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, and southerness. Employing sewing and quilting techniques, I transform everyday materials like quilts, bedsheets, tablecloths, and yard tarps into autobiographical and cultural commentary.

My text pieces draw 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.