Select Exhibitions

“New Visions,” Professional Women Photographers Show, Durst Gallery, New York, NY, “City Quiet” (color series), 2010

Haley Fine Art Gallery, Sperryville, VA, “City Quiet” (B&W series), 2010

“Photography: Face of the World,” VisArts at Rockville, Rockville, MD. Juried by Frank Goodyear, Assistant Curator of Photography, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., “City Quiet” (B&W series), 2008

The League of Reston Artists 5th Annual Juried Fine Art Exhibition, The Ernst Cultural Center, Annandale, VA. Juried by Scott D. Habes, Exhibition Coordinator & Manager, Hemicycle Gallery, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C. (Selection based on technically well executed pieces and works which showed a strong sense of personal vision and expression by the artist), silver gelatin prints, 1998

Awards

2009 Black and White Magazine Portfolio Contest-Merit Award Winner: 3 images from “City Quiet”

Vienna Photographic Society, Vienna, VA-Photographer of the Year Award in Novice Slides
2003—2nd Place Award, Novice Slide End of Year Competition;
3rd Place Award, Novice Slide End of Year Competition,
2003—2nd Place Award, Novice Color Slide End of Year Competition,
2002—1st Place Award, Novice Slide Photography;
2nd Place Award, Novice Black and White Prints;
Honorable Mention, Novice Color Prints;
Honorable Mention, Novice Slide Photography,
1997-2003—1st Place Award, Novice Color Slide End of Year Competition, 1999

Professional Instruction and Education

New York: International Center of Photography:

Maria Matthews—Developing a Personal Vision

Harvey Stein—Exploring the Long Term Project (“very fine work… you have a marvelous eye for detail, light and nuance.”)

Karen Marshall—Photographing the Social Landscape; Developing Projects, Establishing Vision

Wendy Richmond—The Photograph: Making Good Pictures and Presenting Them Publicly

Andrew French & Christine Lebeck—Seminar on Lighting Techniques

Northern Virginia: Classes/Seminars/Workshops

Joseph A. Miller—Visual Design and Photographing Flowers Inside (“I was particularly impressed with
Mo McDougall's work. If she is a beginner photographer, it did not show…”), 1999

Josh Taylor Jr.—Images Beyond the Cliche

Fred Siskind—Field Workshop on Photographing Butterflies

Other

Bachelor of Arts, St. John's University, New York, NY