‍ ‍Director - Producer - Writer

In-progress GIRL ISLAND: The Sandy Stone Story, feature documentary film 2018 - present

Executive Producers: Lilly Wachowski & Mickey R. Mahoney, Zackary Drucker, and Producers: Marc Smolowitz, Susan Stryker

‍ ‍Accomplishments for GIRL ISLAND

Gotham Week Project Market Program, Brooklyn, NY, invited filmmaker 2025

Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund DocLab, Johns Hopkins University, MD 2025

Mellon Foundation, grant - 2025 - 2027

1905 Fellowship: Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association, grant 2024

Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, Johns Hopkins University, MD, grant 2024

Hot Docs Deal Maker Program, Toronto, Canada, invited filmmaker 2024

Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, MD 2023 - 2024

Kickstarter, 406 campaign donors 2023

Women Make Movies, Production Assistance Program/Fiscal Sponsorship, NY 2022 to present

‍ ‍Presentations about GIRL ISLAND

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, visiting filmmaker 2025

Haverford College, PA, visiting filmmaker 2025

University of Maryland, College Park, MD, visiting filmmaker 2024

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, visiting filmmaker 2024

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, visiting filmmaker 2024

New York University, New York, NY, panelist: "An Evening with Sandy Stone" 2023

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, keynote panelist: Trans Conference 2023

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, visiting filmmaker 2022

St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM, visiting filmmaker 2022

University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico, visiting filmmaker 2022

‍ ‍Press for GIRL ISLAND

KQED, Nastia Voynovskaya, “88-Year-Old Audio Engineer Sandy Stone Survived Transphobic Backlash and Made History,” June 16, 2025

The Advocate, Trudy Ring, “Sandy Stone is the first transgender woman inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame,” March 31, 2025

GLAAD, “Trans Day of Visibility: A message from 6 trans elders,” March 31, 2025

Lookout Santa Cruz, Wallace Baine, “From Hell to the Hall of Fame: The Astonishing Story of Sandy Stone,” April 2024

The Michigan Daily, June MacDonald, “Founder of trans studies talks LGBTQ+ identities and tech at School of Information lecture”, 2023

LGIOO, Clarisse Aubrac, "Girl Island Documentary Celebrates LGBTQ+ Icon Sandy Stone's Journey.” November 24, 2023

The BUZZ, Melissa MacMullin, “Now Boarding for Destination, Girl Island: The Life, Times, and Turning Tides of Sandy Stone.” October, 2023

The Outwords Archive, Mason Funk, “Sandy Stone”, Aug. 2023

‍ ‍Selected Experience

Public Art Committee, Member, Reno Arts & Culture Commission, Reno, NV. City appointed position 2022 - 2023

Friends of Black Rock High Rock, Juror, Two Annual Artist Residency Awards, Gerlach, Nevada 2020, 2021, 2022

Joan Mitchell Foundation, Artist Fellowship Nominator, NY, NY 2019 - 2021

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Juror panelist, Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting 2016

Caldera Artist Residency, artist, month-long artist in residence, Sisters, OR 2016

Wyoming Arts Council, returning Fellowship Juror for statewide artist fellowship awards 2015

Wyoming Arts Council, returning Fellowship Juror for statewide artistfellowship awards and CLICK! conference guest participant, Wind River Institute, Lander, WY 2014

Oregon Arts Commission, Juror panelist, Individual Artist Fellowships, OR 2013

San Francisco Art Institute, Student Mentor, Low-Residency MFA Program, CA 2013

Wyoming Arts Council, Juror for statewide artist fellowship program and CLICK! conference guest participant, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 2013      

Signal Fire Artist Residency, Board Member 2012 - 2016

University of Nevada, Reno, Sheppard Fine Art Gallery, Reno, NV; Director and Curator, main gallery and three auxiliary campus spaces; Faculty, Department of Art, MFA and BFA/BA students; Associate Faculty, Department of Women’s Studies, PhD, MA and BA students 2006 - 2012

The School of the International Center for Photography (ICP), NY, NY 2013. Guest lecturer and critiques, Advanced Seminar Class

Signal Fire Artist Residency, invited guest participant. Seven-night canoe trip down the Green River, Utah 2012

Faculty Senate, University of Nevada, Reno, three-year term 2011

Guest Juror and lecturer, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR 2011

Scholar-in-Residence, Columbus State University, GA, Inaugural candidate, full semester residency to work on two book projects Fall 2009

Guest Juror and lecturer, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 2008

Guest Juror, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV 2008

Transart Institute, O.K. Centrum, Linz, Austria, Faculty, MFA 2006 - 2008

European Graduate School, La Rochelle and Paris, France. Invited Scholar-in-Residence for advanced study with philosophers Paul Virilio and Jean Baudrillard 2007

Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, NY. Visiting Lecturer, viewing and presentation on Claire Denis’ film Beau Travail, as part of Pratt’s “Art, Design & War Series” 2006

New York University, NY, NY. Invited Scholar-in-Residence for participation in graduate seminars by American philosopher Avital Ronell 2006 - 2004

European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland. Invited Scholar-in-Residence for advanced study with filmmaker Claire Denis nd philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy 2006

European Graduate School, Paris, France. Invited Scholar-in-Residence for advanced study with philosophers Jacques Derrida and Avital Ronell 2004

European Graduate School, Switzerland. Teaching Assistant, Klaus Ottman, art critic, curator, theorist and Cornelia Parker, artist 2003

Polly Apfelbaum, artist, NY, NY. Studio assistant for mid-career survey traveling exhibition 2003

Wright College, Chicago IL. Adjunct professor of black/white and color photography classes. Beginning, intermediate and advanced levels, three classes a semester 2000 - 2002

Artemisia Gallery, Chicago IL. President of cooperative gallery, with five-room exhibition facility 2000 - 2002, and Board Member, Secretary, and Newsletter Editor 1997 - 2000

Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL. Instructor of black/white and color photography classes and workshops. Beginning, intermediate and advanced levels, three to five classes a semester 1996 - 2002

‍ ‍Awards

Short-list, Kraszna-Krausz Book Award for The Films of Claire Denis. Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, London, England. Featured at Media Space, London Science Museum, 2015

From 2006 - 2012, I was awarded the following grants as Director of Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno:

City of Reno Project (6), City of Reno Cultural Event (6), Nevada Arts Council Project (6), Nevada Arts Council Design (4), Nevada Humanities (2), Hilliard Endowment (10), Benna Foundation (3), UNR School of Arts Visiting Artist Fund (2), and Culture Ireland (1).

Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship/Inaugural Semester, Columbus State University, GA 2009

Second Prize, Ekecheiria exhibition, Chicago, IL 2004

Contemporary Arts Council, curatorial commission, Chicago, IL 2001 - 2002

Merit Fellowship, Bard College, MFA program, Annandale, NY  1998, 1999, 2000

Cultural Relations Committee of Ireland, Grant for curatorial project 1999

Artistic Merit Finalist, Works ’99, Chicago, IL 1999

Robert J. Kutak Award, Best of Show, University Art Show, Indiana 1997

Merrill Prize for Excellence in English, Mount Holyoke College, S. Hadley, MA 1992

‍ ‍Curatorial History

Inscriptions Journal: Contemporary Thinking on Art, Philosophy and Pyscho-analysis, Guest Editor, Art. Curated artists Nicholas Kahn & Selesnick, Surabhi Saraf, and Grace Weir. Issue 4, no. 1, 2021

South Pass: Biennial Fellowship Exhibition Wyoming Arts Council, Curator and essayist, University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Laramie, WY 2015

Telarian, Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, GA. Guest Curator, four-person exhibition with catalogue 2013

Firelei Baez, Sheppard Gallery, Reno, NV.Curator, solo with 3-week residency with catalogue 2012

Capsize Residency with LACE Sheppard Gallery, Reno, NV. Curator, 5-day residency with LACE’s Asst. Director/Curator Robert Crouch, Program Coordinator Geneva Skeen, and artists Tad Beck and Jennifer Locke 2012

Capsize: Tad Beck and Jennifer Locke, LACE, LA, CA. Curator, two-person exhibition with catalogue 2012

We look good on paper: Erik Burke, Mike Burke and Catherine Karnoff. Curator, three-person, Sheppard Gallery, Reno 2012

Use: Keiko Narahashi and Joseph Pintz, Sheppard Gallery, Reno, NV. Co-Curator with Namita Gupta Wiggers, Museum of Contemporary Craft, OR. 2-person w/ catalogue 2011

Iraqimemorial.org, works/San Jose, CA. Juror, traveling group exhibition, organized by Joseph DeLappe 2011

The View Without: Morgan McAuslan and Jack Daws, Sheppard Gallery, Reno, NV. Curator, two-person with catalogue 2011

Iraqimemorial.org, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY NY. Juror, group exhibition, organized by Joseph DeLappe 2011

Reiterate the Repeat: Sky Kim + Keun Young Park, Sheppard Gallery, Reno, NV. Curator, two-person with catalogue 2011

The Bone Tarot: Ricardo Olvera, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, NV. Curator, Solo with brochure 2011

MYSELF: Survey of contemporary self-portraiture, Sheppard Gallery, Reno, NV. Curator, 66-person group exhibition with catalogue 2011

Ryan Pierce: Fear of Dogs and Water, Sheppard Gallery, Reno, NV. Curator, Solo with catalogue 2010

Margo Pelletier and Lisa Thomas: Filmmakers Residency Part Two, Curator, two-person residency, Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV 2010

Every Distance is Not Near: Debra Baxter, Dawn Carney & Jenny Heishman, Curator, three-person with catalogue, Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV 2010

Drive By Press: Visiting Printmaking Workshop, University of Nevada, Reno Printmaking Dept. Co-curator with Eunkang Koh, workshop and lecture 2010

Scatter and Heap: Lauren DiCioccio & Paho Mann, Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV. Curator, two-person with brochure 2010

Autolust: Craig Smyres, Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV. Curator, Solo with catalogue 2010

Visiting Artist: Lucy Raven, Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV. Curator, visiting artist for critiques 2010

Iraqimemorial.org, Sheppard Gallery, Reno, NV. Juror, Group exhibition, organized by Joseph DeLappe 2010

Project.2: Reno International New Media Festival, Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV. Juror, Group exhibition 2009

Stephen Eakin: Solo, Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV. Curator, solo exhibition with brochure 2009

Perpendicularity: Dean Burton, Thom Heileson & Tamara Scronce. Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV. Curator, three-person with catalogue 2009

Perform, Perform, Perform: Allison Lacher & Victoria Calabro. Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV. Curator, two-person collaborative with brochure 2009

I Like Winners: Sport & Selfhood, Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV. Curator, 25-person exhibition with catalogue 2009

Susan Murrell Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV. Curator, solo exhibition with brochure 2008

Eco-Sophia, Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV. Curator, group exhibition with catalogue 2008

Eunjung Hwang & Siebren Versteeg, Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV. Curator, two-person show 2008

Walker & Walker, Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV. Curator, solo show with catalogue 2008

19th Annual Juried Show, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, NV. Juror 2008

Whole Fragment, Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV. Curator, group show with catalogue 2007

Orion’s Belt, Sheppard Gallery, NV. Curator, group show with programming, commissioned documentary video 2007

Margo Pelletier & Lisa Thomas for SILVIA: New Films & Filmmakers Series. Nevada Museum of Art & University of Nevada, Reno, NV Series Founder/Curator 2007

Visiting Artist: Hilary Harkness, Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno . Curator, Visiting artist lecture and critiques 2006

1st Reno Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media, University of Nevada, Reno. Co-curator with Joseph DeLappe, multi-venue event and program for graduate students 2006

To Collect and Preserve, Sheppard Gallery, Reno NV. Curator, group exhibition from Nevada-area collector’s collections2006

Mixed Messages 2005, New School University, New York NY. Juror, 9th Annual Media Studies Graduate Showcase, invited 2005

Baker’s Dozen, Ceres Gallery, New York NY. Curator, thirteen-person exhibition, invited 2005

Politic of the Moment, Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL. Guest Curator, four-person exhibition, invited guest curator 2005

OfficeOps, Brooklyn NY. Guest Curator, two separate one-person exhibitions 2003

European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Curator, Invited artist Cornelia Parker as faculty participant, TA to her class 2003

Arranged Marriage: outer space(s), Contemporary Arts Council, Chicago IL. Curator, twenty-two-person exhibition, commission award 2002

Tracking (in search of objects), Artemisia Gallery, Chicago IL. Curator, nine-person art exhibition, independent 2000

Feminism: A World Power, Chicago IL. Juror, one of three invited jurors for national exhibition by Chicago branch of Woman’s Caucus for the Arts 2000

The Grotesqueness of Desire, insideART Gallery, Chicago IL. Co-curator with Clodagh Kenny, fourteen-person exhibition 1999

‍ ‍Presentations

Bryant Park Reading Room "Reel Talks" Series, New York City, Guest speaker with contributors Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly (Scholar) and Kirsten Johnson (Cinematographer/Director) for the book The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border, Hosted by Scott Adlerberg (Resident Film Expert) July 2021

San Francisco Art Institute, "The Films of Claire Denis," Guest speaker, Graduate Lecturer Series, CA, 2013

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Visiting lecturer and residency critiques, Salt Lake City, UT, 2013

Various artist introductions, panel moderations, etc for Sheppard Fine Art Gallery, Reno NV,2006-2012

Creative Capital Arts Initiative, Carlson Library, Carson City, NV, March 2012

Creative Capital Arts Initiative, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV, March 2012

Creative Capital Arts Initiative, Douglas High School, Minden, NV, March 2012

Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR, Guest juror lecture, 2011

Columbus State University, Columbus GA, Distinguished Lecturer, 2009

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Guest curator lecture, 2008

Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vagas, NV, Guest juror lecture, 2008

Transart Institute, Linz Austria, artist and curator lecture, school-wide 2007 and 2006

New School University, NY NY, Visiting Critic for Advanced Digital Imaging class 2002

Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WISC. Visiting Lecture, two classes. 2002

Ladyfest, Chicago, IL; “Field Visions: Art, Context and Community”, panelist, 2001

University of Illinois, Chicago IL, Visiting Lecture, two separate occasions 2000

Artemisia Gallery, Chicago IL. Poetry reading from manuscript The Quiver in a Butcher’s Wrist, with lecture on the fear of intimacy as related to the use of “you/I” pronouns in poetry 1998

Kunstlerhaus, Hamburg Germany, Artist Lecture 1998

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, Poetry reading from manuscript want with lecture on communication, grammar and art, 1997

‍ ‍Writing

Neverending Answer, Guest editor essay, Inscriptions Journal: Contemporary Thinking on Art, Philosophy and Pyscho-analysis, Issue 4, no. 1, January 2021

Start Anyway, 20-page artist zine for group exhibition, Laramie County Library in Cheyenne, Wyoming; curator: Camellia El-Antably 2020

South Pass, catalogue essay, University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Laramie, WY 2105

Heidi Schwegler: Mid-Career Retrospective,The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, OR 2015

The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border, IB Tauris, London (International Library of the Moving Image) 2014; reprint Bloomsbury, London 2021

Telarian, catalogue essay, Illges Gallery, GA 2013

Firelei Baez, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery, Reno 2012

Capsize, catalogue essay, LACE, LA CA 2012

“The Overwelm” for M/E/A/N/I/N/G: 25th Anniversary Edition, eds Mira Schor and Susan Bee 2011

Use: Keiko Narahashi and Joe Pintz, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2011

The View Without: Morgan McAuslan and Jack Daws, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2011

Reiterate the Repeat: Sky Kim and Keun Young Park, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2011

The Bone Tarot: Ricardo Olvera, brochure essay, Sheppard Gallery 2011

Myself: Contemporary Self-Portraiture, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2011

Every Distance is Not Near, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2010

Autolust: Craig Smyres, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery, 2010

Stephen Eakin, brochure essay, Sheppard Gallery 2009

Perpendicularity, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2009

Perform, Perform, Perform, brochure essay, Sheppard Gallery 2009

I Like Winners: Sport & Selfhood, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2009

BigZine, “Bigfoot Peed Here: Google Earth as Bigfoot’s Keeper,” article in zine accompanying BigFoot Night, Sci Fi Screening Room, NY, NY, ed. M. Sweeney Loveless and Kevin Maher 2008

Susan Murrell: Solo Exhibition, catalogue essay for exhibition, Sheppard Gallery 2008

Eco-Sophia, catalogue essay for exhibition, Sheppard Gallery 2008

Walker and Walker, catalogue essay for exhibition, Sheppard Gallery 2008

Sierra Arts Magazine, “Guest Commentary on ‘Whole Fragment’ review,” Jan. 2008

transart v.1: MFA Exhibition, “Open Source,” catalogue essay, 2007

The New England Review, cover photograph, Vol. 28, Num.1, 2007

Nevada Silver and Blue, “Ten things you didn’t know about art curating,” Fall 2007, pg 17

What It Is: Sculpture from 3 Western Universities, exhibition catalogue essay, University of Nevada, Reno, Utah State University, Logan and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 2007

Politic of the Moment, brochure essay 2005

The Bardian (Bard Alumni Magazine), article on alumni in the Whitney Biennial Fall 2004

Surfacing Journal: Textile Artists and Designers Association, essay, Vol. 23, Issue 2, 2002

Arranged Marriage: outer space(s), catalogue essay, 2002

The Bardian (Bard College Alumni Magazine), Spring, article on colorforms and curating, 2001

‍ ‍Curated Essayists

Hannah Israel, Telarian, catalogue essay, Illges Gallery, Columbus GA, 2013

Jennifer Doyle, PhD, Capsize, catalogue essay, LACE, LA CA, 2012

Robert Crouch, Capsize, catalogue essay, LACE, LA CA, 2012

Grant Wahlquist, Capsize, catalogue essay, LACE, LA CA, 2012

Namita Gupta Wiggers, Use: Keiko Narahashi and Joe Pintz, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2011

Mira Schor, Myself: Contemporary Self-Portraiture, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2011

Joy Garnett, Myself: Contemporary Self-Portraiture, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2011

Ryan Pierce, Of Fear of Dogs and Water, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery, 2010

Jesse Aron Green, I Like Winners: Sport & Selfhood, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2009

Thomas Zummer, Eco-Sophia, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2008

Wolfgang Schirmacher, Eco-Sophia, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2008

William L. Fox, Walker and Walker, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2008

Claire Daigle, Walker and Walker, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery 2008

Ann Lauterbach, Whole Fragment, catalogue essay, Sheppard Gallery, UNR, 2007

Joel Felix, Whole Fragment, poetry for catalogue, Sheppard Gallery, UNR, 2007

Kirk Robertson, Whole Fragment, Introduction for catalogue, Sheppard Gallery, UNR, 2007

Tim Griffin, Whole Fragment, poetry in catalogue, Sheppard Gallery, UNR, 2007

Ann Lauterbach, tracking (in search of objects), catalogue essay, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago IL, 2000

Mary Murphy, The Grotesqueness of Desire, catalogue essays, insideART Gallery, 1999

Tim Griffin, The Grotesqueness of Desire, catalogue essays, insideART Gallery, 1999

‍ ‍Reviews, Press, and Catalogs

Paul Felten, "Border Crossings" review of “The Films of Claire Denis.”The Brooklyn Rail. Feb 2016

Douglas Kessey, "The Ideology of Formlessness?" review of “The Films of Claire Denis.”Cultural Politics Journal, Duke University Press. 2016:vol. 11 issue 3

Joelle Vitiello, review of “The Films of Claire Denis.” Women in French Studies. Vol 23, Issue 1, 2015 pp. 158-160

Rosalind Silvester, review of “The Films of Claire Denis.” French Studies: A Quarterly Review [An Oxford University Press pub.], Vol. 69, Issue 4, October 2015 pp. 572-573

Kris Vagner, Reno News and Review, “Film Studies”, June 28, 2015

S.C. Dillon, review of “The Films of Claire Denis.”Choice Review Online (American Library Association). April 2015: vol. 52 no. 08

Geralda Miller, Reno-Gazette Journal, “Baez explores beauty, self”, Aug. 26, 2012

Reno Magazine, Cover story: “The Culture Club”, July/August, 2012

Brad Bynum, Reno News and Review, “Heart Gallery”, Feb. 2, 2012

Geralda Miller, Reno-Gazette Journal, “From Fire to light, the city’s visual art shined bright”, Jan. 1, 2012

Geralda Miller, Reno-Gazette Journal, “Arts preview: 2012”, Jan. 1, 2012

Geralda Miller, Experience, Youth in balance at Sheppard Gallery, Reno-Gazette Journal, Oct. 21, 2011

Stephen Cummings, Reno News and Review, “Repeat after me”, Sept. 1, 2011

Marcus Katz, Interview with Ricardo Olvera, Tarosophist International, Summer 2011

Geralda, Miller, Reno-Gazette Journal, “Bones and the devil rule at Sheppard gallery art exhibit”, July 10, 2011

Brad Bynum, Tarot Show, Reno News and Review, June 23, 2011

Nonie Wainwright, Discover Nevada, “Express Myself”,  Jan. 30, 2011

Brad Bynum, Reno News and Review, “Portrait of the artists”, Jan. 20, 2011

Reno Magazine, “Me Myself and Art”, Jan. 2011

Geralda Miller, Reno-Gazette Journal, I am Art, Jan. 16, 2011

Nonie Wainwright, Nevada News, Faces show character and culture, Jan. 7, 2011

Brad Bynum, Reno News and Review, “Light Come Shining”, Oct. 14, 2010

Joey Veltkamp, Best of:A Northwest-centric Blog, “Best of: Every Distance is Not Near”, Oct. 4, 2010

Chris Lanier, Rhizome, “Review of Perspectives 09”, Dec. 10, 2009

Brad Bynum, Reno News and Review, “House Party”, Aug. 6, 2009

Mark Dunagan, Reno News and Review, “Paint/ball: I Like Winners: Sport and Selfhood,” Jan. 29, 2009 

Jon Fortenbury, Nevada News,”University art exhibition analyzes sports,” Jan. 26, 2009

Catherine Stokes, The Nevada Sagebrush, “Sheppard features sport-inspired artwork,” Jan. 26, 2009

Geralda Miller, Reno Gazette-Journal, “Sheppard exhibit takes look at relationship with sports,”Jan. 18, 2009

Reno Magazine, image for Susan Murrell: Solo Exhibition, Nov. 2008

Jon Fortenbury, Nevada News, “Artist explores knowledge at University exhibition,” Nov. 25, 2008

Brad Bynum, Reno News and Review, “Primordial Ooze: Susan Murrell turns science into art,” Dec. 12, 2008

Jon Fortenbury, Nevada News, ‘Eco-Sophia’ highlights art of living artfully,” October 28, 2008

Megan Berner, Reno News and Review, “Open ends: Eunjung Hwang and Siebren Versteeg,” Sept. 23, 2008

Cherie Louise Turner, Reno News and Review, “Mind Walk: Walker and Walker,” March 13, 2008

Leah Ruby, Reno Gazette-Journal, “Walker & Walker Art Exhibit Hails Mysters,” March 9, 2008

Reno Magazine, listed as a person in “101 Best of Reno,” Jan. 2008

Cherie Louise Turner, Sierra Arts Magazine, ’Whole Fragment’ demonstrates that the Reno art scene is moving in the right direction,” Dec. 2007

Cherie Louise Turner, Reno News and Review, “Oh, the humanity!” Nov. 29, 2007

Emily Katseanes, The Nevada Sagebrush, “Professor reincarnates Buddhism in exhibit,” Nov. 27, 2007

Ashley Parmentier,The Nevada Sagebrush, “Art and poetry meet at Sheppard art gallery,”Oct. 23, 2007

Guia Del Prado, Nevada News, “'Whole Fragment' exhibit gathers artists and writers,” Oct. 17, 2007

Kirk Robertson,Reno News and Review, “Piece signs:Whole Fragment,” Nov. 1, 2007

Kris Vagner, Reno News and Review, “Belt loops and hooks,” Sept. 20, 2007

Brad Nelson, The Nevada Sagebrush, “Sheppard shines with ‘memories’,” Sept. 18, 2007

Alexis Grey, Reno Gazette-Journal “Speakers discuss life of political prisoner,” Feb. 26, 2007

Zanny Marsh, Our Workplace, “Sheppard art gallery presents ‘SILVIA,’ Feb. 15, 2007

Kris Vagner, Reno News and Review “Through prison walls SILVIA,” Feb 15, 2007 pg 18

Susan Skorupa, Reno Gazette-Journal, “Soup is good art,” January 26, 2007

Jennifer Baumer, R Life Magazine,Jan/Feb 2007

Merrie Leininger, Reno Gazette and Journal, “Arts festival encourages experiments in new media,” Nov. 3, 2006

Kris Vagner Nevada Today, “The New Guard,”Oct. 31, 2006

Kris Vagner Reno News and Review, “Artistic endeavors: Change is afoot at UNR’s art depart.”Sept. 14, 2006

Merrie Leininger, Reno Gazette-Journal, “An innovative frame of mind”Sept. 2, 2006

Chad Sorg, Reno News and Review, “Hunter -gatherers: To Collect and Preserve,”Aug. 31, 2006

Jessica Santina, Reno Magazine, “State of the ARTS,” Summer 2006 

Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune, “Our Critics Choice”, for Politic of the Moment, Sun Jan. 9, 2005

Lensay Abadula, The Daily Northwestern, article about Politic of the Moment, Tue Jan. 11, 2005

NBC television interview for exhibition ekecheiria, aired in Chicago, Mon June 7, 2004

New Art Examiner, recommended list with photo for Arranged Marriage, May/June 2002

Mark Scheffler, The Reader, article for Arranged Marriage exhibit, pg 34, Ap. 26, 2002

Michael Weinstein, NewCity, Review and image for tracking (in search of objects), p 30, Ap. 13, 2002

Carol Novak, New Art Examiner, May/June, review for colorforms, pg 97, 2001

Joy Hakanson Colby, The Detroit News, Feb 16, review for colorforms, 2001

Keri Guten Cohen, Detroit Free Press, Feb. 13, review for colorforms, 2001

PBS, television interview for exhibition colorforms, aired in Detroit, Sunday January 28, 2001

Stephen Westfall, Detroit Artists Market, MA, catalogue essayist for group exhibit colorforms 2001

Nayland Blake, Artemisia Gallery, catalogue essay for solo exhibit, Marjorie Vecchio: New Work 2001

libidinal, catalogue for exhibit, TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago IL 2000

Michael Weinstein, NewCity, Ap 6, Tip of the Week review and #1 of Top Shows for EscapeLand, pg 37, 2000

John Brunetti New Art Examiner, review for The Grotesqueness of Desire, p 49, Jul/Au 1999

Fred Camper The Reader, review for The Grotesqueness of Desire, p 32, Ap. 22, 1999

Michael Weinstein NewCity, review for The Grotesqueness of Desire, p 40, Ap. 15, 1999

Kristen Brooke Schleifer, Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, catalogue essayist for exhibit, Peoria IL, 1999

Michael Weinstein NewCity, Dec 9 Tip of the Week review and #1 of Top Shows for bump, p 39, 43, 1999

Heli Nummla, Tucum Sanomat (Finnish Newspaper), Nov. 12, article for happen.stance, p 29, 1999

42nd Vicinity, catalogue for exhibit, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Wis. 1999

Contemporary Abstraction, catalogue for exhibit, Klein Art Works, Chicago IL 1998

Michael Weinstein NewCity, Sept 17, review and #2 of Top Shows for discomfort and other rituals, p 35, 37, 1998

Kevin M. Williams Chicago Sun-Times, Sept 28, article, photos “Alternative Realities”, p 33, 1998

U-Turn, An Art Journal, artist page, Editors: Jim Huginin, Claire Wolf Krantz, Jno Cook 1998

‍ ‍Education

PhD  European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Philosophy of Communication Media, magna cum laude

MFA  Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Photography

BFA  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Photography and Theory

BA    Mount Holyoke College, S. Hadley, MA, European Literature, Music & Art from 1600-1800 (self-designed major)