Fine Arts Awards & Honors
The Paul Ostaseski Memorial Award, Sidewalk Art Show, Roanoke, VA, 2009
Best in Show, Sidewalk Art Show, Roanoke, VA, 2008
The Antsey Hodge Advertising Group Award for Excellence in Design, 2007
Award for Mixed Media, Sidewalk Art Show, Roanoke, VA 2007
Award for Mixed Media, Sidewalk Art Show, Roanoke, VA  1998
Merchant's Award. All Mixed Up: A Mixed Media Exhibition.The Sawtooth Gallery, Winston Salem, NC, 1995
Listed in Who's Who in American Art, 1995

Fine Arts Administrative Postions
2004-2011 Director, Open Studios of Roanoke, a tour of local artists' homes and studios (also founding member of OSR)
2011 Co-President (with Babara Norman-Lashley) of The Market Gallery (also founding member of TMG)
2009-10 and 2002-2007 Vice-President of Marketing, The Market Gallery, Roanoke, VA
2007-2009 Co-President (with Ed Bordett), The Market Gallery, Roanoke, VA

Education
Ph.D. in Medieval Literature, Indiana University (Dissertation on the Gawain-Poet: The Gall of Prophets, UMI, 1994)
M.F.A., Creative Writing (Poetry), University of North Carolina at Greensboro
B.A. in English, with Honors and Departmental Honors, Hollins College

Solo Exhibitions
Why Not Be a Queen Bee? Elaine Stephenson Interiors, Roanoke, VA , 2008
Everything But the Kitchen Sink, Millstone Gallery, Fincastle, VA., 2005
Vision and Revision, The Living Galley, North Cross School, Roanoke, VA, 2002
Songs of Innocence & Experience, Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech, VA, 2001
Just Us Gals, Carabaux Gallery, New Orleans, LA,1999
Hope & Expectation, Alleghany Highlands Art & Crafts Center, Clifton Forge, VA,1998
Creatures of Memory: Symbol & Allegory,The Living Gallery, North Cross School, Roanoke, VA. 1996
Collages and Paintings, The Art Store, Charleston, WV. 1994
Torn Paper, Halifax Community College, Roanoke Rapids, NC, 1981

Juried Exhibitions
Open Studio Tour: Sneak Preview. WVTF PBS, Roanoke, VA 2007, Open Studio: Sneak Review, The Jefferson Center, Roanoke, VA 2002
Regional New River Art Exhibition. Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley, Pulaski, VA 1997
Biennial 1996. Olin Hall Galleries, Roanoke College, Salem,VA1996
The Roanoke City Art Show, Roanoke, VA1995
All Mixed Up: A Mixed Media Competition & Exhibition.The Sawtooth Gallery, Winston Salem, NC 1995 ( Award )

Invitational Exhibitions

The Art Store, Charleston, WV, Small Works, 2011
The Nelson Gallery, Lexington, VA, The Wind That Blows, 2010.
The Art Store, Charleston, WV. Small Works, 2008
The Art Store, Charleston, WV. Best of Summer,  2008
The Art Store, Charleston, WV. Landscapes. 2005
Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech, VA. Open Studios of Roanoke, 2004
The Jefferson Center, VA. Open Studios: Sneak Preview. 2004
The Market Gallery, VA. Ideas of Order, 2003
The Art Store, Charleston, WV. LIGHTS, 2001
Blink, Charleston, SC. Two Sisters: Bullington & Carlton, 2000 (October)
The Art Store, Charleston, WV. Small Works, 2004 - 1999, 1996T
The Art Store, Charleston, WV. Vernal Equinox, 2000
The Art Store, Charleston, WV. Twenty -fifth Anniversary Exhibition, 1998
Fine Arts Museum of Western Virginia. Art and More,1997
The Art Store, Charleston, WV. Art For Schools: Twenty Anniversary Celebration, 1996

Select Public and Private Collections
Carilion Hospitals, Roanoke, VA
University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, VA
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Wheelock Orthodontics, Roanoke, VA
Randy Norbo, DDS, Roanoke, VA
The Spectrum Group (Johnson & Johnson, Inc.), Roanoke, VA
North Cross School, Roanoke, VA