I am an artist and educator, born and raised in New York City, living and working in Queens, NY. I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fiber at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD.  My art and teaching practices are rooted in fostering opportunities for open-ended exploration, connection with community, and deep engagement with the environments around us. This work takes the form of attentive observation, urban exploration, material experiments, cloth making, photography, and both experiential and formal research of local histories.

I draw from the cultural and ecological histories of Ridgewood, Queens, and surrounding areas - in particular urbanized bodies of water. For me, the beauty and pleasure of living in an urban ecosystem are derived not only from the human world but from how the plant and animal worlds sustain themselves in heavily industrialized areas. Whether this takes the form of self-sown flowers growing through the sidewalk or paved over bodies of water that flood so frequently the city is compelled to restore them. 

Referencing street grids, tangles of telephone wire, estuary ecosystems, and woven lace, I work to catalog and contextualize the vast memory and meaning that the urban landscape holds. I hope to make this collected information accessible to all members of my community and to encourage connection and collaboration between neighbors and their neighborhoods through art-making and knowledge-sharing.