DC Current: Top Talent from the Smithsonian Craft Show Messler Gallery, Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, Rockport ME
Hudson Hewn: New York Furniture Now, Boscobel House, Garrison NY
Made For You: New Directions in Contemporary Design Samuel Dorsky Museum SUNY New Paltz, NY
Furniture with Soul II Gallery NAGA Boston,MA
Poplar Culture: The Celebration of Esherick’s Tree, Historic Yellow Springs, Chester Spring, PA
Craft Forms 2009 Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA
ARAC@AAM: Anderson Ranch at the Aspen Art Museum Aspen, CO
New Work by Faculty Messler Gallery Center for Furniture Craftsmanship Rockport, ME
Inspired By China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY & Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Home Is Where The Art Is Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Wood 4 Mass Gallery, School of Art & Design, SUNY Purchase
Studio Furniture: Expression & Function Emory & Henry College, Emory VA
Objects for Use: Handmade by Design American Crafts Museum, New York, NY
Made In New York: The Art of Wood Cooperstown Art Assoc. Cooperstown, NY
New York State Crafts Biennial The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY
Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY Oswego
Art/Furniture gallerymateria, Scottsdale, AZ
SOFA NYC (gallerymateria, Scottsdale, AZ) New York, NY
Contemporary New York State Crafts New York State Museum, Albany NY
Penland Instructors Show Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
African-American Craft National Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY
Tops and Bottoms Sauder Museum, Archbold, OH, Ohio Crafts Museum, Columbus, OH, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH
Guest Artist Australian National University School of Art, Canberra Aust. Renwick Alliance Artist of Distinction
African American Art on the Cultural Trail: A New Public Art Competition, finalist, Arts Council of Indianapolis
Artist Presentation, California College of Art & Craft 2010
Smithsonian Craft Show Silver Award
Special Arts Award, African-American Fine Arts Society
Trustee Furniture Society
New York Foundation for the Arts Grant (crafts)
Niche Award, finalist
Empire State Craft Alliance (grant)
Merit Award, African-American Craft National
State University of New York at Purchase - 2001-2015
Haystack School of Crafts Deer Isle, ME - 2005
Peters Valley Craft Center Layton, NJ - 2005
Craft Students League, New York, NY - 2004
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO - 2003
Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts - 2003
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship Rockport, ME - 1997,’99-2002, ‘07 ‘08
Parsons School of Design ( Furniture Design) - 1997-2000
Penland School of Crafts Penland, NC (summer) - 1995,’96, ’97, 2002, 06 17
African-American Museum of History & Culture of the Smithsonian Institution
Newark Museum
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Agnes Gund
Nancy Drysdale
Rockefeller University
African-American Design Archive Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution,
M&Co. (Tibor Kalman)
Jeffery Toobin/Amy Mc Intosh
Allen Ginsberg
Rickie Solinger
“American Masters” HG/TV (program 108) 1999
"Griot New York" Set construction on a collaboration between choreographer Garth
Fagan, musician Wynton Marsalis, and artist Martin Puryear for the Brooklyn
Academy of Music (1991) and seen on PBS's Dance In America (1994)
Self taught as a furniture maker
B.A. Anthropology and Zoology, Howard University l973