Informed by a deep sense of ecology I create multidisciplinary site specific installations and artifacts blending environmental science with spiritual evolution. These mythopoetic stories of transformation model empathy while shifting our culture of domination to reciprocity. By healing our sense of separation from the living world we re-member our wholeness.

Certified as a Florida Master Naturalist in 2014, and trained as a Botanical Illustrator at the New York Botanic Gardens (1997-99) my work celebrates the seen and unseen. Rooted in wonder, handwork becomes meditation where sewing, drawing, and printmaking transforms humble materials into immersive experiences.

Empowering people of all ages to cultivate their sense of place, as a teaching artist, I guide dynamic workshops activating all of our senses through deep creative play. Award winning curriculum for arts integration in the K-12 classroom and beyond include Master Artist residencies with Douglas Anderson School of The Arts, The Museum of Science and History and Duval County Public Schools.

http://www.culturalcouncil.org/in-the-mouth/

Rainbow Chain of Being - Arbus Magazine

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Ann McDonald Baker Art Ventures Award 2023

Jacksonville Woman’s Club Educational Scholarship 2021, 2022

Artists Project Grant Florida Division of Cultural Affairs 2019                                         

Community Cares Foundation Grant 2019                                                                      

Monoprint Guild of New England-5th National, Best in Show awarded by Judith Brodsky 2018

Art Ventures Grant Community Foundation for Northeast Florida 2018, 2004, 1991      

EDP Design Competition Winner for Daylighting McCoy’s Creek, sponsored by Groundwork Jacksonville   2018

Spark Grant from Florida Blue and The Cultural Council 2014

Ninah May Holden Cummer Award 2016

Vermont Studio Center artist residency  1995

Outstanding Alumni Award University of North Florida 2000

COLLECTIONS

AT&T

City of Jacksonville-Mandarin Branch Library

City of Orlando

Community Foundation of Northeast Florida

Community Hospice of Northeast Florida, Baptist Health

Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens

Everbank

Jacksonville Historical Society

MD Anderson Baptist Health Cancer Center

Museum of Science and History

National Park Service

North Florida Land Trust

St. Johns Riverkeeper

Two Creeks

University of North Florida

Walk of Hope, Mary Virginia Terry Cancer Center, Ascension Healthcare

Numerous private individuals in United States, Canada and France

 PUBLICATIONS

The Art of Healing: The MD Anderson Collection, Brunet Garcia. 2021

Home is Here Along RED Pearl River: One Woman’s Journey Back to Source, Evervess Arts. 2020

Art Ventures Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art 2004

Art Ventures Adventures Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art 1996

42nd Annual Florida Craftsman Exhibit Jacksonville Art Museum 1994

Skirting the Issue; Women Artists in Florida Orlando City Hall 1993

Arts Mania Arts Assembly of Jacksonville 1991

PRESENTATIONS

International Inside/Out Children Nature Network Conference, Atlanta, GA presenter 2022 Presented The Tree in ME, an experiential expressive arts workshop focused on the potential of embodied arts practices for emotional regulation for at risk K-2 students and teachers including nature connection, mindful art making, storytelling and sensory exploration

Arts for Social Change 101: Art and Conversations Series MOCA 2021

Invited speaker along with Dana Doody, Director of The Jacksonville Arboretum and photographer Doug Eng. Panel was  moderated by Dr. Josh Gellers, University of North Florida

emergencE/Y Conference Association for the Study of Literature and The Environment 2021 panelist presenter Art for A Changing Environment based on my project Home is Here

Jax by Jax Literary Arts Festival invitational reading of Home Is Here 2020

Home is Here: An Eco-feminist Perspective lecture 2020

Sponsored by University of North Florida and The Environmental Center

Bioneers: Seeding the Field Growing Transformative Solutions creative arts workshop 2019

Marin Conference Center, San Rafael, CA                                                               

Florida Master Naturalist Program Art of Interpretation lecturer 2019

Designing for Resilience in an Urban Waterfront Competition co-presenter 2018

Crossroads Conference American Society of Landscape Architects, Florida Chapter, Orlando, FL

Collaborated with Amy Morie, RLA principal of Mulberry Hill Studios

Florida Arts Educators Association  conference presenter                                                                         The Tree and Me – social emotional learning and K-2 Arts Integration 2018

The Oyster and I – puppetry and literacy alignment for K-4 Elementary Arts Integration  2014

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020    Home is Here a Return to Source, Silver Springs State Park, Ocala, FL

Home Is Here: A Return to Source, Yellow House Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL

2016    Bearing Witness, Museum of Science and History, Jacksonville, FL

2015    Singing in the Tree, Thrasher Horne Center for the Arts, Orange Park FL

2014    Transmigration and The Green Revolution: Renewed, Museum of Science and History, Jacksonville , FL

2013    RED, Broward Gallery Unitarian Universalist Church of Jacksonville, FL

2010    Rite of Passage,  South Gallery, Florida State College Jacksonville, FL

2007    Full Circle Jane Grey Gallery, Jacksonville, FL

2006    Recent Work,  R. Roberts Gallery, Jacksonville, FL

2005    Reunion: Similar Selves, Cultural Center of Ponte Vedra, FL

            Beautiful Paintings, Acquisitions Gallery, St. Augustine, FL

            New Works, 57 Treasury, St. Augustine, FL

2004    Fruition, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL

2001    Small Things, Kent Gallery, Florida Community College, Jacksonville, FL

            Four Seasons, Henry P.Leu Botanical Gardens, Orlando, FL

1997    Towards Wholeness, Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg ,VA

1994    Transformation and Conception, Kirschner Haack Fine Art, Miami Beach, FL

1993   Mapping the Green World, Theatre Jax, Jacksonville, FL

1991    Drawing Down, Crow’s Nest, Jacksonville, FL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022    Fifty/Fifty UNF Alumni Celebrating Fifty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL

2021    Art Ventures 30 Years, Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL

2021    Art Fields, Lake City, SC

2019    Ties and Knots, Jacksonville Public Library Makerspace, Jacksonville, FL

            Bioneers: Seeding the Field, Marin County Conference Center, San Rafael, CA

2018    Fifth National Monoprint/Monotype Juried Exhibition, The Art Center Complex, Duxbury, MA  First place winner curated by Judith Brodsky

            Arrived: Five Florida Artists Emerged, Lighthouse Art Center and School, Tequesta, FL

2015    Reflections of the St. Johns, Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL

2013    National Juried Exhibition of Women Artists, Florida Museum of Women Artists, Deland, FL First place winner 

2012    New Works on Paper, Design Lab, Atlanta, GA

2010    Art Ventures 20 Years,  Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens

2009    Folio Weekly Invitational, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens

2008    Making Marks: Jacksonville Creates, Invitational Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL

2006    Presence: Art and Soul Invitational Exhibit, Women’s Center of Jacksonville, FL

2006    Bank of America Symphony Showhouse, Jacksonville, FL

              Garden Week, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL

2005    Art, Gardens and Healing, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL

2004    Art Ventures, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL

2003    Art and Soul, Women’s Center Gallery, Jacksonville, FL

2001    Eclipse, Haskell Gallery, Jacksonville International Airport, FL

2000    Faculty Exhibit,  South Gallery, Nathan Wilson Center for The Arts, Jacksonville, FL

1999    Botanical Art, at the Millennium  Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ

1996    Carving the Forces of Change, Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL  Curated by Faith Ringgold

Material as Metaphor, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ

1995    Independents Biennial # 2,  Charas El Bohio, New York, NY

            Tribute to Women, Downtown Gallery, Jacksonville, FL

            Arts Assembly Awards  WJCT Gallery, Jacksonville, FL

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE RESEARCHER OBJECTIVE

Empower individuals and communities to experience a sense of belonging and vitality through the arts.

EDUCATION

Masters of Arts, Arts in Medicine 2022

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL GPA 3.95

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

Center for Council facilitator training for diversity, equity and inclusion storytelling circle practices 2022

Work That Reconnects facilitator training/certification 2021

Grief empowerment,creative ritual, and storytelling based on the work of Joanna Macy and Deep Ecology

Girl Centered Practice Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center for Girls certificate 2016

Practical understanding of the unique needs of girls including relational theory techniques and best practices in designing social emotional learning interventions for girls at risk for dropout and incarceration

Florida Master Naturalist certified in Coastal, Freshwater and Upland Systems; University of Florida/IFAS 2014

Botanical Illustration certificate, New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx, NY 1999

Bachelor of Fine Arts University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL 1989

Dean’s List for Academic Excellence, Summa Cum Laude  GPA 3.8                                                                   

SKILLS INCLUDE

·       Program design and evaluation including needs assessment, qualitative and quantitative data collection such as online surveys, interviews and field research, arts-based research methods, recruitment, and IRB approval process

·       Grant writing and reporting, budget, and all aspects of program management

·       Community outreach including participatory arts, focus groups, asset based organizing and Participant Action Research

·       Skilled pubic speaker including power point presentations, engaged place-making, informal and formal education for all ages, and diverse audience abilities

·       Communications such as visual marketing and graphic design both printed and web-based, written content for press and internal reporting, newsletters, press releases

·       Group facilitation including expressive arts workshops, family nature walks, collaborative creative practices

·       Curriculum development and alignment with K-12 academic standards, and diverse groups such as geriatric, adult and behaviorally challenged youth

Selected Arts in Public Health projects

Horticultural Therapy Garden Educator subcontractor

Eldergrow, Seattle, WA (headquarters)                                                                                                         2021-present

·       Facilitate Indoor Horticultural Therapy activities at four residential Memory Care Centers

·       Develop relationships with and encourage participation by adapting activities for physical challenges and cognitive impairments such as Alzheimer’s and stroke

A New Place of Belonging resident artist

New American Welcome Center Storytelling Project

First Coast Young Men’s Christian Association, Jacksonville, FL                                                                             2022

·       Designed and facilitated a PAR Participant Arts Research storytelling project with three Immigrant/Refugee and Asylum seeker families

·       Countries of origin included Afghanistan, Central African Republic and Venezuela

·       Centered equity and inclusion of individuals voice empowering participants to author their own short story of belonging

·       Created visuals to support these stories including photography, digital illustration and videography

·       Coordinated and facilitated series of talking circles and family meals including the participants, administrators and translators

·       Researched context for migration stories and wrote overall script

·       Conferred with VP of Marketing to create appropriate text, credits and overall emotional content within branding guidelines

·       Edited final 10-minute video in partnership with YMCA Marketing

·       Funded by a special gift from the Delores Barr Weaver Fund and The Community Foundation of Northeast Florida

·       Video aired during Welcome Week on September 18, 2022 and can be seen on their Facebook page

Brain Camp resident artist

The Morris Center, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL                                                                                          2022,2023

·       Developed experiential arts program for clinical summer camp for children ages 8-11 based on differentiated individual learning opportunities for students with Dyslexia, Autism, ADHD

·       Focused on social emotional learning through sensorimotor arts and puppetry, nature engagement and Zones of Regulation

The Nature of Belonging UF Arts in Medicine practicum volunteer

New American Welcome Center, First Coast YMCA                                                                                         2021

·       Designed and facilitated a 10-week art of place learning curriculum for Immigrant/ Refugee/Asylum Seeking women which included field trips to local parks, talking circles and expressive arts

·       Fostered creative self-expression, social emotional learning and English-speaking skills while addressing the unique needs of this population often traumatized by war, political violence and other effects of displacement

·       Increased sense of well-being and social connection demonstrated by qualitative observations and participant response

Holding the Stones volunteer ritualist

Jacksonville Community Remembrance Project, Jacksonville, FL                                                                            2021

·       Facilitated a community grief ritual for the commemoration of two African American victims of Racial Terror Lynching Mr. John Morrine and Mr. Bowman Cook as part of the racial reconciliation work of Brian Stevenson and the Equal Justice Initiative

Healing the Human Landscape Infected by Racial Terror Lynching in Duval County                                                       2021

Final Project for UF Arts in Medicine course HUM 6352 Art and Design in The Environment of Health

·       Created mapping project for public awareness of history of Racism in Duval County to be used for DEI training,  fundraising and campaigning for erecting public art at each site 

·       To view the project overview and map https://express.adobe.com/page/xAL5ZjHVHmafR/

Home is Here: A Return to Source touring public arts project                                                                       2019/2020

Funded by Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, Community Foundation of Northeast Florida, Community First Credit Union

·       Series of immersive pop-up installations of RED Pearl River designed to cultivate a reciprocal relationship with place through the metaphor of water

·       Exhibition spaces throughout the 310-mile watershed of St. Johns River included Yellow House of Art, Jacksonville, FL, Silver Springs State Park, Ocala. FL,  Blue Cypress Lake, Fellsmere, FL and additional public boat ramps, parking lots and living rooms

·       Public workshops included Birth Stories and Beyond, A New Narrative of Belonging; The Waters Within: Mourning and Celebrating; Water Blessings: A Return to Source

·       Created hour long online interactive slide lecture as Visiting Artist sponsored by  University of North Florida Fine Arts Department and The Environmental Center at UNF

·       Published catalog of images and artist philosophy illustrating the process and intent behind this contemplative practice of monumental embodied art

East Coast Greenway Alliance: South East Summit 2020, Durham, NC resident artist                                            2020

·       Collaborated with local non-profits and key players to highlight the public use of a linear park for non-vehicular traffic from Maine to Key West

·       Designed interactive public collaborative art experience leading up to and included in the three-day Summit event

·       Developed marketing artwork for print collateral and online international community workshop celebrating transformation

The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America  invited exhibition advisor                                   2019

Museum of Science and History Jacksonville, FL                                                           

Emerging Design Professionals Competition Winner Daylighting McCoy’s Creek 

sponsored by Groundwork Jacksonville                                                                                                                 2018

·       Collaboration with Landscape Architect Amy Morie RLA Mulberry Hill Studio

·       https://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2018/06/27/site-design-selected-for-mccoys-creek.html

·       https://news.wjct.org/first-coast/2018-07-03/video-winning-design-envisions-mccoys-creek-revitalization

Flock of Wonder commission

Baptist Health MD Anderson Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL                                                                                 2018

·       Commissioned to design and install flock of 1000 hand cut/ hand silkscreened paper butterflies created in part with the patients, caregivers and staff of MD Anderson

·       Collaborated with interior designers, healthcare staff and arts consultant for artwork installation

Arts Integration Specialist teaching artist

Cathedral Arts Project, Jacksonville, FL                                                                                                 2017-2020

·       Designed arts integration curriculum for first and second grade students at a Title 1 K-2 school aligned with  FL State standards

·       Focused on visual arts, literacy, nature awareness and social emotional learning

·       Grant funded project renewed for three years partners included PNC Bank, Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, and Duval County Public Schools

·       Collaborated with classroom teachers, administrators, parents and counselor both in person and online

·       Guided experiential learning to create group murals, garden planting, circle sharing and individual art

·       Initiated Family Night including student arts show and slide presentation highlighting the benefits of arts for social emotional learning and literacy

Parks Naturalist part time

City of Jacksonville, Tillie Fowler Regional Park                                                                                              2018-2019

·       Oversaw and ran a nature center including exhibits and animal husbandry of live collection of 30 animals

·       Conducted informal environmental education programs for all ages in the 510-acre upland park

·       Invasive species removal

·       Research on flora and fauna; identification and interpretation

Bearing Witness resident artist

Museum of Science and History, Jacksonville, FL                                                                                           2016-2017

·       Created original artwork and curated public museum exhibit based on the Florida Black Bear

·       Utilizing objects from the museum’s collection created unique textile prints and object conversations

·       Collaborated on installation design and layout with curatorial staff and marketing team

·       Wrote interpretive text and public program for at risk middle school girls from the PACE Center

Creativity Matters teaching artist

Load King, Jacksonville, FL                                                                                                                               2016

·       Designed and implemented a 12-week curriculum for team building with 16 company engineers

·       Activities included building skills in observational drawing, communication and social emotional learning

·       Collaborative expressive arts activities engaged members in working positively as a team toward community goals

Waterspirit Rises community artist

Spark Grant Award Project, Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville and Florida Blue                                  2014

·       Lead artist of a yearlong family centered public arts program designed to raise public awareness of the St. Johns River which included expressive arts workshops, street performance and a treasure hunt

·       Directed a volunteer troupe of puppeteers in a spectacle style street performance  of a 45’ long puppet woven in community workshops from recycled plastics

·       Designed immersive Oyster bed created from recycled textiles and single use plastics for children’s storytelling and creative play learning about the life in the estuary called In The Mouth, The Oyster and I

·       Series of pop up exhibitions focused on water conservation, single use plastic reduction and the flora and fauna of the St. Johns River

·       Multiple public partners including St. Johns Riverkeeper, Jacksonville Public Library and Duval County Public Schools

·       Designed marketing posters, postcards, and other collateral for managing the project including volunteer recruitment

·       Other responsibilities included grant writing, budget oversite, press releases, reporting to funders and evaluation

·       Designed workshops aligned with State Standards for K-12 students focusing on environmental science, literacy, community and environmental stewardship

Transmigration: The Green Revolution Renewed resident artist

Museum of Science and History, Jacksonville, FL                                                                                                  2014

·       Collaborated with curatorial staff and exhibition designers and fabricators to localize the materials and objects displayed for this Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition (SITEs) program

·       Focused public attention on recycling, environmental stewardship and sustainability

·       Created new artwork including intaglio prints, textiles and a site-specific interactive installation of hundreds of recycled paper butterflies

·       Raised public awareness of the plight of Monarch butterflies and our interconnection  

Multidisciplinary Transformational Learning Opportunity resident artist                                                             Environmental Center, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL                                                                                                                  2008-2016

·       Designed curriculum for MTLO college students who studied the many facets of the St. Johns River including cultural and natural history

·       Facilitated workshops including drawing from observation, sensory awareness, and team building

New View: The Many Faces of The St. Johns River Resident Master Artist                                                  2007-2008

Duval County Public Schools, Douglas Anderson School for the Arts, Jacksonville, FL                

·       Oversaw the creative place making project New View: The Many Faces of The St. Johns River activities included community dialogue, direct nature experience, visual arts and storytelling

·       Guided 150 high school students on a yearlong creative place-based investigation of the St. Johns River resulting in a traveling exhibition of a 30’ collaborative mural generated by the students from collaborative design to community  build

·       Cultivated private and non-profit partnerships with the St. Johns Riverkeeper, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Duval County Public Schools, Jacksonville Public Library, La Villa Museum, and JaxPort

·       Funded through The Florida Humanities Council, The Cummer Museum, and Douglas Anderson School of The Arts

·       Audience reached - 140,000

Flaire Art and Design, Jacksonville, FL                                                                                                         2004-2007

·       Mural painter, decorative furniture and antique restoration, sales and consulting

Florida State College Jacksonville professor                                                                                                       2000

·       Drawing 101 curriculum development, teaching all aspects of drawing from observation

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY security guard                                                                          1996-1999

Jan Hus Presbyterian Church, New York, NY resident artist and project manager                                          1995-1996

·       Coordinator Homeless Outreach furniture restoration project

·       Newsletter writer

·       Fundraising through grant writing and managing a public auction

Jacksonville Historical Society, Jacksonville, FL assistant exhibit designer and project manager                            1994

·       Collaborated with historians, scientists and archeologists to design text panels, murals, and concept for visitor center/museum

·       Executed murals

·       Curated artifacts, photographs and timeline

·       Designed and oversaw construction of custom cabinetry and display cases including lighting design and layout

·       Managed sub-contracted graphic designers, photo reproduction and carpenter

Jacksonville Coalition of Visual Artists, Jacksonville, FL  teaching artist                                                       1991-1994

·       Designed curriculum for three community outreach programs- including an inner city afterschool program, senior center for mentally challenged adults and a storytelling project at the first Inner city elementary magnet school

·       Grant Writer for Community Outreach

·       Project facilitator

·       Executive Board Member

Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL summer art camp instructor and installation assistant                   1990-1991

·       Facilitated group arts activities for elementary aged students

·       Assisted installation of Museum exhibition including uncrating/crating, hanging, lighting and text panels

Young Women’s Christian Association, Jacksonville, FL resident artist                                                                 1989

·       Facilitated expressive arts activities for women who were victims of domestic violence and homelessness

·       Created public sculpture Nest ‘89

Represented by Leigh Fogel at 904 Creative Exchange www.cx904.com

SelectedArticles
“ Cutural Council announces Spark Grant winners” Florida Times UnionMay 11,2014
" Douglas Anderson students artwork flowing through community" Resident August 2008
“ From the Showhouse to your house” The Florida Times Union, October 14,2006
“Circle of Life at the Mandarin Library” River Bend Review, the Florida Times Union , June 3,2006
“ Unlayering the Works of Sarah Crooks Flaire” The Times Union, October 7,2005
“Artists Works Show Her Constantly Evolving”  The Times Union, January 2, 2004
 “The Work of Sarah Crooks Flaire at JMOMA” Arbus, Vol. 9/No.3 Dec./Jan 2003/04
“Profile: Sarah Crooks Flaire” Financial News and Daily Record, Vol.90 No.7
 “Large & Small of It” Folio Weekly, November 13,2001
“A Portrait of the Artist at Pace Center for Girls” Arbus September/October 2000
“Grad Shares Artistic Talent With omeless in New York” University of North Florida Alumni JournalSpring 1996
 “Kalliope: a journal of Women’s art” featured visual artist July 1995
“Don’t Knock Blocks Poetry: Sit on It” New York Daily News June 5,1995
Creativity Times 10” Florida Times Union February 5,1995
“Moth Woman” Folio Weekly July 23,1994
“Art Camp Keeps Us Out of Trouble” Shorelines , August 6,1994
“Program Draws Out Kid’s Self Confidence” Times Union Community News, January 29,1992
“ Self Esteem is expressed in artistic creativity” The Florida Times Union June 10,1992
“Puppets Make a Point” Florida Times UnionMay ,1992
Exhibition Review, New Art Examiner fall 1991
“Revealing Layers” Folio weekly May 12,1991
“Young Artist Believes in Waste Not Want Not” Florida Times Union June 16,1991
“Springfield art is rough and r.a.w.” Florida Times Union, October 31,1990
“Arts Mania metaphors are mixed messages” Florida Times Union October 9,1989
“Art and Politics: The Message is in the Mixture” Florida Times Union October 1,1989
Catalogs
“Art Ventures” , Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art 2004
“Art Ventures Adventures” Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art 1996
“42nd Annual Florida Craftsman Exhibit” Jacksonville Art Museum 1994
“Skirting the Issue; Women Artists in Florida” Orlando City Hall 1993
“1991 Arts Mania “ Arts Assembly of Jacksonville 1991

Professional Activities
2009-13 Artist in residence “ St Johns River Transformational Learning     Opportunity” University of North Florida
2008 lecturer “Finding our Sense of Place: Art and the Environment” University of  North Florida, Brooks College of Health
2007 lecturer “ Drawing Connections” Jacksonville Public Library main campus
2006 Designer for Bank of America Symphony Showhouse
     commission to create the Peacebuilder award for Jacksonville chapter of Children’s International Summer Villages
    lecturer “ Building a Painting”  Jacksonville Public Library
2005 Illustrator for Insecta, by Linda Broadfoot
speaker on the Artist to Artist panel presentation at the Downtown Art Summit Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art
slide presentation “Reunion;Similar Selves”  at the Cultural Center of Ponte Vedra
“Behind the Scene” studio tour
2003 feature artist for the interactive exhibit “ Visions/Versions”  at the CummerMuseum of Art and Gardens award winning educational center Art Connections , Jacksonville, FL      
2000 Florida Community College Jacksonville, Fl -adjunct professor- Drawing
1998-96 security guard Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY-
1996 lecturer“Tapping the Creative Process: The Heroines Journey”Jungian Society of Northeast Florida       
1995 Artist in residence, Jan Hus Presbyterian ,New York, NY- coordinated Furniture Project
1994 technical assistant for the sculpture department,  Jacksonville University
1993 mural painter for Jacksonville Historical Center
1992 Design Arts Studio- Jacksonville, FL assistant decorative painter
1991 Jacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts- coordinated and received grants for the Handshake Puppet Project and Bridge Arts Reach- 2 mutidisciplinary art programs for at risk inner city youth
1990 Pedroni’s Cast Stone Jacksonville, FL- fabrication assistant
1989 Artist in residence , YWCA Jacksonville, FL created Nest 89 - a public sculpture to raise awareness of homeless women and children
1989-87 Setting Son Jewelers Jacksonville, FL- assistant jeweler