Galleries

• Gallery East, Mishawaka, IN

• Blue Gallery, Three Oaks, MI

• Spurious Fugitive Gallery, South Bend , IN

• The New Galleries On Lincoln Way West, South Bend, IN

Education

• MFA in Studio Arts, California State University , Los Angeles , CA

• MA in Art, Columbia University , NYC, NY

Honors

2012

• Award – NIA Members Exhibit, Gallery East, Mishawaka, IN – February/march 2012

2009 - 2011

• Glenda Bixby award – NIA Members exhibit, South Bend, IN – November/December2011

• Juror's Award  – 22nd Art and Social Justice Exhibition, South Bend Heritage Foundation    South Bend, IN – June/July 2011

• Award –  NIA Members Exhibit, Colfax cultural Center, South Bend, IN – September/October 201

• Judge's Award –  NIA Members Exhibit, Studio Arts Classes, Mishawaka, IN – April/May 2010

• Award  – Adjourned, Studio Arts Classes, Mishawaka, IN  – November 20, 2009 – January 29, 2010

• Judge's Award – NIA Members Exhibit, Michigan Lake College, Niles, Michigan – November12 – December 20, 2009

• Award – Return Of the Mythological Creatures, Buchanan Art center, Buchanan, MI – September/ November, 2009 (Award)

• Best of Works on Paper – Manhattan Arts International, Internet – June 2009

• Judge's Award – NIA Juried Show, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend IN – June  2009

• Best of Show – Student /Faculty Exhibition, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend IN  – October 2008 to January, 2009

                    1979 - 2008

• Best of Show – Fusion of the Arts, Indiana University Northwest, Center for Regional Excellence, Gary IN – September 2008

•  Award – Art and Social Justice, Colfax Cultural Center, South Bend , IN – April 2006

• Outstanding Achievement Scholarship towards the MFA studies, California State University Los Angeles – School Year 1995

• Award – Fine Arts Institute of San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands , CA – May 1994

• Winsor Newton Recognition of Achievement, La Mirada Arts Guild, La Mirada , CA – May 1993

Selected Exhibitions  

Solo Shows

• Celebrating Spring 2012  – Fernwood Botanical Gardens, Buchanan MI–May 2012

• Lea Goldman Art Show, the Blue gallery – Lasalle grill, South bend, IN–February through May 2012

• On Exhibit, Colfax Campus Gallery, The South bend Heritage Foundation, South Bend, IN –  January 8 through February 19, 2010

• Visual Stories, Buchanan Art Center, Buchanan MI – January 2 to January 31, 2009

• 25 linoleum prints, Crown Point Art Center, presented by South Shore Arts, Crown Point, IN August 1 through September 13, 2008

• Too Heavy to Fly and Other Dilemmas: Recent paintings and prints, Eye Dart Studio Gallery Goshen, IN – June 2 through July 19, 2008

• Celebrating Spring, Bankoff Gallery,  South Bend IN –  May 2006

• Dining in the Company of Dreams, Buon Gusto Belmont Shore , CA – June 1994

• Human Space in a Bitmap World, Signal Hill Public Library,  Signal Hill CA – May 1994

                  Collaborations & Invitational Shows

·         Invitational: Twelfth Month, Regional Art Exhibit & Sale, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL – November 13 –  December 30, 2009

·         Goldman/Hoffmann, two artists invitational, The New Galleries on Lincoln Way West, South Bend, IN – November 2009

·         South Bend Printmaker's Society Show,  The New Galleries on Lincoln Way West, South Bend, IN – September 2009

·         Afternoon Hours, collaboration with Ann Binder, a part of the Calligraphic Invitational, Studio Arts Center, South Bend, IN  – October 2008.

·         Stories for a Second Childhood, collaboration with Beau Bilenki and Anna Bowers, Gallery 805, Studio Arts Center , South Bend IN – July 2007

Group Shows

 2010 - 2011

·        22nd Art and Social Justice Exhibition, South Bend Heritage Foundation South Bend, IN  – June/July 2011

·         32nd Elkhart Juried Regional, Midwest Museum of Art, Elkhart IN – October 8 to December 5, 2010

·         Either/Or, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights IL – October 8 to November 26, 2010

·         Off the Wall, Gala and Auction, South Bend Art Museum, South Bend IN – October 13, 2010

·         Art for the Mind, Clark School (SCS), South Bend, IN – October 2010

·         Somnambulist, 4art gallery, Chicago IL, – September 17 to October 15, 2010

·         Art and Social Justice, Colfax Cultural Center, South Bend IN, – June11 to July 23, 2010

·         What Does it Mean to Be Human? International Traveling Exhibit, NJ State Council on the Arts. Downtown Somerville, NJ – May 16 to May30, 2009 

      Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Branchburg, NJ –  August 8 to October 3, 2009           

·         No New Tale to Tell, Morehead State University – Morehead, KY – January/February 26, 2010

·         Students/Teachers Exhibit, South Bend Art Museum, South Bend, IN – November, 2009 – February, 2010

·         Regional Juried Art Exhibition, The Lubeznik center for the Arts, Michigan City, Michigan – October 2009 – January 2010

·         Adjourned, Studio Arts Classes, Mishawaka, IN – November 2009 – January, 2010

                  2009

·         NIA Members Exhibit, Michigan Lake College, Niles, Michigan – November – December , 2009

·         Invitational: "Twelfth Month" Regional Art Exhibit & Sale, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL – November – December, 2009

·         South Bend Printmaker's Society Show,  The New Galleries on Lincoln Way West, South Bend, IN – September 2009

·         Art for the Mind, Clark School (SCS), South Bend, IN – November 2009

·         Fusion Exhibit, Indiana University Northwest, Gary IN – October 2009

·         NIA Juried Show, South Bend Museum of Art, –  June to October 2009

·         Celebrate her Story, Best in Works on Paper, Manhattan's Art International – Summer, 2009

·         66 Annual Salon Show, South Shore Arts, Munster, IN– September/October 2009

·         The Festival of Banners 2009, South Bend Art Museum, South Bend, IN–  August – October 1, 2009

·         Assume Nothing, Fall National Art Event, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL – September 2009

·         Art and Social Justice 2009, The Colfax Campus Gallery, South Bend, IN, June 5 − July17, 2009

              1979 – 2008

·         Student/Faculty Exhibition, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, – October 2008  to January 2009

·         30th Regional 2008, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart IN – October 2008

·         Caught in the Act , Northbrook Public Library, Northbrook IL, – October 2008

·         65th Salon Show, juror - W. Lieberman, South Shore Arts, Munster IN – September 2008

·         Fusion of the Arts, Indiana University Northwest, Center for Regional Excellence, Gary IN – September 2008

·         Art and Social Justice, Colfax Cultural Center, South Bend , IN – June 2008

·         Annual Show and Auction, Missoula Art Museum , Missoula MO – January 2008

·         Diminutive Fables,  The Spurious Fugitive Gallery, South Bend IN – December 2007

·         Midwest Museum of American Art , Elkhart IN – November 2007

·         Art and Social Justice, Colfax Cultural Center, South Bend , IN – April 2006

·         MFA Graduate Thesis Exhibit, California State University , Los Angeles , CA – June 2002

·         Taking Roots in Water, Invitational, California State University Los Angeles , LA,

        March 1995

·         Off Beats, Women Center Gallery, Los Angeles CA – June 1994

·         Current, Currents & Currency,  Northlight Gallery, Los Angeles CA – May 1994

·         Weird Photos Exhibition, Greene Country Council for the Arts, Catskill NY– May 1994

·         Rituals of Passage, Women Center Gallery, Los Angeles CA – January 1994

·         Thirtieth Annual Inland Exhibit,   San Bernardino County Museum , San Bernardino CA – May 1994

·         Searching for Eden , Mythos Gallery, Burbank CA – April 1994

·         Art Extravaganza, Arts Colony of La Mirada , La Mirada CA – March 1994

·         Here and Now, Northlight Gallery, Los Angeles CA – march1994

·         Annual Open Juried Show, Thousand Oaks Art Association, Thousand Oaks CA –  February 1994

·         Intimate Spaces, Gallery 57, Fullerton CA – November 1993

·         Double Vision, The drawing Room Studios and Gallery, Santa Monica CA – October 1993

·         Juried Show, Arts Guild of Sonoma , Sonoma , CA – August 1993

·         Members Show, Fine Arts Institute, San Bernardino County Museum , San Bernardino CA –  June 1993

·         Limn Light, Site Gallery, Los Angeles CA –  June 1993

·         Art Extravaganza, La Mirada Artists Colony, La Mirada CA –  March 1993

·         National Small Painting Exhibition, Boise University ’s, Boise Idaho – March 1993

·         MA Graduate Show, Columbia University , NYC NY –  July 1979