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Artist Newsletter: February 2025
Cell Phone Hill, 2025. Soft and hard ground etching with soil-based ink.Welcome to my new experiment in communications--a monthly newsletter. As I step away from social media platforms that are increasingly becoming spaces for rampant disinformation, I'm trying this...
The Vastness of Space: Two Weeks in the Sawtooths
I recently spent two weeks in central Idaho as the 2024 artist-in-residence for the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The residency program is co-administered by the Sun Valley Museum of Art and the National Forest Service. I stayed at the Sawtooth Valley Work...
Formations: Wissahickon and Beyond at Black Moth Tattoo and Gallery
I am pleased to share a selection of my work inspired by local geology at Black Moth Tattoo and Gallery in Ardmore, PA. The paintings in this exhibition were created in the last five years, inspired by rock formations in the Philadelphia region in Wissahickon Valley...
Nurture/Nature at Raritan Valley Community College
"Nurture / Nature", curated by Lauren Rosenthal McManus, is a group exhibition of eight female artists from across the United States. Each of the artists in this exhibition centers her practice in an ethic of interdependence with both biological and ecological...
A World in Our Streams at High School Park
Join me on Thursday, July 18th at 5:30pm for the artist talk about my site-specific installation A World in Our Streams. This project, which I call "sculptural habitat," is sponsored by the Endangered Species Coalition as part of their Pollinator Protectors program....
ALL IN: Climate Conversations
I created a site specific installation, Garden of Grief and Resilience, for the exhibition ALL IN: Climate Conversations, curated by Eurhi Jones and Mindy Flexer at the Community Arts Center in Wallingford, PA. The idea for this work came to me a few weeks after my...
Wandering: Observations of Our Watershed
I am showing Mapping Our Watershed, the piece I created in collaboration with community members last summer, alongside four new egg tempera paintings made plein air in four local watersheds, in the exhibition WANDERING: Observations of Our Watershed at Fairmount Water...
We Are the River at Stockton University
My textile work Take Us to the River, which was co-created with community members during my residency at TaconyLAB in 2022, has been included in the exhibition We Are the River at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey. The exhibition, curated by Ryann Casey and...
Material Time Exhibition at Park Towne Place
Four of my paintings inspired by research at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, as well as a new mixed media work, Timefulness (above), were included in the InLiquid exhibition Material Time at Park Towne Place in Philadelphia. Timefulness combines botanic tinted...
Mapping Our Watershed Culminating Celebration
I am in the home stretch of creating the final artwork for Mapping Our Watershed. It combines four experiential map pieces I created based on my field visits to the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed at Renninger Park, Rock Lane, Tookany Creek Park, and High School...
Mapping Our Watershed: Field Notes From the Park(s)
In mid-May and mid-June, I conducted my third and fourth field visits. I first went to Tookany Creek Park, which forms the eastern border of Cheltenham Township; the creek is very wide here, and contained by a wall on one side. I was able to walk across the creek bed,...
Mapping Our Watershed: Capturing Water
Photography by Imrane Djibrine MainassaraI took a break from blogging about Mapping Our Watershed, but it was for a good reason--to complete my MFA with the Confluence MFA program at the University of New Mexico. The experiential maps I created based on my field...