Professor, Art & Design

Office: Mahan 4G - croyer@adrian.edu

Degrees

Miami University, M.F.A.

Specialties

painting
drawing

Biography

Special recognition:

Awards: 2005 Lenawee Live, Bank of Lenawee, Adrian, MI 2004 Pandora's Box, Lenawee Council for the Visual Arts Gallery. Adrian, MI. • 2003 Celebrating the Figure, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI. • Stanley Rosenthal, juror. • 2001 Toledo Area Artists Show, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH. • All-Michigan Painting Exhibition, Artworks Gallery, Big Rapids, MI. • 1999 Art in the Windows, Downtown, Adrian, MI. . • 1998 AuSable Valley Fine Arts Exhibition, Kirtland Community College, Roscommon, MI. • 1997 Women in the Arts, Crafts Center Gallery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. • W and J Painting Show, Olin Fine Arts Center Gallery, College of Washington and Jefferson, Washington, PA.• All-Media Exhibition, Lansing Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, Lansing, MI

Publications, exhibits, presentations:

2005 Workshop Presenter, Encaustic Painting, University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts, Toledo, OH • Juror, Toledo Artist’s Guild Members’ Exhibition, Toledo, OH • Juror, Celebrating the Arts, United Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, MI. • 2004 Artist in Residence, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

Exhibitions: 2004 Solo exhibition, artist's talk, Monroe County Community College, Monroe, MI. • 2003 Blooms, Bugs, Beasts, The Scarab Club, Detroit, MI.• Stanley Rosenthal, juror, 2002 Solo Exhibition, Albion College, Albion, MI. • Drawing III, Period Gallery, Lincoln, NE. (juried) Septemberfest IV, Period Gallery, Lincoln, NE. (juried)• Figuratively Speaking, Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI. (juried)• 2001 Encaustic demonstrations, lecture, Women in the Arts course, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN.• ANA 30, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT (juror: Peter Schjeldahl) • Watermark 2001: Works on Paper, Studio 107, Whiteville, NC. (juried) Toledo Area Artists, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH. (juried) . • Well-Heeled, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI. (juried) • Idol Rumors, Gallery 212, Ann Arbor, MI. (juried) • It's Academic, Paint Creek Art Center, Rochester, MI. (invitational) • 1996 Ox-Bow Summer School for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI. Visiting Resident Artist; slide lecture.

Other interests: book arts, travel, gardening