Solo Exhibitions

2022

Who was she? Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE

2021

Granny Grafiiti, Philadelphia Airport Exhibitions Program, Terminal F, Concourse 1, Philadelphia, PA

She dreamt she was, Old City Publishing, Philadelphia, PA

Open Doing, Step Mother Nature, NY, NY

2019   

Lives lived, Delaware Valley Art Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY

What we carry, Mt. Airy Contemporary @ Intuitive Art Space, Philadelphia, PA

2018

Make what you need, Rosedale Gallery, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA

Granny Graffiti: Never Give Up, Great Glass Elevator Project Space, Imperfect Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2017

Brass Tacks, The Spillway Collective, Philadelphia, PA

Everything is going to be ok, 2nd Street Publishing in conjunction with Inliquid, Philadelphia, PA

Root, Imperfect Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2016

Interconnecting Elements, Boston Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA *two-person

2015    

Quietude, Art Gallery at Holy Family University, Philadelphia, PA

Immersed, Solo Series, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA

2014    

Daydreaming, Germantown Radio, Philadelphia, PA

Meditative Mediations, Awbury Arboretum, Philadelphia, PA *two-person

2010    

Sitting Room: to conflict and coalesce, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA   

2009    

Conglomeration, Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, CT  

2007    

Fringed, Full, Furry and Fuzzy, Art Gallery, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA

2006     

infestation, Window on Broad, Rosenfeld-Wolf Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

sensations & wishes, Howard Community College Gallery, Columbia, MD

Materiality: Sculpture and Installation, Resnikoff Gallery, Roxbury, MA *two-person

2005     

tubes/tuffets, Gallery One, McHenry County College Gallery, Crystal Lake, IL

linger, Gallery Two, McHenry County College Gallery, Crystal Lake, IL

2004       

Dangling, draped, and dilly-dallying, Community Center Gallery, Greenbelt, MD

Immersion: Dialogue, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northeastern Illinois University, IL

Linger, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL

Tubes & Tuffets, McLanahan Gallery, Penn State University, Altoona, PA

Group Exhibitions

2024

(RE)focus, Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia, PA juror: Women’s Caucus for the Arts members

2023

Invitational, Step Mother Nature, Saranac Lake, NY

2022

Craftivism: Needles for Change, Westchester University, Westchester, PA

For Keeps Collective, Utrecht, Netherlands, invitational, online

 Yarn Bombing Festival Trivento, Trivento, Italy, invitational, international

Being - With, Surface Design Association, Santa Fe, NM online, international, juried

Project/Forward 2047, Microgalleries collective, Sydney, AUS, invitational

Whose Story Is it, Spilt Milk Gallery CIC, Gallery 1, Edinburgh, UK, international, juried

2021

25 Million Stitches, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA

Exquisite Corpse Show, Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

2020

FLUX: Vita Mutata, Sculptors Alliance, New York, NY juror: Natsuki Takauji, juried

Prism Project, Imperfect Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

USPS Art Project, collaborative project, Art Studio Gallery at Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA

We’re all in this together, Mail art swap, Del Ray Artisans, Alexandria, VA

Postcard Show – Quaranzine 19, Heavy Bubble, Philadelphia, PA

Postmarked - Crafting the Future, Penland School of Crafts, Bakersville, NC

Pen Pal, Stone House Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC

The Feminine Agenda, Women Works Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

Art of Caring, St. Georges Hospital, Tooting, London, UK

Art in Place, Terrain and CNL Projects, Chicago, IL

Remembering the Suffragists, 100 Years of Women Voting in the United States, Inliquid, Philadelphia, PA

Homeworks, Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Quarantine Quilt, Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, WI

What does it mean to be an American?, Calwein Gallery, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR

Exquisite Copse, Phila Sculptors and Da Vinci Art Alliance, Palumbo Park, Philadelphia, PA

Everything is different now, Stay Home Gallery, Paris, TN

Prayers for the Pandemic, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ

Ransom 2, Wayfarers Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

USPS Art Project, collaborative project, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

Respond/Revive, Art cards for Health Care Workers, Microgalleries, Hong Kong, Australia, Italy

Artists in the time of Coronavirus, Part 4, Artblog, Philadelphia, PA

Letters from the studio, Philadelphia Sculptors, Philadelphia, PA

Pandemic: A Feminist Response, Toronto Feminist Art Collective, Toronto, Canada

COVID19 Global Quilt Project, Melbourne, Australia

Repair, Stay Home Gallery, Artist/Mother podcast, Paris, TN

Distant Communions, Broadcasts: Art in the Age of Social Distancing, SPACES, Portland, ME

Banished for the good of the realm, Inliquid.com and Artsy.net, Philadelphia, PA

She iS, Gallery at Catapult Creative House, Gape Girardeau, MO

Voting Daughters, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, MO

Jar of F**cks, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Material/Fiber, Radial Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH

Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA juried, international juror Lelia Carter, Director of Craft Now

The MOM show, Dorfworld Gallery, Austin, TX, postponed

United Nations COVID-19 response Creative Content Hub, New York, NY

Granny Graffiti scavenger hunt in Germantown section of Philadelphia, PA

Symbols of Hope, a project for the United States Post Office, over 200 collages mailed in the US and to 5 countries, Philadelphia, PA

2019

Plus One, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA

Layers of Transformation, Jefferson Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA

Hatch, Park Towne Place with Inliquid, Philadelphia, PA invitational

Art of the Sixes, Delaware Valley Art Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY

You are Beautiful, YAB HQ Gallery, Chicago, IL 

One night in Footscray, Invitational participation in community project, Footscray, Australia

Yarnbombing: Trivento, Invited street art installation in Trivento, Italy

Tiny Pricks, Community art participation, Lingua Franca Gallery, New York, NY

Yarn bombing at Pickwick Corner, 5 Granny graffiti pieces, St. Louis, MO

MAM Yarn Bomb, Montclair Art Museum, NJ

Fishtown Floral Crawl, in collaboration with Botaniq Blooms, Philadelphia, PA

2018

Ethereal Material, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Sculptors Presents, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

New Now, The InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Pink, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR

Seeing Red, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, Newark, NJ

Shelter, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Extreme Fiber Art, IdeaXFactory, Springfield, MO

Bombay Sapphire Artisan Regional Semi-Finalist exhibition, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Let’s Connect, the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

2017

Achromatic, Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space, Philadelphia, PA

6th Annual Germantown Show, Imperfect Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2016    

Maker Mayhem, Abington Art Center Sculpture Park, Abington, PA

Revolutions in Making, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

5th Annual Germantown Show, Imperfect Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Mamacita 10, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Jenkintown, PA

2015    

A Dyeing Art: Contemporary Textile and Fiber Arts, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC

Entangled, Somethings Looming, Reading, PA

Impossible Instructions, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

The Gender Weave Project, Mt. Airy Art Garage, Philadelphia, PA

Heart Show, Jinxed, Philadelphia, PA

Fibers and Fabric, Markeim Arts Center, Haddonfield, NJ

2014    

ON THE GROUND: Four Corners, Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA

PARKing Day, Germantown Artist Roundtable, Philadelphia, PA

3rd Annual Germantown Show, Imperfect Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Faculty Exhibition, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

Reanimate, Destination Frankford, Philadelphia, PA

Fiber Options, Circle Gallery, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD

Perspectives, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL

2014

Members Exhibition, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE

Summer Show Off, Mt. Airy Art Garage, Philadelphia, PA

2014 Inner Views, Tejas Gallery, Dayton, OH

Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Arts Center New Canaan, CT *semi-finalist

Fibers and Fabric, Markeim Arts Center, Haddonfield, NJ *selected as Jurors favorite

Sculpture New Hope 2104, New Hope Arts Center, New Hope, PA

Fine Arts Exhibition, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

51st Juried Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA

Women’s Work 2014, Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, IL

A Dream and A Memory, St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis, MO

Our Earth, Flow Art Space, Minneapolis, MN

40 under 40, Alamance Arts, Graham, NC

2013    

Mixed Messages, Gloucester County College, Sewell, NJ

 Open Door, Rosalux Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Philadelphia Open Studio Tour, Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA

Hidden City Philadelphia, Germantown Town Hall, Philadelphia, PA

Just for Kicks, Artworks Trenton, Trenton, NJ

Anniversary Exhibition, Red Room Installation, Imperfect Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2012    

There is something about Germantown, Imperfect Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

The Persistence of Drawing, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

2011    

Landscape Love Affair, Philadelphia Welcome Center, Philadelphia, PA

Scale 1:1, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

Art in the Open, Painted Bride Art Center, and along the Schuylkill Banks, Philadelphia, PA

2010    

Contemporary Voices, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Organics, Les Idees Gallery, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA

(W)holons, Patrick Henry College, Roanoke, VA

(W)holons, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA

William Penn Exhibition, with Abington Art Center at the William Penn Building, Philadelphia, PA

2009       

Metamorphosis, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL

Art a la MODE, 950 Complex Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA

Alumni Weekend Exhibition, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

Endurance, Abington Art Center & Sculpture Park, Abington, PA

Faculty Exhibition, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

2008    

Hovering Above, Abington Art Center & Sculpture Park, Abington, PA

Inside/Outside, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA

Dear Fleisher, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Currents, Studio Montclair, Court Gallery, William Patterson University, NJ

2007       

Faculty Exhibition, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

Abundance, Schuylkill Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

SEPCHE exhibition, Holy Family University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Contemporary Works 2007, Phoenix Village Art Center Gallery, Phoenixville, PA

The Greater Good, Site and Architecture Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

2006      

Delaware Women’s Exhibition, Newark County Art Alliance, Newark, DE & Biggs Art Museum, Dover, DE

back to school, Schuylkill River School Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Fourth Show, Underwear Nation Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

 Close-knit: History, Textile & Place, Coral Street Arts House, Philadelphia, PA

StudioB Sculpture Invitational, Findlay Street Warehouse, Cincinnati, OH

2005      

Arts: Lake County Sculpture Walk, San Francisco, CA

Industrial Interchange Organic, Robert A. Peck Gallery, Central Wyoming College, Riverton, WY

Calpine, Geothermal Visitors Center, Middletown, CA

Anniversary Exhibition, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN

Counterpoint: Project Creo The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL

Just in Case, Central Wyoming College Gallery, Riverton, WY

Soft Boundaries, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL *invitational

Process, Performance & Projection III, Surplus Gallery, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

Annual Combined Faculty Exhibition, University Museum, SIU, Carbondale, IL

2004  

52 words/52 images, Administration Gallery, Cedarhurst Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL

Well Hung, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO

Faculty5, Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Certain Charms, Bradley University Gallery, Peoria, IL

Identity Crisis, Delta Axis @ Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN

Recent Works, Mark Palmer Gallery, Paducah, KY

If you had a $1,000,000 mail art project, Monticello Community Center, Monticello, MN

Sprung, Art Coop, St. Louis, MO

52 words/52 images, Vergette Gallery, Carbondale, IL

Selections: Abstractions, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Process, Performance & Projection II, Surplus Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL

Annual Combined Faculty Exhibition, University Museum, SIU, Carbondale, IL

Miniprint 9, Vergette Gallery, SIU, Carbondale, IL

Street Interventions and Community Involvement

ongoing

Granny Graffiti, 40+ works on telephone poles throughout Philadelphia, PA

2019    

One night in Footscray, Invitational participation in community project, Footscray, Australia *forthcoming

Yarnbombing: Trivento, Invited street art installation in Trivento, Italy

Tiny Pricks, Community art participation, Vancouver, British Columbia and at Lingua Franca Gallery, New York, NY

Yarn bombing at Pickwick Corner, 5 Granny graffiti pieces, St. Louis, MO

 MAM Yarn Bomb, Montclair Art Museum, NJ

 Fishtown Floral Crawl, in collaboration with Botaniq Blooms, Philadelphia, PA

 2018    

Granny Graffiti, 40+ works on telephone poles throughout Philadelphia, PA

I’m sorry, an 8-part work installed at the John Lennon Wall, Prague, Czech Republic

Seton Hall Granny Graffiti, 12 commission-based works on campus and 12 placed in nearby neighborhoods, Newark, NJ

Kindness rocks, Germantown Artist Roundtable Imagination Station, Philadelphia, PA

Guest Artist, Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia, PA

2017    

Wish pillows, Germantown Artist Roundtable Imagination Station, Germantown Festival, Philadelphia, PA

Guest Artist, Germantown Friends School, Philadelphia, PA

Participant, Toe the Line Drawing Collaborative Drawing, organized by Missy Wilkinson, Bono, AR

 

Commissions

Heart affirmations for art demonstration, Philadelphia Airport, Philadelphia, PA, 2022 and 2023

Hand-made Poinsettias, Urban Botanicals, McNeil Consumer Health Care, Fort Washington, PA

Granny Graffiti, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ

 

Bibliography

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 Pranjal Pande, “How do Airlines celebrate Valentine’s Day?”, Simple flying.com, Cornwall, UK, 2022

 Harriet Baskas, “Airports bring back Valentine’s Day freebies and shortcuts to love”,   thepointsguy.com, 2022

 Laura J. Marchese, “Wallkill Valley grad returns as guest artist to inspire a new generation,” Advertiser-News South, Sussex County, NJ, 2021

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K. Barrett, “Shelfie Collections – Combined Prompt – Shelfies and Collections,” medium.com, San Francisco, CA, 2021

Heather Redfern, “Filling the terminals with hopeful artwork,” PHL.org Newsroom, Philadelphia, PA, 2021

Tom Beck, “Palumbo Park public art exhibition, Exquisite Copse features surrealist sculptures from local artists,” South Philly Review, Philadelphia, PA, 2020

 Shane McAdams, “Visualizing the Quarantine at Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts,” Shepard Express, Milwaukee, WI, 2020

 A Quarantine Quilting Community Art Project and Exhibit, WTMJ 4, Milwaukee, WI, 2020

Art Uncovered Podcast with Kimberly Ruth, New York, NY 2019

Culture Club interview, WJFF 90.5 FM Catskill Radio, Jeffersonville, NY 2019

Deborah Kreiger, “Sculptors probe the impossibility of ‘shelter’ at Da Vinci Art Alliance”, artblog, theartblog.org, Philadelphia, PA 2018

Alix Rosenfeld, “A shelter where words fail”, Broad Street Review, Philadelphia, PA 2018

Len Lear, “Dramatic ‘Achromatic; exhibit opens in gallery at SCH”, Chestnuthill Local, Philadelphia, PA 2018

Dan Geringer, “Germantown artist celebrates her neighborhood’s diversity,” Philadelphia Daily News, March 2015

Alaina Mabaso, “’ Meditative’ outdoor installation takes over Awbury Arboretum’s grounds,” Newsworks, Philadelphia, PA 2014

Len Lear, “New outdoor sculptures at G’Town arboretum inspirational,” Chestnut Hill Local, Philadelphia, PA 2014

Edith Newall, “Art Alliance offers new takes on the old-time sitting room”, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA 2010

Sandra Jeknavorian, Podcast Interview, http://www.trcc.commnet.edu/theGallery/, Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, CT

Sandra Jeknavorian, Docent Tour of Conglomeration Exhibition, http://www.trcc.commnet.edu/theGallery/, Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, CT

Lou Perseghin, “Fun, not profit, is key to localite’s ‘Binks’ exhibit,” Chestnut Hill Local, Philadelphia, PA 2006

Amy Bracken Sparks, "A multitude of ideas, shapes in gathering of abstractions,” The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH 2004

Jane Huh, "Vergette Gallery opens 52 words later,” The Daily Egyptian, Carbondale, IL 2004

Carole Knowles, "Seven artists tell it like it is,” Memphis Flyer, Memphis, TN 2004

Le Musee di-viosioniste, Artist Statement published, www.le-musee-divisioniste.org 2004

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Jerry Bradley, “ ‘Process and Performance’ a different kind of gathering,” Southern Illinoisian, Carbondale, IL 2004

Education

M.F.A.       Sculpture            University of South Florida, College of Art and Art History, Tampa, FL

B.F.A.       Sculpture            Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ