Strengthening the Thread: Two Weeks in Lithuania

Postcards from Lithuania, plant ink, graphite, and pen on paper Several years ago, during graduate school, a Black community organizer told us something I’ll never forget: she said she felt sorry for us white folks because when our ancestors immigrated to the US they...

Laudato Si at the Maguire Museum

Timefulness, 2023. Botanical tinted cyanotype, soil-based watercolor, and plant monotpye on paper  My mixed media work Timefulness is included in the exhibition Laudato Si: Caring for our Common Home at the Frances M. Maguire Art Museum at St. Joseph’s...

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...

Confronting Ecological Grief: Joanna Macy & Active Hope

One of my core motivations for initiating this project was to engage other women in my community in an active exploration of how to translate ecological grief into hopeful action. Ecological grief has been defined as “the grief felt in relation to experienced or...