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• • • SOLO EXHIBITIONS—INSTALLATIONS
2018 Gallery1628, Baltimore; Imagining Iceland, photographs, drawings
2015 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; Cartographies of Loss, collaborative multi-media installation with poet and playwright, Soheila Ghaussy
2013 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Congregate – Art + Faith + Community, sculpture and video installation
2012 visarts, Rockville, MD, Flux – water and sound, an installation and collaboration with composer, David Smooke and accompanying musicians
2012 Gallery die Botschaft, Baltimore, MD, One Hundred Footsteps, collaboration, artist books with poems by Jennifer Wallace
2011 JLP Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Haiku Drawing
2010 Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, MD, Invitational Outdoor Sculptural exhibition, Here, outdoor installation
2010 Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, MD; Annual Invitational Solo exhibition, Linked, solo installation
2009 Stevenson University, Stevenson, MD, in Search of, solo installation with video and drawings
2008 Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, MD, The wandering motion of the stars and the gliding of the fishes, outdoor installation
2007 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, Nine Wooden Towers, outdoor installation
2007 Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Cry, video and print installation
2006 Evergreen House, Johns Hopkins University, Class, an outdoor installation as part of Inside/Out: Sculpture at the Evergreen, curated by Julie Courtney
2004 Collaboration with Nancy Havlik Dance Performance Group, Josephine Butler Center, Washington, DC
2003 Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park, Washington, DC, Coordinates, a site-specific installation with Nancy Havlik Dance Performance Group and Malcolm X Drummers
2003 Rochefort-en-Terre, France, Web and Toile, 2 site-specific installations
2001 Virginia Center for Creative the Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, aria, installation and performance with the Dance Theatre of Lynchburg
2000 Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, installation
1999 Turner Art Center Gallery, Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, Accumulations
1999 School 33, Baltimore, MD, Sculpture and Drawings
1999 Glenview Mansion, Rockville, MD, installation and drawings
1998 Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Amassing, installation
1998 MFA Thesis exhibition, University of Maryland at College Park
1996 School 33, Baltimore, MD, Offering, installation
1996 Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Dwelling, installation
1995 Gallery 10, Ltd., Washington, DC
• • • GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA; Green to the Extreme, prints from “Ravaged series”
2017 McDonough School, Owings Mills, MD; Sol Print Studio Artists
2017 Listhus Gallery, Olafsfjodor, Iceland, Skammdegi (Dark Winter), sculpture, drawings
2015 Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC: Under the Sun – Artists of Sol Print Studios
2013 Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, MD; One Hundred Footsteps, collaboration, artist books with poems by Jennifer Wallace
2012 Stevenson University, Baltimore, MD; First Impressions, printmakers studying with Soledad Salome
2010 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Rochefort-en-Terre exhibition, images of site-specific installation completed at Rochefort-en-Terre, France; residency
2010 University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, Mind, Body, and Spirit: Celebrating Regional Women Artists, catalogue
2008 Kunst und Gewerbeverei, Regensberg, Germany, Amerika trifft Bayern, drawings and photos, catalogue
2008 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; Faculty Exhibit, video installation
2008 Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, More Than 3 Voices, video installation
2006 Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, Winter, drawings
2005 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; Faculty Exhibition, two video installations
2005 Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Deja Vu
2004 Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington, DC, Sculpture in Four Dimensions
2003 Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, Virginia, Fold Here—Three Dimensional Paper, installation, collaboration with Nancy Havlik Dance Performance Group
2002 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; Faculty Exhibit, Transgressions, video installation
2000 Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, Luminosity of Space, 2-person exhibit, brochure
2000 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; Faculty Exhibit
2000 Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey, Summer Exhibition
2000 57 N. Street Gallery, Washington, DC, Birth
1999 Art Center of South Florida, Miami, RE:collect, installation, brochure
1998/97 Corcoran Museum, WPA Exhibition and Auction, Washington, DC
1997 Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA, Form and Light, 3-person exhibit
1997 University of Maryland, College Park, Faculty/Student Exhibition
1996 Washington Square, Washington, DC, Sculpture Now—1996, curator; Olga M. Viso, Assistant Curator, Hirshhorn Museum
1995 Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, Indeterminate Origins
1995 American University, Watkins Gallery, Washington, DC, Sixteen Sculptors
1995 Corcoran Museum of Art, Hemicycle Gallery, Washington, DC, Elusive Source, five-person exhibition (brochure)
1995 Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD; Critic in Residency Program, Critics’ Picks, curator; Liz Kotz, critic for Art Forum
1995 Washington Square, Washington, DC, Sculpture Now—1995, curator; Virginia Mecklenberg, Chief Curator, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
1994 Greater Reston Art Center, Reston, VA, Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, curator; George Hemphill, Hemphill Gallery, Washington, DC
1994 Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD; Catholic Girls
1994 Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States, Washington, DC, Across Borders/Sin Fronteras, curators: Belgica Rodrieguz, Director, Museum of the Americas; Jack Cowart, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue)
1994 Gallery 10 Ltd., Washington, DC, The Cutting Edge
1993 Washington Square, Washington, DC, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, curator; Marion Griffiths, Director, Sculpture Center, New York City
1992 Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC, Portraits, curated by Annette Pollan
1992 Gallery 10 Ltd., Washington, DC, Refiguring
1991 Westbeth Gallery, New York City, Washington Artists in Perspective
• • • • AWARDS
2016 -17 Skammdegi (Dark Winter), Olafsfjodor, Iceland, artist residency
2016 Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, artist residency
2015 Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD, Fellowship for printmaking residency
2015 Faculty Development Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art
2014 Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, artist residency
2012 Clo Ceardlinn, County Donegal, Ireland, artist residency
2012 Faculty Development Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art
2011 Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artist Award, sculpture
2008 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, artist residency
2007 Oberpfalzer KunstlerHaus, Schwandorf, Germany, artist residency
2006 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Creative Fellow for VCCA residency
2006 Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artist Award
2005 Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artist Award
2003 Rochefort en Terre, France, artist residency
2001 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, artist residency
2001, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011 Faculty Development Grants, Maryland Institute College of Art
2000 Virginia Commission for the Arts, finalist, Individual Artist Fellowship Award, sculpture
2000 Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL, artist residency
1999 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, artist residency
1996–98 University of Maryland at College Park; Teaching Assistantship
1993/94 Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA, artist residency
• • • EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, University Maryland at College Park
Master of Liberal Arts, Louisiana State University, Shreveport
Bachelor of Arts, University of Minnesota, Duluth
• • • TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1999 - 2019 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2009 Maryland Institute College of Art, Pre-College Program, “Mold Making and Casting”
2002 Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, Drawing I, II and III
1999–2000 Thornton Friends School, Alexandria, VA, high school art instructor
1998/99 University of Maryland at College Park, lecturer, “Art Theory”
1996–98 University of Maryland at College Park, Teaching Assistant; “Art Theory”, “Drawing 1”
1984–86 Artist in Residence; Shreveport Regional Arts Council, Shreveport, LA
• • • PROFESSIONAL—SPECIAL PROJECTS
2015 Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD, Keyholder Fellowship, printmaking
2013 Maryland Institute College of Art, etching
2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Printmaking Workshop (solar etching) with Soledad Salome, Baltimore
2009-2011 MICA, Professional Development Committee
2005-2007 MICA Cultural Expansion Committee
2003-2005 MICA, Academic Advisor, Foundations Department, part-time
1997 Gallery assistant; University Gallery, University of Maryland at College Park
1997 Installation Art; organized and presented a two-day panel discussion for art faculty and students at University of Maryland
1995–97 Independent artist curator; working in collaboration with two artists to organize a series of exhibitions—wrote proposals and grant
1996 Panel participant; Artist Initiated Exhibitions, International Sculpture Conference, Providence, RI
1996 Lecture, Artist Initiated Exhibitions, Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Washington, DC and George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
1995 Administrator; Seductive Matter/Sensual Form; a regional sculpture exhibition at the Hemicylce Gallery, Corcoran Museum, Washington, DC. Included procuring sites and funding for catalogue and curator
1993 Lecture, Understanding What It Means to Be; The Art and Life of Clyde Connell, delivered to docents, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and to Washington Sculptors Group
1991 Lectures and discussions about the work of Jackson Pollock and Louise Bourgoise to docents, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1990 The Evolution of a ‘Presence’ in the Art of Clyde Connell, thesis, LSUS
1985–89 Executive Director; Stoner Arts Center, Shreveport, LA
1984–85 Coordinator; Louisiana State University Gallery, Shreveport
• • • COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
2003 Assessment Committee, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2000 Grant Writer, Washington Sculptors Group, Washington, DC
1993–96 Board Member and grant writer; Washington Sculptors Group
1995–98 Exhibition Committee; Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
1986 Founding Member; Art in Action, Shreveport, LA
••• PRESS
Banks, Anne, Koan, Washington, DC, June,1993
Barry, Mark, Inside/Out @Evergreen, ionarts.org, May 8, 2006
Burns, Laura, Luminosity of Space, exhibition brochure, January 2000
Burchard, Hank, Washington Square’s Startling Sculptures, The Washington Post, December 17, 1993
Giuliano, Mike, Space Invaders, Different Rooms With Different Views at School 33, Baltimore City Paper, April 14, 1999
Hamilton, Megan, Elusive Source, Washington Review, June/July 1995
Hileman, Kristen, RE:Collect, exhibition brochure, November 1999
Howell, George, Art Papers, Volume 20, January/February, 1996
Jenkins, Mark, “Katherine Kavanaugh’s Flux: Water and Sound at visarts”, Washington Post, September 20, 2012
Kotz, Liz, Critic-in-Resident statement, Washington Review, February/March 1995
McNatt, Glenn, Outsider Art, The Baltimore Sun, May 28, 2006
Nelson, Julie, Offering at School 33, Articulate, January/February 1997
O’Sullivan, Michael, Sculpture in Four Dimensions, The Washington Post, July 23, 2004
Turner, Lisa; Making Sense of Memories, Miami Herald, Miami, FL, December 5, 1999
WETA -TV, Washington, DC public TV, Around Town, installation footage, January 8,1995
WYPR – The Signal, Inside/Outside, Sculpture at the Evergreen, an interview with Lisa Morgan, May 2, 2006 and rebroadcast August 2006
WYPR – Maryland Morning with Tom Hall, Congregate at MICA, September 11, 2013 http://programs.wypr.org/podcast/congregate
