I am a working multidisciplinary artist and educator currently located in Ventura, CA. I value reusing materials, natural materials, experimental processes, collaboration, and preserving traditions of craft. My work explores themes including abstraction, overconsumption, ornamentation, customization, puzzles, games, limits, and legibility, and has been exhibited in North Carolina, Chicago, New York, Austria, Vienna, California, and Moscow, Russia.

I was born in Charlotte, NC into a family of a maker, a contractor, and a musician, and have always found comfort in working with tools and making things with my hands. I fell down a rabbit hole at the site of Bauhaus costumes, and began making sculptures for the body primarily out of wood veneer scraps while attending UNC Asheville in the sculpture department. I continued my studies while working at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville, NC, mapping the journies of abstract expressionist artists and absorbing the experimental education model of the historic school.

In 2016, I moved to Chicago to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Upon entry, I recieved a New Artist’s Fellowship for the Master’s of Design in Fashion, Body, and Garment program. While at SAIC, I continued working between disciplines in fashion, fibers, and the wood shop. For my graduate thesis work, I received a Luminarts Fellowship and exhibited in downtown Chicago as well as Facility, Chicago. I stayed in Chicago for 5 years after graduation, working across fields from custom garments and costumes, to fabrication, including projects for the Chicago Sinfonietta, Joffrey Ballet, mascot heads for professional sports teams, and more. I began teaching all ages in different capacities—private programs, a community center, and at the university level. I was heavily empowered by the community resources, skill sharing, sheer genius artistry, and mutual aid networks in Chicago, but ultimately the winters were too harsh.

In 2024, I made an exodus to Ventura, CA following love. I landed luckily in a community of environmentalists, textile artists, and garment makers. I continue to teach, and am rebuilding my studio practice while founding a non-profit dedicated to textile education through an environmental lens. I find myself exploring the rich history of textile manufacturing in California that inextricably links to my home state of North Carolina. I am expanding my sewing skillset by getting schooled in the art of repair, and working as a repair technician with Patagonia.