As an interdisciplinary artist, my work is a passage through the layers of identity, emotion, and shared experience. Drawing inspiration from both personal introspection, mental health and external socio-political influences.
My practice is rooted in material exploration. I work across sculpture, sound, and mixed media to create tactile experiences that question systems of power, consumption, and identity. Using materials such as glass, metal, found objects, and fabric, I investigate the tension between fragility and resilience—how something can simultaneously protect and expose, silence and amplify.
Each work begins with a visceral response to the world around me: the noise of protest, the excess of wealth, the quiet labor of care, the female experience. Through these themes, I explore the body’s role as both vessel and voice. My pieces often invite touch or participation, emphasizing the sensory and emotional connections that form between object, viewer, and space.
I am drawn to materials that carry history or contradiction—objects that are worn, discarded, or overlooked. By transforming them, I highlight cycles of use and renewal, destruction and reconstruction. This process mirrors the ways we rebuild ourselves and our communities through acts of resistance, empathy, and repair.
I aim to make visible the unseen—our shared vulnerabilities, our capacity for endurance, and the beauty that persists amid struggles. I seek to create an emotional bridge between my art and the viewer, encouraging dialogue and exploring the beauty that emerges from life’s chaos.
Education
Graduate School
MFA-Intermedia, The University of Maine
Expected graduation May 2027- Honors
Undergraduate Studies
BFA- Studio Art/Mixed Media
Completed May 2005
Minor in Art History
Completed May 2005
Awards
2025
Member of Honors Society- University of Maine
2005
UMaine department award/scholarship to attended Haystack School of Arts
Blue Hill, ME
2001
Liberty Graphics College Scholarship Art Competition
Liberty, Maine
2001
Eagles Club College Scholarship
Brewer, Maine
Group Exhibitions
2025
MFA 25' Open House- Process/Presence
2024
MFA 24' Open House- UMaine Creates
2013
Juried Exhibition/ permanent installation- Sears Island photo
St. Joseph’s Hospital Demasco Lobby, Bangor , Maine
2008
Juried Exhibition: “2008 New Hampshire Institute of Art Biennial”
New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
2004
Juried Exhibition: Senior Show “Sense Is” and Co-Chair
Department of Art Galleries, The University of Maine, Orono
2004
Juried Exhibition: “Student Show"
Department of Art Galleries, The University of Maine, Orono
Course Work:
Psychology, Child Development, Art History I & II, 2D Design, 3D Design, Communications, Medieval Art & Architecture, Painting I & II, Digital Art I, Women's Studies, Japanese Art, Ceramic I, Sculpture I,II & III, Book Arts, Women & Globalization, Drawing I, II & III, Museum Studies, Film & Video Theory, Entomology, Print Making I, II & III, 20th Century Art & Architecture, Digital Art, Digital Photography, Habitats, Histories & Theories, Creative Concepts, Media Production, Studio Critique I, II, III, IV, Social Practice, Art & Senses.