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EDUCATION

2004      = ;            &n= bsp;    Bachelor of Fine Arts, Double Major, Ceramics and Art History, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008            =            Translucent Porcelain Tiles, Appa= lachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN. (scheduled Aug= ust 08).

2008            =            Dainty Sketches: New Works on Translu= cent Porcelain, J*Bird Studios, Kansas City, KS (sched= uled March 08).

2006            =            Eat Cake / Buy Pottery, White Hor= se Club House, Independence, MO.

2005      = ;            &n= bsp;    Recent Work: Cara R. Long, Tchoupitoulas, Kansas City, MO.<= /o:p>

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007            =            J*Bird Studios Resident Holiday Sale, J*Bird Studios, <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Kansas City, KS. (scheduled November 07).

2007            =            J*Bird Studios Grand Opening Exhibiti= on, J*Bird Studios, Kansas City, KS.

2006            =            Empty Bowls, Fundraiser, Red Star Studios, K= ansas City, MO.<= /o:p>

2006            =            Recent Works: Cara R. Long, Jori C. H= ebert, Lisa Iovine, Three-Person Exhibition, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO= .

2005            =            14 Artists on October 14, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO.

2005            =            Light and Dark, Invitational Exhibition, The Late Show, Kan= sas City, MO.

2005            =            Annual BFA Exhibition, H & R = Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO.

2004-2005            Kansas City Flatfile, Invitational Exhibition, H& R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO.<= /o:p>

2004            =            She’s Hotter Than Cone 10, = Invitational Exhibition and Fundraiser, The Cube at Beco,

Kansas C= ity, M= O.

2004            =            Senior Ceramics Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, The Cube at Beco, Kansas City, MO.=

2003            =            More Surprises Than A Christmas Stock= ing, Invitation Exhibition and Sale, Leedy Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO.

2003            =            8^th Annual Undergraduate S= tudent Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City= , MO.

2002-2004            Annual Ceramics Spring Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, Kansas City Art Institute,

Kansas C= ity, M= O.

2001-2004            Annual Ceramics Holiday Exhibition, <= /b>Group Exhibition, Kansas City Art Institute,

Kansas C= ity, M= O.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2007            =            Valentine Cake and Clay Sale, Kansas City Metro = Area, MO and KS.

           &nbs= p;            &= nbsp;       Designed and created numerous works of art with cake and clay as commissions for the Valentine Holiday season.

2006            =            Founded Sweet Mud Clay Works, A Self-Run Hand-Made Pottery= and Tile Business, Kansas City, MO.

2006            =            Art Commissions, Kansas City Metro Area, MO. and KS.

           &nbs= p;            &= nbsp;       Designed and created numerous pottery and tile commissions between the months of November

and December.

RELATED EXPERIENCE
2004            =            Award Designer and Producer, Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee, Kansas City, MO.=

2003-2004            Assistant to the Chair of the Ceramics Department, Kansas City Art Institute,

Kansas C= ity, M= O.

2003-2004            Steward, Ceramics Department Teac= hing Collection, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO.<= /o:p>

2003            =            Assistant Director, Annual Cerami= cs Holiday Exhibition, Kansas Cit= y Art Institute,

Kansas C= ity, M= O.

2003            =            Volunteer, = Kansas City Clay Guild, K= ansas City, MO.<= /o:p>

2003            =            Art Instructor, America Reads, Kansas City, MO.=         &= nbsp;

2002-2003            Co-Chair, Annual Ceramics Holiday Exhibition, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO.

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AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS<= /u>

2003-2004            Dean’s List Honorable Mention, = Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas Cit= y, MO.

2003            =            Brooks Scholarship, Anderson Ranc= h Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO.

2003            =            McKeown Grant, Byron and Deanne McKeown, AZ.

2000-2004            Merit Scholarship, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO.

PUBLICATIONS

2005            =            The Pitch Weekly, 16 June 2005, p= age 24.

COLLECTIONS

           &nbs= p;            &= nbsp;       Ka= nsas City Filmmakers Jubilee,= Kansas City, MO.

     &nb= sp;            =             &nb= sp; Kansas City Art Institute Ceramics Department Teaching Collec= tion, Kansas= City, MO.

QUALIFICATIONS

           &nbs= p;            &= nbsp;       Ceramics: wheel throwing, coil building, slab building, slip casting, mold making, ceramic repair in vario= us states, surface decoration techniques, gas kiln firing, electric kiln firin= g, glaze chemistry and calculation knowledge.<= /span>

     &nb= sp;            =             &nb= sp; Design and Illustration: Business Card / Postcard design, digital typeface design, pen and ink drawing, graph= ite drawing, charcoal drawing, acrylic painting, watercolor= painting.=

     &nb= sp;            =             &nb= sp; Photography: digital and analog camera knowledge, film developing, black and white film printing.

     &nb= sp;            =             &nb= sp; Technology / Communication Skills: intermediate compu= ter knowledge, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Power Point, Micro= soft Word and Works, presentation skills, public speaking, leadership skills, organizational skills, research skills.

     &nb= sp;            =             &nb= sp; Pastry Arts: cake design and production, cake and cookie decoration.

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