Education
2006 – Present Private Instruction with Dean Bensen: Off-hand Glass Blowing
2010 Bas Relief Casting: Michael Janis, Bay Area Glass Institute, CA
2010 Printing & Imagery on Glass: Michael Janis, Bay Area Glass Institute, CA
2010 Pate de Verre: Kimiake and Shin-ichi Higuchi, Juried Class, The Studio, Corning Museum of Glass, NY
2006 Apprenticeship, Kathleen Elliot, Introduction to Borosilicate Glass
2004 Public Glass, Intruduction to Glass Beadmaking
1993 UC Berkeley, Walkter A. Haas School of Business: B.S.
Professional Experience
2006- Present Hot Glass Assistant, Dean Bensen, San Francisco, CA
2010- Present Instructor, Bay Area Glass Institute, San Jose, CA
2011 Artist in Residence, Pilchuck, Stanwood, WA
Member of Artist Panel with Mary White, Michael Nourot and Ann Corcoran The Path of the Glass Artist
Commission to Design Centerpieces for Bay Area Glass Institue Annual Auction, in collaboration with Dean Bensen
2010 Visiting Artist, Bay Area Glass Institue, San Jose, CA
Instructor for Girl’s Inc., Intro to Furnace Glass, Public Glass, San Francisco, CA
Visiting Artist, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Visiting Artist, Arizona Glass Alliance, Scottsdale, AZ
Visiting Aritst, New Mexico Glass Alliance, Santa Fe, NM
Instructor at Public Glass, San Francisco, CA
2006- 2008 Production Gaffer for Kathleen Elliot, Cupertino, CA
Selected Exhibitions
2011 Story of Nature, Vetri Solo Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Finding Balance: Glass Art in the Bay Area, Invitational, Danville, CA
Glass Act, Group Exhibition, Duley Jones Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2010 Sculpture Garden, Annual Juried Exhibition, Walnut Creek, CA
2009 Art Glass, Invitational, Back to the Picture Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, Juried Show
Heat & Light Invitational, Gallery 94124
Out of Fire, Invitational, City of San Jose City Hall, City Windows Gallery
Awards and Publications
2010 Cover Feature, The Flow Magazine, Annual Women in Glass Issue
Flameworking the Glass Egg, Tutorial, The Flow Magazine
Glass Alliance of Northern California, Scholarship Recipient, Best in Show
2009 Best of America Artists & Artisans, Glass Vol. II, Kennedy Publishing
Award of Excellence for Best in Show, Second Place, Public Glass Auction, San Francisco, CA
2008 The Flow Magazing, Women in Glass
