I am a text based artist, working in painting, screen-printing, and fibers in Nashville, Tennessee. I have a MFA from the University of Tennessee and currently teach art at James Lawson High School.

Artist Statement

My work combines deadpan, humorous, and backhanded dialogue with domestic materials to create a sense of discomfort and confrontation. Recycled textiles—both nostalgic and everyday—are deconstructed, stitched, and sculpted into interwoven surfaces that become sites for screenprinted or stitched text.

The language I use draws from southern vernacular, storytelling, politics, and belief structures. Through word spacing, layering, repetition, and masking, I create visual puzzles that disrupt the way text is typically processed, asking viewers to linger in the tension between familiarity and disorientation.

Recycling and reinventing old textiles is integral to my practice; I consider myself in collaboration with the women who made them before me. Having grown up with a grandmother who was a seamstress and a mother who was a needleworker, I carry forward their skills and love for craft—not as a matter of tradition alone, but as a way of weaving my own voice into a lineage of labor, care, and storytelling.