Education: May 1988, M.F.A. (Painting), University of Illinois, Champaign, IL; 1986 B.F.A. (Art Education), University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
 
AWARDS AND HONORS:
• College Honors: High Honors
• University of Illinois Excellence in Teaching Award for Graduate Students: Painting, May 1988
• University of Illinois Outstanding Senior in Art Education - 1986
• Teaching Certificate Special K-12, Illinois Standard Special Certificate K-12, Art Illinois, January 1986
 
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE:
•  2001  Instructor: University of St. Francis, Health Arts Program, Joliet, IL
• 1999- 2003  Editor: BookLovers Review/Contributor: Readers Loft, New York, New York
• 1994-2003  Editor: Arts & Entertainment, CU Cityview, formerly The Octopus, Champaign-Urbana, IL
• 1995  Instructor: Workshops on Discovering/Recovering Creativity, Champaign, IL
• 1996-1997  Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
• 1994-2002  Director and Instructor, Drawing and Painting, Southlynn Studio, Champaign
• 1993-1994  Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
• 1990-1993  Instructor, Drawing and Painting, Department of Art Illinois State University, Normal, IL
• 1989-1990  Instructor, Drawing and Painting - Adults and Children White Street Arts Center,
• 1989-1994   Instructor, Leal Elementary School Enrichment Program, Urbana School District, Urbana, IL
• 1988-1989  Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Adult Extension Program School of Art and Design, Champaign, IL
• 1983-1984  Teacher, Greater Reach After School Program, Urbana School District, Urbana, IL
 
ACTIVITIES:
• Exhibition Chair: Whirlwind Project, Job. Champaign-Urbana 2003
• Chair: Events/Planning Committee Boneyard Arts Festival, 2002-03
• Juror, Springer Cultural Center, 2002-03 Exhibition Series.
• Board of directors: 40 North/88W, Champaign County Arts, Culture and Entertainment council 2002
• Founding Mother: Cicada Fine Artist Collective 2002
• Founding Mother: Downtown Gallery Walk, Champaign-Urbana 2001 & 2002
• Executive Committee: 40 N/88W, Champaign-Urbana Arts Council. 2001-02
• Workshop Facilitator: Training Education Coordinating Committee Sept 2000
• Juror, Town and Country State Amateur Art Show, Urbana, IL Sept 2000
• Campus Town 2000 Arts Festival Committee, 2000
• Art Works, (16 weeks) Teaching Artist, Champaign, 1999-2000
• Juror: Photo Exhibition: Karnnert Art Museum 2000
• Juror, 73rd Annual McLean Conty Amateur Art Competition-Exhibition, Bloomington, IL  2000
• Juror - Hoopston, Illinois, 1999
• Founding Member - The Fine Arts Collective of Champaign-Urbana
• Juror - Kankakee Art League, Bourbannais, IL - May 1993
• Commission - Mural - GKC Theaters; Springfield, IL  -  January 1992
• Juror - McKinley YWCA - Work by Women; Champaign, IL  -  November 1991
• NEA-Illinois Arts Council Grant: Gesture - Workshop, Exhibition, Performance, and Video Sidney, IL - July 1990
• Organized lecture by Alfred Hubler, Visiting Professor/Center for Complex Systems Research/Physics Department/ Beckman Institute, University of Illinois,
Champaign, IL.  Chaos-Catastrophe:  Parallel Structures in Science and Art – 1989 and Gotfried Meyer-Kress, Physicist/Mathematician, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, Convergence of Art and Science - 1990. These lectures were held at 62 Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, and were
advertised nationally.
• Consultant - project for the City of Aurora Cultural Arts Center.  The center serves as a common ground for exhibitions, educational services, and other activities
between art and science, in the City of Aurora, IL.
• Co-Founder and teacher for (GRASP), Greater Reach After School Program, Urbana School District #116.  Taught art to children in grades K-6 from the
program’s inception in 1983 until 1984.
• Founding Mother of The New Muse Gallery, Champaign, IL.  The gallery was formed as a collective to provide area artists with professional exhibition space.
• Co-Organizer: Women in the Arts:  A Conference, Champaign, IL,  Lead workshop entitled, Silences/Inspiration and Creativity - February 1982.
• Chair of the Visual Arts Planning Committee for the Exhibition: Women at the Crossroads, Urbana, IL - February 1982.  (These activities were made possible by
the National Endowment for the Humanities Grant: Radcliffe’s Women in the Community Project)

INVITED LECTURES & PRESENTATION:
• 2002 Illinois State High School Press Assn., speaker: Writing about the arts: You don’t need a j-school degree. Oct 4.
• 2000  Guest Lecturer: Workshop for Champaign County Mental Health, Allerton Park
• 2000  Guest Speaker, Champaign County Regional Planning Commission, May 2.
• 2000  Quest Speaker, Parkland College, Art Appreciation, April
• 1999  Presenter/Teacher UIUC Counseling Center Retreat, Homer Lake, IL
• 1999  Ford county After school Program, Challenging Youth for Change, Paxton, IL
• 1999  Quest Speaker, Parkland College, Art Appreciation
• 1999  Quest Speaker, Urbana School District #116, Young Authors Conference
• 1996  Quest Speaker, Urbana Middle School, Career Day
• 1991  Interviewed by Joy Van Camp, Director, Parkland College Gallery, Parkland College, Champaign, IL
• 1990  Lecture/Discussion, Gesture, Southlynn-Savage Studios, Sidney, IL
• 1989  Visiting Artist, Slide Talk, Parkland College, Champaign, IL