EDUCATION

1988      Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA, BFA - Photography

2002      Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Painting Edu)

SELECT EXHIBITIONS (Solo & Group)

2025 Countryside - Tanya Murphy, The Artisan’s Palette, Art Gallery, Charlotte NC

2024 Echoes of the Past, The Light Factory Gallery, Charlotte, NC

2024 Are We Free Yet, A Juneteenth Exhibition, Kimpton Tron Park Hotel, Charlotte, NC

2023 The Ties, That Bind, Nine Eighteen Nine Gallery, VAPA, Charlotte NC

2022 Natural Flow, The Charlotte Art League, Charlotte, NC

2021 Freedom Seekers, Havre De Grace Maritime, Museum, Havre De Grace, MD,

2020 A Woman’s Journey, Falls Church Art Gallery, Falls Church, VA

2020 Making Community: Prints From the Brandywine Workshop, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Phila., PA

2015 Giving Voice, Women, Artists, Interpretations, Widener University, Chester PA

2014      Times Past, Yet Present, Bronx College, Bronx, NY,

2012      Mementoes, Christina Cultural Arts Center, Wil, DE

2011      Embracing Light, Mosely Art Gallery, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

2010 Private Visions, Widener Univ. Art Gallery, Chester, PA

2009      Shadows of A Journey, African-American Museum in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2007      Southern Connections, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

PUBLICATIONS

COLLECTING BLACK STUDIES, (Ragbir & Smith) The University of Texas at Austin, 2020

COLLECTORS CHOICE, 2011 self pub., SOUTHERN CONNECTIONS: IMAGES FROM MY HERITAGE, 2007 self pub.

TEN TALENTS MOVIE, by John Detita, Independent Film, 2009

FIRST TAKE, (catalog by Minority Resource Council, Inc.,) Philadelphia PA, 1992

SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

HARVE DE GRACE MERITINE, MUSEUM, HARVE DE GRACE, MD, THE ART MUSEUM AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, TEMPE, AZ, SCRIPPS COLLEGE, CLAREMONT, CA, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, TX, BRANDYWINE WORKSHP AND ARCHIVES, PHILA, PA, CAMP WILLIAM PENN MUSEUM, LAMOTT PA, THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF FINE ART MUSEUM, PHILA., PA

CURATOR

GIVING VOICE: WOMEN, ARTISTS, INSPIRATIONS,  Widener University, Chester, PA, 2015, ANDREW TURNER-THINGS PAST YET PRESENT, Widener University, Chester, PA, (with W. Dodd and S. Webster, 2007), THE FAMILY TIBERINO - A LEGACY OF ART, Sande Webster Gallery, Phila., PA (with J. McDaniel, 2007)