Education

2001-2003      Master of Fine Art, degree candidate, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI 

1996-2001      Bachelor of Fine Art, Murray State University, Murray, KY

1997           Summer Study Abroad, Murray Keys Program, Florence, Italy

Exhibitions and Art Related Experience    

2019

Architectural Digest Show, New York, NY 

2018

Architectural Digest Show, New York, NY

2016

Blanc de Blanc, Jamestown Art Center, RI

2014

unTethered,  Meditech Cooperation, Canton, MA

RISCA Fellowship in Three Dimensional Art

Selfies and Friends; Contemporary Portraiture, Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI

Adjunct Professor, RISD, Providence RI

2013  

I’m All In, solo exhibition, AS220 Project Gallery, Providence, RI

Adjunct Professor, RISD, Providence RI

2011

Next Art Fair, Cade Tompkins Projects, Chicago IL

2010

Seeing Through Line, 1 Sims Ave.  Providence RI

RISD Furniture Design Triennial, Providence, RI

Guest Critique, RISD Furniture Design

2009

Pink is the New Black, Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence RI

You Ain’t Gonna Get Me, AS220 Project Space, Providence, RI

Guest Critique, RISD Foundations

2008

Interpreting the Vernacular Landscape, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro, PA

Guest Critique, RISD Furniture Design

2007

Established Ben Watkins Studio, Providence, RI

Submission Show, Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Guest lecturer and critic, RISD

2006

Work By Studio Fellows, Messler Gallery, Rockland, ME

Build Boston Residential Design Show, Boston, MA

Box Elder Studios Group Show, RISD Works, Providence, RI 

2005

Selected Contemporary Work, James Hall (curator), Providence, RI

Providence Fine Furnishing Show

Guest lecturer and critic, RISD

2004

Instructor, Continuing Education, Furniture Making, RISD

Established Box Elder Studios, Providence, RI

Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Artist in Residence, Rockland ME

2003

Instructor, Continuing Education, Furniture Making, RISD

Meredith Gallery, RISD group show, Baltimore, MD

RISD MFA Show

The Providence Art Club, 1st place in exhibition

2002

Sol Kolfer Gallery Furniture Graduate Group Exhibition, Providence, RI

2001

Assisted at Penland School of Arts and Crafts, Penland, NC

Clara C. Eagle Gallery BFA Solo Show, Murray, KY

2000

Attended Peter’s Valley, Peter’s Valley, NJ

Attended Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO

1999

Attended Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO

Attended Arrowmont, Gatlinburg, TN