EXHIBITIONS

2026

  • RISCA 2026-27 Make Art Grant awarded in support of “Landscape Portraits inspired by the Aquidneck Land Trust”

  • Imago Foundation for the Arts "Nocturne”, a Juried Invitational

  • Bristol Art Museum 2026 Members Juried Show

  • Portsmouth Arts Guild Spring Show “Journeys and Destinations”

  • Rhode Island Natural History Survey “Artists on Expeditions”, URI East Farm Campus, Kingston

  • Bristol Art Museum “ When in the Course of Human Events”, National Juried

  • DEJ Gallery at the Pennfield School, ‘Small Group Show”

  • Portsmouth Arts Guild Member’sShow

  • Warwick Center for the Arts Rhode Island Artists 40th Open Juried Show

  • South County Art Association Members Show

2025

  • South County Art Association Open Juried Show

  • Warwick Center for the Arts Rhode Island Artists 39th Open Juried Show

  • Sunlight Studios “ Verdant”, a Solo Exhibit of Aquidneck Land Trust paintings and PleinAir Work by student artists

  • Deblois Gallery “Conversations with Nature” a small group show

  • Exhibiting Artist at Shawndavid Berry Sculpture Walk, Saunderstown,RI

  • South County Art Association Members Show

  • Portsmouth Arts Guild: Member’s Show

2024

  • Workingman Distillers, Pawtucket “Pawtucket Skylline” mural painting

  • South County Art Association “ From Where I Stand”a Juried Show

  • Imago Foundation for the Arts “Dare to Create” an Exhibition of work by RI Art Educators

  • Rose Island Foundation Artist in Residence on Rose Island in Narragansett Bay September 16th - 22nd, 2024, On Site Exhibition September 22

  • 2024 ARTIST AWARD from the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Newport County to support “Landscape Portraits inspired by the Aquidneck Land Trust”

  • TFG Green Airport “Green Space Gallery”, a Collaboration between RISCA and the Airport Corporation, Seven Mural Paintings installed

  • Save the Bay Aquarium, Newport installs “At the Reservoir” mural painting

  • South Coast Art Association Members’ Show

  • Imago Foundation for the Arts “ Borders, Boundaries and Beyond”, Juried show

  • Warwick Center for the Arts “ Talkin’ Trash”, Juried

  • Wickford Art Association “Color and Light”, Juried

  • South County Art Association “Paint , Print and Drawing Annual”, Juried

  • Wickford Art Association “ In Between the Lines”, Annual Paint, Print and Drawing, Juried

  • Rhode Island Natural History Invitational Exhibit “ Artists on Expeditions”, East Farm, URI Campus, Kingston

  • Portsmouth Arts Guild Members’ Show

  • Deblois Gallery, Coordinator, “ Aspirations”, Aquidneck Island High School Art Show and Works on Paper from the Anthony Quinn Foundation

2023

  • South County Art Association, “Resilience”, Juried Show, “Buffalo Map, inspired by “GHOSTS” a poem by Mary Oliver” awarded Second Place

  • Bristol Art Museum “A Small Point of Land”, Juried Show, Honorable Mention for “Topo Map Self Portrait”

  • Bristol Art Museum at Rogers Free Library, Juried Show, “ Odessey”

  • DEJ Gallery at the Pennfield School “ Earth from Space” mural painting installed in the Middle School Science classroom.

  • Warwick Center for the Arts Rhode Island Art Educator’s Exhibit

  • Wickford Art Association “Putting it all on Paper”, Juried Show

  • Annex Windows on Broadway, Newport

  • Deblois Gallery Annual Members’ Show

  • South County Art Association Members’ show

  • “Brenton Point” Mural Painting installed at Newport YMCA

  • Art League Rhode Island “ Art Speaks”, Juried Show

  • SouthCoast Artists Inc., Members Invitational at Sprout Co-Working Gallery, Pawtucket

  • Portsmouth Art Guild “ Imagined Spaces”, “Buffalo Map” awarded 2nd Place by Juror, Michael Rose

  • Blackstone Valley Visitors Center “Pawtucket Skyline: Slater Mill” installed

  • Bristol Art Museum at Rogers Free Library, Juried Show, “Odyssey”, part of Bristol Bookfest 2023

  • Wickford Art Association “ Earthly Elements”, Juried Show, “Buffalo Map, inspired by “Ghosts” a poem by Mary Oliver” awarded 2nd Place, Reviewed in The Independent by Stephanie Bernaba

  • Bristol Art Museum at Rogers Free Library, “ Black and White”, Juried Show

  • Deblois Gallery ‘HOME” an Exhibition of work by 11 Artists for Earth Day 2023

  • Deblois Gallery Coordinator, Aquidneck Island High School Art Show, in partnership with the Anthony Quinn Foundation exhibiting sculptures of Anthony Quinn

2022

  • Pawtucket Foundation and Arts League RI “ Pawtucket Skyline: Slater Mill” awarded Second Place in ‘Windows on Pawtucket”

  • Art League of Rhode Island, Arts Festival Exhibition

    Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, “TEXT”, a Juried Show

  • Coggleshell Farm, Bristol, RI,

  • Art Outside at Deblois Gallery “Lighthouses and Bridges’

  • “Terra Forms” at Deblois Gallery, for Aquidneck Island Earth Week

  • Deblois Gallery’s 29th Annual Member’s Show

  • Deblois Gallery Coordinator, Aquidneck Island High School Art Show “Materials” tn partnership to exhibit drawings and prints by Anthony Quinn

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2021

  • Wickford Art Association Annual Art and Poetry Exhibition “COLOR”, a Juried Show

  • illustrations for “ The Teacher Toolbox for a Calm and Connected Classroom” by Joanna Schwartz

    Deblois Gallery Mural Project receives Artist Award from Arts and Cultural Alliance of Newport County

  • Save the Bay Aquarium and Education Center, Newport installs “At the Reservoir”

    Newport YMCA installs “Brenton Point” Mural painting from the “HOPE” mural

  • Clean Ocean Access Exhibit “ Art from the Ocean”

  • Deblois Gallery Members Show

  • Deblois Gallery exhibition “The Print Show”

  • Spring Bull Gallery Juried Show “ Spring Fever”

  • Wickford Art Association Juried Show “ Push, Pull, Print”

  • Coordinator, Aquidneck island High School Art Show at Deblois Gallery

2020

  • Deblois Gallery “Naturally Abstract” and Annual Member’s Show

  • Spring Bull Gallery Juried Shows “ Favorite Views and Places” and “Everything Summer”

  • Wickford Art Association Juried Show, Poetry and Art, “TRANSITIONS”

    Juried Show ,“Art of the Ocean State”

  • Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro, Vt., Online Juried Show “Pigment and Paper”

  • North Dakota Museum of Art Online Gallery, “Art in Isolation”

  • Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Juried Show, “Sizzle”

  • “Artists for the Bay” at Save the Bay

  • Rhode Island Natural History Survey Annual Exhibition at URI East Farm

  • Aquidneck Island High School Art Show, Curator

  • Tile Installations and Tape Art Murals at the Martin Luther King Community Center, Newport

2019

  • Rhode Island Natural History Survey Annual Exhibition at URI

  • Artists for the Bay at Save the Bay

  • Bromfield Gallery, Boston, “Wet” Juried Show of New England Artists

  • Deblois Gallery “ Signs of Life” and Annual Members Show

  • Save the Bay Aquarium and Education Center, Mural Project

  • Aquidneck Island High School Art Show, Curator

2018

  • Deblois Gallery “ Water and Wood”a Small Group Show and Members Show

  • RIAEA Exhibit, Salve Regina University, Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery

  • Newport Art Museum Annual Members’ Juried Show

2017

  • Accepted onto RISCA Teaching Artist Roster

  • Pennfield School, Theater Tech. Coordinator for “ Lion King” Disney Musical

  • Newport Art Museum Annual Members Juried Show

  • Deblois Gallery Members Show and “ Visions” , a small group show

2016

  • Hunter Gallery, St. George’s School, Solo Show, “ Anthropocene”

  • Pennfield School, Theater Tech. Coordinator for student production of “ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”

  • Newport Art Museum Annual Members’ Juried Show

2015

  • Portsmouth Arts Guild Group Show

  • Hera Gallery, Associate Member Show, “Summer Work”

    Deblois Gallery” June Show”

2014

  • Spring Bull Gallery Juried Show “Nocturne”

  • Newport Children’s Theater 12’x30’ backdrop for “Oliver!”

  • Tape Art Mural “Where I Live”, a traveling Installation made by students at the Martin Luther King jr. Community Center and supported by the Newport Art Museum, Bank Newport and Martin King Jr. Community Center

2013

Hera Gallery, “Paint”, a National Juried Show

Hera Gallery “Small Works”, a National Juried Show

Newport Art Museum, Members Juried Show

Spring Bull Gallery, “Little Picture Show”

Exhibitions in Vermont included the Fleming Museum in Burlington, Johnson Center for the Arts in Johnson, Catamount Arts St. Johnsbury, the Hardwick Town House, Stowe Center for the Arts and “Living the Landscape” in The Garage, Montpelier, Vermont

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2026

Intro to Linoleum Block Printing workshops at South County Art Association

Botanical Drawing workshops with the Aquidneck Island Land Trust

Sailor’s Valentines Workshop at Newport Art Museum

2025

Sailor’s Valentines at Duxbury Rural and Historic Association, Duxbury,Mass

Sailor’s Valentines Workshops at IYRS (Internatiional Yacht Restoration and Technical Trades, Newport)

Intro to Linoleum Block Printing at South County Art Association

Plein Air Workshops at Sunlight Studio for Aquidneck Land Trust paintings

Studio Workshops at Sunlight Studio

2024-2025

RISCA Project Grant for Education at Pennfield School, Integrated Classroom Art Activities with Diversity Classes grades 5-8

2024

IYRS Sailor Valentine’s Workshops, LInoleum Block Printing Workshops

Portsmouth Arts Guild Linoleum Block Printing Workshop for Adults

2023

South County Art Association “Discovering Acrylics”(Adults)

IYRS Sailor Valentines and Linoleum Block Printing Workshops for Adults

Portsmouth Public Library Linoleum Block Print workshops for teens and adults

Portsmouth Arts Guild “ EcoArt Vacation Camp” for Aquidneck Island Earth Week

2017-2021

RISCA Project Grants for Education at Martin Luther King jr. Community Center: Art classes for Adults and Out of School Elementary School students, Collaborative Tile Installations & Tape Art Murals

Newport Art Museum Coleman Center, monthly Classes for HomeSchoolers, Adult Beginner Paintings,

1994-2016 The Pennfield School, Portsmouth, RI Art Teacher Grades 6-8: Designed Curriculum in Foundation Skills, Multi Cultural Arts and Creative Problem solving; Theater Tech. Coordinator and Set Painter for student productions: “ELF”, “The Lion King”, “ Little Mermaid”, “Alice in Wonderland” , “Cinderella”, “Peter Pan”, and “Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory”; Sets and Paintings for Annual Lower School Plays and Focus Units; 3 year Director of SummerArts Camp

Bradley Hospital Schools Art Program : Holiday Cards and Weekly Workshops Newport Art Museum Coleman Center: Children’s Classes and Camps, Adult Beginner Painting Classes; Outreach: Newport Boys and Girls Club, Thompson Middle School, Pell School, Martin Luther King jr. Community Center,

2008-2010

St. Andrew’s School: Barrington, RI Director, Summer Art Program “Masterpiece Art” A.C.E. Teacher Kits: Social History of Aquidneck History, Kit #1: “Native American and European Settlements”, by Mandy Howe and Mattie Edwards Kemp for Salve Regina University’s McKillop Library, Newport CitiArts, Providence, RI Visiting Artist at Highlander Charter School New Urban Arts Visiting Artist “ Art of the Archives”

1997-99

Salve Regina University, Instructor, EDC 316 “Teaching the Fine Arts”

Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI : Instructor, EDU 519 “ Integrating the Fine Arts”

1991-1993

Lakeview Union Elementary School, Greensboro, VT.

Riverside Day School, Lyndonville, Vt.

G.R.A.C.E. (Grass Roots Art and Community Efforts) Hardwick,Vt., Workshops for Community artists

Vermont State Council on the Arts, Artist in Residence, four one-room schoolhouses, Northeast Kingdom, Vermont

EDUCATION

B.A. Boston University

BFA School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts

Art Ed. Certification, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont