My work redefines aging fiber artifacts — horse fly nets, fishing nets and similar vernacular forms — through needle-weaving and knotting. Their worn imperfections are integrated into the new and the transformation becomes part of a continued narrative. Absent their true histories, I imbue them with my own, their movement informed by the unexpected associations that their past lives evoke.
The repetitive motions of tying knot after knot, of threading a needle up and down each individual strand of rope, allow me the space to process layers of my own memory and being. The challenges of melding old with new become metaphor for the sometimes futile need to hold on and the difficulty of letting go — underscoring the duality of nets as protection versus entrapment.
Selected Exhibitions
2021 – Solo show, Phipps Center for the Arts, WI
– Manufactured Narratives: chronicles of textile artists,
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, MI
2021 – Woven (3-person show), Bloomington Center
for the Arts, MN
2020 –*North of the 45th, DeVos Art Museum, MI
–*33rd September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, LA
–*H2O, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA
–*Fine Arts Exhibition of the Decatur Arts Festival,
Agnes Scott College, GA
– Aqua (virtual), Envision Arts, TX
–*Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, KY
– Northern Lights, White Bear Center for the Arts, MN
– Materials: Hard + Soft, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, TX
2020 – Arts North International, Hopkins Center for the Arts, MN
2020 – A Common Thread, Textile Center, MN
2019 – Annual Member's Juried Art Exhibition, Artistry, MN
2019 – Focus Fiber 2019, A National Contemporary Fiber Art Show
Kent State University Museum, OH
2019 – Arts in Harmony International Juried Art Show
Hopkins Center for the Arts, MN
2019 – Hysteria, Paul Whitney Larson Art Gallery, MN
2018 – Fine Arts Exhibition, Minnesota State Fair, MN
* online due to COVID-19
Awards
2020 – Artist Initiative Grant, MN State Arts Board
– Second Place, Fine Arts Exhibition, Decatur Arts Alliance
– Honorable Mention, Aqua, Envision Arts
– Award of Merit, Northern Lights, White Bear Center for the Arts
2019 – Surface Design Award (Exhibition in Print), Surface Design
Association
2018 – First place Textiles/Fibers, Fine Arts Exhibition, MN State Fair
Foundation
Publications
“Soft Borders.” Surface Design Journal Exhibition in Print
Vol. 43 Number 3, Fall 2019
Education
1982 – BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Selected Exhibitions
2021
• Solo show, Phipps Center for the Arts, WI
• Manufactured Narratives: chronicles of textile
artists, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, MI
•Woven (upcoming 3-person show),
Bloomington Center for the Arts, MN
2020
• *North of the 45th, DeVos Art Museum, MI
• *33rd September Competition, Alexandria
Museum of Art, LA
• *H2O, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA
• *Fine Arts Exhibition of the Decatur Arts
Festival, Agnes Scott College, GA
• Aqua (virtual), Envision Arts, TX
• *Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, KY
• Northern Lights, White Bear Center for the
Arts, MN
• Materials: Hard + Soft, Patterson-Appleton
Arts Center, TX
• Arts North International, Hopkins Center for the
Arts, MN
• A Common Thread, Textile Center, MN
2019
• Annual Member's Juried Art Exhibition,
Artistry, MN
• Focus Fiber, A National Contemporary Fiber Art
Show, Kent State University Museum, OH
• Arts in Harmony International Juried Art
Show, Hopkins Center for the Arts, MN
• Fine Arts Exhibition, Minnesota State Fair, MN
* online due to COVID-19
Awards
2020
• Artist Initiative Grant, MN State Arts Board
• Second Place, Fine Arts Exhibition, Decatur
Arts Alliance
• Honorable Mention, Aqua, Envision Arts
• Award of Merit, Northern Lights, White Bear
Center for the Arts
2019
• Surface Design Award (Exhibition in Print),
Surface Design Association
2018
• First place Textiles/Fibers, Fine Arts Exhibition,
MN State Fair Foundation
Publications
• “Soft Borders.” Surface Design Journal
Exhibition in Print, Vol. 43 Number 3, Fall 2019
Education
BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, MO