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EDUCATION

1989     Bachelor of Fine Arts
             Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan.
 

GRANTS/AWARDS
 
2006     Jerome Foundation Fellowship Grant.
2001     Schweinfurth Foundation Grant.
2000     Creative Artists Grant from ArtServe Michigan.
1998     Creative Artists Grant from the Arts Foundation of Michigan.
1996     Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs Grant.
1993     National Endowment for the Arts (Multi-artist project organized by Detroit Focus).
1991     National Endowment for the Arts (Multi-artist project organized by Detroit Focus).


RESIDENCIES

2007     Environmental Residency Program, I-Park, East Haddam, Connecticut.
2006     Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota.
2001     Cedarhurst Sculpture Park, Mount Vernon, Illinois.


SITED WORK

2008     Infiltrations, Chemin d’Art 2008, Saint Flour, France.
             Under Outside Input, Humus Park, Parco del Seminario,Pordenone, Italy.
2007     Flow Line, Horizons 2007. Puy de Chambourguet, Besse-et-St-Anastaise, France.
             Water Borne, I-Park, East Haddam, Connecticut.
2006     Wake, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, Minnesota.
2005     Pretty Little Blight, Memorial Park, Jefferson City, Missouri.
             Compounded Eye, Shihmen Sculpture Festival, Shihmen Reservoir Park, Dashi, Taiwan.
2003     Section Through, Peatpolis.nl, Emmen, The Netherlands. 
2001     Grommet, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville, Michigan.
              Isolated Ground", Cedarhurst Sculpture Park, Mount Vernon, Illinois.
1998     Five Needles, Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville, Michigan.
             Curved Ridge Private collection, Bloomfield, Michigan.
             Passage, Clark Park, Detroit, Michigan.

 
COMMISSIONED PROPOSALS

2005     Louisiana Division of the Arts, Lake D'Arbonne State Park, Louisiana.
             Phase-1 finalist.  Competition to place a sculpture on park grounds.
             This proposal was unrealized.
2004     Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
             Phase-1 finalist.  Competition to create a sculpture for the outdoor collection.
             Guest curator, Mary Jane Jacob.  This proposal was unrealized.
2000     Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Department of Labor and Training, Rhode Island.
             Phase-1 finalist.  Competition commissioned for a percent-for-art project.
             This proposal was unrealized.

 
PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS

1998     Five Needles, Michigan Legacy Art Park, Thompsonville, Michigan.
             Passage, City of Detroit, Clark Park, Detroit, Michigan.


SELECTED  GROUP EXHIBITIONS   

2009     Living Green; Art Design & Cuisine.  Arkitektura In-Situ, Birmingham, Michigan.
2004     Finalist Maquettes.  Frederik Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
2003     McGillis/Hoffman. Marygrove College.  Detroit, Michigan.
1999     Art and Nature. Paint Creek Center for the Arts.  Rochester, Michigan. 
             Art for the Park. Detroit Contemporary Gallery.  Detroit, Michigan.
1998     Installments IV. Paint Creek Center for the Arts.  Rochester, Michigan. 
             Up-North Meets Down Town. Silverman Building.  Detroit, Michigan. 
             Governor's Awards. Henry Ford Museum.  Dearborn, Michigan.
1997     Sculpture Pontiac '97. POH Medical Center.  Pontiac, Michigan.
1995     Hybrid System. Cement Space.  Detroit, Michigan. 
             Vis-a'vis. Detroit Focus Gallery.  Detroit, Michigan. 
             Portable Stories. Matrix Gallery.  Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1994     McGillis/Head.  Willis Gallery.  Detroit, Michigan.
1992     Watch Your Eyes. Loft Store.  Tokyo, Japan. 
             TONS.  Urban Architecture.  Detroit, Michigan. 
             Propeller 3.  Mykal Honmoku Gallery.  Yokohama, Japan.
1990     Steel Works for Everyone.  Holland Arts Council.  Holland, Michigan. 
             FUNctionalisms. Xochopilli Gallery.  Birmingham, Michigan.


LECTURES

2009     Arkitektura In-Situ.  Lecture to accompany Living Green exhibition.
2006     Franconia Sculpture Park.  Public presentation to accompany residency project.
2005     Taipei National University of the Arts.  Presentation involving contributing artists to accompany
             Shihmen Reservoir Sculpture Exhibition.
2003     Marygrove College, Detroit.  Presentation to accompany exhibition.

 
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Elizabeth Upper, "Land of Plenty", Above Magazine, Spring 2010, pgs. 158-165.
Susan Kendzulak, "Junket Heaven for Driftwood Fans", Taipei  Times, December 15, 2005, pg. 15.
Kerri Guten Cohen, "Sculptors make case for nature", Detroit Free Press, Octobe15, 2003, pg. 8J.
Christina Kallery, "Nature and un-nature", The Metro Times, September10, 2003, pg. 22.
Nick Sousanis, “Exhibition Reviews”, TheDetroiter.com,October 31, 2003.
Sculpture, Sept. 2001, vol. 20 No. 7.  Announcement with photograph of Cedarhurst commission, pg. 5.
WTTW TV Chicago, Illinois, PBS affiliate, June, 2001.  Arts Across Illinois, four-minute interview; Cedarhurst Project.
WSIL TV Harrisburg, Illinois, ABC affiliate, April 28, 2001.  One minute interview:   Cedarhurst project.
Dennis Nawrocki, Art in Detroit Public Places.  Great Lakes Books, 1999, pg. 135.
Alice Rhein, "Nature's Gallery", Michigan Monthly, July 1996. Vol. 2, no. 2,  pg. 16.
Hobey Echlin, "Surface Tension" The Metro Times, August 23, 1995, pg. 45.