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

Artist Statement

I use textiles to explore autobiography, politics, labor, and Southerness. I transform everyday and discarded materials like quilts, bedsheets, afghans, yard tarps, and clothing through sewing, quilting, screen printing, and other textile processes.

Text, humor, and Southern vernacular run through much of my work. I pull phrases from family sayings, conversations, politics, and everyday life, using repetition, spacing, layering, and masking to turn familiar language into something slightly strange. I am interested in that space between humor and discomfort, recognition and disorientation.

My sewn vehicle sculptures extend these ideas into the landscape of everyday life. Based on trucks and cars I encounter in my neighborhood and on my commute, they look at the unseen labor behind the routines that keep a city moving. The vehicles become portraits of work, class, survival, convenience, and the anonymous people we pass every day without really seeing.

Much of my practice begins with materials that already carry a history. Growing up with a seamstress grandmother and a mother who was a needleworker, I see myself as part of a lineage of women who made things by hand. I use those skills to tell my own stories and to question the stories, systems, and everyday contradictions woven into the world around me.