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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.