EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts, West Virginia University, Morgantown, 1975

Bachelor of Arts, West Virginia University, Morgantown, 1972

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011  Personal Symbols: 1990-2011, The Art Store, Charleston, WV

2009  Coal: A Common Experience, Pellissippi State Community College, Knoxville, TN

2009  New Work, The Art Store, Charleston, WV

2006  Curator’s Choice: Paula Clendenin, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, Solo exhibition, catalogue

2004  Internal Sense of Intention, 20 year retrospective, Clay Center for the Arts, Charleston, WV

2001  Appleton Gallery, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio

1999  West Virginia Wesleyan College

1999  Shepherd University, solo show, Shepherdstown, WV

1995  Inside Stories-Old Stories, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV, solo exhibition, catalogue

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2009  Dispatch: Cloth, Print and the Political, Threewalls Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, National Invitational Exhibition

2009  I Don’t Get It: Non-objective Works from the Permanent Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV

2008  Manufactured Unreality: The Art of Collage. Francis M. Naumann Fine Arts, New York

2007  Transmissions, Broadway Gallery, New York, invitational

2004  Tools as Art, Clay Center for the Arts, Charleston, WV

2003  New Works, Callen McJunkin Gallery, Charleston, WV

2003  Stiffel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, WV

1999  Moon Showers: An Artist’s Work, Sleeth Gallery,

1998  Body and Soul: Contemporary Southern Figures, Curated traveling exhibition

1998  The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia

1998  The Mississippi Museum of Arts, Jackson Miss.

1998  The Mobile Museum of Arts, Mobile, Alabama

1998  The Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Fla.

1996-‘97  The Spirit Within: Four West Virginia Artists, Curated traveling exhibition

1996-‘97  The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

1996-‘97  Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV

1996-‘97  Carnegie Hall, Lewisburg, WV

1996-‘97  Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

1995  Crossroads, Solo installation, SunrIse Museum, WV

1995  Prints by Contemporary Women Artists, Hollins College, Roanoke, VA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

West Virginia State University, Professor of Art 1993-2008

Resident Fellow, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

Resident Fellow, Michael Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France

Resident Fellow, The Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT

Artist in Residence, Galveston County, TX

Artist in Residence, Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV

Artist in Residence, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV

COLLECTIONS

AT&T, Westchester, NY

Bank Of Boston, Boston, Ma

Thomas Butler, Columbus, Georgia

Gov. Gaston Caperton, New York, NY

Clay Center for the Arts, Charleston, WV

Dallas Library Commission, Dallas TX

Federal Express, Memphis, Tenn.

Federal Reserve Bank, Baltimore, Md.

Hilton Hotels, Phoenix, Arizona

Huntington Museum of Art. Huntington, WV

International Art, Ltd, London, England

Library of Congress, Washington, DC

The Pickett Hotel, Atlanta, Ga.

Dr. Gina Puzzuoli, Charleston, WV

West Virginia Permanent Collection, WV State Museum, the Cultural Center, Charleston, WV

West Virginia University Permanent Collection, Morgantown, WV

Justice Robin J. Davis & Scott Segal

Jim & Keith Straw

John & Pat Strickland

Henry & Sharon Wehrle

Maestra Rachel Worby, Pasadena, Ca