I have been a practicing visual artist for over fifty years, exhibiting nationally and internationally. My mediums have included painting, stained glass, fiber art, photography. I was an art museum administrator for 39 years, where the vast collections of world cultures have had a profound effect on my art practice. Formally training as a painter, my painting practice evolved over 25 years, and for reasons inexplicable even to me I abandoned painting.
I became increasingly interested in textiles and textile techniques and I developed a method for knitting with beads combining my respect for hand crafts found in indigenous cultures, a love of pattern through textiles, worldwide, and my reverence for nature. Trained Indiana University.
Education
- Indiana University Bloomington School of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts
Specialties
- Visual artist, painter, fiber artist, landscape designer, photographer, landscape historian, lecturer, freelance writer
- Art Museum professional 1982–2021