SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS

2008

• Appointment to Frank and Evelyn Steinbrucker Endowed Chair, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA

2003

• Artist Residency, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland Individual Creative Artist Special Opportunity Stipend, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

2002

• Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, Independence Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

2001

• Individual Creative Artist Special Opportunity Stipend, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

1998

• Ellington Beavers Award for Intellectual Inquiry, Beaver College Research Foundation, Glenside, PA

1996

• Leeway Grant For Excellence in Photography, Leeway Foundation Grants in the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1990

• Visual Arts Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

1988

• Nominee, Awards in the Visual Arts National Artists Award

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2009

• my glass house, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Artists Installations, 2006-2009 seasons, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

2008

• Emerging to Established, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2006

• Philadelphia Selection 6, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

• Past is Present, The Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

• Old Media, New Visions, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

• Towson University, Towson, MD

2005

• Art Full Text, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

• Work on Paper, 231 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2004

• Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

2003

• from that to this: artists’ inspirations, Nexus, Philadelphia, PA Curated by Julie Courtney

2002

• insideout, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE (solo)

• Ophelia Rising, Temple Gallery/Old City, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

• Snapshot (organized by the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD), Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

2000

• histories, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA (solo)

• Works from the Collection by Philadelphia Area Photographers, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. PA

• I Do, Alan Klotz/Photocollect Gallery, New York, NY

• The Sea and The Sky, Gallagher Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland; and Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

1999

• Works on Paper 1999, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA. Juror: James Elaine

1998

• 20 by 12: A Generation of Challenge Artists, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

• Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

• Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA (solo)

• The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

• New Work, Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

1997

• Pennsylvania Photographers, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

• Open Pages, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT (solo)

1996

• Conversations and Laments, Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

• Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series: 25th Year Retrospective, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

1995

• Transformations: Four Bucks County Artists, The James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

• Photographs from the Collection of Citibank and Johnson & Johnson, SUNY Oswego, NY; SUNY StonyBrook, NY; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

• SUNY Oswego, NY; SUNY StonyBrook, NY; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

1994

• Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (solo)

• Works by Women Artists, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

1993

• Imaging Aging, Johnson & Johnson Corporate Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ, and Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

1992

• James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

1991

• Intentions and Techniques, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

1990

• Fleisher Memorial Gallery, Challenge Exhibition Series, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (solo)

• University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI (solo)

• Contemporary Philadelphia Artists, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

CATALOGUES AND JOURNALS

• Heather Wetzel and Jenn Libby, “A Catalog on the Occasion of the Exhibition Past is Present,” The Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

• “dogwood, a journal of poetry and prose,” Spring 2004, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT

• Independence Foundation 2002 Fellowships in the Arts, Catalog, The Independence Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

• Patrick Murphy and Richard Torchia, “The Sea and The Sky,” Exhibition Catalog, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania and The Royal Hiberian Academy, Dublin Ireland, with Essay by Susan Stewart and a transcription of a conversation between co-curators Patrick Murphy and Richard Torchia, 2000

• “The Leeway Foundation 1998 Awards for Artists : Celebrating Five Years of Awards to Women in the Arts,” Catalog, The Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, 1998

• “Northeast Corridor Literary Journal”, Issue 5, 1997-1998, Beaver College, Glenside, PA

• “The Leeway Grants in the Arts, 1996, For Excellence in Photography,” Catalog, The Leeway Foundation of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1996

• “Women Artists Series 1971-1996/25 Years of Feminism, 25 Years of Women’s Art,” Exhibition Catalog, The Rutgers University Libraries, 1996

• “Contemporary Philadelphia Artists,” Exhibition Catalog, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1990

COLLECTIONS

• The Philadelphia Museum of Art

• Bryn Mawr College

• Lehigh University

• Allentown Art Museum

• The State Museum of Pennsylvania

• Rutgers University Collection of Art

• The Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design

• The Pennsylvania State University

• Rowan University

• Johnson & Johnson

• Price / Waterhouse

EDUCATION

• MFA Photography The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

• BA Studio Art The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

TEACHING APPOINTMENT

• Professor, Head of Photography, Department of Arts & Design, Arcadia University (formerly Beaver College), Glenside, PA