As an artist and educator, I believe in sharing my work and research with a range of people beyond the classroom. I enjoy participating in conferences, workshops, and demonstrations that further the dialogue around printmaking and the role of science in contemporary art.

In 2023, we began a partnership with Santa Reparata International School of Art to lead students on a study abroad for St. Philip’s College. We taught students art appreciation and drawing in the heart of Florence. This has already begun to influence my process of making work, as I’ve relearned oil painting and begun to see how it may fit into my practice.

I held the position of Member-At-Large within Southern Graphics Council International, a printmaking organization I am very passionate about contributing to in a meaningful way. I have been a member since my first conference as an undergrad, in 2002.

The spring of 2017 took me deep into the desert in southern California to explore the Mojave National Preserve as an artist in residence. I photographed my experience, treking through multiple landscapes, walking trails, roads, and igneous paths that led to the discovery of a completely new body of work. My show at the Kelso Depot, "Tracing the Former World," tells a tale of ancient landforms and my emotional and scientific response to their place in the world.

With an invitation from Jacob Leveton, I visited Paris in the spring of 2016 to give an artist’s talk about my work. Concepts about deep time, the Anthropocene, and global warming are interesting, but what really excites me at this point is how much these ideas mimic or are associated with human emotion and complexity. In many ways, printmaking is the ideal medium with which to express these thoughts, and even lends itself to talking about geological “moments.”

I spent three weeks in eastern Scotland traveling to major geologic sites that held important interest for me and my work. These visits and hikes fueled the work I created at the residency that followed, using the Kinpurnie Print Studio at Hospitalfield to begin a series of prints and pages that would become artist books and monotypes. While communing with fellow residents I developed several new ways of working that have continued to stay with me.

In late 2014, I was chosen to be one of the artists for ArtistLab, a 2 year springboard for 5 local artists, hosted by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center. ArtistLab consisted of a grant, business training, exhibition opportunities, and travel. This unique space offered creative growth, network building, and a strong bond for all the participants that we still enjoy today.

In August of 2015 I traveled to Picton, Ontario to participate in a wonderful residency at the Spark Box Studio run by Chrissy Poitras and Kyle Topping. The experience allowed me to explore my new surroundings completely unfettered, and to create several really intese monotypes inspired by the landscape of Prince Edward County.

I gave a talk about my work and its correlation to geology, based on the Huttonian principle of uniformitarianism; that histories we read in the earth's strata can be correlated interestingly to our own memories and scars. I was interested in sharing this deep connection between ourselves and the earth - an environmental awareness.