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SOLO SHOW: BECOMING FERAL 
MULTNOMAH ARTS CENTER GALLERY, 2026

Becoming Feral explores the physical and emotional shifts of midlife through themes of transformation, instinct, and the natural world. Created through solar printing processes, the works rely on light, exposure, time, and chance to form their images. These unpredictable processes mirror the body’s own cycles of change, tracing a movement away from control and toward something more intuitive, unruly, and alive. View project >>

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ARTIST RESIDENCY: BAER ART CENTER, ICELAND, JULY 2026

In summer 2026, I spent three weeks at Baer Art Center in northern Iceland, developing work in response to the surrounding landscape. Through watercolor studies, drawing, printmaking experiments, and collected observations, I explored color, form, and the shifting relationships between land, water, weather, and the body.

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SITKA ART INVITATIONAL 2026: IN FORMATION

Created following my residency in Iceland, In Formation is a four-panel cyanotype work made from parsemage prints. The panels can be rotated and rearranged, allowing the composition to remain unfixed and reflecting my ongoing interest in transformation, chance, and forms that resist a single reading.

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UMPQUA VALLEY ARTS: ENTWINED

Entwined is a large-scale 3 × 5-foot relief print commissioned by Umpqua Valley Arts and printed by steamroller. The work reflects my experience of motherhood and the deep entanglement of caring for a child with a disability where love, responsibility, and identity become inseparable. One impression will enter the Umpqua Valley Arts collection and will be exhibited in Printmaking Now (10 Years Later) at Umpqua Valley Arts in 2027.

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FEATURED COVER ARTIST: PILE PRESS

My work 'Surge' was selected as the cover artwork for Issue 12 of Pile Press, a local publication featuring the work of women and non-binary creatives.

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SOLO SHOW: TENDING 
STRAND GALLERY, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, 2025

Tending brought together works from different periods of my practice, reflecting on care, motherhood, identity, and my relationship to the natural world. Across a range of subjects and processes, the exhibition traced connections between nurturing, growth, and change. Two botanical collagraphs from the exhibition received the Margaret Hogg Memorial Art About Agriculture Award and were acquired for Oregon State University’s permanent collection.

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ARTIST RESIDENCY: VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS, DECEMBER 2025

During a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, I had dedicated time to develop new work through drawing and printmaking. The residency provided space for experimentation and helped deepen ideas around transformation, the body, and the natural world that continue to move through my practice.

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SOLO SHOW: THE SHAPE OF THINGS
MAKE & MARY, PORTLAND OREGON, 2023

The Shape of Things, my first solo exhibition, explored simple shapes and forms found in botanicals through printmaking. Works from the exhibition later entered the City of Beaverton Public Art Collection, while two botanical prints received the Margaret Hogg Memorial Art About Agriculture Award and were acquired for Oregon State University’s permanent collection.

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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

My work is held in public collections throughout Oregon, including the Portland Public Art Collection, the City of Beaverton Public Art Collection, and Oregon State University. The acquisitions span several forms of printmaking, reflecting the range of processes within my practice.

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Installation of works at Fernhill Health Center Portland, Oregon, Portland Public Art Collection, 'Going South I', close-up, Chine colle, watercolor monotype and collagraph, 2020

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'Brothers At Agate Beach', Relief print, 2022, Portland Art Public Collection, Multnomah Courthouse, Portland, Oregon

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'Full Circle' and 'Seeing' pictured next to Office, 'Dancing' and 'Holiday' pictured next to Exam Room 

Monotype on canvas, 2023, City of Beaverton Public Art Collection,

The Beaverton Shelter, Beaverton, Oregon

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'A Mother's Love', Relief print, 2022, Portland Art Public Collection, Multnomah Courthouse, Portland, Oregon

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