EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH, New Bedford, MA
2005-08 • MFA, Artisanry

RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Providence, RI
1995-98 • BFA, Furniture Design

MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE, Purchase, NY
1994-95 • Liberal and Fine Arts

PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFTS, Penland, NC
2007 • Dorothy Gill Barnes – Sculptural Basketry with Bark

PRO CHEMICAL & DYE, Fall River, MA
2007 • Chad Alice Hagen – Immersion & Resist Dyeing Felted Wool

HAYSTACK MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF CRAFTS, Deer Isle, ME
2006 • Wood, Peter Walker – Wood
2000 • Wood, Michael Hurwitz  – Wood

ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER, Snowmass Village, CO
2003 • Wood, Wendy Maruyama & Merryll Saylan – Bandsaw Boxes and Turning

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
1999 • Fellowship Award, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
2007 • Dr. Jerrold Belitz Full Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts
2006 & 2000 • Haystack Work Study Grant
2005 • Yeager Scholar, UMass Dartmouth
1997 • Providence Journal Company Scholarship
1995 - 1998 • Scholarship Award, Rhode Island School of Design

PUBLICATIONS
THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL, Providence, RI
June 8, 2000 • Life is Coming Up Cherries at the New Bush Gallery
THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL, Providence, RI
March 3, 2000 • A Month of Women's Art in Providence
RESIDENT ON THE TOWN, New York, NY
June 22, 1999 • Surface and Substance, Chris MacLeod
THE PATRIOT LEDGER, Boston, MA
December 18, 1998 • Center's Exhibit Presents Furniture as Art Objects, Molly Hochkeppel, Image