Welcome!

I practice living inquiry an artist, researcher and teacher by facilitating the arts as an accessible and engaging way to promote reflection, challenge dominant ideologies, and convey complexity. I share time between my home state of Florida and the North Woods of Vermont with my partner of three decades, our family, and our companions Grace, Kitten, Ally & Roux.

In both my teaching and learning practice (apprendere) I create experiences and functional objects that ensoul daily life through ritual and connection. These experiences and objects intentionally live outside institutions.

Nature and children are my mentors, often this is expressed in the inversion of traditional hierarchies by placing animals and children as central-emphasizing an ethos of immanence and kinship.

In making I prioritize intuitive and embodied ways of knowing. The materials I choose are both soft and organic and the processes inherently slow- lensless photography, hand sewing and research/writing. This slowness insists on reflection and allows space for complexity to unfold.

My background is in Education and the Arts. I hold a PhD in Education from the University of Central Florida with a research focus in ritual in the creative process; an MAT from Rollins College; and a BA in Art History from the University of Richmond. I’ve taught pre-K through graduate school. Currently, I have returned to student life to work on a MFA in Studio Art.