EDUCATION
M.F.A. 2001 Sculpture Mills College, Oakland, CA
B.F.A. 1995 Sculpture Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Reverie, Mercury Twenty Gallery
2007 The Stories We Tell Ourselves, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
2003 Plugged In: Images, Objects & Sound, Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA
1998 Mr. Simmes, Foster Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
1996 Anna Vaughan, Recent Works, Late Night Gallery, Kansas City, MO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Mercury Retrograde, Mercury Twenty Gallery
Members Showcase, Berkeley Art Center
2008
Bestiaries, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Juried Annual, Selections by Laura Hoptman Senior Curator for the New Museum, New York, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland CA
Matters of Fact, Addison Street Windows Project, Berkeley CA
Faculty Exhibit, ASUC Gallery, Berkeley CA
Art Matters, Oakland Zoo, Oakland Ca
2007
Heads Up, Barbra Anderson Framing Gallery, Berkeley CA
Childish Things, 301 Bocana Gallery, San Francisco CA
Elemental Arts, Stave Wine Bar, Sonoma CA
Inconvenient Art, June Stiengart Gallery, Oakland CA
Juried Annual, Selections by Berin Golon Assistant Curator for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland CA
2006
Mercury Rising, Mercury 20, Oakland, CA
Love, Barbra Anderson Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Open Studios, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005
Art and Social Justice, Greenlining Institute, Berkeley, CA
Annual Fundraiser, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA
California Artist Exhibition, Oakland Museum of California, Collectors
Gallery, Oakland, CA
2004
Laney College Faculty Exhibition, June Stiengart Memorial
Gallery, Oakland, CA
Careless Whispers, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
School Days, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003
Missing Persons, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Mechanique, Turn of the Century Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2002
Open, Center for Electronic Art, San Francisco, CA
Present/Tense, University Art Gallery, Sonoma, CA
2001
M.F.A. Exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Fabricated to be Photographed, Calumet, San Francisco, CA
1999
In Motion, Fine Arts Cinema, Berkeley, CA
Walking Round Performance, Baton Rouge, LA
1998
Mr. Simmes, Performance, Baton Rouge, LA
1997
New Visions, Indiana University Art Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Works in Clay, Indianapolis Art League, Indianapolis, IN
1996
Seeds, Westport Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Art Institute, BFA Exhibit, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Senior Sculpture Exhibit, City Market Art Space, Kansas City, MO
Carrie, The Old Post Office, Kansas City, MO
GALLERY AFFILIATION
Oakland Museum of California, Collectors Gallery, Oakland, CA
Pro Arts, Gallery, Oakland, CA
Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland, CA
Blankspace Gallery, Oakland, CA
PUBLIC COMMISIONS
2005 Recreation Field Wall Art Commission, Alameda County Juvenile
Justice Center, San Leandro, CA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2008 Bestiaries, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008 Art Matters, Oakland Zoo, Oakland Ca
2005 Art and Social Justice, Greenlining Institute, Berkeley, CA
2004 School Days, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Art From The Heart, June Steingart Gallery, Oakland CA
2003 An Artistic Discovery, Juror, The 22nd Annual Congressional Art Competition and Exhibition, Representing California's 9th Congressional District The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2002 Open, Center for Electronic Art, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS
2000 Mills College Graduate Teaching Assistantship Award
2000 Mills College Graduate Research Grant
1998 LSU Graduate Teaching Assistantship Award
1995 Best in Show, National Women's Conference
1995 KCAI, Commencement Ceremony, Honorable Mention
VISTING ARTIST LECTURES
2004 Lecture, Sculpture and Form, Merritt College, Oakland, CA
2003 Laney College, Oakland, CA, Lecture, Sculpture and Installation
2003 City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Lecture, Abstract Painting
2003 Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA, Public Artist Talk
2003 Channel 26 Public Access, Artist Interviews, In the Gallery
2002 Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA, Visiting artist & panel member for discussion about Bay Area M.F.A. programs
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Art instructor 2008 - Present
University of California at Berkeley, ASUC Art Studio
Ceramic Sculpture
Figurative Sculpture
Pottery
Lecturer Fall 2001-Present
Laney College, Oakland, CA
Sculpture
Color Dynamics: The Interaction of Color
Ceramics
Art Gallery Management
Painting
Art Instructor 2001-2007
City of Fremont, Fremont, CA
Figure in Clay
Surface Techniques for Clay
Beginning Ceramics
Intermediate/Advanced Ceramics
Together with Clay: parents and children
Creative Claywork: ages 5-6
Clay Exploration: ages 6-10
Sculpture Intermediate: ages 9-14
Youth Intermediate Pottery: ages 9-14
Garden to Gallery: ages 9-14
Visiting Instructor Fall 2004-2005
California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA
Art Smart
Visual Arts Instructor Summer 2003
San Francisco Arts Education Project, San Francisco, CA
Ceramics Sculpture: ages 10-14
Guest Artist 2002
ZEUM, San Francisco, CA 2002
Guest Artist
Claymation: ages 10-14.
Graduate Teaching Assistant Fall 2000
Mills College, Oakland, CA
Associate Professor of Studio Art, Anna Valentine Murch.
Beginning Sculpture, 3-Dimensional Concepts
Graduate Teaching Assistant Fall 2001
Visiting Faculty Bernie Lubell
Visual Foundation