Awards, Shows, and Activities
2020 Chosen to paint a bus shelter, West Hartford, CT
2019 CT State Middle School Art Teachers of the Year
2015-16 Co-Director West Hartford Townwide Artshow
2011-2012 CPDC Presentation Committee
2010-2011 Conn. Art Ed. Assoc. Elem Teacher of the Year
1998-2012 Teacher of Gifted and Talented Grade 5 Art Quest
2006-2012 Member of Board of Directors, Wethersfield Art Academy
2004-2009 Member of Board of Directors, West Hartford Art League
1997-2007 Created Museum Express – Traveling Art Museum to 11 Elementary Schools in West Hartford
2008 Presenter, Connecticut Art Education Assoc. Conference
2007 Presenter, Connecticut Art Education Assoc. Conference
2006 Presenter, Connecticut Art Education Assoc. Conference
2003 Presenter, Conference of New Eng. Art Ed. Assoc.
2001 Presenter, Conference of New Eng. Art Ed. Assoc.
1999 Presenter, Conference of New Eng. Art Ed. Assoc.
1998 Recipient of Fulbright Memorial Fund Trip to Japan to visit schools – 3 weeks
1996-98 President, West Hartford Art League
Shows
2019 One-Woman Art Town & County Club, Hartford, CT
2018 Students created Banners to hang in West Hartford Center
2018 Dec. Group Art Show – West Harford Art League
2018 Aug. Group Art Show at Guilford Art Academy
2016 One Woman Show, Windsor, CT
2014 Group Art Show at ArtSpace, Hartford, CT
2011 Group Art Show at ArtSpace, Hartford, CT
2010 March, One Woman Show, Wethersfield High School
2010 Group Show, Blue Back Square
2009 Group Art Show at ArtSpace, Hartford, CT
2009 CT plus 5 Art Show, 2 pieces juried, May
2007 One Woman Show, Recent Works, The McAulley, West Hartford
2007 Painted 2 cows for West Hartford Cowparade
2007 One Woman Show, Duncaster, Bloomfield
2006 One Woman Show, 1st Church, West Hartford
2006 Painted Horse for Giddy-Up Granby
2006 One-Woman Show of Watercolors – 1st Church, W.H.
2004 Painted Bass Violin for West Hartford Symphony
2004 Painted Cow for West Hartford Cow Parade
2003 Painted Heart for Danbury Hospital
2003 One Woman Show – Cosi’s Restaurant
2003 Painted Brick for Breast Cancer Donation
2002 Donation Painted Dog for Dog Days of New Hartford
Grants:
2018 West Hartford Foundation Grant for visiting artist Korean Lantern Art Project
2017 West Hartford Foundation Grant for visiting artist Korean Lantern Art Project
2017 West Hartford Foundation Grant for Visiting Artist, Stephanie Lanz, who created large installation with 7th Graders
2016 West Hartford Foundation Grant for visiting artist Korean Lantern Art Project
2014 West Hartford Foundation Grant for iPads for the Artroom ($2500)
2012 West Hartford Foundation Grant for ($1800) for visiting Architect at Hall High School
2010 West Hartford Foundation Grant. Advertising art
2006 West Hartford Foundation Grant: Collaboration with 5th Grade classes’ electricity unit to design and build Japanese lamps
2004 West Hartford Foundation Grant: Collaboration with 5th Grade illustrate own poetry
2002 West Hartford Foundation Grant to purchase books about a museum visit and then 5th graders visit New Britain Museum of American Art.
Travel with Students
2002 Art Trips with Conard High School students to Paris and Italy
2006 Art Trip with Conard High School to Paris and Italy
2008 Latin Trip with Amity High School students to Southern Italy
2010 Latin Trip with Amity High School students to Greece & Italy
2012 Latin Trip with Amity High School students to Barcelona and Southern Spain
2013 Latin Trip with Amity High School students to Italy