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. Working with everyday and discarded materials like quilts, bedsheets, afghans, yard tarps, and clothing, I sew, quilt, screen print, and transform familiar things into objects that carry new meaning.

Text, humor, and Southern vernacular run throughout my work. Drawing from family sayings, conversations, politics, and everyday life, I use repetition, spacing, layering, and masking to make familiar language feel slightly strange. I’m interested in the tension between humor and discomfort, recognition and disorientation, and the contradictions woven into everyday life.

My sewn vehicle sculptures extend these ideas into the landscape of daily life. Based on trucks and cars I encounter in my neighborhood and on my commute, they consider the unseen labor behind the routines that keep a city moving. Part portrait, part observation, the vehicles point to work, class, survival, and convenience, while reflecting on the anonymous people we pass every day without really seeing.

My practice is rooted in handiwork. My grandmother a seamstress and my mother was a needleworker, I see my work as part of a lineage of women who made things by hand. Through these inherited skills and materials, I tell my own stories while questioning the beliefs, systems, and contradictions that shape the world around me.