Art + Design Research

Significant Projects & Awards

How might we change private concepts and communally-share values? How might we show this change happening? My understanding of this change is perceiving the dialectics of disorder and order and the processes of its perception, apprehension, analysis, and cognition.

Of course what immediately comes to mind reading the above questions: isn’t this what learning is? Perhaps, but what I pay attention to as I read and engage with the origins and ethos of Western Philosophy is the figure and ground dialectic.

I am specifically interested in showing knowledge-in-action. As an artist/curator/design educator, I continually seek to exemplify what knowledge-in-action looks like. This is where my reading, thinking, and writing practice hybridizes into diagrammatic form.

• Best In Concept and Best In Design Communication awards. 2016 All American House design exhibition at the Carroll Mansion, Jonestown, Baltimore, MD. Sponsored by M.A.D.E.: In America, the U.S. Department of Commerce

• Visiting Artist; 2013 Art•Sun 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Kurashiki, Japan

• 2006 President’s Award: Leadership recognition for Progression(s) Exhibition in the Maryland State House Galleries. Annapolis, MD

• Untitled: 100 Square-foot House; 1999 Artscape installation, Baltimore, MD

• Odradek; 1993 Art On the Move installation, Del Pryor Art Glalery, Detroit, MI

• Palmanova Project: Three Lessons In Architecture; 1985 Venice Architectural Biennale, awarded Stone Lion Prize

Curation Practice

My curatorial practice is a collaboration with creatives. I curate situations that expand upon how an installation is an opportunity for creatives to explore audience engagement. Highlights of my 35-year curation practice include:

• My current role is Stevenson University Director of Exhibitions;

• Programming committee member for the Society of Design Arts webinars;

• 2013-2015 curator-in-residence at theGallery@ Case[werks];

• and 2016-2018 co-curator for D Center Baltimore’s monthly design conversations.

Teaching practice

I currently teach for the Graphic Design Department, in the School of Design at Stevenson University. My human-centered teaching practice has been recognized by the President of Stevenson University, the Mayor of Baltimore, and the US Department of Commerce.

2021 Dr. Rose Dawson Teacher of the Year awardee.

I also teach Drawing architectonics for the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University. I have previously taught at St. Mary’s College of Maryland; MICA, CCS College of Art and Design, and Mt. Saint Mary’s University.