Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2010 "Seasons of Her Life",  Metro Galleries, Bakersfield, CA

2003 "The Art of Healing" Featured Artist, Barnes & Noble, Bakersfield, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2013  COLOURS, Shafter Veteran€™s Hall, Shafter CA

2012  "Inspired by Music", Arts Council of Kern, Bakersfield, CA

2012  "Final Gifts", Creating Community II guest artist, Mission Bank, Bakersfield, CA

2011  "Highwire Act", City of Santa Clarita, Valencia Town Center, Santa Clarita, CA
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2011  "Highwire Act", Creating Community residency program, Todd Madigan Gallery, Bakersfield, CA

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2011  "Chronicles", Metro Galleries, Bakersfield, CA

2011  "conTEXTual", Creating Community residency program, Padre Hotel, Bakersfield, CA

2010  "Eye Gallery", Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield CA

2010  "Ebb & Flow", Creating Community residency program, JP Jennings Gallery, Bakersfield, CA

2010 "The Pump Jack Prophecy" Surface Gallery, Bakersfield, CA

2010 "Small Works", Metro Galleries, Bakersfield CA

2008 Group show, Wylie and May Louise Jones Gallery, Bakersfield CA

2005 "Day of the Dead" Empty Space Gallery, Bakersfield CA

2006 "New Gallery Works", Metro Galleries, Bakersfield CA

2004 "Home for the Holidays" Arts Council of Kern, Bakersfield CA

2002,3,6 "Les Femmes Artistes","Spotlight Theatre Bakersfield

2001 "Women€™s Work" Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield CA

Juried Shows:

2013 Women's Rights: An Artist's Perspective, UniteWomen, Birmingham MI

2013 Talking Eye at the Adobe Art Gallery - A Juried Cell Phone Photography Exhibit, Castro Valley CA

2005-2008, 2013  Bakersfield Museum of Art Visual Arts Festival

2011 Pokrasso and Colleagues, Riverside City College Quad Gallery, Riverside, CA

2010 Arts Council of Kern "Thrive" Kaiser Permanente Juried Art Exhibit 

2009, 2010 Latination, Metro Galleries, Bakersfield CA

2009, "Re-Invent", Surface Gallery, Bakersfield, CA

2006, 2003 Bakersfield Art Association, Arts Council of Kern, Bakersfield CA     

Awards

2013 Talking Eye at the Adobe Art Gallery - A Juried Cell Phone Photography Exhibit, Castro Valley CA --Award of Merit

2011 Second Place, Arts Council of Kern Juried Show

2006 Honorable Mention Bakersfield Art Association Juried Show 

Residency:

2010-11 Creating Community Program, Bakersfield, CA

                As a result of our successful venture in the pilot program, the Arts Council of Kern was awarded an Irvine grant

                to continue the program for two more years.

Collections:

Kaiser Permanente Art Collection

Centennial Medical Group

Education:

BBA, University of Texas El Paso, 1981, CPA 1983
Art classes University of California Bakersfield, 2002-2004
Art classes Bakersfield College 2000-2003

Professional Experience:

Twenty years in healthcare finance and administration, acute care as well as mental health for children. Collaborative work with non-profit agencies to raise funds and by using art to raise community awareness.

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