Education:
2024 MFA Sculpture Intermedia, University of Utah, Salt Lake, UT
May 2024
2020 BFA Sculpture with Art History minor (Summa Cum Laude)
Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
Professional Experience:
2026 Utah Valley University Professor UTath Valley University, Orem, UT
University of Utah Professor University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Lake Community College Professor Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City,
UT
2025 Utah Valley University Professor UTath Valley University, Orem, UT
2024 University of Utah Professor University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2023 Utah Valley University Professor Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
University of Utah Professor University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Papermaking workshop, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2022 University of Utah Graduate Student TA University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Additional Training:
2025 Workshop: Paper Expressions, Jacqueline Malleqni, Paper Rain Studio
2020 Workshop: Figure Sculpting, Jason Millward, American Fork, UT
Workshop: Sculpting Portraiture, Jason Millward, American Fork Arts Center
Workshop: casting and painting sculptural surfaces, Robbie Barber visiting artist at
Utah Valley University
Technical Skills: Oil and Water Clay, Plaster, Wire sculpture, Paper Sculpture, Mold Making, Drawing, Painting.
Selected Exhibitions:
2026 Anthropocene: Landscapes of Use, Memory and Transformation, Bountiful Davis Art
Center, Bountiful, UT
2026 Paper, Fine Line Creative Art Center, St Charles, IL
2026 Seriously Play: Exploration in Contemporary Craft, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2026 Rewilding: Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Fishers Art Center, Fisher, IN
2025 President’s Art Show ‘25, SLCC Eccles Art Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2025 Honoring Minerva: An Influence of Art , Ramble Gallery, Bountiful, UT
2025 In the Margins (Curated), Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2025 Tactile Space, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2024 Rhythms and Blues, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
2024 Woven Worlds MFA Exhibition, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Tapped 14 Exhibition, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Oh
Selfographies MFA Exhibition, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2023 Woven Solo Exhibition, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
Moments of Life Exhibition, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
Living Document MFA Exhibition, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2021 Figurative National Art Exhibition, Dallas Metro Arts Contemporary, Plano, TX
Unfettered, UVU Sculpture Department, Orem, UT
2020 Grim Gestalt, Book submission, UVU Art Department, Orem, UT
Through the Looking Glass, BFA Exhibition Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT
Annual Student Art Show, Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT
2019 Annual Student Art Show, Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT
2015 Annual Student Art Show, Woodbury Art Museum, Orem, UT
Awards:
2025 Deans Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Award, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT,
2021 Figurative National Art Exhibition, 3rd Place, Dallas Metro Arts Contemporary,
Plano, TX
Publications/Panels:
2025 The Crucible Collaboration Panel, UVU, Orem, UT
2021 The Journal of Student Leadership, UVU, Orem, UT
Commissions:
2025 Commission, Crucible Tree UVU Theater Department, Orem, UT
2020 Commission, Whales installation Becky Gunderson, Spanish Fork, UT
Commission, Garden Gnome Sculpture Jennifer Church, Boulder City, NV
2019 Commission, The English Tree Sculpture Alice Gold,
Lone Peak High School, Highland, UT
2018 Commission, Tree, Mixed Media Painting Jill Merril, Spanish Fork, UT
Image Reproduction/Reviews:
2024 The Daily Utah Chronicle, MFA Thesis Exhibitions:‘Reclaiming Eden’and“Woven
Worlds’, Salt Lake City, UT2020 Daily Herald, Art and its Creation Offer Fulfillment, UT