The process of making is as significant for me as the finished product. Fleshing out an idea, giving it form and discovering the story within the work are what draw me back time and time again into a next new artistic endeavor. The experience is an exercise in trust and each time I enter this process it reveals more about my interior world and the visual language that it contains. I do not always see connections or meaning as I work but the investigations seem to build on each other like chapters in a book.

I spend a great deal of time observing and recording patterns and textures in nature and continuously explore new combinations of color, pattern and design on cloth. Both the patterns used by indigenous peoples in their crafts and textiles and the organic patterns that I see in nature inspire me. I am keenly aware of how human society keeps altering the natural world, and that tension helps inspire the visual language that I use to explore my relationships to both.

It is a romantic notion in the twenty first century, but I feel a strong connection to a past where works crafted by human hands from basic materials were an important part of everyday life, rituals and celebrations.

EXHIBITIONS

2007

Columbus Cultural Center Invitational, Columbus, OH
One-woman exhibition, New Jersey Quilt Fest, Somerset, NJ

2006

Fine Contemporary Craft Exhibition, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
Form Not Function, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN.
Fine Focus, Houston, TX, traveling exhibition.
Small Wonders, International Quilt Festival, Chicago, IL.
Considering Quilts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Smyrna Beach, FL.
Never Static, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN.

2005

Form Not Function, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN.
Art Quilts X: Sight Line, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ.
International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, third place, Art-Painted Surface.
Surface Design Association, "Constants and Variables", member exhibition, Kansas City, MO. (non-juried).
Fabric 2005, Quilt Surface Design Symposium, third place, Columbus, OH.
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY.

2004

Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY; Judges Choice award.
Art Quilts IX: Sight Line, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ.
Pacific International Quilt Festival XIII, Santa Clara, CA.
Rochester Contemporary, Dialogues, Rochester, NY.
International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX; Honorable mention, small art quilts.
Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Fort Worth, PA.
Committed to Cloth, traveling invitational exhibit, Festival of Quilts, Knitting and Stitching shows in London and Harrogate, UK.
A Tribute to Fiber Art, APEX Gallery, Washington, D.C., Surface Design Association Award.
2004 Small Art Quilt Works Exhibition, The Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY. Juror’s Choice #1.
Fabric 2004, Quilt/Surface Design Symposium, Columbus, OH.
Lakeside-Statewide Juried Art Exhibition, Oswego, NY.
Art Quilts, Elements, Page-Walker Art and History Center, Cary, NC. Part of touring exhibit to Mancuso shows in Fort Worth and Santa Clara.
26th Annual Contemporary Crafts Exhibit, Mesa Art Center, Mesa, AZ.

2003

“BIG”, High Falls Gallery, invitational, Rochester, NY.
Fabric 2003, Quilt/Surface Design Symposium, Columbus, OH. Third place.
Fiber Design Forum, Wilcox Mansion, Buffalo, NY.
Committed to Cloth, invitational, Chequer Mead Arts Centre, West Sussex, England.

2002

Fabric 2002, Quilt/Surface Design Symposium, Columbus, OH
Hungerford Gallery Holiday Artists’ Show, Rochester, NY.

2001

Hanging by a Thread, Arizona State University, Flagstaff, AZ.
Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY.
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Museum, Auburn, NY.

2000

Nothing in Common but the Wall, Roselawn Gallery, two-person show, Pittsford, NY.
Quilters’ Heritage Celebration, Lancaster, PA.
Fiber Design Forum Exhibit, Impact Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Museum, Auburn, NY.

1999

Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Williamsburg, VA.
Finger Lakes Exhibition, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY.
Fiber Arts Fiesta, Albuquerque, NM.
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Museum, Auburn, NY.

1998

Gallery of Artists Spring Show, Rochester, NY. First place.
New York State Consortium Quilt Show, Rochester, NY. First place, Contemporary.
Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Museum, Auburn, NY. First place, pieced.
Group of Groups, High Falls Gallery, Rochester, NY. Directors Award.

PUBLICATIONS

"Simple Screenprinting: Basic Techniques and Creative Projects", Gallery section, Lark Books, 2004, Gallery section.

“Quilts=Art=Quilts”, Quilting Today, #84, .

Published articles include American Quilter, FiberArts, Ceramics Monthly, Art Calendar, Ladies Circle Patchwork Quilts, Surface Design Journal and the Surface Design Association Newsletter.