectives  College of the Sequoias, Visalia CA

2014   Incognito  Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA

2013   On and Off the Page  The Lamont Gallery, Philips Exeter Academy, Exeter NH

2013   Incognito  Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA

2012   Terrestrial Life  Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA

2012   Art of Our Century  Woodbury Museum, Orem UT

2012   Simulacrum  Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA

2012   Incognito  Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA

2011   Out of Sorts  Design Exchange Center, Toronto Canada

2011   Open Book /Solo Exhibition The Armory Presents, Los Angeles CA

2010   Breaking the Spine  Rare Device, San Francisco CA 

2010   Faculty Exhibit  Currier Museum, Manchester NH

2009   Inside Out  School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA

2008   Inside Out  School of the Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston MA

2005   Wish You Were Here  A.I.R. Gallery, New York NY

2002   Artists and Poets  Carney Gallery, Regis College, Weston MA

2001   Multiplicity and Reiteration  Tremont Gallery at the International Society, Boston MA

2001   Geometry and Art  Thoreau Gallery, Franklin Pierce College, Rindge NH

2000   National Juried Exhibition  Bristol Art Museum, Bristol RI

2000   New England/New Talent  Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA

2000   Manuscript Series /Solo Exhibition  Chester College, Chester NH

1999   Biennial 1999 /juror: Dr Stomberg, Boston University/ New Hampshire Institute of Art 

1999  10th Annual National Exhibition /juror: S. Harris, Whitney Museum/Viridian Artists, New York NY

1998   National Juried Show /juror: Vivian Raynor, New York Times/ Montclair University, Montclair NJ

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching

2017        Instructor: Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles CA

2017        Semester guest instructor: Marlborough School, Los Angeles CA

2016        Program leader for NEA’s The Big Read, Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles CA

2010-12  Instructor: Brentwood Art Center, Los Angeles CA

2012        Instructor: Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles CA

2007-09  Faculty: Currier Art Center, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester NH

2001        Faculty/Coordinator: Summer Abroad at Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan Ireland

1997-01  Faculty: New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester NH

Speaking

2020   Producer + publication designer: An Evening with Marthe Cohn, 52 Ltd, Portland OR

2018   Lunch Series, artist talk, Opsis Architecture, Portland OR

2016   Present Tense, Books in the Digital Age, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA

2012   TedX, Books in Transition, Redondo Beach CA

Membership

2021-           Advisory Council, Giving Design, Los Angeles CA

2017-2019  Artist Member, The Center for Book Arts, New York NY

2011-2013  Member, LA Art Association, Los Angeles CA

Residencies

2006   Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Artist Residency, Woodstock NY

1997   Vermont Studio Center, Artist Residency, Johnson VT

AWARDS

1998   Alfred T Granger Art Award, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts

1997   The Clowes Fund Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center 

PUBLICATIONS

A Book of Common Prayer (2022, Logette) author

Bones Bared (2021, Logette) author

Raintree County (2019, Logette) author

Novel Living (2014, Abrams) author 

The Repurposed Library (2011, Abrams) author

The Art of Subtraction (2012, McGraw-Hill) contributor 

Papercraft (2010, Gestalten) contributor  

EDUCATION

2000   Art New England Workshops/Wilfredo Chiesa BENNINGTON COLLEGE

1995   Book Arts/Peter Madden SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

1992   BA, Fine Art NOTRE DAME COLLEGE

1991   Summer Studio/Urbino, Italy SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS

1990   Summer in France Program PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN