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A sixth-generation Iowan, I was born in Cedar Rapids in 1978 and raised in Iowa City. I spent the first five years of my life in grad school with my mom, who earned a metalsmithing MFA in 1983. For college, I moved to Lawrence, Kansas but had important sojourns to New Mexico, Costa Rica and Spain. After earning degrees in journalism and environmental science in 2002, I relocated to the Los Angeles area, where I eventually went back to school in art. Counting my childhood, by my MFA graduation in 2010 I will have spent eight years in graduate school.

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2010 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles
2005–06 Special studies in art, California State University Long Beach
2003–05 Continuing education in art, Pasadena City College
2002 BS in journalism, BA in environmental science, The University of Kansas

>> exhibitions

2009
Greater LA MFA Exhibition, California State University, Long Beach
College Art Association Los Angeles MFA Exhibition, curated by Alex Klein,
   USC Roski Gallery, Los Angeles

2008
Greater LA MFA Exhibition, California State University, Long Beach

2006
Post-Postcard Show, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Insights 2006: The Annual Student Art Exhibition, University Art Museum,
   California State University, Long Beach

2005
September Show, The Hear Gallery, Los Angeles
Scholarship Show, Pasadena City College Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2004
kilnopening.edu, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA

>> curatorial

2008
Group Effort: Collaboration as Form and Process, Wight Biennial 2008, Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles

>> awards

2009 Elaine Krown Klein Award, University of California, Los Angeles
   Matthias Denny Award, University of California, Los Angeles
   Hoyt Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles
2008 Hyman Eugene Oxman Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles
2007 Laura Andreson Ceramics Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles
2006 Fine Arts Affiliates Scholarship, California State University, Long Beach
2005 Art Department Scholarship, Pasadena City College