Education

1995            Pino Signoretto, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1992            Ruth King, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
1990            Paul DeSomma, Henner Schroeder, John DeWitt, Pilchuck Glass
 School, Stanwood, WA

Professional Experience

1994-present              Fiori, Glass Studio Owner, Seattle, WA
2001                            Instructor Pilchuck Glass Studio, Stanwood, WA
1995-1997                  Instructor, Hilltop Artist-in-Residence Program, Tacoma, WA
1992-1994                  Glassblower, Glass Eye Production Studio, Seattle, WA
1992-93                      Instructor, Basic Glass Class, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
1992                            Glassblower/Assistant, Chihuly, Inc. Seattle, WA

Awards /Collections/Bio

2007
Rakow Commission - The Corning Museum of Glass, Permanent Collection, NY
35th International Glass Invitational  Critics Award - Royal Oak, MI

2005
Museum of Glass, - Visiting Artist in Residence, Tacoma WA
Neues Glas, Winter 2005, Artist Portrait Article
Abate Zanetti – Artist in Residence, Murano Venezia Italy

2004
Muskegon Museum of Art – Permanent collection, Muskegon, MI
Harbourfront Centre, Flora – the ubiquity of nature, Visiting Artist, Toronto 

2002
PhilanderSmith College, Donald W. Reynolds Library & Technology Center, Permanent Collection, Little Rock AR

2001
Jon and Mary Shirley Collection, Seattle, WA

1990, 1992, 1995           Scholarship, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA

1998               African American Design Archive, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, NY

Selected Exhibitions

(* Solo Show)

2004                
SOFA Chicago, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL
World Glass Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Tacoma, WA
Glass Art Society, GAS Conference 2004, New Orleans, LA
Tobin Hewitt Gallery, Garden of Glass, Louisville, KY
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Fragile Nature, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI
32nd International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI   

2003                
SOFA, Chicago, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL
Foster White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Glorious Glass: Color & Form, Seattle Tacoma Airport, Seattle, WA
Art Palm Beach 2003, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
31ST  International Glass Invitational, Habatat Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
*Habatat Galleries, Solo Showing, Boca Raton, FL

2002                
*Butters Gallery Ltd., Portland, OR
SOFA, Chicago, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL
30th International Glass Invitational, Habatat Galleries, Royal Oak, MI

2001                
Butler Institute of American Art, Winter Orchidarium, Youngstown, OH
SOFA, Chicago, Habatat Galleries, Boca Raton, FL
Habatat Galleries, 19th Annual International Glass Invitational, Boca Raton, FL
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Winter Orchidarium, New York, NY

2000                
Nancy Hoffman, Glass:  A Celebration, New York, NY
Llewellyn Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Foster White Gallery, Kirkland, WA
Smithsonian Institution, Artistry of Orchids, Washington DC

1999                 
Qualita Fine Art, Summer Pleasures, Las Vegas, NV
*Pismo Gallery, Denver, CO
*Gump's, San Francisco, CA
*Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Chappell Gallery, Boston, MA

1998                
Gump's, Language of Flowers, San Francisco, CA
Poncho Invitational Auction, Seattle, WA

1997                
*Gump's, San Francisco, CA
*Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
*Portia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
Vancouver International Art Exhibition, Vancouver, B.C.