Patricia's profile
Patricia is a native of Baltimore who's had a presence in the Washington art community for over forty years. She earned a BFA in Studio Art with a minor in art history at University of MD, College Park.
She was active in the Washington Women's Art Center from 1981 to 1987, with work exhibited and catalogued in shows juried by Linda Roscoe Hartigan, Mary Beth Edelson and May Stevens.
Joseph Hirshhorn purchased her torn paper dyptych ‘Demons without Faces’ in 1987, at auction to benefit Washington Project for the Arts. The work is catalogued at the Hirshhorn Museum.
In 1987, Patricia studied with Washington Color School painter Leon Berkowitz. Paintings done during those studies exhibited in ‘Figure as Image, Figure as Symbol’ at TouchStone Gallery and received notice in The New Art Examiner.
Sam Gilliam visited her studio in 1992 and encouraged her to apply to Howard University's Masters program. Once enrolled at Howard, Patricia studied with Edgar Sorrells Adewale (painting), Al Smith (painting), Dr. Tritobia Benjamin (art history), Winston Kennedy (photography) and Winnie Owens-Hart (ceramics). Renee Stout, and Dr. Floyd Coleman served as advisors. In 1996 she earned the MFA degree.
Between 1991 and 1996, Patricia received grants from the Rauschenberg Foundation, five grants from the DC Commission for the Arts, including two Individual Artist grants, and three Technical Assistance grants.
In 1991, she attended Vermont Studio Center to create work for a solo exhibition ‘Holding the Sacred,’ for Alla Rogers Gallery in Washington, DC.
Her monoprint from that exhibit, ‘Collecting Vessel,' created at a workshop with Glenn Brill in Pyramid Atlantic was published as cover art for the 1994 World Bank International Women’s Month conference in Bejing, China.
Patricia served as studio assistant at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts assisting Marjorie Moore in drawing and painting, and Paula Winokur in ceramics, respectively in 1994, and 1995.
In 1996, the artist moved to Denver where she worked for David Griggs, a public artist and for Richard Colvin, performing art restorations. In 1997, the Denver Public Library hired her to catalog historic photographs for the Western History and Genealogy Department which had the earliest photo digitization efforts. https://digital.denverlibrary.org
In 1997 she joined Pirate, a cutting edge artist-run cooperative gallery. Her first exhibition was Big Women which was reviewed by Rocky Mountain News. That year she was awarded a scholarship from Colorado Council for the Arts to participate in Photographic Story-telling with Jim Goldberg and Philip Brookman at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, Colorado.
Patricia was hired as executive director of Alternative Arts Alliance, a non-profit arts organization. During her year of service, the organization was awarded $100,000 in grants, and in-kind support from Colorado Council on the Arts, the Scientific and Cultural Fund of Denver and other community organizations to develop the non-profit, and train a Board of Directors. As director, Patricia planned traveling exhibition opportunities for artists throughout Colorado, and developed a two-day ‘Open Studio Tour’ with a catalog to highlight Denver's growing arts community.
In 2000, Patricia returned to Maryland and exhibited 'Genetics/Memetics' at Artomatic in 2002. The installation was featured in a photographic review on the front page of the Washington Post Style section.
In 2013, Patricia served as assistant in drawing and painting to Norman Akers at Penland School of Crafts.
She continued working in libraries, joining Montgomery County Libraries in 2002, retiring in 2018.
The artist holds a Second Degree certificate in Reiki, and is ordained in Spiritual Science in Washington, DC where she taught esoteric and exoteric aspects of Death & Dying. She lives in Columbia, Md, where she maintains gardens and resides with her partner and two Cornish Rex cats.
