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ARTISTIC PHILOSOPHY

My goal in making art is to find and call attention to the meaning in the everyday connections that our busy society often overlooks. The way a dull moth is attracted to the bright colors of a flower, or the faces and personalities that can be found in the gnarled trunk of a tree. The infinite order and minute detail in the tiniest plant, or the complex layers of thought and experience in a child's face are the kind of flames that fuel my passion. I believe art can be both beautiful and life changing. I feel the psyche is made of the snapshots we hold in our mind and how readily accessible those images are. Therefore, creating art around the more poetic and meaningful moments of our lives actually makes our lives poetic and meaningful.

EDUCATION:

Edgewood High School, Ellettsville, Indiana

High school diploma

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

B.A. in Studio Art with minors in sociology and art history

Visual arts education all-grade certification

College & Additional Classes, Photography, Adobe Photoshop, Ceramics, Wire jewelry making, Beading, Stain Glass, Commercial design, Drawing, Painting, Intro to 3-D Art, Computer Technology for Educators.

EMPLOYMENT:

Assistant Manager, Cato Fashions

Sales Associate, IU Art Museum Gift Shop

Frame Dept. Manager, Michael’s Arts & Crafts

Photographer, Sears Portrait Studio CPI

Framer, Hobby Lobby

ART EXPERIENCE:

Rosie Lenses Digital Photography & Restoration

See www.geocities.com/rosielenses

Friends of photography web assistant

See www.friendsofphotography.net

Redesigned and regularly updated 2004-05

Wabash County Museum web designer

See www.wabashmuseum.org

Wabash County Museum DVD cover

Designer of the DVD case cover and disc label for their history of Wabash souvenir video.

Stratton Portrait shoot

A Portrait package in client’s home including Digital Art Creations.

Stratton Wedding shoot

Primary ph Primary photographer at a small chapel wedding using a digital camera, including bridal portrait package, digital manipulations, digital art creations, and digital scrapbook.

Café 541 show

Joined with local artists to show art in showing art and photography at local “Hot Spot”

Abstraction show

A Friends of Photography group exhibition displayed five of my abstract photographs for two months.

Borders Café show

One month personal exhibit of digital floral photography.

Arts for Education show

Won 2nd place award for mixed media in Mid-Cumberland Arts League Annual Show.

Allen portrait shoot

A pregnancy portrait package on location in clients home.

Long Wedding shoot

Primary photographer for mid size outdoor wedding with 35mm camera.

Wire Jewelry Experience

I have been wire sculpting and making jewelry for myself and family for five years. I first learned how to make wire sculptures in college seven years ago and came back to it as a way to display my rock and crystal collection.

On a personal note...

I was born in Wyoming to an Air Force city boy and a grown up flower child from the country, who somehow had enough in common to stay happily married to this day. I have two younger brothers, who are too cool in their own very different ways. Together we moved from Wyoming to Arkansas to Indiana to Utah and back to Indiana all before high school. In 1996 I graduated from Edgewood High School, 8th in my class.

I immediately went into college at Indiana University, which I must have loved a lot because I stayed for five years including summers just to get a degree in Studio Art, but I also got a certificate in Art Education K-12, and minors in Art History, and Sociology. There I met my wonderful husband, Steven.

We were married the next year, September 9, 2001. For our 1st anniversary we found out we were expecting. We both graduated in 2002. Steven found a professional job at a nice museum in Tennessee in March, our darling daughter Artessa was born in May and we were living in TN by June of 2003. There, I was a member of the local Friends of Photography guild, and Artz guild where I showed my photography in galleries around town.

We are now Back Home in Indiana, close to our family and have added a baby boy, Graham. I have been working on my home businesses both Rosie Lenses Photography, since 2003, and Earthshaper Art & Jewelry, which is a lifetime in the making (though it just got this formal business name). I hope to someday work for or own my own portrait studio or art gallery unless my jewelry biz takes off. My hobbies are hiking, gardening, writing, and of course, art of any kind. One day when the kids are grown and we are retired Steven and I plan to travel the world or at least North America in our RV.

Earthshaper Arts