Publications, Events, Awards

 Exhibitions

2016 Magnolia Festival. "Magnolia's Last Impression" 1st  place Magnolia Category. Painting is being used for 2017 Poster for Magnolia Festival. 

2016 Magnolia Festival. "Lost Choctaw Painted Pony" Voted 1st place by "People's Choice"

2016 Goddard Center Exhibition. "SLC Drive I & II" & "Self Portrait of My Oklahoma Soul" accepted into show.

2016 Center Art Gallery. 2nd place in Drawing. "Skeleton".

2015 Center Art Gallery. 

2015 Magnolia Festival Honorable mentions “Poppy-shot at the Tulip Festival I & II” & "Rainy Day Indian Paintbrush"

2014 Magnolia Festival. 1st Place in category. Mixed Media. “Indigenous Creatures of New Guinea ” “Great Plains 10th Annual Juried Art Show 2014.”

2014 Centre Art Gallery - Southeastern Oklahoma State University Durant, OK, Durant,OK

Senior Art Exhibition, “Identity”. Museum of the Great Plains. Lawton, Oklahoma. April 2012

“2011 Cameron Art Exhibition”. Simmons Center. Duncan, Okalahoma. January 2011 “Great Plains 10th Annual Juried Art Exhibit” Centre Gallery. Durant, Oklahoma. April 2014. Awards and Honors McMahon Foundation Art Scholar, Fall 2012 Art Tuition Waiver Fall 2011 Publications

Publications

“Touring Texoma”- KTEN requested to conduct a special on Elements http://www.kten.com/story/30116114/touring-texoma-elements-art-center

All advertisement mini segments for our “Mom’s Everyday” KXII campaign: http://www.momseveryday.com/texoma/familyfun/Elements_Art_Center_214741651.html “Elements Art Center Opening”. http://www.kxii.com/morningshow/headlines/Elements-Art-Gallery-Opening-- 214397901.html

“Functional Bouquets”. http://www.kxii.com/morningshow/headlines/Functional-Bouquets-200056531.html

“Making Flowers for Delivery” http://www.kxii.com/morningshow/headlines/Birthday- Week-Making-flowers-for-delivery-215248011.html

“Design Women”. Beth Dennis. Product Designer” http://shandraward.com/wordpress/design-women-beth-dennis-product- designer/

“Museum to Host CU Senior Exhibit.” Lawton Constitution, April 6, 2012. Pg.8

“The Gold Mine”. Cameron University Art and Literary Journal, “Indigenous Creatures of Madagascar”

Professional Art Teacher for Oklahoma State Health Department. Summer Art Activities Program. June 2004

Illustrated Winter special Insert Cover for Durant Daily Democrat. December 2008, Illustrated advertisement icons for advertisers

Wrote Patent, designed, and promoted my own “patent-pending” product, Funtional Artisan Bouquets, and started a Kickstarter campaign. Did all of the advertisement/ research for getting in touch with web bloggers and product design companies to jumpstart production.

Workshop. Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma. Juliette Aristides from the Gage Academy. Seattle, Washington. Classical Drawing, February 2010

The Encaustic Workshop, Richardson, Texas. Bonny Leibowitz. Encaustic Painting and Techniques. July 2009 

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