I am a textile artist, using quilts to transform my personal experience into a shared narrative. Through hand-stitching reclaimed textiles and thoughtful composition, I hope to give voice to my emotions, opinions, and stories that might otherwise remain unspoken. My work explores healing, resilience, memory, and identity, drawing on experiences that are deeply personal while recognizing that they also reflect the lives of other women. By making my personal experience more public through the art of quilting, I hope to create common space for connection, inviting viewers to see their own stories within my quilts. I also believe that once a story is shared, it no longer has to be carried alone.

After retiring from a professional career in the science and technology of textiles with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, I embraced a full-time creative practice that bridges my knowledge of science with my lifelong interests in craft and contemporary art. I hold both a Bachelor of Science in Textile and Polymer Chemistry and a Master of Science in Textile Chemistry from the Georgia Institute of Technology. My understanding of textile materials and processes informs every aspect of my work, while my artistic practice focuses on documenting my stories through the textiles that have been such a big part of my life. By stitching together these tangible remnants of lived experience, I strive to preserve my personal history while contributing to a broader social and cultural record.

My artistic voice has been shaped through intensive study with quilt artists Heidi Parkes (through her year-long course) and Zak Foster (at Penland), whose mentorship has greatly deepened my approach to narrative quilt making. These courses, along with the exhibition of my first independently conceived series of narrative quilts into the Curtis R. Harley Art Gallery at USC Upstate, along with my admission into several juried art exhibitions, have helped place me on my path to becoming an artist. Today, I continue to develop new quilting bodies of work that examine the intersection of memory, identity, and lived experience through contemporary textile art. I am also continuing my craft education this year with various online workshops and retreats at such locations as Penland School of Craft, Hambidge, Sanborn Mills Farm, and Alabama Chanin’s The School of Making.

My work and my life are guided by values of honesty, compassion, justice, sustainability, and inclusion. I see quilting as both an artistic and a restorative practice—one that honors lived experience, preserves memory, and invites meaningful conversation. With every quilt, I seek not only to tell my own story and the stories of other women, but also to create space for others to recognize themselves, fostering connection, healing, and hope through cloth and stitch.