EDUCATION
2017 BFA, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
1999 MA, Community Psychology, Sage Graduate School, Troy, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS and PUBLICATIONS
2023-24 Searching for Home, 30 full 5″ X 3″ accordion booklets full of drawings and musings by NYC ‘s homeless, near homeless, and homed, about what home means to them
2020 Covid-19, NYC: Resources & Reflections, book of my art and my text, aim is to simplify economic resources during this time in NYC
2019 NYC: Struggles and Survival Strategies – a narrative about the great variety of struggling NY’ers, illustrated by my prints
2018 NYC Craft Beer Bar & Art Gallery, NY – prints
2018 Cafe Madeline’s walls, Brooklyn – paper sculptures and political posters
2017 How We Got Here, Streetcorners & Foodbanks, UK & US, book of my art and my text, a tribute to food charity workers and consumers
2015 Food, Money, Shelter: NYC Resources, book of collaborative art and my informational text, 3,000 copies distributed free to street beggars in NYC and to NYC non-profit agencies
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Lower East Side Printshop, “Awaken” exhibit
2018 Small Works Show, curated by Art Students League, at Manhattan Borough President’s office
2015 Respond, Smack Mellon Gallery, NY, NY
AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2023 Puffin Foundation Grant to pay contributors to Searching for Home
2023 In our Backyard grant to match individual donations to compose Searching for Home
2020 Robin Hood Foundation grant to publish COVID 19 NYC: Resources & Reflections
2018-’19 Puffin Foundation Grant to publish NYC: Struggles and Survival Strategies
2018-‘19 More Art Fellowship, a year of training to become a better Community Artist
2017 Puffin Foundation Grant to publish How We Got Here; Streetcorners & Foodbanks, UK & US
2017 Tow Fellowship to research political wall art, Bristol, UK
2016 Rosen Fellowship to draw food-bank system, southwest UK
2015 Seedtime Fund grant to publish Food, Money, Shelter: NYC Resources
2015 CUNY Labor Arts Contest, first prize in visual art, NY, NY
COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS OTHER THAN MY PUBLICATIONS
2020 Vote! 1,000’s of art-fliers distributed all over NYC, with registration information, and postcards designed for the League of Women Voters’ campaigns
2017 The Wall, performance art about Trump’s Wall, part of Respond, Brooklyn College week
2016 If You See Something, Say Something, political anti-harrassment flyer for NYC subways 2014-‘16
2014-2016 Tax Project, tax posters to market tax initiative in NYC soup kitchens
PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY SOCIAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Decades of work as a professional Community Social Worker, NYC, Albany, NY, and North Carolina – details available upon request