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Accomplishments

Photography Honors

AWSome Art; Dog and the Turquoise Door purchased by Amazon.com HQS, 2013

Merit Award, Sikh Man in Purple, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, Panel Juried.
Purchased for Permanent Collection 2013.

Finalist, Int’l Fine Art Photography, Grand Prix de la Decouverte, 2013
Second Prize, People, 2013 National Show, Louisville Arts Center, Louisville, CO 2013
Honorable Mention, 2012 Photography Show NVAL, Redding, CA, 2012
RED, The Essex Junction, Darkroom Gallery, Vermont, 2012 (image featured on a gallery video)
2 Semifinalists, 2012 Black & Whit Spider Awards

Winner, Folio 2011, Silvershotz Magazine, England and Australia, 2011

Honorable Mention, 2nd Edition Portraits, WPGA, 2011
Finalist, World Travel, Planet Magazine, NYC, July 2011
3rd Prize, Early Morning After Dark, MPLS Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN 2011
Two Finalists, I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Portrait, 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
Finalist, 26th Annual Salon of Photography, Bristol UK 2010
Finalist, Portraits of World Travel, Planet Magazine, NYC, January 2011
Honorable Mention, Spherical, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, 2010
Second Prize, Regional Juried Show, FCCA, F’burg, VA, October 2010
Emerging Artist, Texas Photography Society, August 2010
2 Honorable Mentions, FACES, Women in Photography Int’l, 2010
Finalist, 30th Spring Contest, Photography Forum Magazine, 2010
Winner & 3 Runners-up, Creative Quarterly, Issue 20, September 2010
Finalist, 28th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, 2010
Merit Award, 2010 Nat’l Photo Competition (Portfolio), Camera Club of New York, 2010
Merit Award, ‘Anything Goes!’ Roho Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio 2010
First Prize, People Category, Int’l Photo Competition, Fort Dearborn-Chicago Forum, 2010
Finalist, 24th Members Only Show, Texas Photographic Society, Summer 2010
Second Prize, Women’s Intl Juried Exhibition, 12 12 Gallery, Richmond, VA,
Juror Margaret Salisbury, FRPS, 2010
Winner & Runner-up, Creative Quarterly, Issue 19, June 2010
Excellence Award, Exposure Int’l Competition, Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, CO, 2010
Finalist, 2nd Annual Int’l Travel Contest, Planet Magazine, 2010
Second Prize, Really Big & Tiny Show, League of Reston Artists, Reston, VA 2010
Abstract Award, Autumn Juried Show, Hampshire County Arts Council, Romney, WV 2009
Honorable Mention, 2009 Regional Exhibit, FCCA, Fredericksburg, VA 2009
Honorable Mention, Summer 2009 – Children, Women in Photography Int’l 2009
Finalist, 29th Spring Contest, Photography Forum Magazine, 2009
First Prize, Potomac River Regional Art Show, Colonial Beach, VA 2009
Certificate of Merit, Art of Photography, Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, Colorado 2009
Honorable Mention, Virginia Artists 2009, Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA 2009
Contributor Award, Northern National Art Competition, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI 2009
First Prize, artReston: 16th Annual Exhibition, Reston, VA 2009
Finalist, N.Y. Photo Festival 09, 2009
First Prize, Celebration of Life, Panel Juried Exhibit, Louisville, KY 2009
Honorable Mention, A Fine Line, Fredericksburg Art Center, Fredericksburg, VA 2009
First Prize, Joy, Washington Photography School, Juried Exhibition, 2008
First & Second Prizes, PhotoArt, LRA, Fine Art Exhibit, Reston, VA 2008

Photography Exhibitions

23rd Int’l Competition, Texas Photo Society, Juror Susan kae Grant, 2014
Cover Competition, Art & Beyond, Juror Mila Y Rik, Spring 2014
Contemporary Portraiture, Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA, Juror Robin Rice, 2014
Exposure, Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, Colorado, Panel Juried, 2013
Faces, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont, Juror Elizabeth Avedon, 2013
High and Dry 2013, Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas, Juror David Kennedy, 2013
Int’l Fine Art Photography, Grand Prix de la Decouverte, Panel Juried, 2013
3 Images, Faith, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, Panel Juried, 2013
Virginia Artists 2013, Charles Taylor Arts V Center, Hampton, VA, Lisa Swensson Juror
2013 National Show, Louisville Arts Center, Louisville, CO 2013
Photo 2013 Paducah, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky 2013
2013 Int’l Competition, ArtSpace, Herndon, Virginia, Juror Barry Schmetter, 2013
Portals, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, 2012
Streets (2 images), LH Horton Gallery, Stockton, CA, 2012
2012 National Show, Louisville Arts Center, Louisville, CO 2012
RED, The Essex Junction, Darkroom Gallery, Vermont, 2012 (image featured on a gallery video)
Structure, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, Juror Amanda Smith 2012
Int’l Juried Show Images Thru a Glass Eye, Red Bluff, CA, 2012
Wander Lust, 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
Photo 2012 Paducah, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky 2012
Gardens, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, 2012
The Portrait, MPLS, Minneapolis, MN 2012
2012 Annual Competition, Connecticut Art Academy, 2012
64 Art 2012 (4 entries accepted), Buchanan Arts Center, Monmouth, IL, 2012
Imagination, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Jurors Amanda Smith 2012
num3ers, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Jurors Amanda Smith & Carol Watson 2011
Folio 2011, Silvershotz Magazine, England and Australia, Panel Juried, 2011
Photo Month, Gallery 50, Rehoboth Beach, DE Panel Juried, 2011
Colors of Life 2011, Richmond, VA, Washington, DC, Juried Panel, November 2011
People, Places & Events (2), MPLS Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN 2011
PHOTOCentric (2), Garrison Arts Center, Garrison, NY Jurors Larry Fink & Stephen Perloff, 2011
64 Arts 2011 (2), Buchanan Arts Center, Monmouth, IL, Juror Adrian Arleo, 2011
Exposure (2 images), Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, CO, Juror Steve McCurry, 2011
Int’l Juried Competition, Gallery 14, Hopewell, New Jersey, 2011
Int’l Early Morning After Dark, MPLS Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN, Juror Peter Howe, 2011
I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Portrait, 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Juror AJ Overtoom, 2011
26th Annual Salon of Photography, Bristol, UK, Jury Paneled, 2010
Portraits of World Travel, Planet Magazine, NYC, Juror Derek Peck, January 2011
Pose and Gesture, Photo Work Place, Middlebury, Vermont, Juror Tim Anderson, 2010
High and Dry, Texas Tech II, Lubbock, TX, Juror Roy Flukinger, 2010
Art of Photography II (2 images) Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, CO, Juror Hal Gould, 2010
Spherical (2 images), A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, Juror Carla Ellard, 2010
High & Dry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, Juror Roy Flukinger, 2010
Altered Landscapes (2 images), LH Horton Gallery, Stockton, CA, Juror Carol McCusker, 2010
Regional Juried Show (2), FCCA, Fredericksburg, VA, Juror Michael Lease, October 2010
Delaplaine Art Center Photography Exhibition (2), Frederick, MD, Juror J.D. Talasek, 2010
FACES (2), Women in Photography Int’l, Jurors Sarah Hughes, Keith Milton, 2010
Colors of Life 2010, Richmond, VA, Washington, DC and Museum of Modern Art Carlos Merida Guatemala City; Panel Juried, 2010
PHOTOCentric, Garrison Arts Center, Garrison, NY Jurors Stephen Shore & Harvey Stein, 2010
Art at the X, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, Juror Dennis Harrington, 2010
Emerging Artist (Portfolio), Texas Photography Society, August 2010
Winner & 3 Runners-up, Creative Quarterly, Issue 20, September 2010
2010 National Photo Competition, Camera Club of New York, Juror James Casebere, 2010
19th Nat’l Photo Competition, Louisville Art Assn, Colorado, Juror Timothy Anderson, 2010
Potomac Regional Art Show, Colonial Beach, VA, Juror Anne Chenoweth, 2010
International Competition, Fort Dearborn-Chicago Photo Forum, Chicago,IL, Panel Juried,2010
‘Anything Goes!’, Roho Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, Panel Juried, 2010
24th Members Only Show, Texas Photographic Society, Panel Juried, 2010
Winner & Runner-up, Creative Quarterly, Issue 19, June 2010
Women’s Intl Exhibition, 12 12 Gallery, Richmond, VA, Juror Margaret Salisbury, FRPS, 2010
2nd Annual Travel Portrait Contest, Planet Magazine, Juried by Int’l Panel, 2010
Exposure Int’l Competition (2), Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, CO, Juror Phil Borges, 2010
Really Big & Tiny Show, League of Reston Artists, Reston, VA, Juror Chris Appleton, 2010
Regional Juried Show, FCCA, Fredericksburg, VA, Juror Laura Tenekjian, 2010
Points of Departure, VisArts Center, Rockville, MD, Canon’s Explorers of Light, 2010
Autumn Juried Show, Hampshire County Arts Council, Romney, WV, Juror Christine Smith, 2009
2009 Regional Exhibit, Fredericksburg Art Center, Fredericksburg, VA, Juror Steve Griffin,
Open Juried Exhibition, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro, PA, Juror Latoya Ruby Frasier, 2009
Layers, Fredericksburg Art Center, Fredericksburg, VA, Juror Anne Cook, 2009
Summer 2009 Children, Women in Photography Int’l, Juror Carol McCusker, 2009
29th Spring Contest, Photography Forum Magazine, 2009
radius250, artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA, Juror Marlene Rothacker, 2009
Art of Photography, Camera Obscura Gallery, Denver, Colorado, Jurors Hal Gould, 2009
Northern Art Competition, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, WI, Juror Betty LaDuke, 2009
Virginia Artists 2009, Taylor Arts Center, Hampton, VA, Juror Tatjana Beylotte, 2009
Regional Juried Exhibition, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD, Annet Couwenberg, 2009
Connections, Fredericksburg Art Center, Fredericksburg, VA, Juror Tatjana Beylotte, 2009
artReston: 16th Annual Exhibition, Reston, VA, Juror Barbara Wolanin, 2009
Glimpses in Time: 2009, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA, Juror Rene de Guzman, 2009
N.Y. Photo Festival ‘09‘, Panel Juried, NYC, Nominated Finalist, 2009
Colors of Life 2009, Richmond, VA & Milan, Italy, Panel Juried, 2009
Forever Hold Your Peace, New Orleans Photo Alliance, Juror Sylvia Plachy, 2009
Celebration of Life, Panel Juried Exhibit, Louisville, KY, 2009
A Fine Line, F’burg Art Center, Fredericksburg, VA, Juror Hubert Jackson, 2009,
Biggs Shot 2009, Biggs Museum, Dover, Delaware, Juror Stephen Perloff, 2009
Joy, Washington Photography School, Juried Exhibition, 2008
PhotoArt, League of Reston Artists, Fine Art Exhibit, Reston, VA, Judge Roy Sewall, 2008
Faces of the World, VisArts Center, Rockville, MD, Juror Frank Goodyear, 2008
Juried Resident Artist, Lorton Arts Center, Lorton, VA 2008
Vienna Photography Society, 2007 & 2008 Photographer of the Year

Publications

Pose and Gesture, Photo Work Place, Vermont, Hardcover, www.blurb.com, 2010
Spherical catalog, A Smith Gallery, www.blurb.com, 2010
Anything Goes, Edgecliff Press, Cincinnati, Ohio 2010
Creative Quarterly Journal, Edition #20, New York City, September 2010
Rangefinder Magazine, July 2010, Volume 59, No. 7
Photography FORUM, Best of Photography 2010 USA
Creative Quarterly Journal, Edition #19, New York City, June 2010
Glimpse In Time: 2009 Special Edition book by Joyce Gordon Gallery, USA
Colors of Life Award Book 2009
Photography FORUM, Best of Photography 2009, USA
Moods of India…A Journey, Hardcover, www.blurb.com, 2009
She’s A Dancer… Hard Cover, www.blurb.com, 2009

Education

AA, Humanities, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY; magna cum laude, 1981
BA, American Government, Georgetown University, 1984
AAS, Graphic Design, Northern Virginia Community College, magna cum laude, 2003
AAS, Photography, Northern Virginia Community College, magna cum laude, 2005