About my art

I share cultural opportunities with the public through creative works and curatorial projects. My creative work prioritizes listening and connecting people through storytelling. I work across disciplines to facilitate collaborations and projects that are accessible and impactful, and build empathy around people’s lived experiences.

My projects rely on the participation of others. Behind each image, object and handwritten notation is the voice of a person sharing something personal about themselves. Although inspired by my experiences, my works are collections of personal histories shared by others. In my socially engaged projects, I provide prompts for people to respond to in a variety of ways. Their responses range from recalling a memory attached to a song to sharing a photograph and text about an object that they have saved from a deceased loved one.

About my career

I received a MFA in New Genre from The University of Arizona and a BFA in Visual Art from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. My writing and/or art has been featured in New American Paintings, Emergency Index, Kakalak, and Artful Dodge. My collaborative work with Lorene Delany-Ullman has been published in AGNI, Tupelo Quarterly, Palaver, Lunch Ticket and was shortlisted for the Tarpaulin Sky book prize. Reviews and articles on my projects have been in The New York Times, The Miami Herald, Arizona Daily Star, Los Angeles Times and Time magazine’s Money.com. I have participated in numerous artist residencies including Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Artspace, and Virginia Center for Creative Arts.

I have served on numerous boards including: Elsewhere Museum, North Carolina Museums Council, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts and the Center for Craft. I also curate exhibitions focused on contemporary art and worked as a curator at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art in Florida and was the director of the Smith Gallery at Appalachian State University. Exhibition reviews of curatorial projects have appeared in Artnews, South Florida Times, Palm Beach Daily News, The Miami Herald, Neural Online, and El Pais. Currently I am a Professor and coordinator of the art management program at Appalachian State University in North Carolina.