born
May 15, 1982, Livingston, Tennessee

education
MFA Alfred University, Alfred, NY
BFA University of Georgia, Athens, GA

professional
2008-2009 adjunct professor in ceramics, University of Georgia

publications
2010 Ceramics Monthly Magazine, Emerging Artist

2009 Flagpole  Magazine, review of three-person show (with text and 
   color photo) 
2006 Poetic Expressions of Mortality, Figurative Ceramics from the
   Porter-Price Collection, Mobile Museum of Art
2005 500 Cups, Lark Books
2005 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, review of group show (with text and
   color photo) by Jerry Cullum

selected group and invitational exhibitions

2010 Positioning the Figure, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2010 Studio Ceramics, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2010 Yunomi Show, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2009 Beyond Surface, University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2009 Southeast Ceramics, University of South Carolina's McMaster Gallery, Columbia, SC
2009 30 x 5, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2009 Perils in the Sublime, NCECA, Phoenix, AZ
2009 Ceramic Invitational, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2008 La Mesa, NCECA and Santa Fe Clay, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 New Alfred, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA
2007 MFA Alfred Grads, Leon Gedould Gallery, New York, NY
2006 La Mesa, NCECA and Santa Fe Clay, Portland, OR
2006 Poetic Expressions of Mortality, Figurative Ceramics from the
   Porter-Price Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2006 Tell Me a Story, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Stories and Visions of Nature in Clay, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 La Mesa, NCECA and Santa Fe Clay, Baltimore, MD
2005 Octant, BFA Exit Show, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2005 Hot/Ice, Blue Spiral Gallery, Asheville, NC
2004 8 Fluid Ounces: A Cup Show, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2004 CUP, The New Gallery, University of Miami, FL

one and two-person shows
2010 Featured Artist, AKAR Gallery, Iowa City, IA
2008 Lauren Gallaspy and Andy Nasisse, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 MFA Thesis  Exhibition, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
2005 AGA Introductions, The Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA

awards/grants/fellowships
2010 Emerging Artist, Ceramics Monthly Magazine
2004 Mary Rosenblatt Art Scholarship
2004 Regina Brown Undergraduate Fellowship Recipient
2003 Patrick Thomas Keim Memorial Award for work in ceramics

residencies
2005 The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA