For years, people have chuckled in confusion when I tell them I have an MFA (that I am still paying for) from one of the most respected, if not widely known, art schools in the country, Cranbrook Academy of Art. Clearly, I wasted my time and money. They assume I was forced to change “careers” because art was obviously a dead end. What could art have to do with my work? With education reform? With advocacy? Entrepreneurship?
Well, everything. Creativity is a transferable skill; the creative process a discipline. Where and how we choose to cultivate our creativity is fairly unimportant. However, where and how we choose to apply our creativity directs our life’s creative journey. SELECTED ART EXHIBITIONS 6/15 Southern Word Benefit, Group Exhibition The Rymer Gallery, Nashville, TN 9/12 ReGenerations, Solo Exhibition StArt Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 5/11 Bryant Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, Group Exhibition Nashville, TN 9/07 Renaissance Regional Art Exhibition, Group Exhibition The Renaissance Center, Dickson, TN 10/05 You Are Here, Group Exhibition, curator and artist Ruby Green Contemporary, Nashville, TN 9/05 Role Play: The Definition of Self in Contemporary Society, Group Exhibition Target Gallery at The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA 10/04 Southeast Juried Exhibition, Group Exhibition Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL 2/04 Fugitive Anniversary Show, Group Exhibition The Fugitive Center, Nashville, TN 8/03 Switchyard, Group Exhibition Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN 7/03 Home Grown, Group Exhibition Southeast Center for Contemporary Arts, Winston-Salem, NC 7/03 The Halpert Biennial, National Juried Exhibition The Turchin Center, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 4/03 The Dukes of Hazzard Revisited, Group Exhibition* Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI 12/02 The Me in Team, Solo Exhibition The Fugitive Center, Nashville, TN 11/00 L'Ecole Marchutz, 25 Ans, Group Exhibition Musee Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France |