Education
Ph.D., Art History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1999
M.A., Art History, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1992
B.A., Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1986
Teaching and Museum Work
Independent Online Instructor, 2020-present Faculty, Watercolor, The Art League, Alexandria, Virginia, 2018-2020
Adjunct Asst. Professor, Art History, University of Notre Dame, Semester in DC program, 2001-2011
Adjunct Faculty, Art History, University of Maryland, 2000; Smith College, 1999
Chimicles Teaching Fellow, Art History, University of Pennsylvania, 1995-1996
Curatorial and Research Departments, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1988-1991
Education Department, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1986-1988
Arts Association Related Work
President, Potomac Valley Watercolorists (PVW), 2015-2017
American Association of University Women, 2013-20
Art Juror/Judge: Vienna Arts Society, 50th Anniversary Treasury of Art Show (2019); Gallery Underground, Arlington, (2018); Famous Artists of the 21st Century (2019)
Invited Artist/Guest Speaker: Gaithersburg Fine Arts Association (2019); Laurel Art Guild (2019); McLean Art Society (2020); Baltimore Watercolor Society (2020)
Selected Watercolor Awards
Alexandria Art Purchase Award, Alexandria Commission for the Arts, 2019
Best in Show, PVW’s St. Andrew’s Show, November 2018
Best in Show, Mira Mase Gallery Award, ‘Scapes Exhibition, The Art League, August 2014
Best in Show, PVW’s St. Andrew’s Show, November 2013
Best in Show, Amelia T. Clemente Family Award, The Art League, All-Media, May 2013
Pennsylvania Watercolor Society Award, BWS’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition, June 2016
Philadelphia Watercolor Society Award, BWS’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition, June 2015
Southern Watercolor Society Award, Potomac Valley Watercolorists Online Exhibition, July 2020 Second Place, PVW’s St. Andrew’s Show, November 2022
Second Place, NOVA at Annandale exhibition, August 2017
Second Place, PVW’s Green Spring Garden Show, May 2016
Second Place, PVW’s St. Andrew’s Show, November 2011
Third Place, PVW’s St. Andrew’s Show, November 2019
Third Place, Workhouse Arts Center Exhibition, August 2015
Third Place, PVW’s Brookside Garden Show, July 2013
Selected Solo, Juried and Group Exhibitions
“Transformations,” Solo show, Great Hall Gallery, NUMC, Washington, DC, 2019
“Artists of Woodley Park,” Stanford University in Washington Art Gallery, 2012 and 2019
“Plein-Air Paintings,” Montgomery County Plein Air Artists, National Cathedral, DC, 2016
“Images of Maine,” First Stage Theater, Fairfax, VA, 2012
“Salon Eight” at River Farm, VA; Lombardi Cancer Center, DC; Sibley Hospital, DC, 2008-present
Art History Publications and Papers
“Getting the ‘Crop’: Anna Richards Brewster in Her Art and of Her Time,” in Anna Richards Brewster, American Impressionist, ed. Judith Kafka Maxwell with an introduction by Wanda M. Corn, (San Francisco: 17th Street Press) pp. 50-87. 2008.
Review of Sargent: The Late Landscapes, by Hilliard T. Goldfarb, Erica E. Hirshler, and T.J. Jackson Lears, and Winter’s Promise: Willard Metcalf in Cornish, New Hampshire 1909-1920, by Barbara J. MacAdam, College Art Association Reviews (www.caareviews.org), January 2000.
“Performing Identities in John Singer Sargent’s Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth,” The Frick Museum and the Institute of Fine Arts Graduate Student Symposium, April 1998.
“Albert Pinkham Ryder,” artist and catalogue entries, in American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Volume II, (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997). (Co-author with Elizabeth Broun.)
“Courting the Gentle Muse: Literary Themes in the Art of Albert Pinkham Ryder,” Exhibition brochure. National Museum of American Art, 1990.
“Nineteenth-Century American Still Life Paintings,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Department of Education publication, 1988.