Education:

B.F.A. cum laude, University of South Dakota.

Botanical art classes and independent studies, Regenstein School of the Chicago Botanical Garden,

Glencoe, IL.

Affiliations:

Member, past president and treasurer - Reed-Turner Botanical Artists Circle, 

Long Grove, IL

Member, American Society of Botanical Artists.

Member, past treasurer and membership chair - Lakes Region Watercolor Guild.

Member, Transparent Watercolor Society of America.

Member, past treasurer, newsletter editor, co-chair of 

summer art fair - Glenview Art League, Glenview, IL.

Member, class instructor - Deerpath Art League, Lake Forest, IL.

Member, past board member - Artists on the Bluff, Lake Bluff, IL.

Member, Brushwood Center of Ryerson Woods, Riverwoods, IL.

Member, Wild Things.

Member, Volo Bog State Natural Area, Ingleside, IL