EDUCATION

1979 The University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of Journalism

PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES

1999 Master Workshop: Duane Michals, Santa Fe Workshops
1998 The Project Workshop: Sam Abell, Santa Fe Workshops
1996 Toscana Photographic Workshops: Chris Rainier and Mark Haven; Keith Carter, 2000
1996 Alternative Non Darkroom Processes: Marilyn Sward, Southwest Craft Center
1995 Discovering the Intuitive: Larry Fink, Santa Fe Workshops
1994 Oaxaco Workshop: John Szarkowski, Geoff Winningham & Debbie Fleming Caffrey, her Americas
1993 Discovering the Intuitive: Larry Fink, Maine Photographic Workshops
1993 The Handmade Photograph: Elizabeth Opalinek, Maine Photographic Workshops
1993 Advanced Darkroom Workshop: Joe Englander, Workshops in the West

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2006 International Photography Awards (Lucie’s): 1st Place, 2nd Place, Honorable Mention(2)
2005 Who’s Who in America
Golden Light Award, Honorable Mention, Projects
2004 Finalist, Critical Mass Competition, Portland, OR
2003 Honorable Mention, Fellowship Competition, Silver Eye Center for Photography
2003 Laity Lodge, Texas, Church & Home (Solo Exhibit)
2003 Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas, Inside/Outside: Texas Women Photographers
2003 Concordia University, Austin, Texas, Divergences
2003 Arthouse, Austin, Texas, 5 x 7 x X
2003 Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, Sunny Side Up
2000 Best of Show & Purchase Prize, Photoview Invitational, Longview Museum of Fine Art
2000 Second Place, Pbotowork 2K, Barrett House Gallery
1999 Honorable Mention, Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts Project Competition
1999 Who's Who in American Women, Marquis
1999 Honorable Mention, Houston Center forPbotograpby Grants Competition
1999 Honorable Mention, Governor's Exhibition, Texas Photographic Society, Austin, Texas
1998 Who's Who in American Women, Marquis
1998 Honorable Mention, Santa Fe Center for VisualArts Project Competition
1998 Juror's Choice, Best Title, and Third Place, Viewpoint, Clifton, Texas
1997 Who's Who in American Women, Marquis
1996 Best of Show, 5th Annual Governor's Exhibition, Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, Texas
1996 Juror's Commendation, Photoview, Longview Art Museum, Longview, Texas
1996 First Place, Viewpoint 1996, Clifton, Texas
1996 Second Place, Viewpoint 1996, Clifton, Texas
1995 Honorable Mention, State of the Art National Juried Competion, Ithaca, New York
1995 Grand Award, Governmental Relations Programs, Projects and Special Events, Council
for the Advancement and Support of Education, Region IV
1994 Honorable Mention, Photographers’ Forum
1994 Honorable Mention, Phoenix Gallery Annual Juried Competition
1994 Featured Artist, Expo XIII
1994 Honorable Mention, Fourth Annual Prints and the Paper Competition, San Diego
1992 Honorable Mention, Photographers’ Forum
1992 Local History Project Grant (Texas Historical Commission), The Views of my Family: OneHundred Years of Photographs in Liberty County, project director

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008 Whispering Walls, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2007 Of A Place, Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas
2006 Still Life, Rudolph Projects Gallery; Houston
Methodist Hospital
2005 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Group Show in Conjunction with “Billow & Fold”
Annual group exhibit of Austin artists at Austin City Hall, Texas
The Material Image: Surface & Substance in Photography; Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY
One Square Foot; Mark Woolley Gallery; Portland, OR
Place – Photographs from the Collection; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center; University of Texas; Austin (Curator: David Coleman)
The Matter of Devotion: Art as the Link between Worship and Work; University of Houston (Curator: Ginger Geyer)
2004 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Summer Group Show
Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, Inside/Outside: Texas Women Photographers, curated by Anne Tucker & Clint Willour
Austin City Lofts, Austin, Texas, Off Site/On Target
2003 Laity Lodge, Texas, Church & Home (Solo Exhibit)
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas, Inside/Outside: Texas Women Photographers
Concordia University, Austin, Texas, Divergences
Arthouse, Austin, Texas, 5 x 7 x X
Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, Sunny Side Up
Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburg, Fellowship 2003
2002 Texas State Capitol, Austin, Texas, From Of A Place (Solo Exhibit)
Northlight Gallery, Tempe, Southwestern Photography
Rudolph Projects, Houston, Texas, Gallery Artists/Fotofest
Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas, Inside/Outside: Texas Women Photographers
Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas, Inside/Outside: Texas Women Photographers
Photographic Resource Center Juried Exhibition; Boston
Concordia University, Austin, Texas, Chairs
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas, HCP Juried Membership Exhibition
Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, Photography: The Creative Imperative
Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas, 5 x 7 x X
Episcopal Theological Seminary, Austin, Texas, Tragedy and Transformation
2001 Contemporary Arts Center, Abilene, Texas, Of a Place (Solo Exhibit)
SRO Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, Of a Place (Solo Exhibit)
Except for Memory, SRO Gallery, Texas Tech University; Lubbock, Texas (Solo Exhibit)
d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Summer Show
Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas, Of a Place (Solo Exhibit)
Breckenridge Museum of Art; Breckenridge, Texas, Of a Place (Solo Exhibit)
Arles, France and touring Europe, Recontres Internationales de la Photographie (RIP)
Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, Texas, Invitational: Spirituality and Creativity
Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas, 5 x 7 x X
Rudolph Projects, Houston, Texas, Daily Life
Houston, Texas, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Art
Paisano Hotel, Marfa, Texas, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Art
2000 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Anna Held Audette and Laura Pickett Calfee
Portland, Oregon, PhotoAmericas; Director’s Choice
Longview Museum of Art, Longview, Texas, Of a Place (Solo Exhibit)
Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, Islands of Order: A Decade of Collecting (Curator: Roy Fluckinger, Senior Curator)
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences Juried Competition (Juror: Darcie Alexander, Curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Houston Center for Photography Member’s Exhibition (Juror: Ellen Handy, International Center for Photography)
Longview Museum of Art, Longview Invitational (Juror: Peter Hay Halpert)
Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, Texas, Photo Derived Works (Curator: Sean Rudolph)
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York, 24/7 Waking Breaking Making (Juror: Barbara Millstein, Brooklyn Museum of Art)
Shutters, The University of Dallas; Dallas (three person)
Image 2000 Invitational, ArtCentre of Plano, Plano, Texas
5 x 7 x X, Jones Center, Austin
Governor’s Exhibition, Texas Photographic Society, touring
Nexus Gallery, New York, Photograpby 2000 (Curator: Robin Rice, Robin Rice Gallery)
Barrett House Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, Photowork 2K (Juror: Michael Sand, Aperture)
Art Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, Arizona, Director's Cboice (Curator: Gregg Mankiller)
Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, Texas, Gallery Artists (Curator: Sean Rudolph)
1999 Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas, Of a Place (Solo Exhibit)
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, Except for Memory (Solo Exhibit)
Southwest School of Arts and Craft, San Antonio, Texas From “Of a Place” (Solo Exhibit)
Flatbed Press Gallery, Austin, Texas, PhotoAustin99 (Curators: Mark L. Smith, Neil Coleman)
Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas, Curator's Cboice (Juror: Suzanne Weaver, Curator, Dallas Museum of Art)
'/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas, Vision in Light (Curator: Margo Sawyer, The University of Texas at Austin)
Governor’s Exhibition, Austin, Texas (Juror: Peter Hay Halpert)
All That Remains, Columbus, Texas (Curator: Sean Rudolph, Rudolph Poissant Gallery)
Barrett House Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, Photowork 99 (Juror: Howard Greenberg, Howard Greenberg
Gallery, New York)
Photo Archives Gallery, Dallas, Texas Pbotographic Society Members’ Only Show (Juror: Maria Theresa Pedroche,
Curator, Meadows Museum)
1998 Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, Texas, Except for Memory (Solo Exhibit)
Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, Texas, Governor’s Exhibition (Juror: Steve Yates, Director, Santa Fe Museum of Art)
Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, New York, Pbotowork 98 (Juror: Lisa Dennison, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Guggenheim Museum)
St. Edwards Gallery, Austin, Texas, Texas Photographic Society Members’ Only Show (Juror: Jeffrey Hoone, Light Work)
Bosque County Conservatory of Fine Art, Clifton, Texas, Viewpoint (Juror: Steve Goff, professor, Odessa College)
1997 1600 Smith at Cullen Center, Houston, Texas, The Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art (Juror: David A. Ross, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art)
Phoenix Gallery, New York, Phoenix Gallery National Juried Competition (Juror: Laura Hoptman, Assistant Curator, Museum of Modem Art)
Texas Photographic Society, San Antonio, Texas, Sixth Annual Governor’s Exhibition (Juror: Arthur Ollman,
Director, Museum of Photographic Arts)
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, Shepherd College 8th Annual Photo Exhibit
Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, Texas, Horace Caldwell Competition (Juror: Geri Hooks, President, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston)
Mayfair Gallery, Austin, Texas, The Zedler House (Solo Exhibit)
Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, Tennessee, Positive Negative 12 (Juror: Ned Rifkin, Director, High Museum of Art)
Texas Photographic Society, Austin, Texas, Members’ Only Exhibition (Juror: Charles Stainback, Director, International Center for Photography)
Texas Historical Society, Photograph Texas, touring (Juror: Mark Klett, MFA)
Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, The Dishman Competition (Juror: Sally Sprout, Sally Sprout Gallery, Houston)
San Marcos Fine Arts Center, San Marcos, Texas, Ephemeral Truths Concept/Reality (Juror: Jean Caslin, Director and Curator, Houston Center for Photography)
Beaumont Art League, Beaumont, Texas, TriState Plus (Juror: Fred Samuelson, MFA)
PRC, Boston, Massachusetts, Photographic Resource Center Members Exhibition (Juror: Catherine Edelman, Director of the Edelman Gallery, Chicago)
1996 Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, New American Talent: The 12tb Exhibition, touring (Juror: Lisa Phillips, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art)
Mayfair Gallery, Austin, Texas, Tuscany Revisited (Solo Exhibit)
Texas Photographic Society, San Antonio, Texas, 5tb Annual Governor's Exbibition (Juror: Roy Flukinger, Senior Curator, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Photography Collection, The University of Texas)
Godwin Ternbach Museum, Flushing, New York, 8 x 10 Contemporary American Photograpbers (Curator: Jerald Green, Director)
Longview Museum of Art, Longview, Texas, Photoview Invitational (Juror: Roy Flukinger, Senior Curator, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Photography Collection, The University of Texas at Austin)
Clifton, Texas, Viewpoint 1996: Bosque County Conservatory of Fine Art Competition (Juror: DJ Stout, Art Director, Texas Monthly)
Image Gallery, Longview, Texas, Polaroid Transfers (Curator: Rufus Lovett)
Neindorf Gallery, Austin, Texas, Texas Photographic Society Members’ Only Exhibition (Juror: Barbara McCandless, Curator of Photography, Amon Carter Museum)
Slover McCutcheon Gallery, Houston, Texas, Do Your Own Tbing (a Fotofest Exbibit) (Curator: Sean Rudolph)
1995 Texas Department of Agriculture, Austin, Texas, Small Scenes (Solo Exhibit)
Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, The Art of Pbotograpby 95 (Juror: Robert Smolowitz, New York)
Humphries Cultural Center, Liberty, Texas, Common Places Rare Moments (Solo Exhibit)
Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, New York, Directions 95 (Juror: Matthew Drutt, Associate Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
State of the Art Galery, Ithaca, New York, State of the Art National Juried Competition (Juror: Matthew Armstrong, Associate Curator, Johnson Museum, Cornell University)
Mayfair Gallery, Austin, Texas, Interiors and Still Lifes (Solo Exhibit)
Slover McCutcheon Gallery, Houston, Texas, All That Remains (Curator: Sean Rudolph)
Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, Louisiana, 14th Annual Competition (Juror: William Fagaly, Assistant Director for Art, New Orleans Museum of Art)
Beaumont Art League, Beaumont, Texas, TriState Plus (Juror: The Art Guys)
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California, Artists’ Council 26th Annual Juried Exhibition (Juror: Henry T. Hopkins, Director, Armand Hammer Museum)
Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas, Illuminance (Juror: Jean Caslin, Executive Director, Houston Center for Photography)
Dishman Art Gallery, Beaumont, Texas, The Dishman Competition (Juror: Roni McMurtrey, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston)
1994 Phoenix Gallery, New York, Phoenix Gallery National Juried Competition (Juror: Diane Waldman, Deputy Director
and Senior Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
Alder Gallery, Eugene, Oregon, Le Petitie II (Juror: Gunilla Finrow, University of Oregon, Director of Interior Architecture)
San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California, Fourth Annual Prints and the Paper Juried Competition (Juror: Terrie Sultan, Curator of Contemporary Art, Corcoran Museum of Art)
CAC, North Adams, Maine, Contemporary Artisits Center All Media Exhibition (Jurors: Clare Bell, Assistant
Curator, Guggenheim Museum and Ivan Karp, Director, OK Harris Gallery)
Hill Country Fine Arts Association, Ingram, Texas, Counterpoint: 26th Annual National Juried Drawing,
Photography and Printmaking Exhibition (Juror: Dr. Angelika Jansen, Jansen-Perez Gallery)
Sacramento Fine Arts Center, Sacramento, California, Magnum Opus VII International Open Exhibition (Juror: Van
Waldron, Artist, UC-Berkeley)
Northport/B.J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, New York, Expo XIII, Northpoint/B.J. Spoke Gallery Juried Competition (Juror: Phyllis Braff, art critic, The New York Times)
Roland Jones Memorial Gallery, Clifton, Texas, Viewpoint 1994: Bosque County Conservatory of Fine Arts Juried
Photography Show (Juror: June Van Cleef, Professor of Photography, Collin County College)
Beaumont Art League, Beaumont, Texas, TriState Plus Annual Juried Fine Art Exhibition (Juror: Charles Hooks, Hooks Epstein Gallery, Houston)
Sweetish Hill on Congress, Austin, Texas, Scenes of Tuscany (Solo Exhibit) (Curator: Barbara Hagen, MFA)
2nd Annual Governor's Exhibition, Texas Photographic Society; Austin
REVEL•ation: Emerging Artists Exhibition, West Third Street Gallery; Austin
1993 Apple Annie's, Austin, Texas, Castlenuovo Tancredi (Solo Exhibit) (Curator: Neil Coleman, Pro-Jex Gallery)
Texas Photographic Society, Wunderlich Gallery, Austin, Texas, Second Annual Governor’s Exhibition (Juror: D. J. Stout, Art Director, Texas Monthly)
Hill Country Arts Foundation, Ingram, Texas, COUNTERPOINT: 25th Annual National Juried Drawing,
Photography and Printmaking Exhibition (Juror: Roy Flukinger, Curator, photography collection, The University of Texas)
West Third Street Gallery, Austin, Texas, REVEL•ation: Emerging Artists Exhibition
West Third Street Gallery, Austin, Texas, Texas Photographic Society Members Only Exhibition (Juror: Ernest Brooks, Brooks Institute

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2000 Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, “Works Brushed by Mood, Melancholy”, Austin American-Statesman, 28 October.
Joan D’Arcy, “The Shutter’s Dramatic Precision”, Woodstock Times, 20 April.
1998 Catherine D. Anspon, "Fotofest in the Galleries: Ten of Note" Public News, 4 March.
1997 Michael Barnes, "Ranking Austin's Visual Artists" Austin American-Statesman, 10 April.
1996 Madeline Irvine, "Artistic License" Austin American-Statesman, 10 June.
1994 Helen A. Harrison, "Depicting Passion, in Its Many Guises and Garbs," The New York Times, 20 March.
Elizabeth Wix, "Provocative and Lyrical Meditations," Newsday, 18 March.
1991 Burt Supree, "Liberty Belle," The Village Voice, 19 February.
Jack Anderson, "Memories of Life and Language in a Small Texas Town," The New York Times, 19 January.

PUBLICATIONS

2004 The O.Henry Prize Stories, Laura Furman, ed
2000 Image 2000, Plano Art Center (catalog)
2000 Photography Quarterly, Center for Photography at Woodstock, October
2000 Invitational Winners’ Exhibit (catalog), Longview Museum of Fine Art
2000 Texas Photographic Society 9th Annual Governor’s Exhibition (catalog)
1999 Newsletterfor the Photographic Artist, Calumet, Summer
1999 OfA Place, Women & Their Work (catalog)
1999 Blue Sky #26 (catalog)
1999 The Photo Review, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, Summer
1998 Newsletter for the Photographic Artist, Calumet, Volume #8
1998 The Photo Review, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, Summer
1997 Heritage, Texas Historical Foundation, Fall
1997 PbotoAmericas (catalog)
1996 NewAmerican Talent, Texas Fine Arts Association (catalog)
1996 8 x 10 Contemporary American Photography, Queens College, CUNY (catalog)
1996 Pbotoview, Longview Art Museum (catalog)
1995 Alexandria Museum of Art September Competition, Alexandria (LA) Museum (catalog)
1994 Best qf Pbotograpby Annual. 1994 (Photographers’ Forum)
1992 Best of Photography Annual 1992 (Photographers’ Forum)

ORGANIZATIONS

Texas Photographic Society, board member
Texas Fine Arts Association
Houston Center for Photography
Women & Their Work, board member

PRODUCTIONS

1993 Capitol Report, "The Attorney General," and "View from the Gallery," moderator, KUHT-TV, Houston
1991 Chicken Tawk, co-author, a dance/theater production performed at Dia Center for the Arts, New
York
1989 Capitol Report, executive producer, produced by KUHT-TV, Houston and broadcast throughout
the state (ongoing)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1992 – Assistant Vice Chancellor for Governmental Relations, University of Houston System
1987-92 Special Assistant for Governmental Relations, University of Houston System
1983-87 Committee Coordinator, Texas House of Representatives
1977-83 Assistant to the Director, Legislative Division of the Texas House of Representatives
1973-77 Committee Clerk, Texas House of Representatives

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Fine Art Houston
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Photography Collection, The University of Texas
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
Longview Museum of Art
Texas Midcontinent Oil and Gas Corporation, Austin
Edie Brickell and Paul Simon Collection, New York
Barbara McCandless, Fort Worth
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, Austin
Honorable William P. Hobby Collection, Houston
Various private collections
The University of Texas at Dallas
The White House