Biography



I was born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio within view of Johnson's Island Lake Erie's Sandusky Bay.  Forever having fiber in my fingers,   I am intrigued how making marks with needle and thread can be both art and poetry, contemplative and dangerous (think needles piercing flesh), and a way to envelop revered objects, thoughts and words.  

I have spent my life honing my skill set in sewing, knitting, weaving, and embroidery to get to where I am today as a woman who makes visual poetry and visual art.   There are many women before me who have been erased, minimized or discounted.  There are many more now that are being recognized and there will be many more in the future riding on the shoulders of those that came before.

Exhibitions
  • Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory &Educational Foundation’s 11th Annual Juried Exhibition, “laid out”; March – May 2023.  Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, Ohio.  Jurors,  Alexandra Coon and J. Leigh Garcia.
  • Valley Art Centers 51st Annual Juried Art Exhibition, “not your typical paper towel roll”; October – December 2022, Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls Ohio.  Jurors, Casey Monda, Arnold Tunstall, Mark Yasanchack.
  • The International Fl3tch3r Exhibit: Socially and Politically Engaged Art, “by a thread”; October-December 2022, Reese Museum, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City Tennessee. Recipient of Protection of Voting Rights Award.  Juror, Wesam Mazar Haddad.
  • Yards Projects @ Worthington Yards, “Que sera sera dress”, “Red Days”, “Reliquary: Personal Identifier as Sacred Object 1-18”, “Reliquary: Personal Identifier as Sacred Object #20”, Reliquary: Tom’s letters to Jessie”, “Tom’s Poem”, “Released From the Confines of My Youth 1985-2020”, One is Too Many”; September – October 2022 – Cleveland Ohio.
  • Materials Hard and Soft International Contemporary Craft Exhibition, "TogetherVoice”, May-August 2022 Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton Texas.  Juror, Tanya Aguiñiga
  • 2021Waterloo Arts Juried Exhibition, “Poem,” Winner “Most Intriguing” August-September 2021, Cleveland Ohio.
  • “Cleaning Rag” Mail Art Project and Mail Art Exhibition, A collaboration with poet Terri Witek, The Case for Interspecies Touch: Rag 1, Dresden Germany, June 2020.
  • Deeper Than Indigo: Southeast Textile Symposium, A collaboration with poet Terri Witek, Reliquaries: Indigo, St Augustine, Florida, February 2018.
Contributor to Publications
  • The Raw Art Review: A Journal of Storm and Urge (UnCollected Press, Fall 2020), editor Henry Stanton.
  • Erotoplasty 7 (pt.2) A collaboration with Dona Mayoora  The Message is Clear/Silence is Ignorance, September 2020 (https://erotoplasty.tumbler.com/).
  • JUDITH: 25 Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset, March 2021), editor Amanda Earl
  • WAAVE Anthology of Women Asemic and Visual Artists (Hysterical Press, July, 2021), editor Kristine Snodgrass
  • Erotoplasty 7 (pt.2) A collaboration with Dona Mayoora  The Message is Clear/Silence is Ignorance, September 2020 (https://erotoplasty.tumbler.com/).
  • South Florida Poetry Journal, Non-Medical Grade Face Masks #, May 2020
Other
  • Artist In Residence, Morgan Art of Papermaking Conservatory and Educational Foundation, Cleveland Ohio, March 2022
  • Rhode Island School of Design visit to Morgan Conservatory – 2022 - spinning paper into thread instruction
  • University of Akron, “Vestige” student discussion and demonstration – 1/2023 with Hugo Juarez.