Education: M.F.A. Glass at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL B.A. in Art from Hastings College, Hastings, NE, Emphasis on glass.

Selected Awards: 1995 SAF/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship 1994 North Carolina Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship

Selected Publications: American Style, October 2004, Page 87. Glass Art, January/February 2003, Page 28-29. Neues Glas, Fall 2001, Front cover and Pages 20-27. American Craft, Feb./March 2001, Pages 98-99.

Selected Collections: Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia SC Fletcher, Barnhart, White Corp., Charlotte, NC Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC McDonald’s Corporate Collection Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte NC Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA The Palley Collection, Miami, FL Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI XL Screw Corporation, Wheeling, IL