About

I am a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and creative facilitator based between New York and LA. My work moves between objects and systems, finished forms and ongoing fragments.

I’m interested in how we notice and make sense of experience. I’m curious about the internal world. My practice relies on art and design as tools for understanding ourselves and our connection to what’s outside of us, to what’s beyond us. 

Current workshops include:

Out of Hand: A process-based workshop (drawing and watercolor)
Filet Crochet Pendant Lamp
Crochet Basics

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I grew up in Loveland, Ohio, to a pair of parents whose lives were committed to service. My mom was a long-term acute care nurse supervisor and hospice nurse. My dad was a personal injury attorney, volunteered at 988 suicide & crisis lifeline, and offered respite to people in end-of-life care as a eucharistic minister.

My parents and brothers cared deeply about art, music, dance, and nature. Before I had language for what I felt, I was dancing, painting, playing piano, and looking to the natural world for signs, comfort, and meaning. These became the first ways I learned to be in conversation with the big questions of “Why?” There was an emphasis on the visceral growing up. On nurturing a connection with unseen forces, wrapping myself in a cloak of instinct.

These tools are for everyone. Art does not only belong to artists. The way you move through your day, the way you solve a problem, organize your time, love someone, build community, laugh, daydream. It is all crafted in your own style and intention. This belief became more concrete while I was studying Industrial Design and Drawing at the Savannah College of Art and Design. There, I started to understand making as a way of paying attention.

I carried this into my work as a User Experience Designer. This work taught me to listen closely, notice patterns, and help define problems that are difficult to articulate. To be an advocate for workers in healthcare tech felt like an incredible act of service.

Somewhere along the way, I started taking community art classes again in Brooklyn. I realized I was less attached to what I was making and more interested in what happened while people were making. People would come in after work, tired or frustrated, and slowly soften into the process. Their hands would get busy, their minds would loosen, and something would move through them without needing to be explained. They’d unintentionally process. I would leave feeling moved by this and wished for a class that structured this process, gave guardrails to the mind.

That is what I keep coming back to now: art as a tool to process, notice, connect, and make life feel more intentional. When we focus on creative endeavors, when we make special, we find it gives back to us in so many unexpected and fulfilling ways. I aim to create spaces where people can make something, and in doing so, return something to themselves.