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SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS & HONORS 
2012 Work included in Brooklyn Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: Feminist Art Base
2008 Artist Fellowship Grant, CT Commission on Cultural & Tourism
2008 Carol Eisner Award for Best Sculpture, 59th Annual Art of the Northeast,
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT (Juror, Thom Collins, Director, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY)
2008 “Emerging Artists: 10 Talents Turning Heads,” American Style, August issue
2008 2nd Prize, The Paradox of Water, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT (Juror, Mary Sabbatino, VP/Partner, Galerie LeLong, New York, NY)
2007 Selected Emerging Artist of 2007, Ceramics Monthly, May issue
2006 The Mollie and Albert Jacobsen Award for Sculpture, 57th Annual Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT (Juror, Ben Barzune, Senior Associate, Knoedler and Company, New York, NY)
2005 Juried Artist Member of Silvermine Guild of Artists, New Canaan, CT
2005 Selected Radius Emerging Artist, Curatorial Review and Exhibition, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2005 Second Prize: Sculpture, Spectrum, New Canaan Society for the Arts, New Canaan, CT (Juror, Douglas K.S. Hyland, Director, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT)
2003 Selected Winner, The Big Show, Westport Arts Center (Juror, Adam Weinberg, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY)


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 I Am She, Solo Exhibition, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan,CT
2007 Solos Exhibition, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT


SELECTED INVITATIONAL / SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 90th Anniversary Silvermine Artist Guild Exhibition, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2012 Women's History Month ExhibitionGE Cultural Arts Gallery, GE Headquarters, Fairfield, CT
2012 Sculpture Fest, Peter Lawrence Gallery, Gaylordsville, CT
2012 2 person show with Liz Dexheimer, Fairfield Arts Center, Fairfield, CT
2011 Heat, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
2009 The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
2009 House Project, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT (Curator,Terri Smith)
2009 Soft Serve, CT Commission on Culture & Tourism Gallery, Hartford, CT
2009 The Artists of American Fabrics, City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
2008 New Gallery Artists, 4 Artist Invitational, Sherrie Gallerie, Columbus, OH
2008 The Shape of Time/The Nature of Change, 5 Artist Invitational, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2007 Solos Exhibition, 5 Artists, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
2006 New Members’ Show, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2006,8 &10 Aldrich Undercover, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,CT
2005 Radius Emerging Artists 2005, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2004 The Winners Circle, invitational, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT


SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2010 25th International Juried Show, Visual Arts Center of NJ (Juror: Joan Young, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY)
2010 Annual Juried Exhibition, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT (Juror, Steven Assael, Artist)
2010 18th San Angelo National Ceramics Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX (Juror, Sherman Hall, Editor, Ceramics Monthly)
2010 INSIDE/OUT, Silvermine Guild Art Center, New Canaan, CT
2010 31st Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ (Juror, Jane Sauer, Owner/Director, Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM)
2009 Craftforms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA (Juror, Bruce Pepich, Director, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI)
2009 Glow, AnnMarie Garden Sculpture Park & Arts Center, Dowell, MD (in association with the Smithsonian Institution)
2009 Elsewhere, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT (Jurors, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Artists)
2008 Craft USA ’08, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT (Juror, Gretchen Keyworth, Director, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA)
2008 59th Annual Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, (Juror, Thom Collins, Director, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY)
2008 The Paradox of Water, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT (Juror, Mary Sabbatino, VP/ Partner, Galerie Lelong)
2007 Feats of Clay XX, Lincoln Arts and Culture Foundation, Lincoln, CA (Juror, Sherman Hall, Editor, Ceramics Monthly)
2007 Collaborations, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2007 Beaux & Eros II, Peninsula Museum of Art, Belmont, CA
2006 57th Annual Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT. (Juror, Ben Barzune, Senior Associate, Knoedler & Co. New York, NY)
2006 Fidelity Investments 8th Annual Juried Exhibition, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
2005 Craft USA ‘05, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT (Juror, Gail M. Brown, Independent Curator of Contemporary Craft)
2003 The Big Show, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT (Juror, Adam Weinberg, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY)


BIBLIOGRAPHY
31st Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, exhibition catalogue, January 2010 (photograph)
The Perfect Fit; Shoes Tell Stories, Wendy Tarlow Kaplan, exhibition catalogue, June 2009
Craftforms 2009, Wayne Art Center, exhibition catalogue, November 2009 (photograph)
The Courage to Create, American Style, Sara Jerome, 2008 Emerging Craft Artists, August 2008
Intense Artist, Phyllis A.S. Boros, Connecticut Post, July 8, 2007
Sexy Ceramics, Lorraine Gengo, Fairfield Weekly, June 2007
Emerging Artists 2007. Ceramics Monthly, Focus: Emerging Artists, May 2007
The Transformer, Walt Kita, Westport Magazine, June 2006
Silvermine’s “Art of the Northeast”. Nadia Lerner, The Advocate & Greenwich Time, April 30, 2006
Jocelyn Braxton Armstrong Radius Artist, Richard Klein, exhibition catalogue, 2005
Spectrum 2005, Douglas K.S. Hyland, comment in exhibition publication, 2005


WORK EXPERIENCE / EDUCATION
1980 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1981-2000 Freelance Fashion Stylist/Editor, New York, NY
1987-1992 Parsons School of Design Continuing Studies, New York, NY
2000-2005 Silvermine School of Art, New Canaan, CT
2009 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Dear Isle, ME
2003-present Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY