Curriculum Vitae

 

EDUCATION:

2012 M.F.A. Painting/Drawing, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN      

2007 B.F.A. Painting/Drawing, Summa Cum Laude, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ       

2006 - 2007 Academie Minerva, Hanzehogeschool, Groningen, the Netherlands

TEACHING and PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2012 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

2010- 2012 Graduate Teaching Associate, School of Art, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

2009- 2012 Teaching Assistant, School of Art, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

2007- 2009 Staff, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ

2008 Instructor of Record, Drawing, Northern Arizona University School of Art, Flagstaff, AZ

 

CITATIONS & PUBLICATIONS:

2012 New American Paintings, No. 100, South Issue, Book Art Press

2009 The NOISE (arts and culture monthly)

2009 Flagstaff LIVE (arts and culture weekly)

2007 New Art International, Book Art Press

2007 1907-2007 Groninger Pluimvee Club Verjaardagskalender
(calendar)

 

SELECT HONORS & AWARDS:

2012 University of Tennessee Ewing Gallery Purchase Prize

2012 Jerry’s Artarama of Knoxville Annual Competition Material Award

2011 Nomination for the Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Art Fellowship

2011 Best in Show (Graduate Division), Juried Student Show, University of Tennessee

2010 Terry Burnette Memorial Residency/Internship Award

2009 Herman E. Spivey Fellowship, the University of Tennessee Graduate School

2008 Bold Expressions 53rd Annual Competition: The Jack Richardson Silver Brush Award and a Merit Award

2008 Audubon Award, (Daler-Rowney Art Materials Award)

2006 Whiteman Endowment for the Arts Scholarship

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2012 “Object, Object, Item, Space”, MFA Thesis Exhibition, UTK Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN

2010 ‘Nancy Drew,’ (in collaboration with Guen Montgomery) Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN

2009 ‘Eleanor Aldrich: Oil Paintings,’ Faktor Traktor for Showspace Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2008-2009 ‘Paintings by Emerging Artist Eleanor Aldrich,’ Beaver Street Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ

2007 ‘Anthology,’ Bachelors of Fine Arts Exhibition, NAU Beasley Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ

 

SELECT JURIED EXHIBITONS:

2011 ‘Mid-America Juried Art Exhibition,’ Southeast Arts Council, Cape Giradeau, MO

2010 ‘50th Annual Dogwood Arts Festival,’ Knoxville, TN

2008 'Decay', Sixth Street Gallery, Vancouver, WA

2008 '53rd Annual International Exhibition' Northern California Arts and the Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Carmichael CA

2008 ‘66th Annual Juried Show,’ Audubon Artists National, New York, NY

2008 ‘Ninth Annual Shippensburg University National Exhibition,’ Shippensburg, PA

2001 ‘Santa Fe International Doll Art Show,’ Santa Fe, NM

 

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2010 ‘Sauce’, Curated by Ezra Johnson, Bearden Beer Market, Knoxville, TN

2009 'Estimated Sum', Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN

2008 ‘NAU Faculty Art Exhibition,’ NAU Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ

2007 ‘Groninger Pluimvee Club 100 Jaar Expositie’, (invitational traveling exhibit), Provinces of Groningen and Friesland, the Netherlands

 

SELECT COLLECTIONS:

The Whiteman Collection, Scottsdale, AZ; Beaver Street Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ; The Northern Arizona University Permanent Print Collection, Flagstaff, AZ; Winkie Bulk, Groningen, the Netherlands; Alena Goldberg, Tempe, AZ; The Ewing Gallery, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

 

RELATED EXPERIENCE:

Visiting artist and guest lecturer (2012) at Roane State Community College, Harriman, TN

Essayist for ‘Continare’ (2010), an exhibition at the Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Guest juror and public lecturer at Carter Public Schools Art Night (2011) and Student Exhibition, Carter, TN

Experience teaching private drawing and violin lessons to high-school aged students.