EDUCATION

BFA: 1972, MFA: 1982, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

• Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA — 2011

• David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN — 2010, 2008, 2006, 2002, 2000

• Harris Gallery, Houston, TX — 2005, 2001, 1997

• Caffery Gallery, Baton Rouge — 2008, 2006

• School of Art Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, LA — 2005

• Edith Baker Gallery (Cidnee Patrick Gallery), Dallas, TX — 2004, 2001, 1999, 1997

• Heriard Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA — 2003, 2000, 1999

• Clark Hall Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana State University, Hammond, LA — 1991

• St. Tammany Arts Center, Covington, LA — 2008

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• “Decadence” — Glassell Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, LA–2011

• “Women in Louisiana” — Selections from the New Orleans Museum of Art Collection, St. Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA, 2010

• “Get Real” — 5 Person Exhibition, Louisiana Arts & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA 2009–2010

• “Prospect One” — Group Exhibition — Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2009

• “The Sky is Gray,” Works inspired by works by author Ernest Gaines, Invitational — LSU School of Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA, 2008

• Group Exhibition — Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2008

• “Sofa” Art Invitational — LSU School of Art Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, LA

• “Still Life” — Harris Gallery, Houston, TX, 2006

• Faculty Exhibition — Arrowmont School or Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, 2006

• “Women Painting Women” — Abercrombie Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA 2004

• “Interpretations of the Still Life” — Forrest Scott Gallery, Millburn, NJ, 2004

• Faculty Auction and Exhibition — Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO 2004

• “Garden Party” — Calcasieu Museum, Lake Charles, LA

• Invitational Landscape Exhibition — Forrest Scott Gallery, Millburn, NJ, 2004

• Invitational Still Life Exhibition — Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, NC, 2004

• 4 Person Exhibition — Peck Gallery, Providence, RI, 2004

• “Real Women” — Clark Hall Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, 2001

• “NOMA at the OMA” — Works of Louisiana Artists from the New Orleans Museum of Art Collection, Opelousas Museum of Art, Opelousas, LA 2001

• Invitational Landscape Exhibition — Transco Energy Tower, Houston, TX 2000

• Invitational Exhibition for Auction — Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL, 1999

• Red Clay Survey, 6th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art — Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL 1998

• Entergy Louisiana Juried Competition — Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans,LA , 1997

• Project Harmony Invitational — Louisiana Arts and Science Center, Baton Rouge, LA, 1996; Cash Award, Juror: Judith Linhares

• Faculty Exhibition — Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, 1995

• “Romancing the Land”, 6 Person Invitational — Galveston Arts Center, Galveston TX, 1994

• 7th Juried Exhibition for Louisiana Women Artists — Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, LA, Cash Award Juror: Janet Fish, 1994

• 10th Annual Women's National Juried Art Exhibition — Walton Art Center, Fayetteville, AR, Cash Award, 1999

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, AWARDS, & PUBLICATIONS

• Recipient of the Lousiana State Individual Artist's Fellowship, 2002

• Teaching Faculty, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO, 2004, 2006, 2008

• Teaching Faculty, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, 1993, 2006, 2009

• Teaching Faculty, St.Tammany Art Association, Covington, LA

• Juror: The Sixteenth International Exhibition of Animals in Art, Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine, Baton Rouge, LA 2003

• Juror: “Debris”, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, LA

• Owner of the Studio dei Leoni, a teaching studio and community gathering place for artists

• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Instructor for courses in painting, drawing and design, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 1980-82

• American Art Collector Magazine 2005

• International Artist Magazine 2006

• New American Paintings, Catalogue of the 16th Open Studios Competition, Open Studios Press, Wellesley, June, 1998 pps. 60-61

• Louisiana Literature, Publication of the Department of English, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, Spring, 1997

• Watercolor Day by Day, Michael Crespo, Watson Guptill Publications, 1987

• Experiments in Watercolor, Michael Crespo, Watson Guptill Publications, 1998

• How To Make an Oil Painting, Michael Crespo, Watson Guptill Publications, 199

COLLECTIONS

• LSU Museum of Art, Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, LA

• Louisiana Arts & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA

• New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

• State of Louisiana, Claiborne Building Collection, Baton Rouge, LA

• Chevron Oil Company, Houston, TX

• Duke Energy, Houston, TX

• Promus Hotel Corporation, Memphis, TN

• Pepsico International, Dallas TX

• Carrington, Coleman, Sloman, Blumenthal, Attorneys at Law, Dallas, TX

• Ochsner Foundation Hospital, New Orleans, LA

• City National Bank, Baton Rouge, LA

• Premier Bank, Baton Rouge, LA

• Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine, Baton Rouge, LA

• Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCorvan, & Jarmon, Attorneys at Law, Baton Rouge, LA

• Hansbrough and Peters Medical Corporation, Baton Rouge, LA