Washington University, St. Louis, MO (WUSTL)
Degree: BFA in Print Making/Drawing
Overton High School, Memphis, TN-May 1998
Received: High School Diploma

• Private Art Instructor
  
• Art Judge for Mid-South Fair Annual Visual Art Competition (Elementary Division) - 2005
  
• Art Instructor for Hope Pres. Church (Memphis) Spring Break and Summer School Camps (2005)
  
• Urban Art Selection Committee
  
• Mid-South Scholastic Art Judge -- January 18, 2005 - January 19, 2005
  
• Certified Framer
  
• Visual Art Educator for Arts, Visions and Venues (Memphis) - Summer 2003 and Summer 2004
  
• Emerging Art for the Urban Art Commission for Memphis City Hall Project
  
• Visual Art Educator for MLK Weekend @ The National Civil Rights Museum-Memphis (Jan 2003)
  
• Certified Framer
  
• Arts Educator at Chips In Motion's Reach & Teach Through The Arts Program (Fall 2001-Spring 2002)
  
• Art Instructor at Memphis College of Art (June, 2001)
  
• WUSTL Earth & Planetary Sciences Library Assistant (9/99-5/00)
  
• Washington University's Leadership Through Service Counselor (9/98-9/99)
  
• Washington University (WUSTL) Language Lab Assistant (Fall 1998)
  
• Participant in The United Way of the Greater Mid-South Youth Program (1996-1998)
  
• Member of both United Way Youth Board of Directors and Advisory Counsel (1997-1998)
  

• Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) John B. Ervin Scholarship
• United Way June Lee Scholarship
• Delta Sigma Theta Scholarship
• 1998 Target-All-Year-Around Scholarship
• WUSTL ABS (Association of Black Students)
• Kwanzaa Most Creative Award ('99, '00, '01)
• '98 Mid South Regional Scholastic Best Portfolio
• National Youth Leadership Conference Alum (1998)
• Most Creative Male (Senior High '98)
• '95 & '98 Who's Who Among American High School Students
• CAPA Art
• National Spanish Honor Society (1998)
• National Honor Society (1997)
• NAACP ACT-SO (1st Place, painting, Memphis '98)
• 1998 National Bank of Commerce Overton High Art Competition 3rd Place
• Designed T-shirt logo for WUSTL Leadership Through Service Program (Summer, 1999)
• "Mr. Knowledge Award" presented by WUSTL ABS ('00 &'01)
• Spires Literary Magazine (National College Lit.) illustrations ('99, '00 & '01)
• Art School Representative for WUSTL National High
• School Art Teacher Forum (Falls ‘98 & '99)
• Designed official logo/icon for the WUSTL Language Lab (1998)
• Created Illustrated Covers for the Black Women Ancestors
• (Spring 2001), (Summer 2001), Kwanzaa (2001 & 2000), (Winter, 2003), (Spring, 2004) editions of The Sister Nineties Literary Magazine
• Illustrated front and back cover of The Eliot Review Literary Magazine (Spring 2001)
• William H. Kohn Award for artistic excellence, Eliot Review (Spring 2001)
• Provided supporting illustrations for the Fall 2001 Eliot Review Literary Magazine, Illustrated articles for winter 2001/2002
• What's Up St. Louis? Magazine
• Designed official poster for WUSTL Black Anthology 2002
• 2nd Place in WUSTL ABS's MLK Art Contest (2002)
• Designed WUSTL Black Arts & Sciences Festival Poster (2000)
• Recipient of Ralph Bunche Award for Academic Excellence
• Runner-up for 2001 Langston Hughes Award (WUSTL's W.E.B. DuBois Awards Program)
• Recipient of the 2002 Langston Hughes Award
• 2002 Doublemint Ace Award Recipient (1 out 50 chosen from over 14,500 applicants)
• Recipient of the 2002 Margo Trump Award
• WUSTL's ABS Tribute to Black Men and Black Women "Renaissance Man" Award (2002)
• Bi-State Arts in Transit Emerging Artist Program (2002)
• Provided illustrations for African Voices (2004)
• Ongoing illustrator for The Sister Nineties Literary Magazine (2004-present)

ONE PERSON SHOWS
• R2C2H2's Rhythm-N-Art series(Fall 1999-2001)
• Artworks selected to WUSTL Super Top Secret Art Show ('99, '00 & '01)
• WUSTL's Acoustic City's Featured Artist of the Month (Sept. 2001)
• One Man showing at The Theatre Works of Memphis (August 2001)
• Art St. Louis XVII Exhibition (11/22/01- 1/4/02)
• R2C2H2: Evolution of a Style at Vaughn Cultural Art
• Center of the St. Louis Urban League (One Man Show) (1/12/02-3/8/02)
• St. Louis's Prince Hall, One Man Show (3/15/02 - 5/11/02)
• Live Artist for the Abstract Lounge on 3/23/02
• FedEx World Corporate Headquarters Fall Exhibition (9/02/02 - 11/29/02)
• Featured Artist of the month (February and July 2003) Hope Presbyterian Church, Memphis,TN
• R2C2H2: Visualizing Art at the Sheldon Art Galleries (8/5/03 - 10/4/03)
• R2C2H2: Visual Stories at the Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery (10/7/04 - 11/12/04)
• Northern Virginia Community College's Annandale Library Art Gallery (1/05 - 12/05)
• R2C2H2: In The Black at the Ross Gallery of Christian Brothers University (Memphis) 4/8/05 - 5/13/05)
• R2C2H2: Evolution of a Movement at Wachovia Gallery of The Richland County Public Library in Columbia, SC (10/6/05 - 11/20/05)
  GROUP SHOWS
• Church, Inc. featuring NIA Artist Collective at Prairie View A & M in Prairie View, TX (February 2006 - March 2006) - Recent Artworks featuring NIA Artist Collective at Grambling State University in Baton Rouge, La (February 2005 - March 2006)
• The Okay Player featuring The Roots visual art exhibition at the Le Triptyque in Paris, France (December 18, 2004 - Jan. 18, 2005)
• IAM (Incorporation of Artists on the Move, Inc.) Jazz Art Exhibition (Summer 2002)
• Washington University School of Art's BFA Show (May 2002)
• Stop and Ink Printmakers Show at Bixby Hall (April 26, 2002 )
• Janet Turner National Print Show (California State Univ. at Chico) won Honorable Merit Award (2/25/02 - 3/22/02)
• Art St. Louis XVII Exhibition (11/22/01- 1/4/02)
• 19 Playgrounds Group Show (Spring 2001) at Des Lee Gallery
• 2001 Spring Seen Art Exhibition at Des Lee Gallery (St. Louis)
• Four the Hard Way Group Show (Spring 2000)
• Artworks selected to WUSTL Super Top Secret Art Show ('99, '00 and '01)
  Books Authored and Illustrated by R2C2H2
• JAMES REESE EUROPE: JAZZ LIEUTENANT (2005) - BOOKSURGE PUBLISHING
  Award: Smithsonian Institute Recommended Jazz Books for Kids and Young Adults List (2005)