Education:
2012-2014 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Masters of Fine Arts in Fiber Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2008-2012 Birmingham-Southern College, Bachelors of Arts in Art history minor in Art, Birmingham, AL
2002-2008 Alabama School of Fine Art, High school degree concentration in Visual Art, Birmingham, AL
Small Group/ Solo Exhibitions:
2021 Tethered, Ground Floor Contemporary, Main Gallery, Birmingham AL
2020 Vicissitude, Ground Floor Contemporary, Main Gallery, Birmingham AL
2019 Unspoken Moment, Ground Floor Contemporary, Main Gallery, Birmingham AL
2018 Echo, Ground Floor Contemporary, Main Gallery, Birmingham AL
2018 Fellowship Show, The Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery AL
2017 Monkey’s Slide, Two Person Collaborative Installation, Ground Floor Contemporary, Main Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2016 Till We Have Faces, Solo Show, Vulcan Materials Gallery, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham AL
2015 Relics of Transition, Vulcan Materials Gallery, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham AL
2014 The Devil and the Straight Line, Audrey Love Gallery, Bakerhouse Art Complex Gallery, Miami, FL
Juried/ Invitational Group Exhibitions:
2021 Drawn Together, Space One Eleven, Main Gallery, Birmingham AL
2021 Intersections, Ground Floor Contemporary, Main Gallery, Birmingham AL
2020 Well + Being, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
2020 Without Walls, Ground Floor Contemporary, Online, Birmingham AL
2019 ArtFields 2019, Lynches Lake Historical Society, Lake City SC
2019 Connections, 21st Street Studios, Main Gallery, Birmingham AL
2018 Winter Show, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro NC
2018 Nurture, Ground Floor Contemporary, 21St Street Studios, Birmingham AL
2017 Women and Their Work I: Affect + Action, Window Installation, Space One Eleven, Birmingham AL
2017 Landscapes, Ground Floor Contemporary, Main Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2017 Relationship, 21st Street Studios, Main Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2017 Contemporary South '17, Main Gallery, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh NC
2016 Craft Forms 2016, 22nd International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Crafts, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA.
2016 In Esse: Fibers Exhibition, The Emily Davis Gallery, The University of Akron, Akron OH
2016 August Show, Ground Floor Contemporary, 21St Street Studios, Birmingham AL
2016 Materials: Hard & Soft, Patterson-Appleton Center for the Visual Arts, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
2016 Faculty Exhibition, Durbin Gallery of the Kennedy Center, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham AL
2016 Living Room, Vulcan Materials Gallery, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham AL
2015 BSC Faculty Exhibition, Miller Art Gallery, Meridian Community College, Meridian MI
2015 Navigating the Natural, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
2015 Coastal FiberArts 2015, The Heritage Museum, Astoria, OR
2015 Foundry: A Survey of Contemporary Sculpture, Main Gallery, Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC
2015 Small Works 2015, Shirt Factory Gallery, Glens Falls, NY
2015 Two by Two: Small-Scale Ceramic Sculpture Biennial, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
2015 Chroma, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2014 Fine Art Craft Hilton Head 2014, Walter Greer Gallery, Hilton Head Art League, Hilton Head, SC
2014 Sur(face) Tricks, Harry Wood Display Case, ASU School of Art, Tempe, AZ
2014 Miniature! Arterie Fine Arts Gallery, Naperville, IL
2014 FRESH 2014 Emerging Artist Exhibition, AVA Main Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
2014-2015 Experiencing Perspectives Art Exhibition Mercedes Benz 2014 – 2015, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, MI.
2014 Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Thesis Show, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2014 The Stuff of Dreams, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2014 Less Is More, Blackboard Gallery, Studio Channel Islands Art Center Camarillo, CA
2013 The God Show, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2013 Cranbrook Visions, Delta College, Saginaw, MI
2013 Studio Sketches, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2013 The Nest Show, Grosse Pointe ART Center, Grosse Pointe, MI
2013 Cranbrook Fiber Department Group Exhibition, Kingswood Lower Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2012 Yum!, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2011 Juried Show, Durbin Gallery of the Kennedy Center, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL
2010 Juried Show, Durbin Gallery of the Kennedy Center, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL
2008 Senior Show, Vulcan Materials Gallery, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL
Awards:
2017 Visual Arts Fellowship, The Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery AL
2015 East Lake Artist Village Residency, Alabama Dance Council and REV Birmingham, Birmingham AL
2015 The Cultural Reservation Podere Conte Ràcani – Sculptor Residency Program, Umbria, Italy
2014 1st Place, Miniature! Juried Show, Arterie Fine Arts Gallery, Naperville, IL
2012 Interdisciplinary Artist Award, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL
2008 Outstanding Senior Award for Visual Art Department, Alabama School of Fine Art, Birmingham, AL
Bibliography:
2017 Levine, Brett, “Two in the Hand(made)” B-Metro Magazine (October 2017).
2016 “29th Annual Materials: Hard + Soft” 2016 Exhibit Catalog.
2015 “The Color of Thin Air,” sculpturefix.com, June 1- July15.
2015 Ygartua, Elizabeth, “Featured Artists” Slag Mag 2, no. 1 (January 2015): 15.
2014 Matta, Leila. “Experiencing Perspectives Art Exhibition Mercedes Benz 2014- 2015” exhibition catalog. Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, MI.
Professional Activities:
2018 Broken Earth, Solo Exhibition, Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham, Birmingham AL
2018-current Member Artist, Ground Floor Contemporary, Birmingham AL
2016-2018 Resident Artist, Ground Floor Contemporary, Birmingham AL
2015-17, 22 Adjunct Art Professor, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham AL
2015, 2016 Artist Talk, Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL
2013-2014 Art History Research Internship, St. Andrews Benevolent Society of Detroit, Troy, MI
2013 Artist Talk, Delta College, Saginaw, MI
2012-2013 Volunteer Art Teacher, Kadima Center for Mental Illness, Detroit, MI