Education

2002 MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University

1999 BFA, Wichita State University

1990 Kansas City Art Institute

Selected Exhibitions

2010 You Complete Me..., Hack.Art.Lab at Paragraph Gallery as part of the Urban Culture Project, KCMO.

2010 Supercellica, a traveling / evolving Squirrelly Girls exhibitionists event, Walnut Street Gallery, Wichita, KS.

2010 River City Bienalle, Wichita, KS.(April) curated by Hesse McGraw, Director/Bemis Center for Contemporary Art

2010 Cultivating Strategy, Hack.Art.Lab, White Gallery, Butler Community College, Eldorado, KS.

2009 SCOPE: Miami, with ADA Gallery(RVA), Miami, FL.

2009 A Few Small Steps, Hack.Art.Lab, Steckline Gallery, Newman University, Wichita, KS.

2009 A Fluid Wilderness with Sandra Luckett, Hack.Art.Lab, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA.

2009 Cadence, Hack.Art.Lab at PDCon09, PureData Convention, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

2009 Blood Promise, live performance with Lisa Rundstrom, Fischhaus, Wichita, KS.

2009 Supercell, a traveling Squirrelly Girls exhibition. ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA. Couchfire Coll., Columbus, OH.

2008 rEvolve, Hack Art Lab (H.A.L) at The Diver Studios, Wichita, KS.

2008 lumens, Steckline Gallery, Newman University, Wichita, KS. (two-person show)

2007 16^th WSU School of Art and Design Faculty Biennial, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS.

2007 Stratification, Trish Higgins Fine Art, c/o The Frame Guild, Wichita, KS. (one-person show)

2006 Ephemera, Project Creo Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FLA.

2006 Unambiguous, a curated, printed exhibition. Artworld Digest Magazine, published by David Cohen, NYC. *

2005 Postcards from the Edge, VisualAIDS benefit c/o Robert Miller Gallery, NYC.

2005 Radius250, Artspace. Curated by John Ravenal, VMFA curator, Richmond, VA.

2005 Build-up, Babcock Gallery, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA. (one-person show)

2005 Notions of Expenditure, Initiated by A. Laurie Palmer with support from Gallery 400. Univ. of Ill., Chicago.

2004 Faculty Exchange, Don Bosco College, Kathmandu, Nepal.

2004 Postcards From the Edge, VisualAIDS benefit c/o Brent Sikkema Gallery, NYC

2004 Night of 1000 Drawing’s, Artists Space, NYC.

2004 Second Nature, Project Creo Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FLA.

2004 Transformers, Transformer Gallery, WDC.

2004 Indulge, 1708 Gallery Benefit Auction, Richmond, VA.

2004 Echo, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA. (three-person show)

2003 25 x 25, 1708 Gallery 25th anniversary invitational, Richmond, VA.

2003 Silent Auction, Spike Gallery, NYC.

2003 Night of 1000 Drawing's, Artists Space, NYC.

2003 Lustre, Stefan Stux Gallery, NYC.

2003 Art To Go, 1708 Gallery benefit auction, Richmond, VA.

2003 Rame Panorama, Orange Door Gallery, Richmond, VA. Curated by Heide Trepanier

2003 Reflexance, Transformer Gallery, WDC. (three-person show)

2002 Fashion Victims with Sandra Luckett, Wearable Art, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA.

2002 Faculty Show, Bedford Gallery, Farmville, VA

2002 Landscape(detail),Thesis, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA. *

2002 Rising Visions, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA. Curated by HeideTrepanier

2002 Options 2002, Tenth biennial, WPA/Corcoran, WDC. Curated by Victoria Reis *

2001 B Hotel, PS1 MOMA, NYC.

2001 Flower Fall, Project: Video, 1000 W. Broad, Richmond, VA.

2001 Tractor Pull, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

2000 Antelope to Zebra, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA.

2000 Abstract Act, Bradford Gallery, VCU, Richmond, VA. (two-person show)

1999 Kansas Health Foundation, Wichita, KS. (one-person show)

1999 Trish Higgins Fine Art, Wichita, KS. (one-person show)

1999 Three Painters, FE ²⁶, Wichita, KS. (three-person show)

Professional Activities

2009    Gallery Talk, Hack.Art.Lab, Steckline Gallery, Newman University, Wichita, Kansas

2009    Artist Presentation, From Observation, WSU ShiftSpace Gallery, Wichita, Kansas

2008    Gallery Talk, Steckline Gallery, Newman University, Wichita, Kansas

2008    Founding Member & Co-Director, Hack.Art.Lab, (HAL) Wichita, Kansas

2007    Artist Presentation, Artforum, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas

2007    Committee Member, River City Biennale. Wichita, Kansas

2006    Artist Presentation, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado

2006    Artist Presentation, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan

2005    Gallery Talk, Babcock Gallery, Sweet Briar College, Amherst, Virginia

2005    Artist Presentation, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

2005    Artist Presentation, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois

2004    Gallery Talk, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

2002-03      Board Member, Orange Door Gallery, Richmond, Virginia

2002-04      Board Member, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
                  Vice Chair: Exhibitions Committee.

Fellowships and Awards

2010 Wichita Arts Council financial award via River City Bienalle.

2004/2005 The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship Award.

2002 Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate Student Travel Grant.

2001-02 Virginia Commonwealth University Commonwealth Award.

2000 Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate Teaching Fellowship.

Nominations:

Dedalus Foundation Graduate Fellowship

Joan Mitchell Foundation Graduate Fellowship

Bibliography

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Eldorado Times, Eldorado, KS. “Butler Art Gallery Hosts “Cultivating Strategies”, Julie Clements

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WSET, Channel Thirteen News. ABC. July 5, 2004. Interview by Liz Bryant.

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