PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

· 30 years reference librarian experience with diverse clientele

· 30 years teaching practice in executing classes, programs and staff training

EDUCATION

· MLS Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

· MFA University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

· BFA Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

· Academic Success Specialist (part-time)

· 2022 - 2023

· Research & Instruction Librarian (part-time)

· Davenport University

· Lansing, Michigan

· 2016 – 2021

· Library Director

· Olivet College

· Olivet, Michigan

· 2007 – 2010

· TEACHING EXPERIENCE

· Teaching Artist (part-time)

· Flint Institute of Arts Art School

· Flint, Michigan

· 2021 – 2023

· Teaching Artist

· Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center

· Lansing, Michigan

· 2011 –

· Teaching Artist, after school program

· Building 21, Journey Life Church

· Mason, Michigan

· 2022

OF SPECIAL NOTE

2024

Artist in Residence (September), Lakeside Inn, Lakeside, MI

Juror, 2024 Ingham Student Art Exhibit, Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center, Lansing, MI

Scholarship, Kevin’s Song 8th Annual Conference on Suicide, Kevins’ Song, Plymouth, MI

2023

“Earth Day, Birth Day!” community event on April 22, Red Cedor Friends Meeting, Lansing, MI

Scholarship, Quilt & Surface Design Symposium, Columbus, OH (2017 too)

JUROR, Youth Art Show, Delta Township District Library, Lansing, (2019, 2017, 2015 & 2013 too)

Postcard Salon Exhibition & Salon Sale, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI. (2020-2018 too)

2022

GRIT Grant, Arts Council of Greater Lansing, Lansing, MI

Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk (online talk), Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center, Lansing, MI

Get Inspired (online artist talk), Art Quilters Unlimited, Fort Myers, FL

2021

Minigrant Professional Development Grant, Michigan Council for Cultural Arts & Affairs (2018, 2015 & 2013 too)

2 designs published in “Calyx: Special Issue Celebrating the Centennial of the 19th Amendment,” (Summer/Fall, 2020), pp. 36-37

Make a Flag to Commemorate 20th Anniversary of 9/11, coordinator of volunteer project

2020

Organized and coordinated exhibition for Women’s Caucus for Art/Michigan Chapter;

“The 19th Amendment at 100: Women’s Voices Then and Now” in Detroit, MI

ARTpath, “Chain of Compassion” yarn bombing outdoor installation on Lansing River Trail, sponsored by Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center, Lansing, MI

2 designs in She Votes: 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Bonnie J. Smith, Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art, p.98-99

PRESENTATIONS & INSTRUCTION

2024

Palentine’s Day Crafts, Savvy Seniors Social Group, Delta Township, MI

2023

2 workshops for Art Alliance of Peckham Industries, hosted by Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center, MI

Make a Mandala, Grace Lutheran Church, Lansing, MI

Make a Recycled Book, DeWitt District Library, DeWitt, MI

1 image in Fall, 2023, issue; Qua Literary and Fine Arts Magazine, University of Michigan/Flint

2022

Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk (online talk), Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center, MI

Get Inspired! (online artist talk), Art Quilters Unlimited, Fort Myers, FL

Make Your Own Journal, Black Sheep Weavers Fiber Guild, Hartland, MI

Make an Inspiration Folder, SMARTS/Shiawassee Arts Center and Allen Neighborhood Center

2021

Make 9/11 Flags, Senior Discovery Hour, Allen Neighborhood Center, Lansing, MI

2020

Introduction to Zentangle®, Charlotte Community Library, Charlotte, MI

Make Simple Books on Voting Rights, Swords into Plowshares Peace Center & Gallery

2019

Making Simple Books I and II, Art Lab, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Make Bags for Helping Women Period, Delta Township District Library, Lansing, MI

Demonstration/Make a Recycled Basket, Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild, Ann Arbor

Paper Weaving, Simple Jewelry, and Creating Mandalas, All Faith Ministry for disABILITIES, East Lansing

EXHIBITIONS

2024

Ebullient, Continued, (solo show), University Art Department Gallery, Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, MI

2023

Michigan Made Holiday Art Exhibition, Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center, Lansing, MI. (2022, 2019, 2017, 2013-2014 too)

26th Annual Artist Member Show, Shiawassee Arts Center, Owosso, MI (2022 too)

Colors of Celebration and Love is in the Air, Art Williamston Art Gallery, Williamston, MI

It’s Not Easy Being Green and MMAG Photography Show, Neighborhood Empowerment Center, Lansing, MI

Faculty Show, Flint Institute of Arts Art School Gallery, Flint, MI (2022 too)

2022

It’s my Art Show! (solo show), Okemos Library, Okemos, MI

Autumn with Jane (solo show), The Bookend, Haslett Library, Haslett, MI

Word View, Art Inspiring Art and U-Create, LowellArts, Lowell, MI

Cling, Art Works, Eagan, MN.

The Illustrated Accordion (non-juried), Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, Kalamazoo, MI

Quilt Show, Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, MI

2021

Ebullient, (solo show), Fine Arts Gallery, Mott Community College, Flint, MI

Group Exhibition, Shiawassee Arts Center, Owosso, MI

Getaway and 35th Annual West Michigan Art Competition, LowellArts, Lowell, MI

XX: Women 2020, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Wilmington, NC

Women in Art, (online only), Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Art Contest, Michigan State University Broad Museum Art Lab, East Lansing, MI

Winter Introspection, Center City Art Display, NAMI Lansing, East Lansing, MI

2020

The 19th Amendment: Women’s Voices Then and Now, Swords into Plowshares Peace Center & Gallery, Detroit, MI. Also coordinated show for Women’s Caucus for Art/Michigan Chapter.

ARTpath, “Chain of Compassion,” (public art), Lansing Art Gallery & Education Center, MI

Women’s Centennial Celebration, Art Reach of Mid Michigan, Mt. Pleasant, MI

Women Speak 1920-2020, Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, IL

Call and Response, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI

Artist of the Month (online only), Third Place/May, TheArtList, TheArtList.com

Art in a Time of Coronavirus, Glen Arbor Arts Center, Glen Arbor, MI

Holiday Shop, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI

2019

Recycled Art Market, Right Brain Events, Grand Rapids, MI. (2017-2018 & 2012 too)

Alternative Holiday Sale, Peace Education Center, East Lansing (2015-2018 too)