| 2006 | MFA Sculpture, University of Wisconsin – Madison |
| 2001 | BA Studio Art, College of Wooster, Ohio magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa |
| 2001 | University of Toledo, Ohio study in digital media, installation, and public art |
| 1995 - 1996 | Akademisches Gymnasium, Willich Germany study in art history and practice |
| areas of specialization: sculpture, installation, video |
| 2009 | Polymer Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee Art vs. Starlight UW Union Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin Plus 3 Ferris Wheels CEPA Gallery, Buffalo New York |
| 2008 | Getting Strong Now (solo) Second Bedroom Gallery, Chicago, Illinois ACTIVESITE IV Old Federal Building, Grand Rapids, Michigan The Audacity of Desperation The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, Urbana, Illinois Sea and Space, Los Angeles, California ACTIVESITE III Old Kindel Furniture Factory Grand Rapids, Michigan Speculation Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin Making Room for Wonder SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, California Plus 3 Ferris Wheels Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo Michigan, University at Buffalo, Buffalo New York, Alfred University, Alfred, New York, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, T he University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee On Procession Fountain Square/ Downtown Indianapolis, organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 2007 | Stories To Be Looked At; Pictures To Be Read Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 30 Years/ 30 Cakes UICA, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| 2006 | Visualizing Trans The Kupfer Center, Madison, Wisconsin Desperado (solo) Humanities Gallery UW-Madison, Wisconsin Last Summer (solo) Commonwealth Gallery Madison, Wisconsin Blindspot (collaboration with the Spectacle Collective) Art Fair on the Square, Madison, Wisconsin and Nova Art Fair, Chicago, Illinois You Count the Centuries, I Blink My Eyes Vilas Hall, UW-Madison, Wisconsin TKO EBCO Station/ Municipal Workshop, Sheboygan, WI North By Northwest (juried) Commonwealth Gallery, Madison Wisconsin and Diamond Ink Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Representative Samples Humanities Gallery UW-Madison, Wisconsin |
| 2005 | When Push Comes (solo) Silo Gallery, Stoughton, Wisconsin Think Tank (juried) Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin Menagerie (invitational) Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin Madison Juried Show Steinhilber Gallery, Oshkosh, Wisconsin Second Thoughts Humanities Gallery UW-Madison, Wisconsin |
| 2004 | Dog Days (solo) 734 Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin Ana 33 (juried) Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana Over Oceans, Through the Air, Beyond All Barriers (juried) Ironworks Factory, Madison, Wisconsin DDD (invitational) Urban Market, Madison, Wisconsin 76th Annual Student Art Exhibit (juried, Hon. Mention) Porter Butts Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin You Go First Humanities Gallery, UW-Madison, Wisconsin |
| 2003 | Citation Humanities Gallery, UW-Madison, Wisconsin Books2Eat Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio Guerrilla Gallery Old Secor Hotel Ballroom, Toledo, Ohio Real Saints (invitational) Lourdes College, Toledo, Ohio Staff and Volunteer Exhibit Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio Inaugural Exhibit Parkwood Gallery, Toledo, Ohio |
| 2002 | Real Saints (invitational) Corpus Christi, Toledo, Ohio Drawing Resistance (invitational) Collingwood Arts Center, Toledo, Ohio Salon de Refuses (Best in Sculpture) 20 North Gallery, Toledo, Ohio |
| 2001 | Superwell (solo) MacKenzie Gallery, Wooster, Ohio Well Off (solo) Utopia Arts Center, Toledo, Ohio Hydrostone, collaborative installation Lake Erie Center, Oregon, Ohio Grand Opening Exhibit (invitational) Orobs Fine Art Gallery, Toledo, Ohio Open Summer Show (juried) Spectrum Gallery, Toledo, Ohio NSAL small Sculpture Exhibit (juried, Hon. Mention) Parkersberg, West Virginia Five Colleges Juried Art Show Sussel Gallery, Wooster, Ohio |
| 2000 | Stagedoor Dance Concert Freedlander Theatre, Wooster, Ohio Red Eleven MacKenzie Gallery, Wooster, Ohio |
| 2006 | You Count the Centuries, I Blink My Eyes cross-disciplinary time-based media exhibit, screening and symposium, Vilas Hall, UW-Madison, Wisconsin North by Northwest, UW-Madison/Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Curatorial Exchangeexhibited at the Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin and the Diamond Ink Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| 2005 | Cowboy Curators, founder student organization at UW - Madison Think Tank, (juried) Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin Menagerie, (invitational) Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin |
| 2004 | Over Oceans, Through the Air, Beyond All Barriers, (juried) Ironworks Factory, Madison, Wisconsin |
| 2008 | On Labor and Looking: Erin V. Sotak’s Consuming Tableaux, Exposure: The Journal of the Society for Photographic Education, Volume 41:2, Fall 2008, p. 12-19. |
| 2009 | Panelist, Artists on Artists SMoCA - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona Panelist, DESPERADO AND SADDLEDRAG: Female Performances Queering Cowboys PCA/ACA - Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association National Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 2008 | Workshop Leader, One Stitch After Another: Crochet as a Sculptural Practice, International Sculpture Conference, Grand Rapids, MI Moderator, ARTSlam, International Sculpture Conference, Grand Rapids, MI Panelist, Queering Failure, or, Glub! Glub! for Queer Love Boat: The Politics of Inclusion in Visual Culture panel, College Art Association Conference, Dallas, Texas Lecture, Relational Aesthetics: Considering Communities for Art and Experience: Assorted Experiments in American Aesthetics Fifth Annual Research Conference held by the Philosophy Department at the University of Toledo, Ohio Lecture, Making Contact: Boxing and Aesthetics, Friday Night at GRAM LectureSeries, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan |
| 2007 | Panelist, GVSU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Research November Colloquium, Allendale, Michigan Panelist, The Power of Art? Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids, Michigan Panelist, Notes from a Native Informant on Seeking Aesthetic and Ethical Satisfaction through Queered Representations of the Iconic American Cowboy Sex/Life/Politics Conference, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, England Lecture, Desperado and Peter Pan Live!: Romantic Considerations of Failure, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Lecture, Desperado, Warm Guns and Peter Pan Live!: Romantic Considerations of Failure, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California |
| 2006 | Panelist, Desperado: Romantic Considerations of Failure for the Queer Tactics panel at Trans: A Visual Culture Conference, U-W Madison, Wisconsin Presenter, When Push Comes for ArtSlam!, International Sculpture Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio Lecture, Romanticizing Failure, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida |
| 2005 | Lecture, Warm Guns for Peace, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin |
| 2006 - | Assistant Professor Grand Valley State University Allendale, Michigan |
| 2005 – 2006 | Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Record 104: Introduction to Three- Dimensional Design University of Wisconsin – Madison |
| 2003 – 2005 | Teaching Assistant 108: Foundations of Contemporary Art & 208: Current Directions in Art University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| 2004 - 2005 | Gallery Coordinator Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin |
| 2002 - 2003 | Special Projects Assistant Arts Commission of Greater Toledo, Ohio |
| 2001 | Videographer Spring Dance Concert, College of Wooster, Ohio |
| 2000 - 2001 | Woodshop Assistant College of Wooster, Ohio |
| 1999 | Artist Assistant to Loren Madsen, Artist Assistant to Mary Beth Edelson New York, New York |
| 2006 - | International Sculpture Center [ISC] member |
| 2005 - | College Art Association [CAA] member |
| 2007 | Summer Research Grant-in-Aid Grand Valley State University Pew Faculty Teaching and Learning Travel Grant Grand Valley State University |
| 2006 | Pew Faculty Teaching and Learning Travel Grant Grand Valley State University |
| 2005 | Professional Development Travel Grant UW-Madison Art Department |
| 2004 | Copeland Grant to assist in the completion of Senior Thesis Exhibit, College of Wooster |
| 2000 | Grant for study at Haystack Mt. School of Crafts, College of Wooster |
| 2005 | Scholarship for study at Haystack Mt. School of Crafts, UW-Madison Art Department Commission by the Campus Art Collective for the UW-Madison Political Science Department, Madison, Wisconsin |
| 2004 | Rowland Foundation Fellowship Residency, Vermont Studio Center |
| 2001 | Scott Senior prize for excellence in Studio Art College of Wooster |
| 2000 | Scott Junior prize for excellence in Studio Art, College of Wooster |
| 2007 | Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Gym, Toronto, Canada |
| 2005 | Haystack Mt. School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine |
| 2004 | Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont |
| 2001 | Residency, Degrees of Freedom, New Philadelphia, Ohio |
| 2000 | Haystack Mt. School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine |
| Metal | TIG welder, MIG welder, oxyacetylene welder, plasma cutter, vertical and horizontal band saw, chop saw, drill press, manual roller, sandblaster, hand tools |
| Wood | table saw, panel saw, band saw, chop saw, planer, jointer, disc sander, belt sander, drill press, hand tools |
| Fiber | sewing machine, overlock machine, crochet |
| Digital | video camera, FInal Cut Pro, iMovie, Photoshop, Powerpoint, Excel, Word |
| Functional literacy in German |