After thirty years of believing I couldn't be a social justice advocate (which I still am) and a producing artist, I've found my way through the miracle of printmaking. So much just happens in the processes.
I graduated in Art at the University of Washington as a painter. Three decades later, motivated by doing the self study in The Artists' Way, I attended The Evergreen State College and Olympic College to study printmaking. Believing that everyone is an artist, I have taught art in kindergarten, high school, college, and to adults. I am currently an art docent at Crown Hill Elementary School in Bremerton and will be training art docents this fall.
My original hand-pulled prints hang in public spaces in office buildings in Chicago, Portland churches and airport, Seattle churches, Suquamish tribal center, Stillwaters Environmental Center, churches in Alaska and Montana, Mexico City public buildings, Olympic College President’s office, and a Stockholm publishing house. These were all purchases of existing work. Recent commissions include symbolic portraits.
Using many different printmaking processes, I'm finding expression for my connection to my roots – ancestral, cultural, geographical, and spiritual – and to my activism.