Patricia's profile
Patricia was born and raised in Baltimore, and moved to Washington DC in 1983. She earned a BFA in Studio Art at University of MD, College Park, with a minor in art history.
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 work ‘Demons without Faces’ in 1987, at an auction to benefit the Washington Project for the Arts. Her work is catalogued in the Hirshhorn Museum.
In 1987, she studied with Washington Color School painter Leon Berkowitz, and work completed during that time 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 College of Art 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 her 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 the 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 was studio assistant at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts to 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 developed cutting edge photo digitization efforts for the web. https://digital.denverlibrary.org
In 1997 she joined Pirate, a cutting edge artist-run cooperative gallery. Her first exhibition was Big Women was reviewed by Rocky Mountain News. That year she received a scholarship from Colorado Council for the Arts to attend Photographic Story-telling with Jim Goldberg and Philip Brookman at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, Colorado.
In 1997, Patricia was hired as executive director of Alternative Arts Alliance, a non-profit arts organization. During her leadership 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 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, and 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 a Cornish Rex cat.
