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Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants & Awards:
2nd Place Print Prize, Pacific Prints 2002 2002
Outstanding Print Prize, Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show 2002
1st place, You & Eye-Art Responds to Prejudice 2001
Art Council Juror's Award 2000
2nd Place book award for Knowledgeable in the Northwest Bookfest 2000
Women's Studio Workshop Artists' Book Residency Grant 1999
Juror's Award, "BACA 15th Annual National Juried Exhibition," 1999
James D. Phelan Award 1997
Kala Art Institute Fellowship 1997
Leo D. Stillwell Graduate Scholarship 1995
International Rotary Foundation Graduate Scholarship 1991-1992
Tuscany Region Scholarship for Lithography 1987

Solo shows
2003 Sticks and Stones, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, STANISLAUS, Turlock, CA
2002 Names Will Never Hurt Me, PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Portland, OR
2000 Between the Lines, FRUMKIN/DUVAL GALLERY, Bergamot Station T-1, Santa Monica, CA
1999 Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York
1999 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 "Introductions '98," Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1992 "Life and Death in Italy," Women's Center, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
1988 "Senior Exhibition," Dancing Man Gallery, Santa Cruz, California

Group shows
2002 "Cannon Beach Gallery's 15th Annual Miniature Show", Cannon Beach Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR
"Built By Hand: the Book as Art Juried Exhibition", Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD
"Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show 2002", Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
"Tolerance & Human Rights Artist Book Exhibition", Collins Gallery - Central Library, Portland, CA
"Pacific Prints 2002", Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
2001 "Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary California Works on Paper", California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
"Brand 31: Works on Paper", Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, CA
"The Spirit of Handmade Prints", Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
"You & Eye-Art Responds to Prejudice", A Shenere Velt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"The World of Figure", The Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Statewide Book Arts Competition & Exhibition", Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
"75th Annual International Competition", The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
"Prejudice", Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
"2001 Works on Paper: Recent Drawings, Prints and Photographs", LSU Union Art Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
"Print Show the First", Cracked Compass Productions, Seattle, WA
"Book Works 2001", San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
2000 "Fuzzylogic", Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
"Northwest Bookfest Book Arts Exhibition," Stadium Exhibition Center, Seattle, WA
"The Art Council's 2000 Grants to Individual Artists," Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
"What is Reading?," San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
"Livres de Poetes (femmes)," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
"Paper Rocks Scissors, " San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Pacific Prints 2000," Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto ,CA
"People as Material," Institution, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
"Book Nooks," Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA
"Multiplicity in Time & Space," Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA

1999 "Fiber Art," Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
"BACA 15th Annual National Juried Exhibition," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
"On the Edge of the Century: Printmaking and Social Commentary in the 1990's," BACA, Berkeley, CA
"Pacific Center for the Book Exhibition," San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
"CSP Annual Members Show 1999," Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach, CA
"Making Books," Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafeal, CA
1998 "Nothing But Time," Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Out West: The Artist's Book in California," Center for Book Arts, New York City
"Scapes: Kala Art Institute Fellowship Awards Exhibition," Kala, Berkeley, CA
"The 1998 Annual Artist Members Exhibition," Center for Book Arts, New York City
"Second Biennial Artists' Books Juried Exhibition," The Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA
"CSP 85th Anniversary Exhibition," Gallery 551, San Francisco, CA
1997 "6th Annual Luggage Show," the luggage store, San Francisco, CA
"Fahrenheit 451," San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"1997 James D. Phelan Art Awards in Printmaking", Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
"Book Works", San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
"Artists and Books, " Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Fantastic Image Exhibit, Fetterly Gallery," Vallejo, California
"Spectrum - Woodblock thru Microchip," Berkeley Store Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1996 "Science Imagined," Berkeley Art Center Association, Berkeley, CA
"Seeking Security the Human Spirit and the Compulsion to Control," WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA
"MFA '96," San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California
"Eighth Biennial Pacific Prints 1996," Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA
"Geometry & New Math (books about sex)," Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
1995 "4th Annual Juried Luggage Show," the luggage store, San Francisco, California
"California Society of Printmakers Membership Show," Art Concepts, Walnut Creek, CA
"Experiments in Book Art," Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
"The Hand Bookbinders of California Members Show," SF Public Library, San Francisco, CA
"Radical Belief," Central Arts Collective, Tucson, Arizona
"Deconstruction of Eve," The New College, San Francisco, California

Collections
Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, San Diego, CA
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
Duke University, Durham, NC
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Mills College, Special Collections, Mills Center for the Book, Olin Library, Oakland, CA
Multnomah County Library, Portland OR
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Reed College, Portland, OR
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
Scripps College, Ella Strong Denison Library, Claremont, CA
Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs, NY
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
University of California, San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections Library, San Diego, CA
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Bibliography
PALO ALTO WEEKLY, Sue Dremann, The Way of the West 'Pacific Prints 2002' Showcases the Finest Printmaker on the West Coast, October 2002

CAMBRIDGE CHRONICLE, Candi Carter, Cambridge Art Show Anything but Bashful, June 2002
THE BOSTON GLOBE, Cate McQuaid, Focus on the Figurative in CAA Prize Exhibit, May 2002
ARTWEEK, Draza Fratto O'Brien, Robert Russel and Diane Jacobs at Frumkin/Duval Gallery, February, 2001
ARTSCENE, Continuing and Recommended, January 2001
NY ARTS MAGAZINE, Francis Mills, Media and Methods, September 2000
ARTWEEK, Michael Read, 'Making Books' at Falkirk Cultural Center, April 1999
SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, Glen Helfand, 'Introductions '98, July 1998
BAY AREA REPORTER, Steven Jenkins, Wonder Words, October 1997
THE JOURNAL OF ARTIST BOOKS, Ruth McGurk, ' Science Imagined' : a Review, Spring 1997
LA WEEKLY, Peter Frank, Changing Media, Artists and Books, April 1997
METRO, Ann Elliot Sherman, The Self Versus Society, October 1996
SF WEEKLY, Dave Eggers, Art Market Be Damned, June 1996

Teaching Experience
1998- 1999 Artist in Residence, Artworks - Goldman Institute On Aging
1996 -1998 Artist in Residence, San Francisco Art Education Project
1998 Substitute Art Instructor, Book Arts, San Francisco State University
1998 Art Instructor, Book Binding Workshop, Palo Alto Cultural Center
1997 Art Instructor, Letterpress printing, San Francisco City College Extension
1996 Substitute Art Instructor, Advanced Printmaking, San Francisco State University
1996 Art Instructor, Advanced Photo-Printmaking, San Francisco State University
1995 Teacher's Assistant, Etching, San Francisco State University
1994 Teacher's Assistant, Book Arts, San Francisco State University
1989 Teacher's Assistant, Beginning Drawing, University of California at Santa Cruz

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