Select Exhibitions & Publications
2018
Buff, Collaboration with Lenore Thomas, Union Hall, Pittsburgh PA
Artistic License, Curated by Josè Carlos Diaz, Sift, Pittsburgh Artist Registry, Online
2017
The Expanded Caribbean: Contemporary Photography at the Crossroads, Curated by Susanna Gold, Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Past Present Future: Western Pennsylvania's People and Places, Curated by David Oresick, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
DIGS: Sexism in the Arts, Curated by Carolyn Pierotti, Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh, PA
Casual Encounters Skateboard, Collaboration with Lenore Thomas and Shawn Beeks, Slapstick Skateboards
Re-vision: New Directions in Traditional Genres, Furman University, Greenville, SC
Unseen, Faculty Exhibition, Robert Morris University, Moon, PA
2016
Postcards from Derr, Faculty Show, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA
Our Love Is Like Every Fleetwood Mac Song, Video, New Members AAP Exhibition, Mine Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
John Riegert Project, Curated by Brett Yasko, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 105th Annual Exhibition, Curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Three Rivers Portraits: Photographs celebrating the life of Pittsburgh, Curated by Philip Prodger, Sponorsed by Magenta Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA
Selected Images from Unseen, Mayor Bill Peduto's Office, City Council Building, Pittsburgh, PA
Fresh + Flash + Photographic, Curated by Jennifer Riley, IUCA+D Gallery, Indiana University, Columbus, IN
Publication: Everything Changed, Then Changed Again in Fraction Magazine, Issue 82, January 2016
2015
Interview: A Different Kind of Portraiture in Ivette Spradlin’s “Unseen” Series, By Marky Ramone, November 4, Resource Magazine
Memories, Stories, Histories, Selected by Amy Galpin, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2015, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Pittsburgh Women Photographers, Jask Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
You Are Gone, I Am Here, Winner of Best In Show, Unseen/Unheard, Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Exhibition, Juried by Astria Suparak, Pittsburgh, PA
You Are Gone, I Am Here, Screening, Film Kitchen, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, PA
Start with Art, Project Created by Matthew Conboy, Pittsburgh, PA
Incadensent: A Color Film Zine, Issue Seven, Pine Island Press
2014
Unseen, Pittsburgh Biennial, Curated by Adam Welch, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA
The Oval Portrait, Magneta Pop: Pittsburgh, Triangle Park, Pittsburgh, PA
fünf: Five Years of Art on the Walls, The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, PA
Home, Curated by Viginia Fabbri Butera, Ph. D., Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
Silience Screening, Transmodern Film Festival, Baltimore, MD
The Swap, Portrait Swap with Aaron Blum, Project Created by Stuart Pilkington, Featured on the BBC
2013
Carbon first, then light, Solo show, Art on the Walls program, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Pittsburgh, PA
Carrie Furnace: Contemporary Views, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
A La Creme, 2 Minute Film Festival, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Parralax-Women's Photography Exhibition, Juried by Marta Madigan, Gromley Gallery, Norte Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, MD
2012
Next Level Magazine, Issue #22: Pittsburgh, UK based Contemporary Photography Magazine
In The Dark, Slideluck, Potshow Pittsburgh, Curated by Ellen Fleurov and Evan Mirapaul
Everything Changed, Then Changed Again, Solo show, Curated by Amie Potsic, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
Everything Changed, Then Changed Again, Solo show, Curated by Adam Welch, Pittsburgh Filmmakers Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2010
Even When You Go, You Remain, Stratasphere Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Professional Experience
Adjunct Professor
2006 - present
Colleges
Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, Chatham University, Tyler School of Art, The College of New Jersey, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Duquesne University, Robert Morris University, Delaware County Community College
Courses
Introduction to Photography: Black and White 1, Digital Imaging, Color Photography and Output, Foundations: Computer in Art, Photoshop Foundations, Basic Digital Photography, Intermediate Digital Photography, Advanced Digital Photography, The Art of Photography, Photography On Location (Self-Designed Course), Sequencing and Series: The Photobook (Self-Designed Course), Landscape Photography
Instructor
2009 - present
Workshop: Photographing Artwork
Leader of multiple Photo Safaris at Carrie Furnace, Silver Eye Center for Photography and Rivers of Steel, Pittsburgh, PA
Lecturer, Making an Online Photo Book, Conversation Series, Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Resident Teaching Artist, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Resident Teaching Artist, ArtsPath, Indiana, PA
Photography Project Coordinator, Congreso de Latinos Unidos, Philadelphia, PA
Tutor to Private Clients
Artist
2000 - present
Exhibitions Coordinator for the Three Rivers Arts Festival Juried Visual Arts Exhibition, The Cultural Trust
Board Member and Photography Coordinator for the Rivers of Steel Arts Programming
Creator of a permanent Camera Obscura at the Carrie Furnaces
Videographer / Editor / Director of Photography / Animator
Video and Photographic Documentation of Artworks
Editorial Photographer
Personal Assistant, Karen Kilimnik, Philadelphia, PA
Photographer/Assistant/Tech, Burn Studio, Atlanta, GA
Bookbinder, Conservation and Restoration of Rare Books, Anne Krawitz Bindery, Philadelphia, PA
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
MFA Photography, 2007
Education
Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia
BFA Photography, 2000
Professional Development
2015 Flash Powder Retreat, Highlands, NC
2013 Flight School / Creative Capital Fellowship, Pittsburgh, PA
2003 Women's Studio Workshop Internship, Rosendale, NY
2000 - 2002 Nexus Press Internship, The Contemporary, Atlanta, GA