EDUCATION:

2005 WORKSHOP STUDY with instructor Anthony Ryder

2001-2003 WATER STREET ATELIER (Primary Instructor Jacob Collins), Brooklyn, New York

2000-2002 MASTER OF FINE ARTS, New York Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art

1999-2000 APPRENTICESHIP (Edward Jonas, Vice Chair of the Portrait Society of America, portrait artist and sculptor), Tallahassee, Florida

1996-2000 BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS IN STUDIO ART, Florida State University

1996-2000 BACHELOR OF ARTS IN HISTORY AND CRITICISM OF ART, Florida State University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

2006-2008 ONGOING ATELIER APPRECTICESHIP (Instructor), Flynt Atelier, Fort Myers, FL

2008 PORTRAIT ACADEMY WORKSHOP for PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF AMERICA, The Southern Atelier, Sarasota, FL

2008 PORTRAIT DEMONSTRATION for PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF AMERICA PORTRAIT ACADEMY.