I am an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and printmaker based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. At its core, my work is about memory, care, inheritance, and the stories we carry. I am interested in the things that often go unnoticed: a worn kitchen towel, a handwritten note tucked into a drawer, a family photograph, a repaired piece of clothing, a story told and retold across generations. These ordinary objects and moments hold extraordinary histories.

My work combines printmaking, textiles, photography, video, sound, book arts, and installation. I build layers through stitching, printing, transferring, cutting, collecting, and mending. I am less interested in creating objects as products than in creating spaces where traces of lived experience remain visible – an artifact of process. The work often explores women’s labor, caregiving, resilience, and the ways memory is carried through both people and things.

My recent work considers the metaphor of the vessel, both physical and symbolic, as a framework for examining the expectations placed upon women across generations. Preservation jars, utensils, textiles, divination cards, household objects, and fragmented photographs become repositories of memory, carrying traces of care, grief, nourishment, obligation, and hope. Through layered surfaces and accumulative processes, the work functions as a form of visual archaeology, revealing histories that are simultaneously personal and collective.

I have also become increasingly interested in ancestry, family history, and collective storytelling. Some of my projects incorporate audio recordings, oral histories, and participatory elements that invite others to contribute their own memories and experiences. I love the idea that a work of art can hold many voices rather than a single narrative – when someone recognizes a piece of their own story within my work and chooses to share it.

This interest in shared authorship also informs toastlab (together, observe, acknowledge, share, transform), a mobile/pop-up makerspace and community project I founded to bring people together through artmaking and storytelling. Whether I am working alone in the studio or alongside others, I am interested in how creative practice can help us feel more connected to ourselves, to one another, and to the histories that shape us.

make work to better understand what we inherit, what we choose to carry forward, and how acts of making can become acts of remembering and empathy. I believe art can help us witness one another and ourselves more fully, and that belief continues to guide everything I create.