TEACHING

Senior Teaching Artist, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA - 2005 - 2020

Museum Educator, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA - 2008 - 2020

Drawing Instructor, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA - 2017-18

Drawing Instructor, Friday Nights @ de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA - 2009-12

 

BUSINESS 

Business Owner, Ewing & Germano, 1989 - present

 

EDUCATION

Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL - Bachelor of Arts Degree with Fine Arts Major 

 

​SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 - Whales and Ladder - Developing Environments Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2020 - Winter Spirits - Think Round, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018 - Neighborhood Spirits - Rite Spot, San Francisco, CA 

2017 - Totem Boats and Ladders - Ruth’s Table Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

2016 - Capturing Spirit - Think Round, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2015 - Spirit Boat Timeline - Gallery 190,  UCSF Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA 

2014 - Ascending -  Think Round, Fine Arts Gallery,  San Francisco, CA

2014 - Healing Spirit Boats - China Brotsky Gallery, San Francisco Presidio, CA 

2014 - Collections for Open Studio - Aperto, San Francisco, CA

2012 - Crowning Spirit Boats - Red Union Salon, San Francisco, CA - 2012

2011 - Spirit Boat Directions - January Artist-in-Residence, de Young Museum 

2010 - Italian Pathways - Erickson Zebroski, San Francisco, CA

2009 - Spirit Boat Collections - 323 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008 - 2017 - Open Studios - Mission Artists United 

2008 - Honoring Spirit Boats - UCSF Faculty-Alumni House, San Francisco, CA 

2008 - Literary Spirt Boats - Book Depot, Mill Valley, CA 

2007 - Spirit Boat Journey - Royce Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

2004 - Italian Walks - Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA 

2003 - Italian Vistas - Atrium Gallery, San Francisco, CA 

2002 - Viva Italia - Caffe Roma, San Francisco, CA 

2000 - Concerning Italy - The Book Depot, Mill Valley, CA 

1999 - Hands and Feet Play - Stanford Art Spaces, Palo Alto, CA 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 - Women Rising - Drawing Room Annex, San Francisco, CA

2022 - Five Wishes - Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA

2022 - Land Adaptations - Drawing Room Annex, San Francisco, CA

2022 - Sea - Drawing Room Annex, San Francisco, CA

2019 - Break the Silence - Horton Gallery, Delta College, Stockton, CA 

2018 - Cross Overs - Reclaimed Room Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018 - Snap - ARC Gallery Juried Show, San Francisco, CA

2017 - Illuminate - ARC Gallery Juried Show, San Francisco, CA 

2016 - Currents - China Brotsky Gallery, Presidio, San Francisco, CA 

2016 - Impulse - ARC Gallery Juried Show, San Francisco, CA

2015 - Left Coast - Juried Show, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA 

2014 - Printmakers Collective - Gruenwald Press Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2013 - CA State Watercolor Juried Show - Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA 

2012 - Brillance - Gruenwald Press, San Francisco, CA

2012 - Staff Art Exhibit - de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 

2011 - Daily Lives - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2011 - 8th Annual Wabi-Sabi Exposition, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA

2010 - Selections - ArtSpan Juried Show, Modern Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009 - 905 Atrium Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008 - California Painting, Triton Art Museum, Santa Clara, CA

2006 - Selections by Sue - Sue Kirkman Gallery, Johnson City, TX

2004 - Hearts of San Francisco - Benefit for SF General Hospital, San Francisco, CA

2003 - Bas Relief and Painting Demos, Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, CA

2002 - Invitational by Brutocao Cellars, Hopland, CA

2000 - Invitational by La Famiglia Winery, Napa, CA

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RECENT WORK EXPERIENCE

2018  - Asian Art Museum /Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, San Francisco, CA -

Led segment of UCSF class, “Integrative Approaches to End of Life”

2017 -  Cantor Art Museum, Palo Alto, CA

Co-led tour for medical students in “Art of Medical Diagnosis”

2016 - Senior Access, Visiting Artist Program, San Raphael, CA 

Developed art activities for empowering seniors with dementia/memory loss

2016 - Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA 

Co-led observation/activity tour - “Physicians Career Sustenance”, UCSF VA Interns

2015 - Open Space Technology Conference, Whidbey Institute,  Whidbey, WA 

Led personal growth and community building workshops 

2015 - Joie De Vivre, Hotel Del Sol, San Francisco, CA  

Trained staff in interdepartmental communications

2014 - Asian and Pacific Islander Women’s Circle, UCB, Berkeley, CA 

Led workshop for community building and transforming connections 

2014-  Living Shaman Museum, The Presidio of San Francisco, SF, CA 

Art exhibit and educational workshops for personal growth

2012 - Palo Alto Art Center, Baylands Nature Preserve, Palo Alto, CA 

Led workshop for family programs and community building 

2011- Artist-in-Residence, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA 

Led educational workshops for the public and exhibited the art of Spirit Boats 

 

PRESENTATIONS

2019 - Mayo Clinic - Medical Humanities Symposium, Phoenix, AZ

2015 - Memory and Aging Center -  UCSF,  Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA 

2014 - Take Back the Night - S F Veteran’s Lions Club, San Francisco, CA

2014 - Memory and Aging Center - UCSF,  Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA 

2014 - Living Shaman Museum - China Brotsky Gallery, Presidio, San Francisco, CA 

2011 - Opera Integration Program, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco, CA