EDUCATION
Master’s of Art Education, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama
Additional graduate (studio) work through the University of Tennessee
B.S. Art Education, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 “An Empty Presence” Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
2006 “Pulling Threads: Seeking Structure” , University of MS, Oxford, MS
2002 Meridian Community College, Meridian, MS
2002 “Passage”, Tupelo Art Gallery/ Tupelo, MS
1999“Sacred Signs” at the Ohr-Okeefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
1996 “Icons” an Installation, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Gautier, MS
1993 “Mary Hardy New Work” Art Who? Gallery, Ocean Springs, MS
1993 Lucille Parker Gallery, William Carey College, Hattiesburg, MS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
2010 Wiregrass Museum of Art Biennial, Dothan Alabama
2010 “Halcyone Barnes Memorial Award” juried group show MS Art Colony, juror, Adrian Deckbar of New Orleans, LA
2009 Award of Merit Alabama Art Colony juror Harry Ally, Valdosta State University, GA
2009 Walter Anderson Museum of Art Invitational "Coastal Artists Reflections on Walter Anderson" Ocean Springs, MS
2008 & 2007 “Most Innovative” award, juried group show, MS Art Colony Fall session
2005 honored by the MS Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts as one of two “ Mississippi Artists of the Year”
2005 “Halcyone Barnes Memorial Award” juried group show MS Art Colony, juror Holley Roberts, New Mexico
2004 juried group show, MS Art Colony Fall session- juror, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Professor of Art, Univ. of California, Berkley
2004 juried group show, Meridian Museum of Art, juror, Kelli Scott Kelley-Professor of Art Louisiana State University
2003 chosen as 1 of 10 artists in MS to participate in Port Gibson, MS Bicentennial Invitational Exhibition
2002 Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS invitational exhibition “Motifs of Time”
2001 “Quill and Kiln, National Exhibition” juried group show Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Peter Callas, juror
2000 Cottonlandia Museum of Art , Greenwood, MS “Gallery Excellence Award” juror Andrew Maas, Director MS Museum of Art
2000 “Cross Currents; A National Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art” Walter Anderson Museum, juror
Luise Ross owner Luise Ross Gallery New York
2000 1 of 45 artist chosen from 300 entries to show in the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art National Juried Competition. Recieved award from Sandra Blain, Professor of Art, University of Tenn. and Director of Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
* Mary C. O'Keefe Center for Arts and Education/ Albert Duckett Gallery Ocean Springs, MS
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work archived in the National Museum of Women in the Arts artist registry
Washington, DC
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included in the book Art in Mississippi author Patti Carr Black
* Mississippi Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts MSC/NMWA
* National Museum of Women in the Arts
* Mississippi Art Colony
* Corporate Art Program Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
* Mississippi Visual Artists Interactive /University of MS
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2010 received a MS Arts Commission artist minigrant for study
2010 received a workshop fellowship from Anderson Ranch in Colorado
2010 taught a workshop "Developing Your Personal Symbology", Vicksburg, MS
2010 appointed as Curator for the Mary C. O'Keefe Center for Arts and Education/ Albert Duckett Gallery Ocean Springs, MS
2009 judge for The Gumtree Museum Festival, Tupelo, MS
2008 juror for the MS Gulf Coast Community College/ Jefferson Davis Campus student art competition
2007 contributor to the book Katrina; Mississippi Women Remember
Jan. 2007 < Jan.1999 - Instructor of Drawing and Painting MS. Gulf Coast Community College
2007< 2000 - Gallery Director, MS Gulf Coast Community College, Jackson County Campus
2006 conducted a week long mixed media workshop as part of the Tougaloo College’s Art Colony summer workshop session, Jackson, MS
2002-5 Mississippi Art Colony President 2005- 2007 /member of the Board of Directors
2005 juror for Vicksburg Art Association’s annual show Vicksburg, MS
2003 juror for William Carey College student competition, Gulfport, MS
2002 wrote review for The Bay Press newspaper, Biloxi, MS on Soul Provider; Folk Art from the Finley Collection, exhibition at the Ohr-Okeefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
2001 president of the MS Community College Art Instructors’ Association
2001 presented a public lecture titled “Art and Symbolism, A Pictorial Alphabet” through the MS Humanities Council Scholar’s Award Grant
2001 president of the MS Community College Art Instructors’ Association
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS OF
* Lawrence Leyens, Mayor of Vicksburg, MS
*Carpenter-Wild Associates, Fort Worth, TX
* First National Bank of the South
* Deposit Guaranty National Bank
* Trustmark National Bank
* Munro Petroleum
* Corporate Art Collection of Peat Marwick, International Accounting Firm, Jackson, MS
* William Carey College President’s Collection, Hattiesburg, MS
* Yates Corporation, Starkville, MS
* Mississippi Court Reporters
* Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce, MS
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Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, Alabama
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Guild Hardy Architects, PA Biloxi, Mississippi
TEACHING AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2003 H.E.A.D.W.A.E. (Higher Education Award Day/ Working For Academic Excellence) Faculty recipient for Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
2001 Mississippi Humanities Teacher’s Award for Jackson County Campus, MS Gulf Coast Community College
1998, 2002 (2 nominations) and 2004 Who’s Who Among American Teachers
1996 chosen as an Art Teacher “Evaluator” for the MS statewide Teachers Assessment
1991 received Exemplary teaching resolution given by the Jackson County Board of Education, Ocean Springs, MS
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