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My work spans cyanotype, digital and analog photography, digital media, storytelling, encaustic painting, teaching, and public art and community art-making, in multiple mediums. I am drawn to explore the spaces where people and the natural world meet and interact. Bringing a social and environmental justice and equity, accessibility and inclusion lens to my work is a priority. What fuels me is putting the tools of art-making in people’s hands, enabling them to explore aspects of themselves, their families, their communities, and the world around them through art-making and community collaboration, fearlessly and with joy.
In 2024 I was selected for the peer-reviewed Lifetime Arts Creative Aging Roster of Professional Teaching Artists and completed the Barthol Foundation Training in Trauma-Informed Practice for Teaching Artists.
In 2022-2023, as Inaugural Climate Change Artist in Residence at the Brattleboro Museum, I made large-scale immersive installation art, creating spaces of contemplation with immense cyanotypes on silk made with beech trees: places to contemplate loss and resilience. I reimagined work created over 20 years in a group exhibition at the Kent Museum. With two partners I installed Passage, a public art installation that transformed a dark underpass into a space of light and humor, with convex mirrors, tree images printed on mirror, and LED lights. I explored plastic waste and climate change in a residency in rural India. I taught art at INSPiRE School for Autism. As a Teaching Artist I worked with all 130 students at Newbury Elementary School to consider their relationship to their Forest School through creating and sharing large-scale fabric cyanotype installations throughout the Forest, then inviting the community into their magical world of learning. I am currently making art around the problem of plastic production and waste, fertile ground for exploring with students in the future.
In 2021, two art partners and I completed Ask the River, a public art and community art-making project. A dynamic kinetic sculpture suggests the flow and convergence of two watersheds, inspired by the nearby Connecticut River, with thousands of shimmering stainless steel disks. Ask the River included a significant community-wide art, movement and placemaking component which invited participants to reconnect with their waters.
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Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
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1993
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Artist / Creative (Individual)
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Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship
Year Founded:
1993
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Visual/Crafts - SculptureAdditional Disciplines:
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$250-400/dayTeaching Settings:
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$250-400/day