CV
Education
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Degree: Master of Fine Arts
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, Georgia
Degree: Bachelor of Fine Arts
Work Experience
2000-Present Chair of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, Associate Professor of Art, MacMurray College
1998-2000 Coordinator of Art at Darton College.
1997-1998 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at West Virginia Wesleyan College.
Exhibitions
2011 Solo Exhibition Gallery 414
Fort Worth, Texas
Solo Exhibition
The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center Belleville, Illinois
Sioux City Art Center 62nd Juried Exhibition
Sioux City Art Center Sioux City, Iowa
2010 Fuzzy Logic
Thompson Gallery The Cambridge School of Weston Weston, MA
Solo Exhibition -
Raymond Yeager: The Janus Series
Edwardsville Art Center Edwardsville, IL
2009 Contemporary Painting
Ford Gallery at Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI
Solo Exhibition
Three Legged Dog Jacksonville, IL
23rd Biennial Southern Illinois Artists Exhibition
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts Mt. Vernon, Illinois.
Contemporary Artists Exhibit
Andrews Art Museum Andrews, NC
From Nature
The Illinois Institute of Art Chicago 180 Gallery Chicago, IL
Encaustic Works Biennial Exhibition
Castle Gallery at the College of New Rochelle New Rochelle, New York
Group Exhibition
Three Legged Dog, Jacksonville, IL
2008 2008 Solo Exhibition - Abstract Realism Kresge Gallery
Lyon College Batesville, AR
KY7 Biennial
Lexington Art League Lexington, KY
Painting
Foundry Art Centre St. Charles, MO
Rockford Midwestern Biennial
Rockford Art Museum Rockford, IL
Group Exhibition - Corporeal Ardor
Springer Cultural Center Champaign, IL
Solo Exhibition-Dissolution
Quad City Arts Center Gallery Rock Island, IL
2007 Solo Exhibition - Abstraction of the Real Alexander Brest Museum and Gallery Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL
2006 Art St. Louis XXII Art St. Louis Gallery
St. Louis, Missouri
LaGrange National Biennial XXIV
Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum LaGrange, Georgia Juror: Pamela Franks, curator of academic initiatives at the Yale University Art Gallery
2005 New American Paintings Midwest Competition No. 59 Juried Exhibition-in-Print
Juror: Dominic Molon, Pamela Alper Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2004 Inaugural Biennial Juried Underground Railroad Exhibition
Northern Kentucky University Institute for Freedom Studies Highland Heights, Kentucky Juror: Michael Ray Charles
2003 Solo Exhibition Applebee Gallery, Jacksonville, IL
20th Biennial Southern Illinois Artists Exhibition
Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL
2002 16th Annual Greater Midwest International Exhibition Art Center Gallery, Central Missouri State University,
Warrensberg, MO
2001 Solo Exhibition Mobil Art Gallery, Jacksonville, IL
51st Annual Quad-State Juried Exhibition
Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
1998 Solo Exhibition Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV
Artists of West Virginia
Daywood Gallery, Alderson-Broaddus College, Phillipi, WV
1996 VSU Faculty Emeritus & Alumni Invitational Valdosta State University Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta, GA
1995 Art of the Southeast Firehouse Center, Bainbridge, GA
1994 Florida Biennial Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belleair, FL
Juror Michael Auping, Chief Curator, Modern Museum of Fort Worth
1993 Solo Exhibition
Valdosta State University Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta, GA
Valdosta Works On Paper
Valdosta State University Fine Arts Gallery, Valdosta, GA Juror: Larry Walker
Grants, Awards and Residencies
2008 Visiting Artist Residency
Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas
Residency and exhibition in the Kresge Gallery
Green Foundation Grant
$20,000 grant for updates to the art computer lab.
2007 Finalist award from the Illinois Arts Council.
The Finalist Award category recognizes and
encourages additional applicants who
demonstrate considerable talent.
Visiting Artist Residency
Residency and exhibition in the Alexander Brest Museum. Also included the creation of a glass
installation in cooperation with the glass studio.
Lectures
2008 Dissolution of Realism
Artist lecture at University of Illinois at Springfield.
2007 Abstraction of the Real
Artist lecture at Jacksonville University
in conjunction with artist residency.
2002 Lecture and week long seminar on how to
incorporate art into MacMurray College’s General Education Curriculum.
1993 Panel of selected artist from the Florida Biennial
discussing and examining the state of the arts in Florida and nationally.
1993 Lecture and workshop about Monoprinting given at Georgia Southern University.
