BIO

I was born and raised in Tucson, AZ, and I love the Sonoran Desert. I've always joked about returning there to die—that landscape is magical. But, seeking an entirely new environment, I decided to attend Carleton College in rural Minnesota where I majored in Studio Art.

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After graduating, I found an internship at Highpoint, an amazing printmaking studio in the Twin Cities. It was my first introduction to the non-profit world, and the incredibly kind, talented, and dedicated people in it. But then the insanely frigid winters led me to move to Brooklyn and I found a job coordinating classes at 3rd Ward, a co-working/incubator space with a wide variety of educational programming for adults (welding, upholstery, inflatable sculpture, etc.). I loved it, but unfortunately they ended up closing their doors.

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After a year in the tech world, a long desert road trip, and some odd jobs in NYC my partner and I decided to move upstate and embark on an adventure renovating an old farming property with a close friend. I began a position at the Wassaic Project, a local arts non-profit I remain connected to, and we all dug into cleaning up our new home. Now dubbed 5 Harts Rd, we began hosting events in the spaces here in 2018 and were hoping to continue until Covid threw a wrench into everyone's plans. 

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This past year I've been diving into learning taxidermy and giving machine free tattoos while reopening my oil paints. It's been a year of true exploration that I hope continues.

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