EDUCATION

2008 MFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1998 BA Belhaven University, Jackson, MS

ART & EXHIBITIONS

2021
Interform Cube, Interform Assembly Fashion Show set design and fabrication

2019
The Mother Windows, Historic Rogers Milk Plant, Artists360, Mid-America Arts Alliance

2018
THIS IS A SIGN, AAWE billboard installation, Springdale AR

2017
Tendril, public installation, Brightwater, A Center for the study of Food, Bentonville, AR
Red Rover, Tulsa Ballet II

2016
The Vine, public site-specific installation, 8th Street Market, Bentonville, Arkansas
Light This Candle
Nomas Projects, Dundee Scotland

2015
The Three Feathers, public site-specific installation, Arts District, Bentonville, AR
57th Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

2014
COIN, Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, Fort Smith, AR

2013
COIN, Arts Center of the Ozarks, Springdale, AR
Process, Studio 124, Bentonville, AR
Bare Diary, College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, MO

2011
Negative Matter, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL
BLESS, Ben Russell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Resonant Vision, The 930, Louisville, KY
Sigh, Happy Collaborationists, Chicago, IL
The New, New Chicagoans, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
Negative Matter, MDW Art Fair Sculpture Garden, Chicago, IL
Peregrine Papers, Peregrine Program, Chicago, IL
Valediction, Dance Chance Choreographer’s Showcase, Ruth Page Center for Dance, Chicago, IL
Rabbit Trails, The 930, Louisville, KY

2010
Out of Chicago: Jeremy Tubbs and Dayton Castleman, Jennifer Norback, Chicago, IL
Re:Form, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA
Trendbeheer Meets Proximity, Singer Sweatshop, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Ethosphere, Ethos, Chicago, IL
Inside Out, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Chicago, IL
Nomadic Studio, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Faculty Group Show, Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL
Starcross’d, Judson University, West Elgin, IL
Infoporn II, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL

2009
Salad, Church, Exercise, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
Super Badass, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL

2008
Temporary Allegiance, Gallery 400, University of Illinois Chicago
Continental Fairytales, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Limbo, Gallery 2 and Project Space, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Strange Place, Alogon Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007
This is All Really Happening Right Now, Alogon Gallery, Chicago, IL
Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards, International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ
Something About Coming and Going, Northpark University, Chicago, IL
The Fortuitous Sequel to Martin Kippenberger’s Installation, Experimental Station, Chicago, IL

2006
Tilting at Giants, Permanent Site-Specific Installation at Broad Street Ministry, Philadelphia, PA

2005
The End of the Tunnel, Site-Specific Installation at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Philadelphia, PA
The Muster, Governors Island, New York, NY
Mississippi Invitational Exhibition, Bitsy Irby Gallery, Belhaven University, Jackson, MS

2004
Lamentations, Visions Gallery, Albany, NY
Introducing Palestine, ACSD Pasadena, Pasadena, CA

2003
Passion/Confession, Lemly Gallery, Belhaven University, Jackson, MS
On the Edge, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA
E Pluribus Artis, Eastern University, St. Davids, PA
Notes From Underground, Church of the Good Samaritan, Paoli, PA

1998
Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Meridian, MS

1997
Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS

PROFESSIONAL

1996
Artist, art department for Warner Bros. motion picture A Time to Kill, and The Chamber

2002 - present - Independent Curator

2001-2002
Art Handler/Preparator - Atelier Art Services, Philadelphia, PA

2002-2006
The Church Studios, founder, director, manager.

2006-2008
Graduate Assistant shop technician, The Sharp building & Advanced Fabrication Studio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

2008-2012
Assistant Professor of Art (Tenure Track), Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL

2012 Museum Educator, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

2012-2020
Museum Manager, 21c Museum Hotel, Bentonville, AR

2020-present
Director of Creative Placemaking, Verdant Studio, Rogers, AR

EXHIBITIONS CURATED

Famous Hardware, Springdale, AR, 2021-2022
Objet Petit Trois, Springdale, AR 2019
Elevate @ 21c, 2012-2020
South Arkansas Art Center annual juried exhibition, 2013
Art Northwest, House Gallery, Bentonville, AR 2012-2013
Objet Petit Ahh... Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL 2012
Territories, Version Festival 10, Chicago, IL 2010
Objet Petit A, Spoke, Chicago, IL, 2009
The Strange Place, Alogon Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2008
The Word Made Flesh: Paintings of Edward Knippers, Hilton Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006
Drawing Matthew Clark, Hilton Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2005
Redemption, Hilton Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004
Notes from Underground, Church of the Good Samaritan, Paoli, PA, 2002
E Pluribus Artis, Eastern University, St. Davids, PA, 2001


GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS

2018 Artists360 grantee, Mid-America Arts Alliance
2015 Individual Artist Fellowship, Arkansas Arts Council
2008 MFA Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2006 – 2008 Harvey Fellowship
2007 International Sculpture Center Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award
2005 Project Grant, Broad Street Love
2004 Project Grant, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site
Project Finishing Grant, Angels Net Inc., NYC
1998 Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition, Juror’s Award
1997 Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition, Award of Excellence, Juror’s Award

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bert Stabler, “Review: Dayton Castleman/Seerveld Gallery,” Newcity (Chicago), Feb 21, 2011
Melanie Radzicki Mcmanus, “Philly: Beyond the Bell,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 13, 2009
James Elkins, Slide Lecture “On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art”
Wayne Adams, “On Being in Strange Places,” Curator Online magazine, August 2008
Jessica Prudhomme, “Turning Points,” Prism, May/June 2008, 33
“5 Shows to See Now,” Newcity (Chicago), April 10, 2008, 17
James Romaine, “Best Foot Forward,” Comment, March 2008, 44
Janet Purcell, “Three’s a Crowd,” The Trenton Times, October 5, 2007, G17
The International Sculpture Center 2007 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards, Sculpture Magazine, Vol. 26, October 2007, 57
Exhibition Catalogue, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, Fall/Winter 2007/08 Exhibitions
Ned Bustard, “It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God”, Square Halo Books Inc., 2007, Making Art that Shouts, images: spine, 196, 333, 339, 340, 342, 347, 348
Annual Report, Mustard Seed Foundation, images: front cover, back cover, 2006
Libby Rosof, “Tilting at Frustration,” Philadelphia ArtBlog, March 23, 2006
Roberta Fallon, “Blowing in the Wind,” Philadelphia Weekly, March 22, 2006
Cameron J. Anderson and Sandra Bowden, “Faith and Vision: 25 years of Christians in the Visual Arts”, Square Halo Books Inc., 2005, 7, 60, 189.
Edward J. Sozanski, “Artists provide good reasons to go to prison,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 12, 2005.
Kristen E. Holmes, “Taking in artists as a way to the heart of youth,” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 4, 2005.
Lauren McGowan, “A-spire-ing to higher ground, together,” The Spirit of Fairmount March 30, 2005, 1.
Emily Brown, “Olivet Covenant creates a ‘Church,’ artists find a home,” Philadelphia Art Writers, vol. 2 no. 5, 2005, 1.
Thom Nichols, “Artists find a home in church sanctuary,” Art Museum Area Home News, Oct. 28, 2004, 1.
1998 Mississippi Collegiate Art Competition Winners, Museum Matters, Mississippi Museum of Art Newsletter, May/June 1998, 5.

PUBLICATIONS

Criticism Endorphins, Comment Magazine Online, February 4, 2011
Response to God in the Gallery, Church and Post-Modern Culture blog, online symposium, August 12, 2009
Art: Right There in Public, Comment Magazine, March 1, 2009
Can Cy Twombly Be Trusted, Comment Magazine Online, May 8, 2009
A Universe of Influences, Seen, Vol. 8, no. 1, 2008.
A Place in God’s House, CatapultMagazine.com, Vol. 4, no. 16, 2005.
The End of the Tunnel, CatapultMagazine.com, Vol. 4, no. 14, 2005.
Repentance, Reconciliation and Redemption in the Arts, Creative Spirit: A Journal of Faith and Art, Vol. 6, no. 3, 2005, 15.

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS/PANELS

2020
NWA Technology Summit
2016
Northwest Arkansas Community College
2015
Taylor University
2014
LeTourneau University
2013
Fort Smith Regional Art Museum
College of the Ozarks
University of Arkansas
2012
Biola University
2011
Columbia College, Chicago, IL
The 930 Gallery, Louisville, KY
Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL
Chicago Semester, Chicago, IL
2010
Chicago Semester, Chicago, IL
2009
Christians in the Visual Arts Biennial Conference, Minneapolis, MN
Jubilee Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL
Chicago Semester, Chicago, IL
2008
Following Christ Conference, Chicago, IL
New York Center for Arts and Media Studies, New York, NY
John Brown University, Siloam Springs, AR
International Arts Movement, New York, NY
2007
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York, NY
Christians in the Visual Arts Biennial Conference, Messiah College
Northpark University, Chicago, IL
Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
2005
Messiah College, Philadelphia, PA
2003
Belhaven University, Jackson, MS

COLLECTIONS

Conrad Bakker
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Philadelphia, PA
Henry S. McNeil Jr.
Rob and Tracy Matthews
Broad Street Love
Wayne Presbyterian Church