…with select honours and creative highlights
Bachelor of Arts
Studio Arts
History of Art and Architecture
(double major)
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
August 1995
Cumulative GPA 3.9/4.0
- Summa Cum Laude
- Department Honours
- Studio Arts Award: highest award to a graduating senior
art education also includes elective or post-graduate classes and workshops at: Alberta University of the Arts;
Mount Royal University; Carnegie Mellon University;
University of Illinois; Merrimack College
Bachelor of Arts
English
Merrimack College, N. Andover, MA
December 1989
Cumulative GPA 3.6/4.0
- Magna Cum Laude
- First Place Winner: Merrimack College Essay Contest
- multiple academic scholarships
Piano Major
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
August 1985 – May 1987
- Smith Scholarship: Full four-year music scholarship,
won via competition, for piano performance - soprano, University of Illinois Chorus, by audition
- Inaugural winner of the Outstanding English Student Award
for the class of 1985 (@350 students)
Centennial High School, Champaign, IL - four acting awards for character roles and leads
in four plays and musicals
Centennial High School, Champaign, IL
1983-1985
- Interlochen Center for the Arts summer camp/program in piano
Interlochen, MI
June-August 1984