EDUCATION: MFA,
Rutgers University, NJ, 1980
BA, Livingston College, NJ, 1975
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Smithsonian
American Art Museum
Hawaii
State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
- An Affair in the Islands works
inspired by HC Westerman, Galerie 103, Kukui’ula, Kauai, HI
- “Vessels”, Rupert
Ravens Contemporary, Newark, NJ
- Hawaii
Craftsmen, Honolulu Academy Art Center, Honolulu, HI
- Art
Kauai ‘09, Kukui Grove, Kauai, Hawaii
- Opening Exhibition, Galerie 103, Kukui’ula, Kauai, Hawaii
- Contemporary Fiber Art of Hawai’i, The Contemporary Museum, 1st HI Center
- 10th &
8th International Shoebox Exhibit, University of Hawaii Gallery
- Garden Varieties, the balcony
gallery, 4person, Kailua, HI
- Sanctuary, Rupert Ravens
Contemporary, Newark, NJ
- uncommon objects, Hawaii State
Art Museum
- Singularity in the Communal Tide: Culture &
Identity in the Moment, Rupert Ravens Curator, Pierro Gallery, NJ
- Art Basel Miami 2006, Bridge Art, 9 Artists, Rupert Ravens Contemporary,
- The
10th Anniversary Show, The Contemporary Museum at 1st
HI Center
- Un.Bead.lievable, Barnstone
Gallery, PA,
- West Toward the East:
Contemporary Art from the Pacific Rim, City of Brea Art Gallery, CA,
- The National Bead & Fiber
Exhibit, Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, MD
- Summertime,
Hawaii State Art Museum
- Inspirition, Time Space Gallery, Hanapepe, HI
- Matter
& Material, The Contemporary Museum, 1st HI Center
- Recent
Acquisitions, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington
DC
- Ornaments
for the White House Christmas, Permanent Collection, Washington DC
- Enriched
By Diversity, Inaugural Exhibit, Hawaii State Art Museum
- Bead
International 2006, 2002, 2000, Traveling, Ohio Cultural Arts Center,
Traveling, Blanden Museum IN, Univ.of Alaska Museum
- The
Audacious Bead, The Bead Museum, Washington DC
- Beads,
Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna Univ, PA
- Drawing 2000–Stretching the Point, Univ. of HI Gallery
- From Life Dreams, Solo, Kinipopo Gallery, Kapaa, HI
- The Big Wave, Andrew-Shire Gallery, LA, CA
- Currents I & II: Kauai Artists, traveling Honolulu Academy Art Center& Maui Arts & Culture Center
- We’Moon, Greenwood Center, OR
- Life In The Garden, 2person, Kauai Museum, HI
- Shrines, Hui No’eau, Makawao, HI
- Songs For My Ancestors, Solo, Honolulu Academy Art Center
- Rhythm N' Blues, Solo, The Contemporary Museum Cafe, Honolulu
- Chants Against the Wall, Bakkus Gallery, 2 person, Honolulu
- Children in the Dark, Visions of Light, Stones Gallery, 2person, Lihue, HI
- Art Kauai, Kauai, HI
- Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts
- Among Friends, Solo, Kahana Ki'i Gallery, Koloa, HI
- Hau'oli Makahiki Hou, Solo, Ten Park Place, Montclair, NJ
- Last Outrageous Picture Show, ArtLoft, 3 person, Honolulu
- Dawning of Spring, Solo, Morgan Gallery, NJ
- Solo, The ArtLoft, Honolulu,
- Solo, Stones Gallery, Lihue, HI
- NJ Here & Now, Pavilion Gallery, NJ
- Urban Spirit, City W/O Walls Gallery, NJ
- NJ Arts Inclusion Program 1978-1984, Zimmereli Museum, NJ
- 1983-84 NJ Fellowship, Hunterton Art Center
- A.I.R. Gallery, Invitationals, NYC
- NJ Here & Now, Exxon
- All That Glitters, Tweed Gallery, NJ
- Bringing It All Back Home, Middlesex College Gallery, 2person, NJ
- Ritual and Rhythm, Kenkeleba House, NYC
- 3D, On and Off The Wall, Newark Museum, NJ
- Swinging On A Star, PS 1, Performance, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
“Windows
with a View”, American Style Magazine, June 2008
Ten
Years: The Contemporary Museum at Frist Hawaiian Center, 2006.
“The Bearable Lightness of Beading”, American Style Magazine, October 2005
500 Beaded Objects, Lark Books, included with 5 pieces, introduction, 2004
Spectrum HI Minute, spokesperson for “Currents: 15 Kauai Artist
8th Internation Shoebox Exhibit, Catalogue, Kaohsiung Museum Edition, Taiwan, 2003
8th International Shoebox Exhibit, Catalogue, Invitational, University of Hawaii Gallery, Manoa, HI, 2003
The
Best In Contemporary Beadwork, The Dairy Barn, catalogue, “Bead
International 2002
The
Best In Contemporary Beadwork,Interweave Press & The Dairy Barn,
catalogue,“Bead International 2000”
Spectrum
Hawaii, HI Public TV, "Government Role in Funding for the Art”, 1996
Spectrum
Hawaii, HI Public TV, May, "Iniki: He Ola Hou" with Kauai
Artists, 1993
New
Jersey Public TV, "Bringing It All Back Home", Middlesex College
Gallery, with Maria Mijares (Spain), 1983