EDUCATION
2005 MFA, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1986 BA, Psychology, Smith College, Northampton, MA
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Pilosus nuces orbis, Quadrant: New Voices, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (forthcoming)
2021 Small Works in Flux, Flux Art Space, Long Beach CA (forthcoming)
2021 NOMAD, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2021 Fifth Annual Anniversary Exhibition, Open Mind Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Makers Anonymous, Blowing in the Wind, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Changing a Point of View, All She Makes (online platform)
2020 Hobson's Choice, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (online exhibition)
2020 New Work, Parlor, Los Angeles, CA (three-person exhibition)
2019 Aesthetic Intensity, José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mt. St. Mary's University, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Be the Snake, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
2019 Hard Mud, Soft Threads, The Loft, San Pedro, CA
2018 A Piece of Me, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University (curated by Yarn Bombing LA), Los Angeles, CA
2009 99-Cent Show, Los Angeles World Airport, Los Angeles, CA
2009 For Intended Use Only, d.e.n. contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (three-person exhibition)
2008 Ornament is a Crime, Gallery 1927, installation & performance, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Taste, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2007 Art Parade, organized by Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2007 Handled With Care: Contemporary Ceramic Works, London Design Festival, London, UK (catalogue)
2007 Intersection, A Public Art Installation Project. Funded by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs & the Andy
Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Studio City, CA (catalogue)
2007 Suspended Animation, Marvimon House, installation & performance, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Caterer Performance, Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Untitled Performance, Live Art Cupcake Extravaganza, Presented at Art LA with LACE, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Bates Motel Installation, Abandoned motel on Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Cake Spawn, Marvimon House, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Untitled Installation, Artist Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA
2005 MFA Exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2004 Curiosities, Artist Television Access (ATA), (solo exhibition: installation & performance), San Francisco, CA
2004 All You Can Eat (performance), Pink Mammoth Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Untitled Installation (Wool), Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, CN
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 Pilosus nuces orbis, Quadrant: New Voices, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (forthcoming)
LECTURES / WORKSHOPS
2018 "Pecha Kucha" presentation during Mindful Materials Summit, Textile Arts LA, Los Angeles, CA, September 15
2015 "Felting & Natural Dyeing", Lecture and Workshop, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA, February 8
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2021 Residency, Nocefresca, Milis, Sardinia, Italy
2018 Fiber Reinterpreted Award, Surface Design Journal
2008 Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2004 Elkind Fellowship, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2002 Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, CN
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Parlor Pages, 2020. 25-26
“Family Matters: Exhibition in Print”, Surface Design Journal, Winter 2018. 50-52
“Splash of Colour”, Elle Decoration, UK Edition, May 2008. 144
Handled with Care: Contemporary Ceramic Works, Exhibition Catalogue, Designboom, Milan, Italy, 2007. 84
Intersection Exhibition Catalogue, A Public Art Installation Project. Funded by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
& the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 2007. 17