Artist Bio

I have been creating most my life.  I studied painting as an undergraduate student at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas where I received my BFA.  Then received my MFA in painting at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.  I taught at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana and at Columbus College of Art & Design in Columbus, Ohio.  And finally, I taught for over thirty years at the University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point where I received the University's Excellence in Teaching Award and also the Excellence in Scholar Award (for my artist-in-residency activities and my extensive exhibition record). I am now a Professor Emerita from that university, and an advocate and activist for the arts. 

 

I have had the honor of being selected to more U.S. National Parks as their artist-in-resident than any other artist:  residencies include, twice at Rocky Mountain National Park, Denali National Park, Hawaii Volcanoes, and nine other parks.  Other residencies include Jentel in Wyoming, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Temecula, California, ART/OMI in Ghent, New York, Limnology Center in Villas County, Wisconsin, Brydcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, New York, and residencies in Cortona and Assisi, Italy and in Valence, France with the Franco-American Exchange.