I am a mixed media fiber artist and arts administrator, and my work in both realms are intrinsically connected. My personal practice and community work are as rooted in a love of culture and beauty as they are in the knowledge that the arts are a powerful vehicle for social justice and community-building.

My work is an exploration of the “micro” and the “macro” and the interdependence between individuals and their communities. Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory informs this exploration, and presents that our learning as individuals depends on social interaction. Human development is a socially mediated process, and my work explores the notion that artistic development is as well.

My “micro” work is based on small, powerful exchanges within my community - ones that often have the potential to grow and become something larger (and sometimes not, which is equally vital). These ideas draw influence from the writing of adrienne maree brown, and the concept of emergent strategy, which is a strategy for building complex patterns and systems of change through relatively small interactions. This micro sensibility is evident in most of my personal practice, as I highlight the fractals and patterns of anatomical and botanical forms. In fact this is what unites all of my work, and is an extension of sociocultural theory in practice. My work concentrates on the minute, the detail, the miniscule patterns, which are interconnected in their own forms and with the larger world. My work becomes a reflection of the communities to which I belong - the micro, the individual, the fractal becomes the macro, the community, the whole.

This exploration of interdependence in both my personal practice and in my administrative work connects these micro ideas into a macro perspective. I endeavor to create work that presents these concepts as existing truths modeled in natural forms. We must embody what we want in the world in our everyday lives. Exploring the existing connections between our bodies and our world is an effort of joy and marveling at who we are, and where we inhabit. And a reminder that we must protect, nourish and value both.