I am an artist and a poet, combining images and words, ideas and materials. I love the process of bookmaking, which is technical yet filled with the possibilities that a container for an artist’s ideas must be.  Paper and paint, lines and words- these are the raw materials of my work.

Since moving to Maine in 2010 I have been enamored by the intertidal zone near my house in South Thomaston.  I have been studying the creatures and plants that find their home in this rich and forceful territory of tides. Metaphorically, this littoral zone is a space where life gets buffered twice daily by nature.  And still these creatures hold fast – as in the case of barnacle – or waft cleverly in the shallows.  Perhaps this is the only way we have to approach life.  Realistically, it is a space of great beauty, wonder, and some worry for its future. 

In much of my poetry, my deeply religious past contrasts with my current views of religion, and my faith and delight in the natural world.  My poetry is included in two anthologies and several journals, including The Maine Review, Salamander, Spillway, Barrow Street, Off the Coast, and Muddy River Review.  I hope to publish my manuscript, Burning Down the House, as soon as I can stop editing!

Here's a short one!  

Fury at the Corners of My House

Coronets of clouds, blasts
of breath raging, growling. A squall
that whites out the sea and fields,
TV brings me news, I watch the facts.
My stone wall blurs its hard-edged
geometry. Disappeared garage doors
and the neighbor's houses.
I am afraid of this
Wildness that spends itself
on itself, cannot sit still
enough to love its own made beauty

Before moving to Maine, I lived and worked in Boston where I was director of museum education at the Massachusetts College of Art.  I found MassArt inspirational – encountering student work wherever you turned, a dynamic faculty and art enthusiastic staff as colleagues.  One did not have to explain the meaning of art while working there.  I hold on to that spirit and have looked to create that same spirit here in Maine.

Currently I am the owner of 26 Split Rock Cove, a privately owned artist community of studios, artist living space, and workshops overlooking Mussel Ridge Channel in South Thomaston, ME. Here, I get to meet artists and writers who come to this beautiful corner of the world to work.  It’s clear to me why so many artists have come to Maine to make art.

CV

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2018 Midcoast Book Artists exhibition, Camden Public Library, Camden Maine
2018 Tidal Zone, Waterfall Arts Gallery, Belfast, ME
2017 Tidal Drift, Granite Gallery, Tenants Harbor, ME
2015 Littoral Zone, Unity College, Unity, ME
2013 Open Studios, 26 Split Rock Cove
2009 Means of Accumulation, Arnheim Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
2009 Concept, Context & Audience, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2008 Boundaries, Arnheim Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
2006 Believing is Seeing, Arnheim Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
2005 Pingree School, Beverly, MA, 
2004 Shelf Life, Arnheim Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
2002-2005 Open Studios, Waltham Mills, Waltham, MA
1990's-
Towne Gallery, Wheelock College, Faculty Show, Boston
Towne Gallery, Wheelock College, Faculty Show, Boston
3 Dimensions, group show, Southboro Arts Center
Towne Gallery, Wheelock College, Faculty Show
Ties That Bind, group show, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College
1980's-
Crafts at the Castle, Park Plaza Castle, exhibitor
Contexture, group show, South Shore Arts Center
Fiber Connections, group show, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Crossovers, group show, Bradford College
Group show, Montserrat College of Art, Summer
Boston Seven New Dimensions of Fiber, group show, Newton Center for the Arts
Linen, two-person show, Towne Gallery, Wheelock College
Boston Seven, Dimensions of Fiber, La Maison de la Culture, Montreal, Canada
Textile Spectrum, group show, Worcester Craft Center
Absolutely Abstract, group show, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, MA
Boston Seven, group show, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA
Group show, Mona Berman Gallery, New Haven, CT
American Crafts '81, group show, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Boston Seven, group show, Duxbury Art Complex, Duxbury, MA
8 Worcester Textile Artists, group show, U Mass Medical Center Gallery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2012 – present Owner, 26 Split Rock Cove, an artist’s retreat, artist studios, and workshop space, South Thomaston, ME
2012 – present Education Volunteer and lead educator for Look Inside, Center for Maine Contemporary Art. Rockland, ME
2017 Presenter, Maine Art Educators Conference, Haystack School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2011 – 2017 Program Evaluator, Artward Bound program, a college readiness program for urban Boston teens, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2008-2010 Director of Education, Curatorial Programs, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2009-2011 Adjunct Faculty, Art Education, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2004 Evaluator, NEA Grant:  Renewal, Support, and Growth Professional Development Workshop Series, Massachusetts College of Art
2003–2008 Co-director, Center for Art and Community Partnerships, Massachusetts College of Art
1998-2008 Assistant Director for Gallery Education, Massachusetts College of Art
1995-2010 Coordinator, teacher and administrator of Looking to Learn, gallery education program, Massachusetts College of Art
Sept/Oct 2000 Co-curator, Physical Body/Virtual Body, an interactive exploration of physical and virtual media, for grades 4 - 7, Arnheim Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
April 2000 Presenter, "Learning to See", MassArt Professional Development Workshop
Jan/Feb 1999 Curator, Video Live an interactive exploration of video technology for grades 5 - 9, Arnheim Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art
1998 Coordinator, teacher and administrator of UrbanArts Teen Curators' project

EDUCATION:

Massachusetts College of Art, MSAE, 1996
Thesis topic: Looking to Learn - Toward a Theoretical Model for Student Art Viewing in Museums and Galleries
Boston University, Program in Artisanry, 1975-1978
George Washington University, B.A., 1971