Selected Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Publications & Reviews
Grants & Residencies
Panels & Lectures
Teaching
Curatorial Projects
Public Collections
Education
Solo
2023 | "Poet's Garden," Featured Artist at Art in Bloom Gallery, Wilmington, NC
2021 | "Birdsong," Featured Artist at Art in Bloom Gallery, Wilmington, NC
2014 | "Passionate Gesture," Santa Bannon Fine Art, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
2011 | "Hidden Stories," Fine Arts Center, Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA
2005 | "Landscapes: 1989 – 2004," Stockton Art Gallery [brochure], Stockton College, Pomona, NJ
2003 | "Conversations," University of Mary Washington Galleries, Fredericksburg, VA traveling to
Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art [catalog], Collegeville, PA
1999 | "Through the Looking Glass," Claude Howell Gallery, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC
1998 | "Pennlyn Series," Walter Wickiser Gallery [catalog], New York, NY
Group
2022 | "Annual Live & Virtual Exhibition of the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts" Philadelphia, PA
Juror: Renowned Artist, Audrey Flack
2020 | "Smithsonian Water/Ways" Wrightsville Beach Museum, Wrightsville Beach, NC
2018 | “30 Years: Art at the Michener, 1988-2018,” James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
2018 | “Beyond Words: Six Artists Speak,” Senior Artists Initiative and Episcopal Cathedral, Philadelphia, PA
2017 | “The Death of Impressionism? Disruption and Innovation in Art,” James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
2017 | "Assemblage: A Regional Collective of Women Artists," Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
2017 | "FAME 2017 Juried Exhibition," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Alumni Gallery, P. A. F. A., Philadelphia, PA
2015 | "Assemblage: A Collective of Women Artists Celebrating 30 Years," Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ
2015 | "Soaring," (two person show), Santa Bannon Fine Art, Bethlehem, PA
2015 | "Portraying Kinship," (two person show) Painted Bride Café, Philadelphia, PA.
Curators: Jennifer Schick and Sean Stoops
2013 | "74th National Midyear Show," Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
2011 | "Ecstatic Landscape," Borofsky Gallery, Gershman Y, Philadelphia, PA, Curator: Miriam Seidel
2009 | "73rd National Midyear Show," Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
2001 | "Four Pennsylvanians," Blount-Bridgers House/Hobson Pittman Memorial Gallery, Tarboro, NC
2001 | "Veritas to Vanitas," Bristol-Myers Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ
1999 | "Moving into the Millennium: Darkness," Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1988 | "15 Philadelphia Artists," Juror: Marcia Tucker, Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY - Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Publications & Reviews
2013 | Sower on the Cliffs, poems and drawings, Helen Mirkil, BookArts Press
2013 | “Sower on the Cliffs, poems and drawings,” Burt Wasserman, Art From Near and Far [radio]
2011 | “Ecstatic Landscape at the Gershman Y,” Andrew Mangravite, Broad Street Review
2011 | “Personal Vision,” Victoria Donohoe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA
2007 | “Helen Mirkil,” Jane Biberman, Montgomery County Town & Country Magazine
2003 | "Conversations," [catalog] Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art
2002 | Dream Symbols, Running Press, pp. 66, 110
2000 | Quotable Women, Running Press, pp. 111, 123
1998 | "Pennlyn Series," [catalog] Walter Wickiser Gallery
Grants & Residencies
1999 | Valerie Lamb Smith Painting Residency, awarded by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1990 | British/American Arts Association Travel Grant, in conjunction with the Wales/Philadelphia Exchange
1990 | Fellowship in Wales, awarded by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Wales/Philadelphia Exchange
Panels & Lectures
2022 | "Anatomy of a Painting" Leland Cultural Arts Center in Leland, NC
2005 | “How’s the Weather? or...Is Landscape Just Landscape?”, Richard Stockton College, Pomona, New Jersey
2000 | “Phyllis Ridderhof Martin and Women’s Self-Portraiture,” Ridderhof Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington,
Fredericksburg, VA
1999 | “Self-Portraits by Women,” University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC
1998 | “Art and the Spirit” & “Residency in Wales”, Chatham Hall, Chatham, VA
1992 | “Artistic Expression and the Power of Politics,” panel, Nightingale Bamford School, New York, NY
1991 | “Co-Ops and Zone One Gallery," Comcast cable interview, August/September
1991 | “A Philadelphia Artist in Wales,” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Phila., PA
Teaching
2006 | Invited Critic, portfolio review, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2005-07 | Volunteer, St. Mary’s Villa, Ambler, PA
2002 | Self-portrait/Oil Pastel Workshops, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
1999 | Oil Pastel Workshop, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC
1995-96 | Painting & Drawing Instructor/Lecturer, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
1995 | Painting Instructor/Visual Arts Coordinator, New Jersey Summer Arts Institute, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
1990 | Sculpture Instructor/Lecturer, Monmouth Comprehensive School, Monmouth, Wales, UK
Curatorial Projects
2004 | “The Expressionist Gesture,” Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA [catalog]
2002 | “Seeking the Real,” Hicks Art Center, Bucks County Community College,
Newtown, PA
1998-99 | “In Her Voice: Self-Portraits by Women,” Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
Public Collections
American Academy of Arts & Letters, Hall of Academicians, (reproduction of drawing of George Rochberg), New York, NY
Bryn Mawr College Library Collection, Bryn Mawr, PA
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
Monmouth Comprehensive School, Monmouth, Wales, UK
Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA
University of Mary Washington Galleries, Fredericksburg, VA
Villanova University Art Collection, Villanova, PA
Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Education
Composition and Theory, Barnstone Studios, Coplay, PA, 1994-5
MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1994
BFA, University of Pennsylvania & P.A.F.A., 1988