Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Biology and Studio Art, Honors program (magna cum laude) Eastern College, St. Davids, PA 1989-1993
• Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Scientific Illustration University of California, Santa Cruz 1997-1998
• Illustration internship at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, London (1998)

Current Work:

Freelancing in art, design, and illustration, including:

• graphic design and illustration for
  • Audubon
  • International Sustainable Development Studies Institute (Chiang Mai, Thailand)
  • Finger Lakes Land Trust (Ithaca, NY)
  • Friends of the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge
  • Acorn Designs (Trumansburg, NY)
• illustration, fine art, and design commissions for individual clients
• creating and marketing a line of notecards of my artwork – Full Member of the Ithaca Farmers’ Market

Experience and Publications:

• Design and layout of Important Bird Areas of New York, Audubon (2005)
• Poster illustrations and design for Shoals Marine Laboratory (2004-2005)
• Recent illustrations and design clients: Finger Lakes Land Trust, Cornell University Press, Cornell Cooperative Extension
• Illustrations for displays at the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca, NY (2002)
• Illustrations for the Home Study Course in Ornithology, Cornell Lab of Ornithology (2000)
• Illustrations and cover design for Agroforestry Guides for Pacific Isles (2000) Wilkinson and Elevitch, Agroforester, Holualoa, HI
• Illustrations and cover design for Palms for Development: Useful Palms of the Tropics and Their Potential (2000) Martin and Brunner, Echo, Inc., N. Fort Myers, FL
• Pen and ink dissection plate of Parkia paya and Parkia barnebyana in Kew Bulletin (Vol. 55 No. 1, 2000)
• Watercolor plate of Alocasia alba in Curtis‘s Botanical Magazine (Vol. 17 part 4, November 2000)
• Watercolor plate of Raphidophora glauca in Curtis‘s Botanical Magazine (Vol. 16 part 4, November 1999)
• Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies, Mancelona, MI (summers, 1997-1998) Large mural of the native forest flora and pond life.
• Illustrations and cover art for Amaranth to Zai Holes: Ideas and Techniques for Growing Food Under Difficult Conditions (1996) , Meitzner and Price, Echo Inc., N. Fort Myers, FL
• Bohoc Training Institute, Bohoc, Haiti (1996) Taught classes in drawing and painting to both students and members of the community.
• Several art exhibits in the Philadelphia and Ithaca areas, at galleries and coffeeshops
• Member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
• Artist Associate at the Ink Shop, Ithaca, NY

Other Interests:

Art in all shapes and forms, running, travel, capoeira, modern dance and choreography, voraciously reading good literature, cross-country skiing and mountain biking, laughter and bad puns, music, gardening, camping and outdoor fun stuff.