Textile Exhibitions and publications
2025 Women United Art Publication, Featured, Front and Back Covers
2025 Quilts=Art=Quilts Schweinfurth Art Center Auburn NY
2025 Sacred Threads Chicago Illinois Children Hospital
2025 IL/WI SAQA regional exhibition “River Song”
2025 William Scofield Gallery, Vancouver WA
2025 International Quilt Festival, Houston Texas
2025 AQS Quilt Fest, Paducah Kentucky
2025 Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton Virginia
2024 Contemporary Quilting Arts Exhibition, Tacoma WA
2024 Fiber Art Now publication, July
2024 Pacific Northwest International Quilt Festival, Santa Clara CA
2024 International Quilt Festival Houston Texas
2024 17th annual show Collective Visions Gallery juried show
2024 Washington State History Museum
2024 Contemporary Quilt Association traveling exhibition
2023 American Quilting Association National Show Des Moines Iowa
2023 International Quilt Festival Houston TX
2021 International Quilt Festival Houston TX
2020 International Quilt Festival Houston TX
2020 The Ties that Bind gallery, Ellensburg WA
2019 Featured in Fiber Art Now publication
2019 Selected By Fiber Art Now as thier emerging Artist of the year
2018 The Ross Museum of Art, Delaware Ohio
I grew up in Dubuque, Iowa, learning to sew from my Grandmother Marge and Aunt Shirley. My first sewing “business” began in first grade, stitching doll clothes for classmates—an early sign of the maker I would become. Sewing remained a constant in my life, later helping fund my path to photography school.
My love of imagery began at age eleven, when my father gave me an 8mm film camera. That spark led me to graduate from photo school in Waterloo, Iowa in 1981 and build a three-decade photography career that took me from Texas to Los Angeles to the Pacific Northwest. The work sustained me, challenged me, and shaped who I am as an artist.
Today, my creative life has expanded into textile art—a place where photography, digital painting, and fabric converge. After years of keeping those worlds separate, they now feel naturally aligned. This chapter is about exploration, letting image and cloth speak to each other, and creating pieces where memory, story, and tactile beauty meet.
This is the art I’m meant to be making now—rooted in the past, alive in the present, and always reaching toward what’s next.