EDUCATION
1981 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA
1978 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Scholarship) summer term
1978 Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Herron School of Art, BFA

EXHIBITIONS

2010

Group exhibition, Brush Strokes Art & Frame, Fort Pierce, Florida

The Apparatus, Icehouse Gallery, Micanopy, Florida                                                                                                                                                                        

Small is Big, Gallery 14, Vero Beach, Florida                                                                                                                                                                                  

2009

58th All Florida Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
Souvenirs of Downtown (paint out and exhibition, location, downtown Fort Pierce) Main Street
Fort Pierce, Inc., Platts-Backus House, Fort Pierce, Florida
Featured artist for January, Brush Strokes Art & Frame, Fort Pierce, Florida
Art by the Sea (group), Vero Beach Art Club, Vero Beach Museum of Art

2008                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Considerable Passions (Ellen Fischer, Jacquie Fort, Jan Miller), Art League of Daytona Beach
Souvenirs of Downtown (paint out and exhibition, location, downtown Fort Pierce) Main Street
Fort Pierce, Inc., Platts-Backus House, Fort Pierce, Florida
Florida's Eden (paint out and exhibition, location: McIntosh, Florida) Artists' Alliance of North
Florida, Gainesville, Florida

2007

The Littleton Collection, Fort Pierce, Florida
Florida's Eden (paint out and exhibition, location: Evinston, Florida) Artists' Alliance of North
Florida, Gainesville, Florida

2006

100% Pure Florida, Fifth Avenue Gallery, Melbourne, Florida
Object Lessons: Ellen Fischer, René Guerin, Janvier Miller and Sean Sexton,
Ormond Beach Memorial Art Museum, Ormond Beach, Florida
Annual Juried Exhibition of Regional Art, Martin County Arts Council, Stuart, Florida
05-06 Group show, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Orlando, Florida
 

2005

Four-County Juried Show, A.E. Backus Gallery & Museum, Fort Pierce, Florida
A Crystalline Place: Southeastern Artists at Littleton Studios, Burroughs-Chapin Art Museum,
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Northern National Juried Exhibition, Juror: Dana Saunier; Nicolet College, Rhinelander,WI
Annual Florida Artists’ Exhibition, Center for the Arts, Art League of Bonita Springs, Florida
Small Works, Curator Frank Paluch, Director, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Illinois;
Harper College, Palatine, Illinois
For the Birds, Pelican Island Audubon Society, Bethel Creek House, Vero Beach, Florida

2004

Art 2004, Nathan D. Rosen Museum Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
Art with a Southern Drawl, Juror: Georgine Clark, Alabama State Council on the Arts;
Thomas T. Martin Fine Arts Building, University of Mobile, Mobile, Alabama
Group Exhibition, Indian River County Courthouse, Vero Beach, Florida
Points of View: Five Artists, Bethel Creek House, Vero Beach, Florida

2003

Art Encounter 2003, von Liebig Art Center, Naples, Florida
A Sense of Place: Continuity and Change in the New South, Curator: Tom Nakashima;
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Treasure Coast Competitive Art Exhibition, Vero Beach Museum of Art
Bartram Paint-Out, The Artists Alliance of North Florida, Gainesville
Annual Four-County Juried Show, A.E. Backus Gallery & Museum, Fort Pierce, Florida
Herron School of Art Centennial: Teachers and Students 1950-Present
Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana
Points of View: Five Artists, Bethel Creek House, Vero Beach, Florida

2002

Attention to Detail, group exhibition, A.E. Backus Gallery & Museum
A Crystalline Place: Southeastern Artists at Littleton Studios,
Art League of Bonita Springs, Florida
Annual Four County Juried Show, A.E. Backus Gallery & Museum
Points of View: Five Artists, Bethel Creek House, Vero Beach, Florida
Kanapaha Gardens Paint-Out, The Artists Alliance of North Florida, Gainesville, Florida
2001 Indian River Point of View: Ellen Fischer, René Guerin, Sean Sexton,
Sharon Sexton, A.E. Backus Gallery & Museum, Fort Pierce, Florida

MEMBERSHIPS
2008- American Society of Appraisers
2008- Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
2008- Vero Beach Museum of Art
2002- Cultural Council of Indian River County (Served on Board of Directors 2002-2009)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Burroughs-Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Main Street Fort Pierce, Fort Pierce, Florida
R. L. and Jim Davenport, Fort Pierce, Florida
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Garrett, Indianapolis, Indiana
Debra Frasier, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Froelicher, Denver, Colorado
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Mr. and Mrs. George Hamner, Vero Beach, Florida
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey K. Littleton, Spruce Pine, North Carolina
Vincent Lloyd, Fort Pierce, Florida
Ms. Alma Lee Loy, Vero Beach, Florida
Mr. and Mrs. Satish Ramadhyani, Minneapolis, Minnesota                                                                                                                                                                 

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rueve, Chicago
Brenda Shith, Fort Pierce, Florida
Tom Staley and Fay Baird, Micanopy, Florida                                                                                                                                                                                       

Ms. Mickey Stein, Vero Beach, Florida
Bill Theobald and Sharon Smith Theobald, West Lafayette, Indiana
Emily Tremml, Vero Beach, Florida
Jon Ward, Fort Pierce, Florida
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina

OTHER ACTIVITIES
WRITER
2010 "paintings from a Life" (Francis Mesaros), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XIII/5

"Time for the Next One," (Tim Sanchez), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XIII/4                                                                                                                              

"A Fashion King Heads South," (Jay McLaughlin) Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XIII/83                                                                                                                           

2009 “The Excellent Adventures of Rita Bernstein,” Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XII/8
“Brushing Up on the Classics,” (James Harrington), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XII/7
“The Art of Jury Duty,” (Susie Wilber), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XII/ 6
“From the Palazzo to the Palette” (Uffizi exhibition), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XI/ 2
“Boxed In: The Art of Assemblage” (Joan Earnhart), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XII/1
“Last Trip for a Car Wreck Classic” (Martin Hoffman) Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XII, No. 4
“The Clay Menagerie” (Rene Guerin) Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XII, No. 3
“In Memoriam: Jacquie Fort,” Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XII, No. 3
2008 “Reflections on Glass” (Han Godo Fräbel), Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XI, No. 6
“Reflections on Glass: Spanning 20 Centuries,” Vero Beach Magazine, Vol. XI, No. 6
“The Dream Homes of Edgardo Abello,” Vero Beach Magazine, Volume XI, No. 5
“A Tale of Three Suzannes” (Suzanne Fox), Vero Beach Magazine, Volume XI, No. 4
“Rick Kelly: Portrait of a River,” Vero Beach Magazine, Volume XI, No. 2
“Romance, Razors and Religion,” (Bob Berran), Vero Beach Magazine, Volume XI, No. 1
2007 “A Sharp Eye for Detail,” (Barbara Sharp), Vero Beach Magazine, Volume X, No. 7
“The Art of Hospice,” (eight artists), Vero Beach Magazine, Volume X, No. 7
“The Many Faces of Marlene Putnam,” Vero Beach Magazine, Volume X, No. 4
“Flower Power is Back!” (artists' dolls), Vero Beach Magazine, Volume X, No. 4
“On the Right Track,” (artist Francis Sprout), Vero Beach Magazine, Volume X, No. 3
“Tiger Lily: Back with a Roar,” (Tiger Lily art studios) Vero Beach Magazine, Volume X, No. 3
“Patron of the (Local) Arts,” (collector Toni Hamner), Vero Beach Magazine, Volume X, No. 2
“The Many Moods of Martin Hoffman,” (realist painter) Vero Beach Magazine, Volume X, No. 2
2006 “Plein and Fancy: Grayson Conroy,” Vero Beach Magazine, Volume IX, No. 5
“Capturing Cultures on Canvas,” Vero Beach Magazine, Volume IX, No. 3
“The Art of Expression,” Vero Beach Magazine, Volume IX, No. 1
“A Perilous Paradise: Caring for Art in the Tropics,” Volume 1, No. 1
2003 “Contemporary Mexican Art from the Bryna Collection,” Paper presented at the International Society of Appraisers conference, Tampa, Florida
2000 Broken Silences: The Collages of Paul Jenkins, exhibition catalog Vero Beach Museum of Art, FL
The Bryna Collection of Mexican Art, exhibition catalog, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Florida

JUROR
2003 Annual Competitive Exhibition, solo juror
Martin County Courthouse Cultural Center, Stuart, Florida
2001 Artigras Art Fair, with ceramic artist Harvey Sadow, Abacoa, Florida
2000 Artigras Art Fair, slide jury with four others, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Visual Arts Fellowships, 3-D Grant panelist, Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural
Affairs, Tallahassee, Florida
1999 Artigras Art Fair, juror with two others, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, slide jury with one other, Tampa, Florida
1997 Annual Competitive Exhibition, solo juror, Martin Co. Courthouse Cultural Center, Stuart, Florida

ORGANIZER
2008 McKee en Plein Air, a paint-out at McKee Botanical Garden, Vero Beach, Florida
2006 McKee en Plein Air, a paint-out at McKee Botanical Garden, Vero Beach, Florida
2004 McKee en Plein Air, a paint-out at McKee Botanical Garden, Vero Beach, Florida
2003 Harbor Branch through the Eyes of an Artist, a plein air paint-out and sale

INSTRUCTOR
(Current) Painting and drawing, The Littleton Collection, Fort Pierce, Florida
1998-2001 Painting and drawing, Indian River Community College, Vero Beach, Florida
1987-1989 Painting and drawing, Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, Indiana