Resume

• 1987

  MFA

  Graduate School Fellow\nGraduate Assistant

  Publications Office\nWho's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities\nInstructor

  Beginning Ceramics

  NIU Recreational Center\nTeaching Intern

  Ceramics I

  Studio Art/Ceramics and Drawing

  President

  Ceramic Arts Organization; member

  Ars Nova

  Northern Illinois University

• Drawing (graphite

  charcoal

  watercolor

  colored pencil

  pen and ink

  ink wash)

  Watercolor

  Drawing

  Departmental Assessment

  Curriculum Development

  Research

  Ceramic Sculpture

  Organizational Development

  Art

  Faculty mentoring

  Classroom Management

  Teaching

  Editing

  Design (two and three-dimensional design)

  Curriculum Design

  University Teaching

  Ceramics (wheel throwing and handbuilding

  glaze calc

  kiln firing)

  Higher Education

  Administration

  System Administration

  Project 1216

  Historic research into the lives and military careers of the men of the Sixth New York Volunteer Cavalry

  US Civil War

  and making art that responds to my findings. \n\nCurrent research into the British Army career of Lt. Col. Duncan McVicar and the family of Captain Robert Emmanuel Ellerbeck.

  Recent Exhibitions

  Recent Exhibitions:\nCultural Landscapes

  Draewell Gallery

  Judson University

  Elgin

  Illinois (January 29 - March 2

  2018). (Invitational faculty exhibition.)\n\nVicinity 2017 Regional Exhibition

  Regional All-Media Juried Exhibition

  Norris Gallery

  Norris Cultural Arts Center (September 16 - November 5

  2017); Jerry Stefl

  Professor of Art Education

  Art Institute of Chicago

  Chicago

  Illinois

  juror.\n\nVisions in Clay National Exhibition

  L.H. Horton Gallery

  San Joachin Delta College

  Stockton

  California (August 24 – September 15

  2017); John Toki

  Emeritus Professor

  California College of the Arts; Instructor

  Diablo Valley College; Associate Director of the Mission Clay Art and Industry Program

  Corona

  California and Phoenix

  Arizona

  and co-author

  Hands in Clay

  5th Edition

  juror.\n\nBeloit and Vicinity 60th Anniversary Retrospective Invitational

  Wright Museum of Art

  Beloit \nCollege

  Beloit

  Wisconsin (May 27-July 27

  2017); Hannah Yee

  Assistant Curator

  Wright Museum of Art

  Beloit

  Wisconsin

  curator.\n

  Colpitts

  G.E.

  Colpitts

  Judson University

  Judson University

  Professor of Art and Design

  Elgin

  Illinois

  Judson University

  Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA)

  Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE)