Biography

I have been making art since I was old enough to hold a crayon.  Though sculpture and mixed media have also been part of my studio practice at various times, I earned a B.F.A. in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. An interest in weaving led me to study textile design at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons School of Design.  I received an M.F.A. in Studio Art from Montclair State University in New Jersey.  I have also studied Jacquard weaving at the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles and the Jacquard Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

As a teaching artist, I have been an instructor at Montclair State University and the Fashion Institute of Technology.  Currently, I give intensive fiber workshops throughout the United States.  

My work has been exhibited widely at venues such as the American Craft Museum in New York, and the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh.  It has been featured in American Craft, Fiberarts, Surface Design, and Interiors magazines; several editions of the Fiberarts Design Book; Carol K. Russell's international survey, Fiber Art Today; and The Language of Making: Visual Voices from the Textile Study Group of New York.  I have received awards and grants from the ESCA New York State Craft Artist program, Artists Space, the Ruth Chenven Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts/New York State Council on the Arts.

A longtime New Yorker, I now live and work in an artist community in a renovated former textile mill in western Massachusetts.  I was a founding board member of the North Adams Makers' Mill, a maker space where I enjoyed teaching its members. Currently I provide weaving instruction for artists from the residency program at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.