EDUCATION
B.A. - Broadcast Communications - Elon University
B.A. - Fine Arts - Elon University
Elon, NC - May 1999
EXPERIENCE and EXHIBITS
Black History Museum, Gallery Exhibit, Richmond, VA 11/06
Stockley Gardens Art Festival, Chosen to do the 2006 Fall Poster
KBS (Korean Broadcast System) Television Interview airing in Korea
Smithsonian SEEC Rundraiser Auction, Auctioned off donated art work for scholarship fundraiser, Wash. D. C.
Muscular Dystrophy Association, Design (painting) for the annual Crystal Ball Virginia Beach, VA 1/06
Legacy Fine Art Show, Upper Marlboro, MD 10/05
SPICE International Art Show, London, UK 9/05
Princess Anne Park Arts and Craft Show, VA Beach, VA 8/05
Stockley Gardens Art Festival, Downtown Norfolk ,VA 5/05
Norfolk Academy, Fundraiser Art Show, Norfolk Academy, VA 4/05
Orchid Fundraiser, Donated originals for Ronald Mc Donald Auction, Norfolk, VA 4/05
UNCF Auction Fundraiser, Donated originals for auctions, Norfolk, VA Attucks Theatre 3/05
Eastern Market, 8th and Carolina Ave. Washington, D.C. 3/05
Western Market, Adams Morgan, Washington, D.C. 3/05
Town Point Club, (3rd Floor of World Trade Center in Downtown Norfolk) Art exhibit 2/05
Red Cross Tsunami Relief Fund, Graphic Advertisement, Hampton Coliseum, VA 1/05
Channel 45, Gallery Segment, Richmond, VA, 1/05
Black Enterprise, Web Interview, 12/04
An Old Norfolk Christmas, Norfolk, VA 12/04
First Fridays (Richmond Main Library), Richmond, VA 12/04
Virginia Beach Christmas Craft Show, Virginia Beach, VA 11/04
Art on The Avenue, Alexandria, VA 10/04
Neptune Festival, Virginia Beach, VA 9/04
Chesapeake Fine Arts Craft Festival, Chesapeake,VA 9/04
ODU Open House, Norfolk,VA 9/04
Hampton Bay Days, Hampton, VA 9/04
42nd Art Show at Ocean View, Virginia Beach,VA
Unity Day, Philadelphia, PA 8/04
Shine Event, NationsBank, Norfolk, VA 8/04
Todi Music Festival, Portsmouth, VA 7/04
Heritage Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA 7/04
Afrikan American Festival, Hampton, VA 6\04
Juneteenth Festival, Norfolk, VA 6/04
A Day at the Gallery, Norfolk, VA 6/04
Black Beard Festival, Hampton, VA 6/04
Afr'am Fest, Norfolk, VA 5/04
Joe's Job, Television show, VA Beach, VA 5/04
Hampton High School, Speaker to art classes, Hampton, VA 5\04
Charles Taylor Outdoor Art Festival, Hampton, VA 5/07
Gosport Art Festival, Portsmouth,VA 5/04
Family Day, Norfolk, VA 5/04
Spring Market, Portsmouth, VA 4/04
Word Up IV, International Poetry Venue, Norfolk, VA 4/04
Televison show, Various Arts, Richmond, VA 3/04
Old Dominion University, Permanent exhibit, Norfolk, VA 3/04
Megagenisis, (Explaining the Importance of college to the Youth), Newport News, VA
2/04
Willett Hall Theater, Designed drawing for the play "Roots of the Withered Tree", Portsmouth, VA 2/04
Hampton University, Cultural Fair, Hampton, VA 2/04
Supreme Enterprises, Breast Cancer Fundraiser, Newport News 2/04
Umoja Conference, Black History Month-Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 2/04
Magazine Interview, N Deep Magazine, Hampton, VA 1/04
D'ART Center, Holiday Gift Show, Norfolk, VA 12/03
3 Bowls of Color Salon, Art exhibited, Newport News, VA 11/03
Gallery on the York, Grafton, VA 11/03
Studio 107, Norfolk, VA 11/03
Poquoson Seafood Festival, Poqouson, VA 10/03
Neptune Festival, VA Beach, 9/03
AAFES art vending contract, Military bases, Virginia 9/03
Chesapeake Family Day Festival, Chesapeake, VA 7/03
Sickle-Cell Foundation Arts Festival, Hampton, VA 6/03
Halizo Arts Festival, Norfolk, VA 5/03
Jones Vincent Gallery, Portsmouth, VA 4/02
Gosport Festival, Portsmouth, VA 6/01
Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA 4/01
Chesapeake Museum, Chesapeake, VA 3/01
(Paid - Internship) Graphic Artist, Daily Press, Newport News, VA 6/00 - 8/00
Moseley Student Center, Permanent exhibit, Elon University, Elon, NC 4/99
"Women In Art", Elon, NC 3/99
MURALS
Churchland Elementary School 8/05 - 10/05
Halizo Arts Festival, Norfolk, VA 5/03 - 6/03
VA Holocaust Museum, Richmond, VA 1/03 -4/03
St. Thomas Moore Middle, Chapel Hill, NC 10/00
Haw River Historical Society Museum, Haw River, NC 5/97
I was born and raised in Hampton, VA. As a child with little money growing
up, I rarely had the chance to be divulged of artistic enrichment. Although
I was unaware of the opportunities Art (as a whole) could bring to me,
I was very aware of a serious fetish I had with pencils. My whole pre-teen
years were consumed with getting pencils to draw with. Everytime I got
a new pencil I would eagerly examine it from eraser to pencil point. I
would check out the smoothness across the paper it made, I detest bumpy
pencil lead! For each new pencil I got I would try to draw something new
and different. Before the drawing was completed I was already looking for
a new pencil to create something more different and more exciting than
the last drawing. As a kid I paralleled the new pencil with a new and fresh
idea. I felt that if the pencil was old I'd get the same old creations.
As a kid I didn't like the idea of being boxed into one idea or way of
doing things. Some things don't change.
As you will see I have a diverse plate of art. I accredit my array of works due to my fear of becoming a myopic mind. Apprehension sets in with the thought of thinning my range of art. To me, terminating art ideas equate to a higher probability of closing off other possibilities. Closing my mind off to other possibilities only helps me become oblivious to who I am in the first place. I never want to forget who I am. I am diversity. As I get older I might settle down into a few types of media, but boy I sure hope not!
