About

About Me

I am an interdisciplinary artist who grounds experiences in life through fiber and visual arts, as well as in poetry. In addition to creating solo art, I enjoy the collaborative process.

I generate and facilitate projects that offer free access to art and art making with people who live with mental illness, for which I was awarded Minnesota State Arts Board grants (2021, 2022) and Metropolitan Regional Arts Council grant (2023).

I address and explore resilience in my work. I live in Minneapolis and work out of a progressive art studio, Fresh Eye Arts, in St. Paul. Click here to view my most current resumé.

About My Work

Resilience is a theme and concept that intrigues me, particularly as I go into the last quarter of my life. How can I express the concepts of aging and resilience in my work? ​

This question informs how I show up for my visual art; my desire to experiment with reflection and how it is expressed through weaving, abstraction, and mixed media. I bridge ideas and approaches with curiosity as I generate new art connected to autobiography told through interdisciplinary art forms.

Working with repurposed, recycled, renewable, and found objects and including those from the natural world is a priority. 

Artist M.C. Richards expresses a sentiment that resonates for me. She said, “I learn through my hands and my eyes and my skin what I could never learn through my
brain.” 

What I’m Up To

Here are a few recent projects. You can see more events and news below.

  • Focusing on aging as I lean into the last quarter of my life and how this impacts my life as an artist

  • Working on Primary Purpose, a series of weavings exploring a difficult personal experience in mothering

  • Working as a mentee with SAORI weaving and teaching artist Chiaki O'Brien 

  • Purchased  SAORI loom from Chiaki O'Brien on which I am creating new bodies of work

  • Actively applying for artist residencies to work on my memoir titled Artobiography. 

  • Participated in the Eye to Eye Exhibition at Fresh Eye Gallery collaborating with Chloe Russell Chang

  • Taking a class at North House Folk School with Jo Wood

  • Exploring the intersection of addressing stigma and its connection to the larger pursuit of disability justice