Education/Training

1998 MFA, School of The Art Institute of Chicago
1994 BA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Public Art/Media

A “Wake” for the dead in Iraq, multimedia slide show, Chicago Tribune website. Documentation of the installation of “Wake” at the Phyllis Stigliano Gallery, Brooklyn, photographed May 24, 2006 by Pete Souza. www.chicagotribune.com/wake

FACADE PROJECT, Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, 7/04 – present. A three-story site specific installation commemorating US servicemen and women who have died in Iraq. Media coverage of the project includes: “The Facade Project” feature cover story, WGN News Chicago, Veterans Day, 9:00 PM News; "Art Windows Put Face on War," Chicago Tribune, Sunday, August 8, 2004, Metro section; "Public Displays: The Cost of War Writ Large," Chicago Reader, Thursday, August 12, 2004, Calendar, Section 1; TV coverage on ABC7 Chicago and radio coverage on WBBM780 (news radio)and NPR.

Selected Exhibitions

2009
transient, Mosnart, Chicago (solo show)
undercurrent, Portland Building Installation Space, Oregon (solo show)
Ink/Paper/Press, FLATFILEgalleries, Chicago (group show)

2008
SOFA Chicago, Bullseye Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (international art fair)
SOFA Preview, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon (group show)
The Art of Democracy, Workshop Print Gallery, Chicago (group show)
Survey, College of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois (solo show)
Catalyst, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, Oregon (solo show)

2007
CATALYST, FLATFILEgalleries, Chicago (solo show)
Bridge Art Fair, FLATFILEgalleries, Chicago (international art fair)
Beyond Boundaries, H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art, Carthage College, Wisconsin (group show)
Survey, PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon (window project)
Transformation, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, New York (group show)

2006
Printapalooza, Workshop Print Gallery, Chicago (group show)
Interference, Phyllis Stigliano Gallery, Brooklyn (solo show)
e-merge, Bullseye Resource Center, Portland, Oregon (International Biennial Competition)
WAKE, Brooklyn Public Library (solo site-specific installation)
Black & White, FLATFILEgalleries, Chicago (group show)
WAKE, Phyllis Stigliano Gallery, Brooklyn (solo Memorial Day installation)
Hunt & Gather, Evanston Art Center, Illinois (group show)
Transformation, Southern Graphics Council, Madison, Wisconsin (print portfolio)

2005
ILLUMINATED, Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska (with John Himmelfarb)
BareWalls, The Art Institute of Chicago (benefit show)
Snap To Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (group show)
On the Mark, Chicago Cultural Center (group show)
Chopmark II, H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin (group show)
interpret/interrupt, LIPA Gallery, Chicago (group show)
Morph-olio, Metalworks Gallery, Chicago (group show)
Complicity (10 years after Kosovo), LIPA Gallery, Chicago (group show)

Awards, Honors & Grants

2008 Documentary by WGN News Chicago about the FACADE PROJECT wins an Emmy
2007 CAAP Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
2006 Finalist, e-merge, Bulleye Resource Center, Portland, Oregon (International Competition)
2004 CAAP Grant, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs

Residencies

2008 KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, California
1998 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson

Teaching & Lectures

2009
Visiting Artist, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Instructor, Bullseye Resource Center, Portland, Oregon

2008
Artist's Talk, Bullseye Resource Center, Portland, Oregon
Artist's Talk, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Teaching Assistant (Catharine Newell), Pilchuck Glass School, Washington
Lecture & Demonstration, Bullseye Resource Center, Portland, Oregon

Selected Publications

2007
Kogan, Rick. “Putting a Face on War,” Chicago Tribune Magazine, Sunday, 6 May, photograph of the “Facade Project” by Charles Osgood

e-merge 2006: A Showcase of Rising Talents in Kiln Glass, Bullseye Resource Center,exhibition catalog, 50 pgs. pgs. 7, 9 (illustration) and 36 (illustration)

2006
“A ‘Wake’ for the Dead in Iraq,” Chicago Tribune, Perspective, "The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: The Fallen," Sunday, 28 May, Section 2, p. 2. Photograph of "Wake" installation at Phyllis Stigliano Gallery by Pete Souza.

2005
Foreman, Julie and Copenhaver, Katie. “The Sociable Artist As Printmaker,” Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Chicago Artists’News, November, Volume XXXII, Number 10, pp. 1,7, (illustration)

2004
Brooks, Ryan. “Public Displays: The Price of War Writ Large,” Chicago Reader, Calendar, Section 1, 13 August, p. 34 (illustration)

“Art Windows Put Face on War,” Chicago Tribune, Metro Section, Sunday, 8 August, p. 2 (illustration)