Learning takes/lasts a lifetime.

To engage the learner in the process of learning, to encourage the learner to recognize that success relies solely on personal standards, to produce an environment conducive to discussion, opinion and involvement, to help learners realize and maintain their personal best-that is my goal as an art educator. Art is about discovery and exploration. Learners are encouraged to experiment and explore as they create: new things, new ideas and new opinions.

As I work to unpack the social, political and cultural context of my life and my artistic practice, I consider the following:

· The predicament of my place in the world.
· Theorizations of visual, social and sexual culture.
· Understandings and misunderstandings of the condition of my own life.
· Interpretations of lies, truths and beliefs about world and culture making.
· Loss, longing, absence, desire.

While giving consideration to the above, I use materials that speak directly to a need to constantly evaluate (and re-evaluate) certain cultural oppositions and artistic practices: straight/gay, masculine/feminine, life/death, happy/sad. Layers, both physical and metaphorical, are applied to the surface of my works. These elements are piled and arranged in ways that draw attention to my struggle to control things and my fear of screwing it all up.

Gallery Director, Eastfield College, Present

Professor of 2D Design and Art Appreciation, Eastfield College, Present

Studio Art Instructor, The Clariden School, 2001 - 2004

GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Associate Member, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX

MEMBERSHIP:
Arlington Museum of Art Member
Dallas Museum of Art

SOLO:
A Child's Home, 500X Upstairs Gallery, Dallas, TX, 1997

Girl, Boy, Art, Pleasure (a collaborative installation/performance project with Carla Usery), Arts and Letters Festival, Eastfield College Fine Arts Building, 1997

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
Paño: El Centro College Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2004
Members Show: 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2004
Destination: Biscay, Backroads Gallery, Damariscotta, ME, 2004
Installations: New Work by Six Texas Artists, Gallery 219 at Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX, 2004
Coast to Coast: Six Emerging Artists, 500X Upstairs Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2003
Eastfield Past and Present, Eastfield College Gallery, Mesquite, TX, 2000
Day of the Dead Exhibition, Dallas Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX, 1997
League for Innovation Exhibition, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX, 1997
Mercer Gallery, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY, 1997
Juried Exhibition, Dallas Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX, 1996
League for Innovation Exhibition, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX, 1996
10th Anniversary Day of the Dead Exhibition, Dallas Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX, 1995

COLLECTIONS:
Tom Absher, Williamstown, VT
The Clariden School, Southlake, TX
Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX
Jeff Fenter, Dallas, TX
Meg Harris, Andover, MA
Charlotte Smith, Dallas, TX
Jess Galloway and Kathy Windrow, Dallas, TX