My creative research involves collaborative and community-engaged approaches to art making, and traditional, cultural and place-based learning through creative practice. Projects include Time & Cloth, a collaboration of wearable works with Cornell University Draper/Designer Catherine Blumenkamp, and my ongoing interdisciplinary work with Sam Houston State University Biology Faculty for the Art + Biology + Community program I developed to serve students and teachers in Walker County, TX. I have created and led study abroad coursework in Japan for Fibers and Papermaking, as well as conducted ethnographic fieldwork and research with students in Navajo and Chimayo weaving traditions in New Mexico. I have also lived and worked in Finland at the Fiskars Artist Cooperative, while researching Finnish textiles and felt-making traditions.

My artwork explores the push and pull of spatial, gestural, and relational states of being. I tread in a conceptual area where the mundane, subliminal, and dramatic collide to create visual spaces where viewers may insert their own meanings. I use pliant materials such as textiles, wax, pigment, wood, and metal to explore tension between flat and dimensional, drawn and constructed; playing upon how the works read as drawing, object, or environment.