Hometown: Cincinnati (Mount Washington)

Age: 34

Medium: Mixed media

Finest hour: In 2002, being one of five in a pool of 255 artists chosen for a Minneapolis College of Art and Design/McKnight Foundation Fellowship in the visual arts.

Day job: Lecturer, Northern Kentucky University

Secret ambition: To go to culinary school, then open a small restaurant in a seaside town.

What's next? Finding reasonably priced studio space in Cincinnati