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Education 2001 Master of Fine Arts
East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
1998 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cum Laude
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Selected
Exhibitions
2007 Transparent, The Granary, Fiskars, Finland (Invitational)
Like: an Experiment in Interpretation, The Suter, Nelson, New Zealand, (Invitational)
2006 spaces:bodies, Kingscott Gallery, Kalamazoo, Michigan, (Solo)
Sparkle Plenty 2, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, (invitational)
Golden Opportunity, Marx Saunders Gallery, Chicago, Illinois & The Brewery, London, England (invitational)
Glass/Wear, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Missouri, (Invitational)
Reinterpreting the Vessel, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, (Juried)
false:start, Gallery II, School of Art, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, (Solo)
Caroline Gore, Arcus Winter Garden, Arcus Foundation, Kalamazoo, Michigan, (Solo)
27th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibition, Mesa Contemporary Art Center, Mesa, Arizona, (Juried)
2005 Made in America, Bevier Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York (Invitational)
Biennial 23, Juror: Aron Packer, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana, (Juried)
Jewelry + Object, Michigan Silversmiths Guild, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, (Juried)
Resources: Steel, Rubber, Coal, and Salt, In conjunction with the 2005 SNAG Conference “Intersection”
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, (Juried)
2004 A Survey of Contemporary Jewelry, Chicago Metal Arts Guild, Mindscape Adornment, Evanston, Illinois, (Juried)
 “Stone/s: a piece of rock for a specific function” The Society for Midwest Metalsmiths, Emerson Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, (Juried)
2003 On the Edge, 9th Biennial Conference of the Enamellist Society
Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
Gallery Mack, Seattle, Washington
The Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, Oregon (Juried)

Color Has It, A Show of Contemporary Enamel Jewelry Art, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington (Invitational)
2001 The World Competition of Arts & Crafts Kanazawa 2001, Korinbo Daiwa, Kanazawa City, Japan, (Juried)
Through MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Arts Center, Kinston, North Carolina, (Solo)
Putting Things Together, Taking Things Apart, Two Person Show with Sara Dismukes
The Arts Center, Kinston, North Carolina, (Solo)

Lectures &
Workshops
Presented
2007 “Blurring Across FieldsSiting the Maker”
New Craft — Future Voices International Conference, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
“Endings and Beginnings” Artist Talk Kuparipaj(Copper Smithy), Fiskars Cooperative, Fiskars, Finland
2006 “Markings – Recent Work” Artists Talk
University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia

“Blurring the Field – Siting the Maker”
Carry the Can – Association of Contemporary Jewellery Conference
London Metropolitan University, London, England

Artist Talk Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy
Artist Talk Fuji Studios, Florence, Italy
“Spaces, Sculpture & the Body”
Panel member with Mark Edgoose, Melbourne, Australia, and Tracey Clement, Sydney, Australia
Paper presented entitled
“the blurring between sculpture and adornment - spaces:bodies”
Jewellers & Metalsmiths group of Australia Biennial Conference 2006
University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia

“Where does sculpture end and adornment begin?”
Post - Conference Workshop Jewellers & Metalsmiths group of Australia Biennial Conference 2006
University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia

Artist
Residencies
2008 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska, USA (May – July)
2007 The Artisans, Designers, and Artists Cooperative of Fiskars, Fiskars, Finland (April)
2006 Studio Art Centers International, Florence Italy (July)
Teaching
Posts
Present
- 2004
Assistant Professor of Art - Metals / Jewelry Area Coordinator
Western Michigan University, Gwen Frostic School of Art, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2004 -
2001
Instructor of Metalsmithing and Photography
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, Michigan