Education

1985  Master of Fine Arts, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
1980  Bachelor of Science, University of Illinois Medical Center, Urbana, Illinois

Academic Employment 

2021- Professor Emeritus
1999-2021 Florida AtlanPc University, Boca Raton, Florida, Professor Visual Arts 
1986-1998 Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, Assistant Professor Visual Arts 

Selected Solo and Curated Exhibitions 

2024 Strange Attractors, Bluerider ART, Shanghai, China
2024 Southeast Contemporary,Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, GA
2024 Golden Invitational, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, New York
2024 Florida Prize, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida
2024 Disrupting the Grid, Gentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, New York
2023 Homeland Universe, Bluerider ART, London
2023 Bookbound, Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
2022 Porous Boundaires, the Schmidt Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2022 Body Parts, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire
2021  Mental Space, Bluerider ART, Shanghai
2021 Tenacity, 5-person exhibition, Chautauqua Institution, New York
2021 Unknowing, Ann Norton Sculpture Garden and Museum, Palm Beach
2020 Many Moons, Manifest Prize solo exhibition, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2020 Spooky Action, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Ossuary, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Milwaukee, WI
2019 DarkLight, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2019 Scale the Wall, presented large-scale projection installation “Folded Worlds” in a three person show at the Sonshan Creative
and Cultural park, Taipei, Taiwan – sponsored by Bluerider ART
2018 Carol Prusa – Silverpoint Drawing, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 
2018 Dark Energy, Endicott College, Massachusetts, USA
2018 The Future of Craft Part I, Museum of Arts and Design, Columbus Circle, NYC
2018 FLAT???, Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, NYC
2018 Feminine, Alan Avery Art, Atlanta, Georgia
2018 Silver Lining; Contemporary Works in Silverpoint, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Mississippi, USA
2017 Liminal Worlds, Messiah College, Pennsylvania, USA
2017 Voids, Walls, Clusters, Filaments, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 Thin Spaces, Art Center Sarasota, Florida, USA
2017 Glasstress, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2017 Looking Back, Cornell Art Museum, Florida, USA
2016 Infinite Cosmos, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 
2016 Cornell Art Museum, Florida, USA
2016 All Florida Invitational, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2016 Destinesia, Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2016 Worlds, Bascomb Museum, Western North Carolina, USA
2015 Overflow, Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2015 University of North Carolina, North Carolina, USA
2015 Unfathomable, Alan Avery Gallery, Georgia, USA
2015 Metalpoint, Morris Graves Museum, USA 
2015 Illuminations (Curated by Adriana Herrera), Miami Biennale, Miami, Florida, USA
2015 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy, New York, USA 
2015 Crossing the Lines, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York, USA
2015 Art in the Natural World and Cultured Settings (Curated by Bernice Steinbaum), Miami, USA
2014 Silver Universe, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 
2014 Entanglement, Sarasota Art Center, Florida, USA
2014 Fearful Symmetry, Florida Atlantic University, Zadok Gallery, Miami, USA 
2014 Mixed Matrix, Tinney Contemporary, Tennessee, USA
2014 Collectors and their Collections, Jewish Museum, Miami, USA 
2014 Kohler 40th Anniversary Artist in Industry Exhibition, Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA 
2014 Selected Artists, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Florida, USA
2013 Emergent Worlds, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Wyoming, USA
2013 Liminal Worlds, York College, Pennsylvania, USA 
2013 Curator Selections, Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee, USA
2013 GRAM Selects, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Michigan, USA
2012 Emergent Worlds, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Michigan, USA 
2012 Optic Nerve, Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA 
2012 Non-equilibrium, University of Arkansas, Arkansas, USA
2012 Empire of Things, University Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA 
2012 Modern and Contemporary Art from the Telfair, Telfair Art Museum, Jepson Center’s Steward Gallery, Georgia, USA 
2012 Woman to Woman, Bakehouse Art Center, Miami, USA
2011 Believe it or Not, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Florida, USA 
2010 Between Here and There: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection (Curated by Peter Boswell, Senior Curator), Miami
Art Museum, Miami, USA
2010 Cosmic Fabric, EO Art Lab, Connecticut, USA 
2009 Successive Approximations, University of Maine Museum of Art, Maine, USA 
2009 Silver Linings, Polk Museum of Art, Florida, USA 
2008 Spooky Action, Finestra Artspace, Chicago, USA 
2007 Coherent Structures, Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida, USA

Public Collections 

Arkansas Arts Center, Arkansas, USA
Appalachian State University, Catherine Smith Gallery, North Carolina, USA
Bienes Center for the Literary Art, Broward County Library, Florida, USA
Central Missouri State University, President’s Gallery, Missouri, USA
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri, USA
Drake University, Harmon Fine Arts Center, Iowa, USA
Emaar Hospitality Group, Dubai, UAE
Evansville Museum of Art and Science, Indiana, USA
Florida Atlantic University, Florida, USA
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee, USA
Iowa State University, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, Iowa, USA
Iowa State University, Margaret Sloss Women’s Center, Iowa, USA
Iowa State University, Memorial Union, Iowa, USA
Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA
Kohler Company, Wisconsin, USA
Messiah College, Pennsylvania, USA
Miami Art Museum, Florida, USA
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Florida, USA
Polk Museum of Art, Florida, USA 
Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia, USA
University of Florida – Public Art, Wellness Center, Florida, USA
University of Florida – Public Art, NIMET Nanotechnology, USA
University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
University of Oregon Special Collections, University Library, Oregon, USA
University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Wyoming, USA
U.S. Embassy, Managua, Nicaragua
Wartburg College, Iowa, USA

Noted Private Collections

Agnes Gund Foundation
Francie Bishop Good Collection/Girl’s Club 
Time Equities Inc – Francis Greenberger Collection

Selected Honors 

2024 Arts AVL – Buncombe County ArPst Support Grant ($3000) 
2023 Golden FoundaPon ArPst Residency, New York
2020 Selected through peer review (20 panelists) for the Manifest Prize ($5000 award and solo show at non-profit Manifest Gallery
in CincinnaP “to reward, showcase….the most excepPonal artwork being made today”
2020 Selected for Scientific Delirium Madness; a month-long residency, public and academic forums, published blogs and articles in
LEONARDO/ISAST’s journal published by MIT Press. This unique residency is a collaborative initiative of Leonardo/The
International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and Djerassi Resident Artists Program (6 artists and 6
scientists)
2019 Edwards Distinguished Professor in the Arts, Visiting Artist, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia
2019 Vermont Studio Program, Invited Visiting Artist (Dec. 2019)
2018 Nomination for USA Artist Fellowship
2017 Awarded SECAC Artistic Achievement Award at 2017 national conference, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2017 Nomination for USA Artist Fellowship
2016 Artist residency in glass at Berengo Foundation, Murano, Italy
2015 Nominated and selected for American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational (Received purchase award for museum
collection), New York, USA
2015 Vermont Studio Program, Invited Visiting Artist/Lecturer 
2014 State of Florida Artist Fellowship 
2014 Southeastern College Art Conference Artist Fellowship 
2013 Art OMI International Artist Residency, New York, USA 
2013 Vermont Studio Program, Visiting Artist 
2012 Ubertalli Award for Outstanding Artist, Palm Beach County 
2012 Kohler Artist in Industry residency 
2011 Scholar of the Year at the Professor rank, Florida Atlantic University 
2008 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists 
2008 State of Florida Artist Fellowship 
2007 Howard Foundation Fellowship, Brown University, National project award
2007 Included in: Miami Contemporary Artists, ed., Paul Clemence and Julie Davidow Foreword by Elisa Turner, Schiffer Publishing
Ltd., 2007; 288 pp.
2007 Art In State Buildings Program – public art contract for the Nanotechology Building, University of Florida – Gainesville
2005 University Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, FAU
2004 SECAC Artist Fellowship Award, Southeastern College Art Conference
2003 Teacher of the Year, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, FAU
2003 University Researcher of the Year, Assistant Professor Level, FAU
2003 Corporeal – Triennial Exhibition of German and American Artists curated by and exhibited at the American Museum of Arts and
Design, NYC and the Museum of Angewandte Kunst –  Frankfurt
2002 State of Florida Artist Fellowship2002 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists