(LTC 8900 Spring 2015) Assignment week 1: Introduction

Welcome All,

I am a third year Masters of Fine Art candidate in Fiber/Sculpture and a Masters of Education in Art Education candidate in K-12 Certification. This year I will be working as a Graduate Research Assistant in the International Teaching Assistant Program for the Department of Research and Graduate Studies. I also work part time as an instructor for the Craft Studio in the Department of Student Government (MSA/GPC Student Life) at the University of Missouri-Columbia. For the last three years, I have been an Instructor of Record in Beginning and Intermediate Fiber in the College of Arts and Sciences in the Art Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. I loved teaching college students who wanted to learn and share ideas in art. I will miss them, but I have the opportunity to work with different groups now that I am working on my ME.d. I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio Art from Mississippi University for Women in Studio Art and an Associate of Arts from Northeast Mississippi Community College.

I was born and raised in South Ogden, Utah.  I have lived in Nevada, Mississippi and Missouri. I have had the opportunity to travel most of the United States and have been to Scotland.  I have been married for over 30 years and we have three grown children and three grandchildren. My artwork has been a way to give a voice to those feelings inside my soul.  I have shown my artwork in Utah, Mississippi, Missouri, Texas, Edinburgh, Scotland, Belfast, Ireland and Norwich, England.  It has also been published in Surface Design Journal, Maneater, Tribune, The Dilettanti Literature and Fine Art Magazine, Sketchbook Kappa Pi, and on the Daryl Corner Ch 19.

I had my thesis exhibition in November of 2014 and I’m just finishing my thesis. I will graduate this May of 2015 with my MFA in art studio.  I am now working on a new body of work for an exhibition that will be in March in Columbus, Mississippi.  I’m always thinking about my next creation of art and how it will make the observer think, even if for just a moment.