After receiving a B.A. in Costume Design and couple of M.A.s (in Deaf Education and Linguistics) I had a long career as an academic stealing moments for my textile work when I could.  Since my retirement I’ve had work in shows across the US, a solo exhibition in Sacramento in 2007, begun to be collected, and have been invited to join California Fiber Artists.  I am now a full time studio artist exploring a variety of textile media.  I am beginning to find ways of melding disparate  techniques, embroidering a bit of the surface of a tapestry, for example.  It is a joy to follow my muse at last!

I have been intrigued since childhood by the language of textiles: color, pattern, texture, and what these elements evoke.  I designed costumes for university and professional theatres and for Shakespeare festivals throughout the West.   I also had my own theatre company, Music in Motion, a sign language dance troupe, in the 1980s.

For most of my professional career I worked as a linguist. Since retiring in 2006, I have gotten a boost of artistic energy returning to my love of tapestry weaving.   My current work involves color play and the themes of language, and passion.  In addition to weaving, I dye, quilt, embroider, felt, print, bead, foil - creating or altering surfaces.  With tapestry I build the texture into the inherent structure of the work itself.