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SOLO/PERFORMANCES

The Poet's Eye, The Artist's Voice, Chicago Poetry Month, Austin-Irving Library, Chicago
     2017—2024

The Poet's Eye, The Artist's Voice, Chicago History Museum
     2016—Witness to War

The Poet's Eye, The Artist's Voice, Chicago Artists Month, City of Chicago
     2015—War and the Urban Studio
     2014—War and Passages
     2013—War and Nature
     2012—War and Nature
     2011—Harmonies
     2010—Secret Waters, Secret Wars
     2009—Unintended Consequences
     2008—Memories

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS

Gold Star Voices—Irvington Theater, Irvington NY, 2024

Glimpses—Austin-Irving Library 2024

And Now: Stories from the Edge—Agitator Artist Collective, 2024

Ten by Ten—Jackson Junge Gallery, 2024

The Poet’s Eye, The Artist’s Voice: Touching Water Touching Air—Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival and Ravenswood Art Walk, July 2010   

Lake County Fine Arts—Group Show, Grayslake, IL 2009  

The Artist Project Chicago—The Merchandise Mart, Juried Exhibition, Chicago IL, December 2008  

re / collect—M.F.A. Thesis Show—Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, April 1995

52nd Annual Juried Exhibition—Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa—Jury Terry Suhre, Catherine J. Smith Gallery, catalogue, April 1994  

HCP Juried Members’ Exhibition—Houston Center for Photography—Jury Ed Ozowski and Lynne Goode Crowley, July 1993  

240 South/Southwest: An Exhibit of Houston Photographers—Sponsored by Allen Street Gallery and D-Art, curated by Annagreth Nill, Dallas Museum of Art, Oct. 1992  

HCP Juried Members' Exhibition—Houston Center for Photography—Jury Susan Morgan and Roy Flukinger, July 1992  

Beyond Photography—Texas Fine Arts Association/Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX—Jury Carlotta Kotik, Brooklyn Museum, catalogue, August 1991 (Exhibit toured through May 1993

New American Talent: The Seventh Exhibition—Texas Fine Arts Association/Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX—Jury Richard Marshall, Whitney Museum of American Art, catalogue, May 1991 (Exhibit toured through December 1992)

HCP Juried Members' Exhibition—Houston Center for Photography—Jury David L Jacobs and Kathleen James, July 1991

PUBLISHED WORK

"Carma Lynn Park and Scottie Kersta-Wilson, Catching a Glimpse with New Perspective." Third Coast Review, Thomas Wawzenek (May 7, 2024)

War and Nature: Filipinos Throw Food (cover art)—0-Dark-Thirty, A Literary Journal (Summer 2014, Vol 2, No 4)

Beautiful Young Men: Sent to War, 2012

The Show Must Go On: The Story of the Mighty Cabanatuan Orchestra and Art Players, 2012

“5 for $1.” Whitewalls: a journal of language and art (Spring/Summer 1996): 61-63

“Digitizing the Extended Family.” High Performance (#67, Fall 1994)

Austin American—Statesman, May 11, 1991, “Eclectic Mix Seen in Shows,” J.R. Oleson

Sioux City Art Center 52nd Annual Exhibition. Introduction, Jim L. Zimmer

New American Talent. Introduction, Richard Marshall

Beyond Photography. Introduction, Carlotta Kotik

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Descendants of American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor

Artist Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest IL

University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Iowa City IA

Santa Fe Writers’ Conference, Santa Fe NM

Artist Access Computer Usage Grant, Houston Center for Houston Center for 
Photography, Houston TX

GUEST LECTURER

Keystone Montessori School, Oak Park IL