EDUCATION

Cranbrook Academy of Art MFA Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Massachusetts College of Art BFA with honors • Boston, MA

EXHIBITIONS

2025 Remain in Light Emily Trenholm

Ice House at Hopkins Gallery Wharf, Noth Haven Island- curated by

2023-present Corey Daniels Gallery, ongoing exhibiting artist, Wells ME

2024 Floating Worlds, Intersections of Art, Science and Poetry about the past artists in

residence at Bowdoin College’s Scientific Station on Kent Island, New Brunswick CA.

Zero Station Gallery Sept - Nov 2024

2022-24 Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle ME

2022 Compendium, (juror: Lauren Szumita), Curator, Fitchburg Art Museum • George

Marshall Store Gallery, York ME

2022 University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, ME Lives of the Jewelers curated by

Hilary Irons July- October 2022

2022 Home & Shelter, Exhibition with Barbara Sullivan Turtle Gallery,, Deer Isle, ME

2021 Flora • Gallery 263 (juror Mark Dion), Cambridge MA May- July 2021

2020 Fiore Art Residents, an exhibition of 2019 residents work, Maine Farmland Trust

Gallery Belfast Maine

2020 In Residence - Haystack Gallery, one of six invited to represent the 2019 Residents,

Deer Isle, ME

2020 Pickwick Studios, alumni portfolio on display, Portland Public Library

2020 Twenty Zero Station, Portland, Maine

2019 Intimate Universe solo exhibition - this exhibition was made possible with a grant by

the Maine Arts Commission, Zero Station, Portland, Maine

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Exhibitions continued…**Between 2007-2017 I held positions in architectural offices, was

the business manager for our gallery, was a caregiver so I did not pursue exhibition

opportunities at that time.

2006 Critical Mass: Metalsmithing Under Gary Griffin Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield

Hills, MI

2006 The Inspired Hand Invitational, University of Maine Museum in Lewiston, ME

2004-6 RINGS exhibition curated by Bob Ebendord, traveling to Velvet DaVinci in

SanFrancisco, CA • Shaw Gallery, Maine • Obsidian Gallery, AZ • Façere, WA • Gallery of

Art and Design, Raleigh, NC

2003 YAW Gallery at SOFA Chicago, & SOFA NYC

2003 New Work Invitational, Clark Gallery, Concord, MA

2002 PRIMARY exhibited and curated for Zero Station, South Portland, ME

2001 New Faces New Work and 101 Rings with catalog, travelled to SOFA Chicago, Yaw

Gallery, Birmingham, MI

2000 Precious Objects x 3 Mary Kanda, j.e. paterak & Claire Sanford at Carroll College,

Helena, MT

1999 Botanical Jewelry - Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA

1999 Pieces that Serve-Contemporary Silver (catalogue), YAW Gallery Birmingham MI,

traveling to SOFA Chicago

1999 Icons of the 20th Century Nancy Sachs Gallery, St Louis, MO

1998 New Views Susan Cummings Gallery, Mill Valley CA

1998 New Faces University of Maine Museum Orono, ME

1996-98 DeCordova Style Annual Fashion Exhibition DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA

1994 Biennial (with catalogue), Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne IN

1994 A Feast for the Eyes: The Art of Dining (catalogue), Invitational, Detroit Artists Market,

Detroit, MI

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ADDITIONAL EDUCATION

2016-18 Certificate Horticulture for Sustainable Ecology, Coastal Maine Botanical

Gardens, Boothbay Harbor, ME course work with Melissa Cullina, Doug Tallamy & Michael

Dirr among others

2014 of Virginia

Historic Landscape Institute Certification at Monticello, VA and the University

1988-89 Hungarian University of Fine Arts Independent post-grad studies, Budapest,

Hungary

1985 Cooper Union College of Arts and Sciences Semester exchange, New York, NY

Additional workshops and training at Haystack School, Penland, with metalsmiths: Pat

Flynn, Phil Fike, John Paul Miller, Michael Good, Gary Griffin, MiSook Hur, Barbara

Seidenath, Harlan Butt et al

RESIDENCIES

2024 Artist in Residence at Kent Island, Bowdoin Science Station in New Brunswick,

Canada

2021 Canterberry Shaker Village, Bee House residency, Canterberry NH

2020 Monson Arts, Artist in Residence Monson ME

2019 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME. .

2019 Joseph Fiore Art Center, Rolling Acres Farm Jefferson, ME an affiliate program managed through Maine Farmland Trust.

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2014 HewnOaks Residency Lovell, Maine

HONORS & AWARDS

2025 Rauschenberg Emergency Grant Competitive Funding for unexpected expenses

2020 Craft Apprentice Program Grant funded by Maine Arts Commission & Maine Craft

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2018-19 Project Grant Maine Arts Commission, partial grant for new body of work and

exhibition, Intimate Universe, June 2019

2000 Good Idea Grant Maine Arts Commission, ME

1998 Anderson Jurors Award Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, CO

1992-94 Robert P Daisley Merit Award Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI

1991 Mary Beason Bishop Award Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME

SELECT PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA Infinite Knowledge • acquisition 2007

Chodokorf Collection Detroit, MI Out of Context neckpiece • purchase1994

Bank of Boston, Boston MA • purchase 1985

Stephen and Tabitha King, Rumi locket necklace ME • purchase 1995

PUBLICATION:WRITING

Discovery; Fifty Years of Craft Experience At Haystack Mountain School of Craft

2004, Edited by Carl Little, essay and image

Metalsmith Review of J.Fred Woell at Élan Gallery, Rockland, Maine, 2005 Vol. 25 no 3

Metalsmith Studio Visit : Dan Jocz photos and text, 2004 Vol. 24 no 3

Metalsmith Review: From the Centre to the Edge, an exhibition at Maine College of Art -

ICA Gallery, Portland, ME, 2000 Vol. 20 no 5

Rescue Magazine Comparative Roses, using the pen name Lucia Ray, 2004

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CURATORIAL

From July 2021 I have been Curator and Gallery Directory at Zero Station. Reviews of

select shows can be found here https://www.zerostation.com/press

Hope Through Art Zero Station exhibition to benefit Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project

write-up by Bob Keyes for Maine Today, 2017

TopoPhilia Portland and Ways of Knowing Place Zero Station, exhibition and invitation to

present and have panel discussion with artists, Osher Map Library Portland, 2016

The Other Biennial plum, Portland, ME, article in Portland Press (PPH) by Bob Keyes, 2003

Primary Zero Station, South Portland, ME, reviewed by Phil Isaacson, for PPH, 2000

TEACHING/SPEAKING

Residency Juror, Monson Arts, 2025

Invited Visiting Artist for interdisciplinary class, Maine College of Art, 2025

Bowdoin College- invited panelist, moderated by Anne Collins Goodyear on Science,

Poetry and Art on Kent Island, 2024

Workshop taught at Kent Is. facilitated for Bowdoin College students (in residence), 2024

Maine College of Art Sabbatical replacement Metals Department 2023-24

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Metalsmithing workshops 2003-2022

Massachusetts College of Art, visiting artist Botany and Art, 2006

Maine College of Art Continuing Studies faculty1994-2001

Future Builders (alternative Education High School) Scarborough, ME,1994-96

PUBLICATIONS : BOOKS

500 Earrings Lark Books, Juried by Alan Revere, 2007

1000 Rings Lark books, Invited by Robert Ebendorf, 2004

Discovery; Fifty Years of Craft Experience At Haystack Mountain School of Craft

Invited by Stuart Kestenbaum and edited by Carl Little, 2004

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The Metalsmith’s Book of Boxes and Lockets Brynmorgen Press by Tim McCreight,

1999

Jewelry; Fundamentals of Metalsmithing Brynmorgen Press by Tim McCreight, 1997

PUBLICATIONS: MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS

Maine Boats and Homes - Monson Resident Artists by Carl Little, Summer 2021

Ornament featured article The Creative Endeavor by Carl Little, Summer 2002

Maine Sunday Telegram Featured article The Craft Question by Bob Keyes 4.27.2003

New England Craft Connoisseur A Trio of Jewelers Call the Shots, Winter 2003

Portfolio of Boston All that Glitters, Winter 2003

PUBLICATIONS: MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS (CONT.)

Metalsmith - Exhibition in Print Special Edition, 1996

American Craft Featured artist Gallery Section, Winter/Spring 2002

Ornament Crafts at the Castle Preview, 1999

American Craft Portfolio Artist, June/July 1998

TECHNICIAN

Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Various workshops, 1994 - 2004

Cranbrook Academy of Art Shop Tech, Metals Department under Gary Griffin, 1993-94

Massachusetts College of Art Print Shop Tech Assistant, 1985-1986

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2024 Design Inquiry- Solid Liquid Gas at High Meadows and Fallingwater, Mill Run PA

2014-2016 Certificate of Sustainable Ecology Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

2014 Certificate, Historic Landscape Institute at Monticello, VA and University of Virginia

2007-2009 Studied botany and landscape design at SMCC, South Portland ME

1994-2014 Haystack Mountains School of Craft, Maine Penland, North Carolina and

Metalwerx, Massachusetts - Workshops with master craftsman, goldsmiths and silversmiths

such as Harlan Butt, Michael Good, John Paul Miller, Pat Flynn, Barbara Seidenath, Mi Sook

Hur, Kate Wolf and others

ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Josselyn Botanical Society | inducted member since 2021, website creator

• Maine Mycological Association | member since 2015

• Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens | volunteer herbarium project 2014-2022

• Maine Crafts Association | professional member 2017-2224

• Society of North American Goldsmiths | member 1994-2021

• American Craft Council | member since 1994-2022

• Architalx | Advisory Board 2010-2018 Board Member |Vice President 2007-2010

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