biography
BORN
Portland, Oregon 
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

1983 MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1980 BS, (Painting), Portland State University, Portland, OR

SET DESIGNS
1996 - Irene Hultman Dance, "Cascade," Altogether Different, The Joyce Theater, New York, NY (January '96)
1992 - Irene Hultman Dance, "Red Cap," Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, NY (January '92), (toured: Dansens Hus (The House of Dance Foundation) Stockholm, Sweden (March '92)
1990-91 The Quartet, "lies revealed," Bessie Sch¿nberg Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY (November '90), (toured in '91:  "Holland Festival," Nieuwpoort Theater, Ghent, Belgium; "New York Time Festival," De Meervart Theater, Amsterdam, Holland; Hebbel Theater, Berlin, Germany)

AWARDS
1996 - The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
1995 - New School for Social Research, Project Development Grant
1993 - The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
1993 - New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant (sculpture)
1993 - Karuizawa Drawing Biennial
1993 - Purchase Prize, Wakita Museum, Japan
1993 - Sculpture Space, Residency, Utica, NY
1991 - Triangle Artists' Workshop, Residency, Pine Plains, NY
1990 - Yaddo, Resident Fellowship, Saratoga, NY
1989 - New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant (sculpture)
1988 - The Rockefeller Foundation, Resident Fellowship, The Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy
1988 - Yaddo, Resident Fellowship, Saratoga, NY
1987 - Pollock Krasner Foundation, Fellowship Grant
1987 - The MacDowell Foundation, Resident Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
1986 - National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship Grant (sculpture)
1984 - Edward Albee Foundation, Resident Fellowship
1983 - New York Artists in Residence Grant (NYS-AIR)
1982 - Graduate Fellowship, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (and '81)
1979 - Lucille S. Welch Memorial Scholarship, Portland State University, OR

VISITING ARTIST/CRITIC/PANELS
2008 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2007 Arizonia State University, Tempe, AZ
2007 DAC (Dumbo Arts Council), "Survivor: An Artists' Opportunity Workshop," panel moderator
2006 Rhode Island School of Design, RI
2006 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
2006 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2005 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2005 West Virginia Division of Culture, Juror, "Design, Sculpture & Installation" for the WV Fellowship Grant Program
2003 - Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2003 - University of Pennsylvania Academy, PA
2002 - Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, MI
2001 - Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2000 - University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Falk Visiting Artist
1999 - University of Pennsylvania Academy ,PA
1998 - Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
1998 - Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1996 - School for the Visual Arts, New York, NY
1996 - Rhode Island School of Design, RI
1996 - "Conversations with the Artists," Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ (panel with Lawrence Fane, Niki Ketchman, Monroe Denton, Charlotta Kotik. Buzz McCall as moderator)
1994 - Barnard College, New York, NY
1994 - Sculpture Center at Roosevelt Island, New York, NY (juror of sculpture competition)
1994 - Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1993 - The Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, NY
1993 - The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1993 - Portland State University, Portland, OR
1992 - Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1992 - The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1992 - The University of Akron, School of Art, Akron, OH
1992 - New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY
1992 - City College of New York, NY
1991 - New York University, New York, NY
1989 - Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (panel with Petah Coyne and Judith Shea. Douglas Dreisphoon as moderator)
1978 - State University of New York at Albany, NY
1988 - The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center, Bellagio, Italy
1988 - St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
1988 - Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1987 - Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
1987 - Art Council of Richmond, VA (juror of annual sculpture invitational)
1985 - The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (panel with Donald Lipski and Judy   Phaff. Charlotta Kotik as moderator)
1983 - Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

TEACHING
1997 - Present Sculpture Coordinator, Department of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1988 - Present Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1993 - 2005 Visiting Assistant, Professor, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY