AWARDS
2023, Baldi Residency, Montegiovi, Italy
2022, Vermont Arts Council Mentorship Grant
2019, Artist-in-Residence,Cerdeira Village Art & Craft, Portugal
2017, Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome
2017, Artist in Residence, Guillkistan, Laugarvatan, Iceland
2015, Artist in Residence Obras Foundation, Holland
2014, Artist in Residence Artestudio Ginestrelle
2013, Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome
2012, The Chanticleer Scholarship in Professional Development
Damaris Horan Prize: Sustainable Gardening Fellowship
2010, Royal Oak Foundation
The National Trust of England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Perennial Plant Award for Landscape Design
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Connections, Atlantic Gallery, NYC
2024 Members Show, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT
2024 Circles, Squares, Triangles, Online Exhibition
2023 Art for All Seasonal Group Show Canal St. Gallery, Vermont
2023 Planetarium Gallerium and The Book of Arts
2023 Connections Atlantic Gallery, NYC
2023 Still Life Praxis Photo Center
2023 The Artist Intervenes, Praxis Gallery, Minnesota
2023 Inspirations, Exhibizone, Biafarin, Vancouver, Canada
2023 Creative Relations, 118 Elliot St. Gallery Brattleboro, Vermont
2022-2023 Seasonal Group Show, Canal Street Gallery, Bellows Falls, Vermont
2022-2023 Water, Marlboro Community Center, Marlboro, Vermont
2022 Salon Show, Canal Street Gallery, Bellows Falls, Vermont
2022 Visual Odessey – Phyllis Odessey, Marlboro Community Center, Marlboro, VT
2022 Creative Relations, 118 Elliot Gallery, Brattleboro, VT
2022 Female Sight, Praxis Photo Center
2022 Vermont Center for Photography Members Show
2021 Vermont Center for Photography Members Show
2020 Vermont Center for Photography Members Show
2019 Vermont Center for Photography, Group Exhibition
2018 Vermont Center for Photography, Group Exhibition
2014 Walk to the Water – video, Town Hall, Assisi, Italy
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin, Madison BA
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
New York Botanical Garden Certificates in Garden and Landscape Design
SERVICES
Maintenance Services
Speaking Engagements
Speed Gardening
A service for those who want a consultation and want to use existing plants and shrubs. This low cost service
hopes to meet the needs of a growing number of
do-it-yourself home gardeners.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- 2022, Art Curator, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital
- 2020-2022, President, Board of Directors, Vermont Center for Photography
- Royal Oak Foundation
- Metro Hort
- American Public Garden Association
- Garden Writers of America
- Perennial Plant Association
- Vermont Association of Professional Horticulturists
- American Horticulture Society
- American Society of Landscape Architects
- Society of Environemental Journalists
- Garden Coach
- blotanical
- Green the Grounds
PUBLICATIONS
Artistonish Magazine
Cup of Joe photo collage
July 24, 2024
Piero Bonacina
2024
self-published
11/17/2008
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time (subtitle)
2008
self-published
POP your head around
2009
self-published
The MODERN rock garden
2009
self published
what don’t the english know about gardening
2010
self-published
3
2011
photographing without a lens, gardening between the rocks, weaving with recycled materials (this is the subtitle)
self-published
Walk to the Water
2014
self-published
thoughts with words
2021
selected blogs 2009-2019
self-published
Miracles of Beauty
2021
snowflake series
self-published
Dolls
2022
A Childhood Memory
self-published