I am an artist, a researcher and a teacher.
My research and artistic work serves to reveal the layers within and without: how we are culturally, emotionally, intellectually engaged in our experience. The work that is then achieved through a variety of media is a response to a "remix" of these experiences, past and present, interdisciplinary, and tactile. This juxtaposition serves to demonstrate the overlapping push and pull of my roles as artist, wife, mother, teacher and explorer. The stitching of ideas, a fibrous connection to my father who taught me to sew, and to my quilting grandmother who celebrated every event with a quilt, remains an important thread in my work. It is a way of sewing the ideas together: bringing order and rhythm to disparate pieces. It is a means to demonstrating the “symphony” of which Daniel Pink speaks, "the ability to put together the pieces." (Pink, 2006) because that is what we do in the classroom and in the studio--we weave together different kinds of thinking, different media, building skills in new ways, thus creating a symphony of ideas merged with vision.
Pink, D. (2006). A Whole new mind: Why right-brainers will rule the world. Penguin Group, Inc. New York, NY.
My research and artistic work serves to reveal the layers within and without: how we are culturally, emotionally, intellectually engaged in our experience. The work that is then achieved through a variety of media is a response to a "remix" of these experiences, past and present, interdisciplinary, and tactile. This juxtaposition serves to demonstrate the overlapping push and pull of my roles as artist, wife, mother, teacher and explorer. The stitching of ideas, a fibrous connection to my father who taught me to sew, and to my quilting grandmother who celebrated every event with a quilt, remains an important thread in my work. It is a way of sewing the ideas together: bringing order and rhythm to disparate pieces. It is a means to demonstrating the “symphony” of which Daniel Pink speaks, "the ability to put together the pieces." (Pink, 2006) because that is what we do in the classroom and in the studio--we weave together different kinds of thinking, different media, building skills in new ways, thus creating a symphony of ideas merged with vision.
Pink, D. (2006). A Whole new mind: Why right-brainers will rule the world. Penguin Group, Inc. New York, NY.