for education purposes mostly
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I leverage 25 years in academia — teaching students for the graphic design and entertainment industry.  My personal history includes a wide array of experiences before arriving at my professional destination — including travel within the US, Canada, Mexico, Scotland, England, Italy, Paris and Greece. I have lived in proximity to other cultures – Franco-American, Tunisian, Pueblo, Navajo, and Spanish speaking communities.  I started out my life working with horses – took a long winding path to now lol.
I’ve been a shepherdess to a flock of sheep and goats, a logger for a short bit of time and all kinds of other things — leave no stone unturned is my motto.

My art training covers a broad spectrum of fine art and entertainment industry art making processes and craft: printmaking, small metal sculpture, book arts, 3D fibers, ceramics, pueblo pottery making, analog photography, digital photography, documentary photography, fashion design pattern-making and production, drawing and computer art, sound design, animation and graphic design topics, felting, weaving and spinning, crochet, knitting silk painting, found object sculpture. I’m an image-maker, textile artist, weaver, twined rug maker – sometimes print-maker and bookbinder.  I like mixing mediums and methods.

Given all that…primarily, I consider myself a catalyst for fostering creative growth….a creative mentor guru of sorts — and I am really happy to be on this journey because I get to do what I love most — create and help others do the same.

Remember — no matter what you do creatively – your life experiences and everything you have learned to this point will have an influence on your work – once we get the tech skills down, then we need inspiration to draw from. Our life experiences add flavor and purpose to our work as artists.

I look forward to working with all of you

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Formal education

AA Fashion Design / Pattern-making and Production, Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, LA, CA 1988
BFA Studio Art, University of New Mexico, Alb, NM 1998
ceramics, small metal construction, book arts, drawing, printmaking, analog photography,
art history
MFA Computer Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA 2001
3d fibers, drawing, ceramics, sound design, time-based media, 3d modeling/texturing,
vsfx, team production
Documentary Field Studies SALT Institute, Portland, ME Certificate 1998 with Todd Hoffman
Sterling Institute, Craftsbury Common, Vermont 1976
experiential environmental/outdoor awareness program – wild area skills, forestry management,
logging with draft horses