Education:  BA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Ohio State University (1980)

Selected Art Residencies, Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, Starkville, MS; Catoctin Mountain National Park, Thurmont, MD; Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Pine Spring, TX, 2021; Great Basin National Park, Baker, NV, 2020; Homestead National Monument, Nebraska, July 2017; PLAYA, October 2015 and December 2016 in Summer Lake, OR; The Anderson Center, May 2015 in Red Wing, MN; The Studios at Key West, March 2012; Hot Springs National Park, August 2011

Selected Corporate and Museum Collections: 

The Textile Museum, Washington, DC; The Museum of the Department of Interior, Washington, DC; McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC; Carolina Steinway, Charlotte, NC: DP Professionals, Columbia, SC; City of North Charleston, SC; County Bank, Greenwood, SC; First Citizens Bank, Columbia, SC; Hot Springs National Park, Hot Springs, AR; Great Basin National Park, Baker, NV; Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Flat Salts, TX; Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, Starkville, MS; South Carolina Bank and Trust, Columbia, SC; Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, La Grange, GA.

*indicates solo show ** invitational show ***site-specific installation

2025
Full Circle, Strathmore, North Bethesda, VA
Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington DC
FiberArts International, Brew House Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Spaces Between, Florida CraftArt, Petersburg, FL
Ensemble 2025, Spalding Nix Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2024
*Found Object Mandalas, Spalding Nix Fine Gallery, Atlanta, GA
**Rising UP!, Featherstone Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
***The Lace Forest, Featherstone Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
**The Cabinet of Curiosities, Reeves House Art, Woodstock, GA
Rescue: Waste and Redemption, Lyndon House Art, Athens, GA
*Once & Again: Alterations, Springfield Art Association, IL
The Project 2023 Winners' Exhibition, Koger Center for the Arts, Columbia, SC
The Last Breathe: Death and Contemporary Art, WomensWork Art, Poughkeepsie, NY
42nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Pickens County Museum of Art and History, Pickens, SC
6th Annual Juried Exhibition, Spartanburg Artist Collective, Spartanburg, SC
Lost and Found, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Lost and Found, Spiralis Gallery, Easton, MD

2023
*The Quilted Cocoon, Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum, Carrollton, GA
*Once & Again: Alterations, Piedmont Arts, Martinsville, VA
*Anonymous Ancestors, Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage, Ridgeland, SC
*Once & Again: Alterations, Imperial Centre, Rocky Mount, NC
**The Gap Between Life and Art College of Central Florida, Ocala, FL
**Entwined: A Group Exhibition of Textile and Fiber Art, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA
Confluence-Connections in Fiber, ArtWorks, Wilmington, NC
Ensemble 2024, Spalding Nix Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Presenter at the Studio Art Quilt Associates International Conference, Toronto, Canada

2022
*Anonymous Ancestors, City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC
*Anonymous Ancestors, Black Creek Arts Council, Hartsville, SC
Protest Signs, UNCW CAB Art Gallery in Wilmington, NC
Feminist Insight: Telling Her Story, Ellington-White Contemporary Gallery, Fayetteville, NC
Liturgical and Sacred Art, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL
*Once and Again: Alterations, Artisans on the Square, Greenville, GA
The Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
The Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
*Last Words, Sumter County Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC
Palmetto Hands, North Charleston Convention Center, North Charleston, SC (Best of Show)
*Behold the Wonder: Susan Lenz, Good Shepherd Episocpal Church, Sumter, SC
Generations: 30 Years of Woman Made Gallery, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
*Found Object Mandalas, Park Circle Gallery, North Charleston, SC
**Art For All: I Am, Waterworks Visual Arts, Salisbury, NC
***Lola's World, Mill District Public Art Trail, Columbia, SC
Artist's Talk for SAQA's 3D Expressions, Lauren Rogers Art Museum, Laurel, MS
**Life is a Party: Dress for It, Public Works Art Center, Summerville, SC

2021
*Blues Chapel, Fine Arts Center of Kershaw County, Camden, SC
*Once and Again: Alterations, Overcash Gallery Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC
*The Big Day, Pickens County Museum of Art and History, Pickens, SC
*Last Words, The Appalachian Center for Craft at Tennessee Tech, Smithville, TN
***ArtFields 2021, The Cocoon at the House on Church Street
Palmetto Hands, North Charleston, Outstanding Merit Award
**Find Joy in Art, a virtual show and sale for the South Carolina Arts Foundation
**It's Been a While, Tapps Outpost, Columbia, SC
The Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
*Nike's Advice, Columbia Music Festival Association, Columbia, SC
**Birds of a Fiber, The Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, WA
Making It Through, the Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum, Carrollton, GA
The Art of the Book 2021, the Rochester Public Library, Rochester, NY

2020 (Not all venues for traveling shows happened due to COVID-19)
The Philadelphia Musem of Art Virtual Craft Show
*The Feminist To-Do List, Muscatine Art Center, Muscatine, Iowa
*The Feminist To-Do List, Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC
**Castaways 2020: Art from the Material World, 20 Women 20 Textiles, A Climate Action Project, invitational exhibition, Bateman Foundation, Victoria, British Columbia
**JAM Session, Carrollton Art Center, Carrollton, GA
**Find Joy in Art, a virtual show and sale for the South Carolina Arts Foundation
*Anonymous Ancestors, Lander University Fine Art Gallery, Greenwood, SC
3D Expressions, a SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) national traveling exhibition through 2022, Gerald R Ford Presidential Museum, Grand Rapids, MI; Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure, NY; Ross Museum of Art, Delaware, OH
**Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Suffrage, an invitational traveling exhibition curated by Dr. Sandra Sider through 2022; National Quilt Museum, Paducah, KY; New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA; The Houston International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX; The Texas Quilt Museum, La Grange, TX; Vision Art Museum, San Diego, CA; The Virginia Quilt Museum, Harrisonburg, VA; The Quilters Hall of Fame, Marion, IN; The Iowa Quilt Museum, Winterset, IA; The Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, WA
**A Better World: Heroes Working for the Greater Good, a juried, invitational traveling show. International Quilt Market and Festival, Houston, TX; the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton, VA; the New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA; the Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary, NC; the Pacific International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara, CA; and Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA.
A Thread Runs Through It, Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum, Carrollton, GA

2019
The Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
*Anonymous Ancestors, Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL
Child's Play, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO.
**Freed Format: The Book Reconsidered, traveling book arts show. Mark Twain Library in Redding, CT; the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, CT; Ridgefield Library, CT; Putnam Arts Council in Mahopac, NY; Mahopac Pubic Library, NY; Five Points Gallery in Torrington, CT; and the University of Hartford Art School, CT
701 CCA South Carolina Biennial, 701 Center of Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC
Fusion Mid-Atlantic, Virginia Beach Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA
Celebrating America Craft, Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN
**Alternative Storytellers. Anastasia & Friends Gallery, Columbia, SC.
*Last Words, Caldwell Arts Council, Lenoir, NC.
Color: Classic to Contemporary, Hudgens Center for the Art and Learning, Duluth, GA (Merit Award)
**30 Years of QSDS, The Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens, OH
**ecoFAB Trash Couture Runway Show, Tapps Art Center, Columbia, SC
**The Deep Stitch, The 567 Center for Renewal, Macon, GA

2018
*Anonymous Ancestors, Eastern Shore Art Center, Fairhope, AL
**Photographs & Memories Invitational, Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Museum, La Conner, WA
** Things that Matter, traveling art quilt show. Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ and St. George Art Museum, St. George, UT in 2019
**The Nature of Stitch, Whitman College's Sheehan Gallery, Walla Walla, WA
Books Undone, Penn College, Williamsport, PA
**Transformers: Artistic Alchemy, Agnes Scott College's Dalton Gallery, Decatur, GA
Raw, University of Indiana, Kokomo, IN
The Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC
The Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
Art Quilt Elements, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Form Not Function at the Carnegie Center, New Albany, IN
South Carolina Palmetto Hands Fine Craft Exhibition, North Charleston, SC
Guns: Loaded Conversations, a traveling SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) exhibition, traveling through 2019
A Sense of Place, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA
American Craft Council Show, Atlanta
ArtFields, Lake City, SC
Spring Exhibition, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Durham, NC
*Anonymous Ancestors, Theatre Art Galleries, High Point, NC
*Last Words, Greenville Center for Creative Arts, Greenville, SC
*Buttons, The University of South Carolina-Aiken's Etherredge Art Center, Aiken, SC
*The Wall of Ancestors, The University of South Carolina-Aiken's Etherredge Art Center, Aiken, SC

2017
***Threads: Gathering My Thoughts, South Carolina State Library, Columbia, SC
Stitch! at Morehead State University, KY
**Winter Show, GreenHill Center for the Arts, Greensboro, NC
Ironic Designs at the Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, AL
H20!, a SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) national traveling exhibition through 2019
35th Annual New Legacies Art Quilts Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO
**In Death at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, Cedarburg, WI
All Things Considered 9: Basketry in the 21st Century, National Basketry Assoc. traveling exhibition
Form Not Function at the Carnegie Center, New Albany, IN
**Portraits, a Through Our Hands invitation exhibition at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, UK
***Saint Anastasia, Anastasia & Friends Gallery, Columbia, SC
Sacred Threads, Herndon, VA
Things That Matter, Vision Gallery, Chandler, SC
ArtFields, Lake City, SC
Fiber National 2018, Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA
American Craft Council Show in Baltimore and Atlanta
South Carolina Palmetto Hands Fine Craft Exhibition, North Charleston, SC
*Anonymous Ancestors, University of South Carolina-Upstate, Spartanburg, SC
*In Stitches, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC
The Philadelphia Museum of Art Fine Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA

2016
The Philadelphia Museum of Art Fine Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
**Espanola Fibre Festival, TEDx lecture and trunk show, Espanola, Ontario, Canada
QATV, Quilting Arts Television for PBS programming, 1900 Series, filmed in Solon, OH
*Anonymous Ancestors, The University of South Carolina-Beaufort, Beaufort, SC
** ***Nike's Advice, performance art installation at Artista Vista, Columbia, SC
**Marked by the Water, Tapps Art Center, Columbia, SC
Spun, NEST Arts Factory, Bridgeport, CT
*Threads: Gathering My Thoughts, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Mesa, AZ
*Last Words, Georgia Agriculture Museum, Tifton, GA
*Last Words, University of South Carolina-Aiken, Aiken, SC
*PLAYA: A Month in Paradise, Anastasia & Friends Gallery, Columbia, SC
ArtFields, Lake City, SC
South Carolina Palmetto Hands Fine Craft Exhibition, North Charleston, SC
2016 Juried Art Show, Imperial Center, Rocky Mount, NC
American Craft Council Shows in Baltimore, MD and Atlanta, GA
**South Carolina Arts Foundation Gala Auction and Sale, Columbia, SC
**Between the Covers: Altered Books in Contemporary Art, Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA
Stories of Migration: Contemporary Artists Interpret Diaspora, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC
28th Annual Decatur Arts Festival's Fine Art Exhibition, Decatur, GA
Fiber National 2016, Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA

2015
**Season of Soil, Woolen Mill Gallery, Reedsburg, WI
**The Quilt Show, Episode 1711, Subscription Internet program
**Natural Wonder: The Rensing Story, Clemson City Hall, Clemson, SC
Form as Content, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY
What's for Dinner?, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
*All About Texture, Cultural Arts Council of Douglasville, Douglasville, GA
**Starry Night Gala, Five Points Association, Columbia, SC
**National Tree Lighting, South Carolina's selected ornament artist, Washington, DC
*Last Words, Southeastern Quilt and Textile Museum, Carrollton, GA
Natural Dye Showcase, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA
Velocity of Textiles, Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
**Maker, Making, Made, Through Our Hands exhibition at The Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, UK
**Independent Spirits: Women Artists of South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Intertwined: Contemporary Southeastern Fiber Art, Hudgens Center for the Arts, Duluth, GA
**Art from the Ashes, Tapps Art Center, Columbia, SC
American Craft Council Show in Baltimore and Atlanta
South Carolina Palmetto Hands Fine Craft Exhibition, North Charleston, SC
**South Carolina Arts Foundation Gala Auction and Sale, Columbia, SC
Crafting Civil (War) Conversations, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC
**At the Edge of the Quilt: New Work, Bilston Craft Gallery, Bilston, West Midlands, UK
**Southern Highlights, Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Melbourne, FL

2014
*It's About Time, Columbia Metropolitan Airport, Columbia, SC
Fiber Fever, Foundry Art Center, St. Charlest, MO
Art Quilts XIX: Permission to Play, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ
**2014 Instructors' Exhibition at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
How We See Her, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, MO Juror's Award
26th Annual Decatur Fine Arts Exhibition, Decatur, GA
**Mending: New Uses for Old Traditions, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
**Meet the Designers, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
*Stained Glass Fibers, Allenton Gallery at the Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
**South Carolina Arts Foundation Gala Auction and Sale, Columbia, SC
American Craft Council Show in Baltimore, MD
***ArtFields 2014. Lake City, SC
***Threads: Gathering My Thoughts, Studio Cellar, Columbia, SC
South Carolina Palmetto Hands Fine Craft Exhibition, North Charleston, SC
Radical Elements, international traveling Studio Art Quilt Association exhibition opening at the Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Montgomery College, Silver Springs, MD
**Volumes 2: Women Bound by Art, Curtis R. Harley Gallery, Spartanburg, SC
35th Annual Juried South Carolina Art Competition, Pickens County Museum, Pickens, SC

2013
Quilt National 2013, The Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH
ARTrageous: Art Quilts Year XVIII, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ
*Decision Portraits, University Gallery, The University of South Carolina Sumter, Sumter, SC
*I Am Not Invisible, Tapps Art Center, Columbia, SC
**INTERweave: Extreme Fibers, Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Cazenovia, NY
**Connecting Concepts & Medium: Fiber Arts in South Carolina, Pickens County Museum of Art and History, Pickens, SC
**701 South Carolina Biennial, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC
**Shifting Threads, Artlink Center of the Arts, Fort Wayne, IN
**Interior Spaces, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC
**Artfields Extended, Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, Columbia, SC
***ArtFields, Lake City, SC
The Philadelphia Museum of Art Fine Craft Show, Philadelphia, PA
The Washington Craft Show, Washington, DC
National Fiber Directions, Wichita Center of the Arts, Wichita, KS
Page Turner, Some Things Looming Gallery, Reading, PA
**South Carolina Arts Foundation Gala Auction and Sale, Columbia, SC
**Down to Sleep, Chester F. Sidell Gallery at the Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2013 Quilt Festival, La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum, La Conner, WA
Metaphors on Aging, international traveling Studio Art Quilt Association exhibition
Text Messages, international traveling Studio Art Quilt Association exhibition
*The Decision Portraits, Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ
34th Contemporary Crafts National Juried Exhibition, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ
ARTQUILTS, Page Walker Museum of Art and History, Cary, NC
**Volumes: Women Bound by Art, Lexington County Library, Lexington, SC
South Carolina Palmetto Hands Fine Craft Exhibition, North Charleston, SC

2012
*Decision Portraits, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
**Bull Street: Life Behind the Walls, The State Museum, Columbia, SC
2012 Quilt Festival, La Conner Quilt and Textile Museum, La Conner, WA
**Volumes: Women Bound by Art, Portfolio Gallery, Columbia, SC
**Things That Go Bump In the Night, Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ
I'm Not Crazy, Studio Art Quilt Associates traveling exhibition
*The Canopy, Studios Midwest, Galesburg, IL
*Sun and Sand, Frame of Mind, Columbia, SC
Unearth, A Celebration of Naturally Inspired Art, Saluda Shoals Park, Columbia, SC
Art Quilt Lowell 2012: Music, The Brush Gallery and Studios, Lowell, MA
*Material Voices, An Exhibition of Small Quilts. Ayers Loft Gallery, Lowell, MA
*Fiber Architecture: Buildings in Stitches, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
**Scrapel Hill 2012 Exhibition, Chapel Hill, NC
La Grange National XXVII, LaGrange, GA
*Last Words, Imperial Center, Rocky Mount, NC
33rd Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
**Meet the Designers, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
**Small Stories, Urban Alchemist Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
**What's Love: Input/Output. Columbia, SC
Narrative Threads, Page-Walker Arts and History Center, Cary, NC
Crafts National, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, KS
Art and the Human Form: Concept, Costume & Beyond, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY
Textiles in a Tube 2, Riverworks Gallery, Greenville, SC
Palmetto Hands, North Charleston, SC. Best of Show
**2012 Exhibition, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC

2011
*Last Words, Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ
**The Winter Show, Green Hill Center, Greensboro, NC
Art of Fiber, Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA
Fine Crafts, Fredericksburg Creative Center for the Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
SAQA Layers of Memories, Studio Art Quilt Associates traveling exhibition
2011 Wearable Art Awards, Port Moody Arts Centre, Port Moody, BC, Canada. First place "Second Life Award"
14th International Open Group Exhibition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
**SAQA Volusia: Wrapped in Fiber, Gateway Center for the Arts, DeBary, FL
Textiles in a Tube, Riverworks Gallery, Greenville, SC
*Personal Grounds, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury. NC
Postcard Show: Wish You Were Here, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
National Fiber Directions Exhibition 2011, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
Handcrafted, Imperial Centre, Rocky Mount, NC
**Install-It at Artista Vista 2011, Columbia, SC
Palmetto Hands, North Charleston, SC. Outstanding Merit Award
***Tapps Center for the Arts Window Installations, Columbia, SC
Re-Tread Threads: Exhibition of Fiber Art from Re-cycled Materials, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
**Green: The Color and the Cause, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC
The Art Quilt Experience, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
**9th Annual National Quilt Artists, Earlville Opera House Multi-Arts Center, Earlville, NY
Art Quilt Lowell 2011: The Sea, The Brush Gallery and Studios, Lowell, MA
National Juried Quilt Exhibit, Delaplane Visual Arts Education Center, Frederick, MD
Unearth, A Celebration of Naturally Inspired Art, Saluda Shoals Park, Columbia, SC
**2011 Exhibition, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC
National Heritage Quilt Show, McMinn County Living Heritage Museum, Athens, TN. Best of Show
The American Dream: A Juxaposition, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
**Fashion and the Female, The Arts Center of Greenwood, Greenwood, SC

2010 CarolinaFest 2010 Juried Art Competition, Florence, SC. Distinguished Merit Award
LaGrange National XXVI Biennial, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange College, GA. Merit Award
Fantastic Fibers: An International Juried Art Exhibition, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
Palmetto Hands, North Charleston, SC. Outstanding Merit Award
Art Quilts Elements 2010, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
Handcrafted, Imperial Centre, Rocky Mount, NC
Art Recycled from Trash, Picture This Gallery, Hilton Head, SC
*Last Words, Florence Regional Arts Alliance, Florence, SC
**2010 Exhibition, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC
2010 National Small Art Quilt Works Exhibition, Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY
Art Quilts Lowell 2010, Brush Gallery and Studios, Lowell, MA
***Tapps Center for the Arts Window Installations, Columbia, SC
*Decision Portraits, City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC
The Will's Creek Survey 2010, Allegany Arts Council, Cumberland, MD. First Place Sculpture Award
Australian Patchwork & Quilting and Expertise Events, French Forest NSW, Australia
Art Quilts XV: NeedlePlay, Chandler Center for the Arts & Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ

2009
ArtsFest 2009 Exhibition, Florence Regional Arts Alliance, Florence, SC. Merit Award
22nd Materials: Hard & Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX. Juror's Award
**Spring for Art, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC
Palmetto Hands Fine Craft Exhibition, North Charleston, SC. Best of Show
Handcrafted, Imperial Centre, Rocky Mount, NC
Piccolo Spoleto Festival 2009 Juried Art Exhibition, Charleston, SC
Intimate Curiosities, Southeast Association for Book Arts National Juried Exhibition, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Art Quilts Lowell 2009, Brush Art Gallery and Studios, Lowell, MA
2009 National Small Art Quilt Works, The Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY
Unearth, A Celebration of Naturally Inspired Art, Saluda Shoals Park, Columbia, SC
2009 South Carolina State Fair Fine Art Exhibition, Columbia, SC. First Place, Open Media
Cultural Memory: Transdiasporic Art Practices, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Wichita National All Media Craft Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
Fiber Artistry, Hudgens Center for the Arts, Duluth, GA
52nd Annual National Juried Art Exhibition,Imperial Centre, Rocky Mount, NC
*Blues Chapel, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX

2008
ArtsFest, Florence Regional Arts Alliance, Florence, SC. Premiere Merit Award
Materials Hard & Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
**South Carolina Arts Foundation 10th Annual Elizabeth O’Neill Verner and Governors Awards for the Arts, Columbia, SC
Roots, Memories and the Southern Bottle Tree, Sumter County Cultural Center, Sumter, SC
Palmetto Hands Fine Craft Competition, North Charleston, SC
**Spring for Art, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC
North Charleston Judged Art Exhibition, Charleston, SC
*Blue Chapel, Discovery Center, Edgefield, SC
29th Annual Juried South Carolina Artists Competition, Pickens County Museum of Art and History
Vanishing Landscapes, Piccolo Spoloto Festival Juried Art Exhibition. Charleston, SC
South Carolina State Museum 20th Anniversary Juried Art Exhibition, Columbia, SC
*Blues Chapel, Pickens County Museum of Art & History, Pickens, SC
South Carolina Festival of Flowers, Greenwood, SC
Interweavings, Abecedarian Artists’ Books and Prints, Denver, CO
MOJA Arts Festival 2008 Juried Art Exhibition, Charleston, SC
The Connection, South Carolina National Heritage Corridor, Juried Art Show, Aiken, SC

2007
Stones, Bones, and Fibers: Excavating Civilizations of the Mind, Pinckney Simons Gallery, Columbia, SC
*Elements of Architecture, Ironstone Vineyards, Murphys, CA
Artfest 2007 Juried Art Competition, Florence Regional Arts Alliance, Florence, SC
Discovering Contemporary Art in the Carolinas, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC
Palmetto Hands Fine Craft Competition, North Charleston, SC
**A Fool for Art, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC
**South Carolina Arts Foundation 8th Annnual Elizabeth O'Neill Verner and Governors Awards for the Arts, Columbia, SC
10th Annual Spring Obsession Juried Art Show, Ironstone Vineyards, Murphys, CA
4th Biennial Hub City Juried Art Competition, Spartanburg Museum of Art, Spartanburg, SC
**Frolics, Romps and Rolics, Fish or Cut Bait Gallery, Edisto, SC
28th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Pickens County Museum of Art and History, Pickens, SC
50th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition, Rocky Mount Arts Center, Imperial Centre, Rocky Mount, NC
*Stitched, Hyman Fine Arts Center, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC
Through the Eyes of Art, Saluda Shoals Park, Columbia, SC
MOJA Arts Festival Juried Art Exhibition, Charleston, SC
Heritage Days Celebration Art Competition, Penn Center, St. Helena Island, SC. First Place, Mixed Media
Craftforms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
19th Miniature Art Competition, Florence Museum, Florence, SC

2006
Southeastern Regional Sculpture Competition, Aiken County Historical Museum, Aiken, SC
**A Fool for Art, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC
**South Carolina Arts Foundation 7th Annual Elizabeth O’Neill Verner and Governors Awards for the Arts, Columbia, SC
Piccolo Spoleto Festival 2006 Juried Art Exhibition, Charleston, SC
Spring Obsession Juried Art Show, Ironstone Vineyards, Murphys, CA
Spirituality; a Personal Journey, The Arts Center, Greenwood, SC
Fiber Fever, National Juried Art Show, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, MO
**Open Eyes; Shelter, Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, Columbia, SC
South Carolina State Fair Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Columbia, SC. First Place, Open Media
*Masks and Markings, University of South Carolina-Aiken, Aiken, SC

2005
*The Shape of Things, Gallery 164, Slippery Rock, PA
**Myrtle Beach Collects, Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC
Hand Crafted, Imperial Centre, Rocky Mount, NC
South Carolina Regional Sculpture Competition, Aiken County Historical Museum, Aiken, SC
**A Fool for Art, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC
Color the Arts, Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties, SC
Palmetto Hands Juried Craft Exhibition, North Charleston, SC
Spring Obsession Juried Art Show, Ironstone Vineyards, Murphys, CA
Dimension 2005, Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Winston-Salem, NC
Florence Museum 27th Statewide Art Competition, Florence, SC
**South Carolina Arts Foundation 7th Annual Elizabeth O'Neill Verner and Governor's Awards for the Arts, Columbia, SC
**Columbia Visual Artists' Show, Columbia College, Columbia, SC
Gateway National Juried Art Show, Farmington Museum, Farmington, NM. Purchase award
South Cobb Arts Alliance 18th National Juried Art Exhibition, Marbleton, GA
The Art of Music, Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY
**Art.a.Must: A Celebration to Prevent Child Abuse, Columbia, SC
**Open Eyes: Art for Awareness, Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, Columbia, SC
*Threads of Life, Shandon United Methodist Church, Columbia, SC
Lines Into Shapes, The Arts Center of Estes Park, Estes Park, CO
2005 Columbia County Art & Renaissance Festival Juried Art Exhibition, Augusta, GA
The Juried National Bead and Fiber Exhibit, Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, Frederick, MD
Artists for Literacy Juried Art Show, House of Frames and Paintings, Columbia, SC
MOJA Arts Festival 2005 Juried Art Exhibition, Charleston, SC
**Bark After Dark, Meow 'Til Midnight, SPCA Art Show, Columbia, SC
17th Annual Miniature Art Competition, Florence Museum, Florence, SC
In the Game, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset

2004
LaGrange National XXIII Biennial Art Show, Chattahoochie Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA.Juror's Merit and Purchase Awards
Union County Arts Council Art Exhibition, Union, SC
Through the Needle's Eye 18th National Exhibit, The Embroiderers' Guild of America
**South Carolina Arts Foundation 6th Annual Elizabeth O'Meill Verner and Governor's Awards for the Arts, Columbia, SC
Spring Obsession Juried Art Show, Ironstone Vineyards, Murphys, CA
26th Annual Statewide Art Competition, Florence Museum of Art, Florence, SC
**Landscapes: A Mixed Media Perspective, Belton Center for the Arts, Belton, SC
Pattern & Decoration, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
**Art.a.Must: A Celebration to Prevent Child Abuse, Columbia, SC
**InspirArte, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
South Carolina State Fair Fine Arts Juried Exhibition. First Place, Open Media
**Bark After Dark, Meow 'Til Midnight, Columbia, SC
Interpretations: Making Art Under the Influence, Gallery 5, Rock Hill, SC
**The Art of Giving, Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC
16th Annual Miniature Art Competition and Exhibition, Florence Museum, Florence, SC

2003
Cedar Keys Art Center National Juried Art Exhibition, Cedar Keys, FL
All Media V International Juried Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
Spring Obsession Art Show, Ironstone Vineyards, Murphys, CA
25th Annual State-wide Art Competition, Florence Museum of Art, Florence, SC
19th Annual Piccolo Spoleto Festival Juried Art Exhibition, Charleston, SC
Union County Arts Council Art Exhibition, Union, SC
JAWS: Just Art With Sharks, South Carolina Aquarium, Charleston, SC
The RE Store's Second Recycled Art Show, Seattle, WA
**InspirArte, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
Belton Standpipe Festival Juried Art Show, Belton, SC
New Horizons Juried Art Festival Show, Columbia County, GA. First Place
Autobiography: The Artist's Own Image, Gallery 5, Rock Hill, SC
26th Annual Juried Art Show, Pickens County Museum of Art and History, Pickens, SC.Juror’s Choice Award.
**3rd Annual Art for the Soul, Moonstone Studio & Gallery, Lake Geneva, WI
15th Annual Miniature Art Competition, Florence Museum, Florence, SC. Best of Show
Palmetto Hands Juried Fine Craft Exhibition, North Charleston, SC. Best of Show

2002 Through the Needle's Eye: 17th National Exhibit,The Embroiderers' Guild of America, Inc.
Celebrating the Legacy of Romare Bearden, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Septemberfest V Annual International Juried Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
From the Rooftops, a Bird's Eye View, Gallery 5, Rock Hill, SC
Small Works Juried Art Show, Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC
The Best Contemporary Art II, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
An American Experience 2002, Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, NC
New Horizons Arts Festival Competition, Columbia County, GA
Miniature V International Juried Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
2nd Annual Art for the Soul Exhibition, Moonstone Studios & Gallery, Lake Geneva, WI
25th Annual Juried Art Show, Pickens County Museum of Art and History, Pickens, SC
11th Annual Miniature Art Show, Mondak Heritage Center, Sidney, MT
The Spiritual Art V International Juried Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
14th Annual Miniature Art Competition, Florence Museum of Art, Florence, SC