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Elizabeth Gerdeman
USA | Germany | egerdeman@gmail.com
 
Education
     
2008 • Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Art, The Ohio State University  
  > Additional Certificate of Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization  
2004 • Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Fine Art, Columbus College of Art and Design  
     
     
Solo Exhibitions
     
2024 Dwell & Dusk: The Incredible in the Mundane, Stockton University, NJ, USA  
2023 Into Thin Air, Archiv Massiv, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany  
2021 Color of the Wind, Galerie Gänge, Leipzig, Germany  
2020 Casting Light, Throwing Shade, Display, Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig, DE  
2017 Straight from the Horse’s Mouth, Z(orten), Grisons (Graubünden), Switzerland  
  Scratching the Surface, Modern Art Museum, Yerevan, Armenia  
  Outside In, Helmut, Leipzig, Germany  
2015 Color Coded, Bureau for Cultural Translations (Bükü), Leipzig, Germany  
2013 LAND/SCAPE: Viewfinder, Galerie Lifebomb, Leipzig, Germany  
2011 Superimposition, A und V, Leipzig, Germany  
  Wanderlust, ItLooksLikeItsOpen Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2006 Neighborhoods, Ohio Art League Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2004 Recent Works, Canzani Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio, USA  
     
     
Selected Group Exhibitions, Screenings & Juried Compettions
     
2024–2023 Things That Were Are Things Again, Museum of Contemporary Art (GFZK), Leipzig, Germany  
2023 Horizonte, Galerie Vitrine, Lucerne, Switzerland  
  Dresden Connection, Hammond Harkins Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Let's Stay In Touch, Galerie Gänge, Leipzig, Germany  
2022 Austauschpunkt, Galerie 2. Stock, Rathaus (City Hall), Dresden, Germany  
  Small And Wonderful, Hammond Harkins Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  New American Paintings, Issue #161, Juried Exhibition-in-Print, Published by the Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, USA  
  Unterm Rock: Reflections on Gender Issues, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, (MdbK) next;raum, Leipzig, Germany  
  Small and Wonderful, Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Summer Selections, Hammond Harkins Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Borsdorf Beleben, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Borsdorf, Sachsen, Germany  
  Horizont – Offenes Feld, Schloss Gleina, Gleina, Germany  
  Inspired Reunion, Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2021 Zeit.Raum.Land, Bund Bildender Künstler Leipzig, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany; Kunstverein Meißen, Meißen, Germany; O.K. Offspace-Kaisitz, Kaisitz, Germany  
  Practise What You Preach, LindeNOW #17, Leipzig, Germany  
2020 We Are Nature Defending Itself, Artrooms Moravany Nad Váhom, Slovakia  
  Grey / Gray (Matters), Divisible Projects, Dayton, Ohio, USA  
  Close Friends, Galerie b2, Leipzig, Germany  
  I Am an Artist, Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Inspired Reunion, Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2019 Small and Wonderful, Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Just Following, Lichtspiele des Westens, Leipzig, Germany  
  Family Reunion, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Zartes Texas: 19ff, Z(orten), Grisons (Graubünden), Switzerland  
2018 Schaustellung, organized by LE SALON & DAS KAPiTAL, Raum für Kunst, Berlin, DE  
  Art for the Climate organized by Limity jsme my (We are the Limits), Klimakemp, North Bohemia, Czech Republic  
  Festival Nasuti, Nová Cvernovka Cultural Center, Bratislava, Slovakia  
  Absurdist Videos, Helmut, Leipzig, Germany  
  On Limits, Borders, Edges and Boundaries, Else Foundation Symposium, Mexico City, Mexico  
2017 Nacht der Kunst, Georg-Schumann-Straße, Leipzig, Germany  
  #Postfuture, 13th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), Athens, Greece  
  Wend One's Way: Domestic Journey Series, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, DE  
2016 For Your Viewing Pleasure, Rehab, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Drifting Socially — Slipping Aesthetically, Бükü, Leipzig, Germany  
  Herbstrundgang, BSMNT Galerie, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany  
  Secrets, Faculty Club, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Xenia Motel, Collective for the Commoning of Space, Karteros, Crete, Greece  
2015 in den Bergen wird nicht viel gesprochen, Lindenow 11, Blauer Stern, Leipzig, DE  
  Sunny Binaural, PAMAF, Leipzig, Germany  
  Blind Date, Alabama Sir, Leipzig, Germany  
  Revolver, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig Rundgangsausstellung, Leipzig, Germany  
2014–2013 Wurzeln mehr Aufmerksamkeit widmen, Kunstvereins Familie Montez, (Cross-Country Exhibition), Leipzig, Nürnberg, Köln, Frankfurt, Germany  
2013 RATIONAL ANIMAL, Rumbalotte Continua, Berlin, Germany  
  Re: Working, Thinking, Seeing. Adapting to the 21st Century, Gallery K, Max Kade Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA  
  Exquisite Corpse: Stamped and Mailed, collaboration with Derrick Velasquez, Groundswell Gallery, Denver, Colorado  
  Flora & Fauna, Museum Lytke, Leipzig, Germany  
  International Girls, Museum Lytke, Leipzig, Germany  
  Arkanum XX, Westpol Gallery, Westwerk GmbH, Leipzig, Germany  
2012 Shining, Westpol Gallery, Westwerk GmbH, Leipzig, Germany  
  Niemandsland: All Dies und Nichts, geh8 Kunstraum und Ateliers e.V.,  
  Dresden, Germany  
  How to Pirate an A4, Festival de l'Oeil d'Oodaaq, La gaLerie du 48,  
  Rennes, France  
  Room + Style, Künstlermesse Dresden, Germany  
2011 Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy  
  Means to No End, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Rooms To Let, House Project, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Maps Project, Fill In The Blank Gallery, The MDW Fair, Visual Arts Landing, Chicago  
  Visiting Faculty Exhibition, Trisolini Gallery, Athens, Ohio, USA  
2010 Gentrified, BAG Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA  
  Fortify, Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Apart, geh8 Kunstram und Ateliers e.V., Dresden, Germany  
  HouseWARNING, Hopkins Hall Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA  
  Calling Beauty, Bureau for Open Culture, Curated by Jim Voorhies  
  Canzani Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Inhabit, SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA  
2009 Drawing It Out: An Exploration of the Recording of Thought Through Drawing, The Wayne & Geraldine Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery, Marion, Ohio, USA  
  Greener Grass, A Cross-Country Juried Exhibition, New Orleans, Houston, Las Vegas, and San Francisco, USA  
  Fake Irrational, Ohio Art League Exhibition, Acock Gallery, Columbus, OH and Concourse Gallery, Upper Arlington, Ohio, USA  
  Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Juried by Iduna Bohning and Rosemary Fiore  
2008 Sites Seen, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Ways of Knowing Water, OSU Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Dewey Decimal Days, Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Ohio Art, Carnegie Gallery, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Lecturer Exhibition, Hopkins Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Faculty Exhibition, Canzani Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  OSU MFA, OSU Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2007 Ohio Art League Annual Fall Juried Exhibition, Zanesville Art Center, Zanesville, OH  
  Juried by Megan Lykins Reich, Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Cleveland, Ohio, USA  
  Annual Exhibitions, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH, juried by Petra Kralickova, Director of Exhibitions, Ohio University and Sean Foley, Senior Lecturer, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Inspired Reunion: Alumni Exhibition, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus  
2005 Composite, Michael Orr Gallery, Grandview, Ohio, USA  
  Gerdeman, Jackson, Price, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA  
  Ohio Art League Annual Fall Juried Exhibition, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, OH, Juried by Joe Houston, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2004 International Printmaking Exhibition, Pension Roskolnikoff Gallery, Dresden, Germany  
  Gerdeman, Gray, Sell, Studio Ash Gallery, Columbus,OH,USA  
2003 Exploration into Non-Representation, So-Loft Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Ohio Art League Annual Fall Juried Exhibition, Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery, Columbus, OH Juried by Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator of Exhibitions, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Annual Exhibitions, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2002 Some People Do Art, three-person exhibition, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Four Serious, Four-person exhibition, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2000 Generations, Ace Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
     
     
Selected Grants, Awards, Honors & Residencies
     
2024 Artist Residency, Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey, USA  
2023 Artist Residency, Cabin Studio, Trenčín Region, Slovakia  
2022 Project Anywhere, Global Exhibition Program, supported by Parsons School of Art, Media and Technology, (Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC) and the Centre of Visual Art, (University of Melbourne)  
  Individual Artist Grant, City of Leipzig Cultural Office, Leipzig, Germany  
  Painting Symposium, Kunst & Kulturvereins Artpark, Schweiz Kultur- & Fördervereins, Schloss Gleina, Gleina, Germany  
  Artist Residency, Z(orten), Grisons (Graubünden), Switzerland  
2021 Land and Time-Based Art Symposium, Zeit.Raum.Land, O.K. Offspace Kaisitz, in cooperation with Kunstverein Meissen e.V. & Bund Bildender Künstler Leipzig e.V., supported by the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (KdFS)  
  Creative Pathfinders, The Barnett Center for Integrated Arts & Enterprise, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2020 Commissioned Public Artwork, Courage Design Project, Land in Sicht & Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Treibhaus e.V., Döbeln, Germany  
  Grant, Denkzeit, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (KdFS), Saxony, Germany  
2019 Shortlisted Candidate, Goethe@LUX Artist Residency, London, UK  
  Artist Residency, Schloss Gleina, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany  
  Artist Residency, Z(orten), Grisons (Graubünden), Switzerland  
  Nominated for purchase of artworks by the Kunstfonds des Freistaates Sachsen, (KdFS) Dresden, Germany  
  Candidate Selected by the Fine Arts Advisory Council KdFS for a National Artist Scholarship Residency at Casa Baldi, Rome, Italy  
2018 Artist Residency, Z(orten), Grisons (Graubünden), Switzerland  
  Candidate Selected by the Fine Arts Advisory Council KdFS for a National Artist Scholarship Residency in Paris, France  
2017 Artist Residency, Z(orten), Grisons (Graubünden), Switzerland  
  Artist Residency, Art & Cultural Studies Laboratory, Yerevan, Armenia  
  Grant, European Cultural Foundation with the support of Compagnia di San Paolo  
2013 Artist Residency, Museum Lytke, Leipzig, Germany  
2012 Project Funding, Niemandsland International Art Exhibition,  
  Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Germany  
2011 Sistercity Expense Allowance for Artists, Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Germany  
2010 Greater Columbus Arts Council Dresden/Saxony Artist Residency, Artist Residency, Dresden, Germany  
  Juror's Choice Award, Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, USA  
2007 Teaching Associateship, The Ohio State University, USA  
2006  University Fellowship, The Ohio State University, USA  
2004 Joseph V. Canzani Award, Columbus College of Art & Design, USA  
2003 Edward G. & Maxine Tracy Scholarship, Columbus College of Art & Design, USA  
2001–2004 Dean’s List and/or President’s List, Columbus College of Art & Design, USA  
2001 Four-Year Academic Scholarship, Columbus College of Art & Design, USA  
  Americorps Education Award, USA  
2000 Americorps Education Award, USA  
 
     
Bibliography
     
Mark Melhorn, “Art Majors Work with Pros in Gallery's Visiting Artist Program.” Stockton University News. March 7, 2024.  
Artforum, Artguide, “Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst: Things That Were Are Things Again.” Summer, 2023.  
Amanda Bischoff, "Jubiläumsschau der GfZK in Leipzig" (Anniversary show of the Contemporary Art Museum [GfZK] in Leipzig). Kunstmarkt Media. May 11, 2023.  
Ulrike Thielmann, “Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig feiert 25-jähriges Bestehen mit Ausstellung” (Museum of Contemporary Art in Leipzig Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Exhibition). MDR Kultur. May 12, 2023.  
New American Paintings, Issue #161, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, August/September 2022.  
Martin Buhlig, Zeit.Raum.Land, Exhibition Catalogue, Offspace Kaisitz, 2021.  
Rosie Shackleton, "Creating Despite Corona: What Does the Artworld Look Like Now?" Humankind Zine. March 22, 2021.  
Ben Gosling, “Elizabeth Gerdeman: Colliding Worlds.” Pilotenküche. January 23, 2021.  
Peter Tonguette, “Visual Arts | Gallery Exhibition Has Artists Explore Who They Are.” The Columbus Dispatch. February 2, 2020.  
Toni Parpan, Zorten 19ff./Zartes Texas, Project Catalogue (Z)orten, 2020.  
Anna Remešová, “Na mrtvé planetě není umění (There is no art on the dead planet).” Arttalk.cz. August 15, 2018.  
Jens Kassner, “Spione, Hirsche, Elefanten.” Kunstszene Leipzig. January 10, 2015.  
Susan Froyd, “Groundswell Gallery's Exquisite Corpse: Stamped and Mailed, in bits and pieces.” Denver Westword. July 12, 2013.  
Melissa Starker, “Festival Preview: Go West!” The Alive. June 09, 2011.  
Jennifer Sadler, “International Exchanges: Global Explorations through Art.” Front Row Center. May, 2011.  
Deborah Lynn Blumberg, “Gentrification: Inspiring Art, Regardless of Implications.” Carroll Gardens Patch, New York. December 21, 2010.  
Amy Davis, “Breaking the Mold: Works Broaden Traditional Definitions of What Pleases the Eye.”The Columbus Dispatch. March 14, 2010.  
James Voorhies, “Beauty in the Expanded Field of Painting.” Calling Beauty. Bureau for Open Culture with Columbus College of Art & Design, 2010.  
Bill Mayr, “Displays Brush Up On Images Of City And State.” The Columbus Dispatch,Weekender. Weekender. September 4, 2008.  
Melissa Starker. “Small World.” The Alive. August 21, 2008.  
Bill Mayr. “Old Lazarus Building Figures Into Works By Eight.” The Columbus Dispatch, Weekender. August 21, 2008.  
Bill Eichenberger. “Hydro Dynamic.” The Columbus Dispatch. July 27, 2008.  
Tracy Zollinger Turner. "Go with the Flow." Columbus Alive. July 24, 2008.  
Bill Mayer. “Alumni exhibit reveals depth of Fort Hayes talent pool.” The Columbus Dispatch, Weekender. January 11, 2007.  
Emily Hanna. “In the Neighborhood.” Columbus CityScene. August, 2006.  
Jacqueline Hall. “Between Paints and Prints.” The Columbus Dispatch. October 9, 2005.  
Melissa Starker. “Composite.” Columbus Alive. September 7, 2005.  
Elizabeth Ann James. “Thoughtfulness Reigns at ROY G BIV.” Short North Gazette. February, 2005.  
Melissa Starker. “A-list.” Columbus Alive. November 6, 2003.  
 
     
Teaching Experience
     
2024 Visiting Artist, Visual Arts Program, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ, USA  
  Visiting Artist, Studio Art Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA  
2023–2015 Lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig  
2022 Visiting Artist, Painting Department, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA  
2021 Lecturer, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland  
  Lecturer, Pilotenkueche Artist Residency Program, Leipzig, Germany  
2020 Visiting Artist, Contemporary Practices Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, Illinois, USA  
  Visiting Artist, MFA Graduate Studies Department, Columbus College of Art & Design, (CCAD), Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2019 Visiting Artist, School of Art & Design, Prague College, Prague, Czech Republic  
2018 Visiting Artist, Art Department, University of Central Oklahoma, USA  
2016 Visiting Artist, Printmaking Department, The Ohio State University, USA  
2015–2011 Independent Instructor, WIR Projects  
2014 Visiting Artist, Professional Practices, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2013 Visiting Artist, Studio Professions, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2011–2010 Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA  
2010–2008 Adjunct Faculty, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Lecturer, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2008–2007 Instructor of Record, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2006–2005 Art Specialist, ScholARTS Preparatory School, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2001–2000 Americorps Artist Member, Greater Columbus Arts Council’s Children of the Future Program, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
 
     
Other Professional Experience
     
Current–2022 Founder and Facilitator, Third Room: Artist Talks, Leipzig, Germany  
  Speaker, Transcultural Exchange International Conference, Boston, MA, USA  
2022–2011 Editor, exhibiton catalogues, artist books, monographs, critcal essays  
2021 Public Presentation, Recent Work, LE SALON, Das Kapital, Berlin, Germany  
2019–2018 Contributor, The Leipzig Glocal, Leipzig, Germany  
2019–2016 Guide, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany  
2019 Presentation & Workshop, Prague College, Prague, Czech Republic  
2018 Presentation of Student Art & Workshop, IASFM 17 Conference:"Whither Refugees?  
  Restrictionism, Crises and Precarity Writ Large," Thessaloniki, Greece  
  Public Presentation, Recent Work, LE SALON, Das Kapital, Berlin, Germany  
  Public Presentation, Artwork and Practice, University of Central Oklahoma, OK, USA  
2016 Coordinator, For Your Viewing Pleasure: Video Screening, Rehab, Columbus, OH, USA  
  Performances, Panayiotis Michael's “a book of small things” Terra Mediterranea:  
  In Action – Über den flüssigen Kontinent, HALLE 14 – Center for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany  
  Performance, Sharon Kivland Artist Talk and Exhibition Tour: A Reenactment, HGB Galerie, Leipzig, Germany  
  Performances, Heaven27, Kunstraum D21, Ilses Erika, Leipzig, Germany  
2015 Speaker, Transcriptions Exhibition: Christopher Daniggelis Recent Works, Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung, Dresden, Germany  
  Public Presentation, Artwork and Practice, Department of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA  
  Public Presentation, Presented as part of the Anthropocene Series,  
  Autodidaktische Initiative, Leipzig, Germany  
2013 Public Presentation, American Sublime: Landscape Imagery in Art and Visual Culture, Institute for American Studies, Universität Leipzig, Germany  
  Contributor, Leipzig Zeitgeist: Leipzig’s International Voice, Leipzig, Germany  
2012 Curator / Artist, Niemandsland: All Dies und Nichts, geh8 Kunstraum, Dresden, Germany  
2011 Scenic Designer, Penthesilea, creActor e.V., Nymphenburg Palace, Munich, Germany  
  Panelist, Platforma 11 Symposium, Leipzig, Germany  
  Visiting Artist, Nemzetközi Kerámia Stúdió, Kecskemét, Hungary  
2011–2006 Board Member and Vice President, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Board Member and Vice President, Franklinton Arts District, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2010–2008 Graduate Art Program Coordinator, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Advisory Committee Member and Community Partners Committee Member, OSU Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio, USA  

2010–2006

Vice President, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2009 Juror, Pulp Art: Works on Paper, Carnegie Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Juror, Central Ohio Regional Scholastic Art Competition & Exhibition, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2009–2007 Programming Committee Member and Artist Member, Ohio Art League, Columbus, OH  
2008 Coordinator Midwest Region, FUNDRED DOLLAR BILL PROJECT, national art project conceived of and directed by artist Mel Chin, intended to support the rebuilding of New Orleans by making the environmental conditions safer for its residents.  
  Exhibition Coordinator, What Time Is This Place Exhibition, OSU Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Juror, Central Ohio Regional Scholastic Art Competition & Exhibition, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Member and Vice President, Student Printmaking Association, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2008–2006 President and Former Secretary, Graduate Student Council of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2007 Speaker, Water Exhibition Symposium, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, USA  
2007–2006 Co-Curator & Exhibition Chairperson, Shot Tower Gallery, Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2006 Curator, Photographic Prelude, Selected Works by Michael Bonardi, Ohio Art League Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2005 Assistant, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
  Artist, Children of the Future Program, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, OH  
2004–2003 Work-Study, Printmaking Department, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2003–2002 Art Therapy Intern, Rosemont Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA  
2001–2000 Artist, Americorps Children of the Future Program, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, Ohio, USA