Resume
2003–present: Ultimate Designs, Seattle, WA
Custom jewelry designer specializing in exotic woods
2002–2014: Green Lake Jewelry Works, Seattle, WA
Gold and Platinumsmith, custom jewelry designer, CAD engineer
2014 Ballard Art Walk - July – Seattle, WA
2014 Mill Creek Town Center Art Walk - July – Mill Creek, WA
2014 Mill Creek Town Center Art Walk - June – Mill Creek, WA
2014 3x2 Collaboration – Seattle, WA
2013 East Shore Art Gallery Holiday Gift Show – Bellevue, WA
2013 Open Studio Trunk Show – Seattle, WA
2013 Best of the Northwest - Fall – Seattle, WA
2013 Salmon Days – Issaquah, WA
2013 Mill Creek Town Center Art Walk – Mill Creek, WA
2013 Bellevue Festival of the Arts – Bellevue, WA
2013 Mill Creek Town Center Art Walk – Mill Creek, WA
2012 Salmon Days – Issaquah, WA - BEST CRAFTSMANSHIP AWARD -
2012 3x2 Collaboration –Facèré Jewelry Art Gallery and Danaca Design, Seattle, WA
2012 Seattle Metals Guild Trunk Show – Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
2012 Shoreline Arts Festival – Shoreline Arts Council, Shoreline, WA
2012 Best of the Northwest - Spring –
NW Art Alliance, Seattle, WA
2012 Indulge – Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
2011 Best of the Northwest - Fall – NW Art Alliance, Seattle, WA
2011 In The Red – Lynnwood Arts Commission, Lynnwood, WA
2011 Love Tokens – Habitude, Seattle, WA
2010 It's Not Easy Being Green – Lynnwood Arts Commission, Lynnwood, WA
2010 Jewelry For and Inspired By Men – Danaca Design, Seattle, WA
2010 American Craft Council, St. Paul, MN
2010 American Craft Council, Atlanta, GA
2007 Rag, Ribbon, Rainbow Show & Sale, Atlanta, GA
2006–2007 Biennial Show – Sea-Tac Airport, Seattle Metals Guild, Seattle, WA
2005 In Our Own Image – Ancient Grounds, Seattle, WA
2005 Ultimate Organ Transplant Show – National Kidney Foundation, Atlanta, GA
PUBLICATIONS
2012 Art For The Body - Artful Vagabond
2007 The Art of Jewelry: Wood - Lark Books
ASSOCIATIONS
2005–present: Seattle Metals Guild, Seattle, WA; Board member 2005-2009
EDUCATION
2015 Ebony Woodcarving – Makonde tribe, Mto wa Mbu, Tanzania
2015 Tinker Workshop – Mwabe, Tanzania
2015 Copper Weaving – Cuenca, Ecuador
2012 Polymer Clay Workshop – Cynthia Toops, Seattle, WA
2008-2009 Woodworking – North Seattle Continuing Education, Seattle, WA
2007 Woodturning – Rockler Woodworking, Seattle, WA
2006 Woodturning – Rockler Woodworking, Seattle, WA
2006 Woodturning – Woodcraft, Tukwila, WA
2006 Resin Workshop – Lulu Smith, Seattle, WA
2005 Holloware – Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
2001-2002
Jewelry design, watercolors,
drawing – North Seattle Community College,
Seattle, WA
2001 Bronze sculpture, drawing – Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
1993 Bachelor of Arts in Astronomy, Theater – Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT