Welcome

About Me

I am a textile artist and informal educator. I create and teach public programs for museums and community arts orgs.

I believe there is a lot to learn from the ways plants and animals communicate, if we listen and expand our expectation of what communication is. My creative research centers this idea. I have always wished I could talk to animals, be the size of an insect, or have the underwater adaptations of a fish.

My Background

I’m from the flat plains and sprawling suburbs of Dallas, Texas. Concrete goes as far as the eye can see, and the sky is often without clouds. I’ve watched fields turn into parking lots for two decades. So I spend a lot of time dreaming of landscapes I’ve visited, both IRL and in my imagination.

Previous Work

I received my BFA in textile art in 2023 from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). I focused on weaving, sculptures, and biofabrication. Over the past two years, I have learned to knit and crochet. I am looking forward to blending my hand-crafting background with the tech and digital tools we will learn. I've uploaded some photos of my work below but there is more to explore on my personal website!↗

I am also an alumni of the BioDesign Challenge! My team’s project, Mother Nacre, won an award there - here it is↗. We loved our microbial friends dearly. Biodesign and biofabrication is not happening at a community level in my home area, so here I am! I am hopeful to bring new ideas and knowledge back with me to Texas. I think we could really use it.

Photo gallery

Above: I draft my own woven patterns. The furthest right is an overshot design based on micrographs of the anaphase stage of cell division. The center image is an visualization of Green Fluorescent Protein's nucleotide sequence. Each color and harness corresponded to an A, C, T, or G. The treadling sequence followed the complimentary strand.

Below: Weaving drafts for the above cloths, and a bitmap of a recent filet crochet doily based on the spots of an Asian Spotted lady beetle. I use the free versions of treadl↗ and Stitch Fiddle↗ to draft designs.