Curriculum Vitae Education M.F.A. University of Nebraska-Lincoln B.S. University of Nebraska-Omaha Selected Awards/Fellowships 2000 Distinguished Professor of Art, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 1998 Shirk Memorial Award for Historic Preservation from the Oklahoma Historical Society – Federal Courthouse Project 1996 University Outstanding Researcher Award 1995 College of Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award Selected Collections Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Library of Congress, Washington, DC Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC Baltimore Museum of Art, MD Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL British Museum, London, England Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Evansville Museum of Arts & Science, Evansville, IN Statement Many of my landscape images come from Nebraska and Iowa. All of my choices of sites for paintings, drawings and prints begin with a passionate attachment to the subject. Decisions about composition and scale come in response to my personal experience with the site. For me, looking at art is a perceptual event. Paintings are inventions, whether they are abstract or representational. Finding a way to create in paint an experience that might parallel what I see is a significant part of the magic of art for me.