Education
2010 MFA, Jewelry/Metalsmithing, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2007 BFA, Visual Studies (art education) cum laude, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Professional Experience
2016- Studio Manager and Professor of Metals
present Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2011- Co-director and Resident Artist
2017 Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Exhibitions
2020 Metal Complexions; Jung Center, Houston, TX; Juror: Anna Walker
2019 Dream Machine; Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
CraftForms 2019; Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA; Juror: Jane Milosch
Transformation: The Scarab; Equinox Gallery, San Antonio, TX
SSA Faculty Show Triennial; Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
Cornucopia: Exhibit in Motion; Equinox Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Aurum: The Golden Year: Society of North American Goldsmiths, Chicago, IL
Red Dot; Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX
Drawing Down; Baltimore Jewelry Center; Baltimore, MD
Drawn; Manifest Gallery; Cincinnati, OH
Affinity; Longview; San Antonio, TX
CRaSS; Brick Gallery; San Antonio, TX
Not-So-Lone Star Studios: A Gathering of Texas Makers; Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; San Jacinto College, Houston, TX; UTEP, El Paso, TX
2018 Refined; Reavley Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX; Juror: Perry A. Price
VisionMakers 2018; 108 Contemporary, Tulsa, OK; Juror: Emily Zibler
Not-So-Lone Star Studios: A Gathering of Texas Makers; Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, TX
Fifth Annual Artspace 111 Regional Juried Exhibition; Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX; Juror: Christina Rees
Objects of Protection; MADE 2018 SNAG Conference, Portland OR
Red Dot; Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX
Women’s Works; Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock, IL
2017 Craft Action: Genre Bending; Media Lounge, New York, NY; Curators: Marilyn Zapf and Gupta Wiggers
Handcrafted 2017; Maria V, Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC
Crossing Borders: Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Critical Mass; Russell Hill Rodgers Gallery, The Southwest School of Art, San Antonio< TX
Interconnectedness; Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2016 Spirit and Matter; Jung Center, Houston, TX; Juror: Andy Cooperman
Mélange: New works by Annie Pennington, Jillian Palone and Sarah T. Roberts; Clamp Light Artist Gallery, San Antonio, TX
One-Night Stand; The Lullwood Group, San Antonio, TX
Exhibition in Motion; SNAG Conference, Asheville, NC
#Clamplife: works by Clamp Light Resident Artists; Freight Gallery, San Antonio, TX
In Line (two person exhibition); Gallery 20/20, San Antonio, TX
On and Off Fredericksburg Exhibition; Bihl Haus Arts, San Antonio, TX
Something from Another (solo exhibition); Freight Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2015 Art Jewelry: Strong Voices; Dedee Schattuck Gallery, Westport, MA; Jurors: Kerianne Quick, Renee Zettle-Sterling, Elizabeth Williams
All School Exhibition; Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
To Raise the Darken’d Veil (solo exhitibion); Clamp Light Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Ocho; Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA
On and Off Fredericksburg Exhibition; Bihl Haus Arts, San Antonio, TX
2014 Dia de los Muertos; Equinox Gallery, San Antonio, TX
I am what you want me to be (solo exhibition); Clamp Light Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Works by Three; St. Mary’s University, San Antonio TX Curator: Brian St. John
Clamp Light @ Fl!ght; Fl!ght Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Seven Minutes in Heaven; The Fox Motel, San Antonio, TX
On and Off Fredericksburg Exhibition; Bihl Haus Arts, San Antonio, TX
2013 Art-Hunger Group Show; Fort Worth Community Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
All-School Exhibition; Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
Something from Another (solo exhibition); PS102, San Antonio, TX Curator: Jessica Garcia
Clamp Light Resident Artists Exhibition; Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery, San Antonio, TX
On and Off Fredericksburg Exhibition; Bihl Haus Arts, San Antonio, TX
2012 Fray (solo exhibition); Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Fourth Annual Bracelet Show; Kathleen Sommers Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Bare: A Three-Woman Show; Comminos Studios, San Antonio, TX
Memories and Remembering (solo exhibition); Equinox Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Gardens of the Pitti Palace: Southwest School of Art Exhibition and Gala; Coates Chapel, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
Back from Loveland; Betz Art Gallery, Houston, TX Curators: Lori Betz and Jessica Jacobi
Contemporary Art Month Clamp Light Resident Artist Exhibition; Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery, San Antonio, TX
On and Off Fredericksburg Exhibition; Bihl Haus Arts, San Antonio, TX
2011 La Noche del Broche; Equinox Gallery, San Antonio, TX Curators: Alejandro Sifuentes and guest artists Jillian Palone, Gary Schott, and Laura Wood
2010 5th Biennial Ashes to Art; The Gallery at FUNERIA, Graton, CA
Real People; Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock IL, Juror: Greg Hertzlieb, Director/Curator of the Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, IN
Self-Searching: The Art of Self-Portraiture; On-line Gallery Annex, Vermont Photography Workplace, Middlebury, VT; Juror: Aline Smithson
Framed: An exhibition of fairly innocent jewelry; Winter Street Studios, Houston, TX
when at home alone I sit: MFA Thesis Exhibition; Landmark Arts Studio Gallery, Texas Tech University School of Art, Lubbock, TX, solo exhibition
eXtremities: Exploring the Margins of the Human Body; SNAG Conference, Jung Center, Houston, TX, Juror: Andy Cooperman
No Boundaries: SNAG Annual Juried Student Exhibition; SNAG Conference, Glassel School, Houston, TX, Jurors: Brigitte Martin, Director of Luke & Eloy Gallery, Pittsburgh and Founder-Editor of online social network Crafthaus; and Lena Vigna, Curator, Miami Museum of Art, Miami, Ohio
.emergence: TTU MFA Group Exhibition; Carr EFA Building, Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas
Presentations
2020 Artist Lecture, Houston Metal Arts Guild, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
2019 Artist Lecture: Texas Metals Symposium, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Bibliography
2019 Manifest Exhibition Annual; in press
2018 JaMS: Jewelry and Metals Survey II; Vol. 2 2018
Voyage Houston Magazine, Voyage Houston Interview. October 31, 2018
2017 KLRN Arts, PBS KLRN ARTS videos. April 13, 2017
2015 Graham, Page; Kegley, Tami. “Southwest School of Art All School Exhibition.” Glasstire, August 9, 2015.
2014 KLRN ARTS. ARTS. PBS. KLRN, San Antonio. March 21, 2014.
2013 Silva, Elda. “For Metalsmith, Art is a way to hold on and let go.” San Antonio Express News 15 February 2013: F1. Print.
2011 Rowe, Alan. Art Buzz The 2011 Collection. Art Buzz Publishing, p 98.
2010 Vermont Photography Workplace. Self-Searching: The Art of Self-Portraiture, Middlebury, VT: Blurb Books, 2010. p. 61
To give something so much away (6). 2010. Season of the Arts. Fall 2010. p. 5
I remember sometimes. 2010. 002 Houston magazine. Fall 2010. p. 8
Other Professional Activity
2017 Curator
Intersecting Boundaries: works by Kat Cole, Sarah Holden, Tova Lund, and Renee Zettle-Sterling
Adorned Spaces at SNAG New Orleans
Co-curator
Crossing Borders: a postcard show and fundraiser for RAICES Distant Transmissions by Christine Zuercher
2016 Co-curator
In Play by Michelle Thomas
Orientation: Unsure by Joshua McDevitt
Between the Void by Sarah Jamison
Not Even with a 10-Foot Pole by Moe Profane
Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2015 Co-curator
Heroes Are Less Heroic by J. Eric Simpson
Qualia Bacchanalia by Scotty Hensler
Picked Six: works by Grant Billingsley, James Chase, Kim Bishop, Delaney Smith, Gary Schott, and Jayne Lawrence
Trees and Branches by Quig Liu
God is Not Pleased Abominations by Albrechto Alvarez
Clamp Light Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2014 Co-curator, New Works by Jimena Marin y Enrique Guiterrez, Clamp Light Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2013 Curator, The Body is the Canvas: Works by Jessica Jacobi, Jillian Palone, and Laura Wood, Palmetto Center for the Arts, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, TX
Co-curator, Invited works by San Antonio Artists: Kristy Perez, Christy Blizzard, Jillian Palone, and Jason Eric Gonzalez
American of Mexican Origin: New Work 2013 by David Zamora Casas
Clamp Light Gallery, San Antonio, TX