My very first childhood ambition was to have red hair, sit on rocks singing all day, and get married on a boat. Then my mom told me that being The Little Mermaid wasn't a good career choice. So I opted for being an artist.

I recently earned my BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art, where I studied everything from Animation to Enameling, with plenty of classes in Fiber & Material Studies and Film, Video & Photographic Arts along the way. With an incessant interest in bygone eras, and a strong feeling that I should have been born in 1936, my studies led me to creating work about the figures in old photographs found at flea markets and thrift stores. Creating characters and giving them narratives, all based on original photographs, my senior thesis manifested in the form of a video installation featuring silkscreened tapestries which created an organic, ghostly screen onto which I projected hand drawn animations which extended the narratives beyond the frame of the image.

Needless to say, I need to keep my hands busy. So when I'm not animating one frame at a time, or embroidering old handkerchiefs, I'm dreaming up marvelous things. From one of a kind dreamcatchers with embroidered feathers, to Whimsy Scout books and accessories, I have ideas to share.