Projects & Installations
Projects
In the Navel of the Sun
Resilience
Wool needle-felting on copper
34" x 50"
2021
NFS
Upcoming Installations
Upcoming projects and installations will be announced soon!
Past Installations
Unpacking Our Histories: Embracing Hope & Resilience
Unpacking Our Histories is a continuation of my commitment to providing art and art experiences for those of us living with mental health issues/illness. In a 4-part community building set of activities, participants will reflect upon and honor our lives through the creation of a collaborative weaving. We will incorporate symbols of and/or actual items from our lives. This project honors the history of the individual and underscores the commonality of the collective experience.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Our Personal Stories
Book Release Reception
Join us on Saturday, June 10 to celebrate the release of Our Personal Stories in Resilience, a book release reception.
Our Personal Stories project was an eight-week exploration of resilience. Eight of us, all women, recognized and named, honored and supported, and then wrote about the strength that is seeded in our histories. The stories reveal and build, word by word, upon the layers of the resilience that reflect the strong and capable women we are in our own words. May you find inspiration here.
Featuring readings from:
Cecile Bellamy
Janetgrace Bergman
Martha Bird
Morgan Brooke
Kimberly A. Laudert
Rose Mullenix
T.L. Reeves
Amy Wilderson
Saturday, June 10
Fresh Eye Gallery
4238 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55409
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
In the Middle
Co-curated a group exhibition with Ben Merritt at the Fresh Eye Arts’ St Paul Studio Gallery
Bona Fide
Group exhibition at Fresh Eye Gallery
Exhibition Dates: March 30 - May 6
More info here
the bed beside me
Group exhibition at Fresh Eye Gallery
Exhibition Dates: May 10 - June 17, 2023
Reception: Friday, May 12, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Eye to Eye REMAKE
Participating in Fresh Eye Gallery’s Eye to Eye exhibition project for the 2nd time. Eye to Eye is founded on the principles of radical inclusivity, where the gallery intentionally brings artists with and without disabilities together, who have also never met before, for the purpose of building a stronger creative community. Artists are paired up in teams of two to collaborate and create new artwork. I will be collaborating Chloe Russell Chang.
Artist Collaboration: April 29 – July 13
Exhibition Dates: August 3 – September 9
Opening Reception: August 11, 6 – 9 PM
Artist Talk: August 24, 6:30 – 8 PM
Primary Purpose
The title of the exhibition and the large installation piece is Primary Purpose. Primary Purpose is a physical manifestation of difficult life experiences. I frequently say: I thrive because I believe that darkness, difficulty, and even death can give rise to creativity, grace, and joy. Resilience and impermanence are concepts that encourage me to see how I fit into the inevitability of change. A focus on using repurposed materials is like using past happenings in life on which to build personal resilience. Currently I am focused on aging and on how spirituality and reflection appear prominently in my process and, in turn, my finished artwork. Primary Purpose spans from seeing the beauty in everything to being present with the discomfort in life and accepting change. This is essential as I embrace the challenges and beauty in aging.