Achievements

1. Graduate of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1980. Oldest art school in the United States. PAFA was founded in 1805 by painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale and sculptor William Rush.

2. Review of my traveling exhibition throughout the state of South Carolina from 1991 to 1992 by Dr. Tom Mack professor of English at USC Aiken. He introduced me to the major American representational artist Paul Cadmus by way of finding a kinship in my figure drawing and those of Cadmus, noting that " there is the same compelling directness and simplicity." His thorough review of my work boosted my confidence as an artist, especially after I saw evidence, the drawings of Paul Cadmus.

3. Graduating from Furman University after thirteen years on hiatus at PAFA, marriage to fellow Academy student Luis Jaramillo (I proposed to him) and moving to Barranquilla, Colombia, S.A. for four years then returning to permanently settle in South Carolina with Luis and finish my B.A. at Furman. 1988 Graduate.

4. Starting the 1st nude figure drawing class at the Greenville County Museum of based on those at PAFA with two models. 1981 - 1982.

5. Acceptance to the Centennial Exhibition of the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and being awarded an honorable mention from the distinguished jurors Luis Azaceta, Philip Pearlstein and Sylvia Yount.

6. Traveling down the Magdalena River with a French theater group and Easter vacationers in a sliver of a boat far too crowded and too fast for drop off at the tiny port city of Monpos, Colombia, but being momentarily stopped for inspection by uniformed 18 year old boys with jaunty M19 rifles. On the spur of the moment off the train in Momoyama on the outskirts of Osaka, following the crowd to a Nō theater production with elegantly dressed actors moving in an excruciating slow procession across a ramp to the stage while some in the audience fed their noisy excited chickens.