“More than something that matches your sofa”
🎨 Where stories
& materials meet
🏛️ Art meets public life
🧭 Creativity guides leadership
I’m an artist who moves between studio work, community projects, and civic strategy—mixing materials, gathering people, and shaping environments through system and policy development. Whether paint, beads, plants, shared meals, asset mapping, feasibility studies, jury processes, or festival curation, I see creative practice as a way of solving problems and strengthening public life.
A Title of Current Work
October 2025
Brownville, Nebraska
The Schoolhouse Gallery & Nature Center
What anchors us to place when the land itself changes?
Current Collection
A Seat at Grandma’s Table
& the Vanishing Schoolhouse
October 2025
Brownville, Nebraska
The Schoolhouse Gallery & Nature Center
What anchors us to place when the land itself changes?
The Archive
The Artist
“To see a world we otherwise could not see”
I am a mixed-media and social practice artist whose work spans more than two decades of studio practice, community collaboration, and civic creative strategy. I earned my BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA in Social Practice from California College of the Arts.
My first decade in the field centered on arts education, disability access, and community building—roles that shaped the multisensory, participatory methods I still use today. I founded and co-directed the Please Touch Community Garden, an ADA-accessible public art space supported by the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Innovative Partnerships Grant, developed The Beaded Quilt Project, and launched Contracting an Issue, a multi-city U.S. and Tanzania-based project that included San Francisco’s first city-sanctioned 24-hour outdoor sharps box.
Through my tenure with the University of Missouri Extension, I have integrated arts-based strategies into municipal planning, economic development, and public engagement, advancing statewide work in community storytelling, creative placemaking, arts leadership, and collaborative partnerships.
Alongside this civic work, I maintain an active studio and exhibition practice. My work has been shown at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Englewood Arts, and venues across the United States. Recent exhibitions include Ocular Anthology (2022), Where Have All the Pheasants Gone? (2024), and A Seat at Grandma’s Table (2025).
I work with materials such as paint, beads, textiles, and plants, and use shared meals, tactile prompts, and story-sharing to help communities see themselves and their environments differently. Asset mapping, feasibility studies, residency development, jury processes, and festival curation are extensions of this same creative system—one that solves problems, activates public imagination, and strengthens the social fabric of place.
At its core, my practice is rooted in the belief that art is not separate from public life—it is one of the ways we build it.
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