Education & Awards
Education: 1970 Art history classes, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD1969 BA DePauw University, Greencastle, IN1968 Art semester, Drew University, Madison, NJ
Calligraphy and bookmaking classes in the United States and Great Britain with Peter Halliday, Sheila Waters, Ieuan Rees, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Awards and Fellowships:2023 Baxter Society Awards in Book Arts, honorable mention2019 Artist Fellowship Award, Maine Arts Commission2017 Best of Show award, International Art of the Book, Central Library, Rochester, NY2009 Finalist, Books That Matter prize, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN2002 First Prize, Il Santo Dei Voli San Giuseppe da Copertino, Gruppo per le Arts Applicate di Osimo, Italy, international calligraphy exhibit1995 Visual Arts Fellowship award given by Maine Arts Commission, juried1995 First Prize, "Craft America," Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT 1993 Judge's Merit Award, "Makers '93," Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Calligraphy and bookmaking classes in the United States and Great Britain with Peter Halliday, Sheila Waters, Ieuan Rees, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Awards and Fellowships:2023 Baxter Society Awards in Book Arts, honorable mention2019 Artist Fellowship Award, Maine Arts Commission2017 Best of Show award, International Art of the Book, Central Library, Rochester, NY2009 Finalist, Books That Matter prize, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN2002 First Prize, Il Santo Dei Voli San Giuseppe da Copertino, Gruppo per le Arts Applicate di Osimo, Italy, international calligraphy exhibit1995 Visual Arts Fellowship award given by Maine Arts Commission, juried1995 First Prize, "Craft America," Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT 1993 Judge's Merit Award, "Makers '93," Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Selected Exhibits
2024
Transformation: Inspiration into Object. Glickman Library, U.iversity of Southern Maine, Portland, ME
2023
FREEDOM PROJECT, Book Art Museum, Lodz, Poland, fall, www.freedomproject.artThe Book as Art: Myth & Magic, Georgia Center for the Book, Decatur Arts Alliance, GA fallProgressions, 4 Book Artists, Wishcamper Center, University of Southern Maine, ME
2022
Lettered and Bound, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO Stories, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, ME2021
Reclamation, San Francisco Center for the Book, CA Pandemonium, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO Structure & Narrative II, Michael Good Gallery, Rockport, 2019
The Darkness and the Light, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME Invitational group show,
Tower of Babel, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica,
Venice, Italy 2018
Volumen et Rotulus, Rearte Gallery, Vienna, AustriaCRAFT Gallery, Rockland, ME2017
International Art of the Book, Library, Rochester, NY Volumen et Rotulus, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia and touring ItalyMarks, Symbols, Lines, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CTDirt?, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA (CODEX exhibitor, Richmond, CA2016
CRAFT Gallery, featured artist, Rockland, ME July2015
Vessel, Guild of Book Workers traveling, juried exhibit (Beyond Words: Contemporary Book Art, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO2014
CMCA Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, MEGeographies, New England Guild of Book Workers 2013
Horizons, Guild of Book Workers traveling exhibitSeductive Alchemy, Books by Artists, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX2012
The Poetic Pen, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR catalogType Matters: The Artistry of Letterform, CAExploding the Codex, San Francisco Center for the Book, CATransparent/Opaque, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO, 2011
Hand Lettered, Abecedarian Gallery, Denver CO2010
Inventive Structures: Books Beyond the Codex, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT2009
The Beautiful Book, abecedarian gallery, Denver, CO Books That Matter, Minnesota Center for Book Arts Prize, Minneapolis, MN 2008
5th International Book & Paper Arts Triennial, Columbia College, Chicago, ILBiennial Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME2007
Work of the Hand, Center for ME Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME2006
Book as Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC 2005
Response and Resonance, Wellesley College Special Collections, MA
Commissions & Collections
Commissions:2009 Percent for Art, Penobscot Judicial Center, Bangor, ME, 4 calligraphic panels2005 Percent for Art, Knox Country Courthouse, Rockland, ME, 3 calligraphic panels1997 Framed book with text by Maine authors commissioned by the Maine Broadcasting Company and presented to the Bangor Public Library
Collections:National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DCLibrary of Congress, Washington, DCThe Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination, Ridgefield, CTJack Ginsburg Centre for Book Arts, Witts Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa Book Art Museum, LódzPortland Museum of Art, Portland, MEBainbridge Island Museum of Art, WAPrivate collectorsLibrary Special Collections: University of California Berkeley Environmental Design Library, CA; Houghton Library, Harvard University, MA; Wellesley College, MA ; Yale University, CT; Bowdoin College, ME; Swathmore College, PA; Rochester Institute of Technology, NY; Univ. of South Florida, FL; Princeton University, PA; University of Denver, CO; University of Iowa, IA; Emory University, GA; University of Louisville, KY; University of Miami, OH
Collections:National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DCLibrary of Congress, Washington, DCThe Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination, Ridgefield, CTJack Ginsburg Centre for Book Arts, Witts Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa Book Art Museum, LódzPortland Museum of Art, Portland, MEBainbridge Island Museum of Art, WAPrivate collectorsLibrary Special Collections: University of California Berkeley Environmental Design Library, CA; Houghton Library, Harvard University, MA; Wellesley College, MA ; Yale University, CT; Bowdoin College, ME; Swathmore College, PA; Rochester Institute of Technology, NY; Univ. of South Florida, FL; Princeton University, PA; University of Denver, CO; University of Iowa, IA; Emory University, GA; University of Louisville, KY; University of Miami, OH