A R T I S T S T A T E M E N T

Experimentation and a mix of humble materials, primarily paper, guide my sculptural forms. Environmental concerns and women’s issues are central to my practice.

By imploring a hunter/gatherer style in both urban/rural settings, it provides a strong connection to place and a new purpose for reusable materials. The process is part alchemist/part witches brew, laborious and repetitious.

Oscillating between strength and fragility, nature and industry, decay and beauty — my artwork contains skilled-craftsmanship and the reckless abandonment of allowing materials to shape the outcome.

Process artist Robert Morris stated --

"much attention has been focused on the analysis of the content of art making - its end images - but there has been little attention focused on the significance of the means... I believe there are 'forms' to be found within the activity of making as much as within the end products. These are forms of behavior aimed at testing the limits and possibilities involved in the particular interaction between one's actions and the materials of the environment. This amounts to the submerged side of the art iceberg".

I very much subscribe to this approach.

E D U C A T I O N

MFA in Sculpture/Installation Art

Lesley Univ. College of Art and Design, Cambridge, MA

BA in Studio Art

WSSU, Winston-Salem, NC

BA in Communications

UNC-Greensboro, NC

E M P L O Y M E N T I N W I N S T O N - S A L E M, N C

Professor of Art

Salem College

Professor of Art

Forsyth Technical Community College

Clay Handbuilding Instructor

Sawtooth School for Visual Art

S T U D I O P R A C T I C E

Located near Hanging Rock State Park in Stokes, Co., NC where I live with my musician husband and rescue dog.

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