My work redefines aging fiber artifacts — horse fly nets, fishing nets and similar vernacular forms — through needle-weaving and knotting. Their worn imperfections are mended into the new and the transformation becomes part of their continued narrative. Stripped of function, these once three-dimensional nets lay flat. By giving them new volume, I honor the revolving intersections of past and present.
Weaving within and across their fixed borders allows for long, reflective periods of creation informed by the familial moments and unexpected associations that their previous lives evoke. What began as autobiographic meditation has evolved into work that more broadly speaks to histories, loss and longing and exists in other realms of interpretive possibilities.
Solo and Group Exhibitions
2021 – Solo show, Phipps Center for the Arts, WI
2021 – Woven (3-person show), Artistry, MN
Select Juried Exhibitions
2021 – Manufactured Narratives: chronicles of textile artists,
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, MI
2020 – 23rd International Open, Woman Made Gallery, IL
– Fine Arts Exhibition, Minnesota State Fair, MN
– ARCHIVE, Surface Design Association virtual exhibit
– Constructed Visions III, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, MO
–*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,
Dalton Gallery, 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 (non-juried), 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
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
– “Yarn, Rope, String,” Fiber Art Now, Fall 2020
– “Soft Borders.” Surface Design Journal Exhibition in Print
Vol. 43 Number 3, Fall 2019
Education
– BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Solo and Group Exhibitions
2021
• Solo show, Phipps Center for the Arts, WI
• Woven (3-person show), Artistry, MN
Select Juried Exhibitions * online due to COVID-19
2021
• Manufactured Narratives: chronicles of textile
artists, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, MI
2020
• 23rd International Open, Woman Made Gallery, IL
• Fine Arts Exhibition, Minnesota State Fair, MN
• ARCHIVE, Surface Design Association virtual exhibit
• Constructed Visions III, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, MO
• *North of the 45th, DeVos Art Museum, MI
• *September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, LA
• *H2O, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA
• *Fine Arts Exhibition of the Decatur Arts Festival, Dalton
Gallery, 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, (non-juried) 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
2018
• Fine Arts Exhibition, Minnesota State Fair, MN
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
•“Yarn, Rope, String,” Fiber Art Now, Fall 2020
•“Soft Borders.” Surface Design Journal
Exhibition in Print, Vol. 43 Number 3, Fall 2019
Education
BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, MO