I create multidisciplinary expanded documentaries that layer painting, drawing, and photography with time-based media and audio recordings. My goal is to invite viewers into immersive, layered experiences that provide space for them to develop their own personal cartographies in response. My subject matter, which tends to be site-specific and land-based, includes the site-based nature of memory, overlapping (and sometimes conflicting) human and animal kinship systems, and the intergenerational stories families develop to mediate trauma and memory. Through my fieldwork practice, I immerse myself in relevant ecologies and use mark making, new media, and autoethnographic writing to document my findings. I draw from my family archive, old educational films, and video collected in the field, to create time-based media shorts which I project and layer/collage over and into the fieldwork materials.
 
I have a BFA in Painting and Drawing and an MA in Art Museum Education, both from the University of North Texas, and an MFA in Media Art from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. My influences include Tacita Dean, Kiki Smith, Donna Haraway, Jacob Lawrence, Sally Mann, William Kentridge, and Anselm Kiefer.
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I have been a teaching Artist throughout my career and recently began teaching at the university level. My experience designing education programs at illustrious museums, such as the Art Institute of Chicago and the Dallas Museum of Art and teaching Art in diverse K-12 public and private schools in Texas and Massachusetts, has given me deep insight into how people learn and proficiency with facilitating critical inquiry in the Arts. I am passionate about supporting developing artists as they begin to interrogate their own positionality and develop their own voice. I currently teach at the University of Missouri, St. Louis and at Southwestern Illinois College.