My experience in creating and managing inspiring works has enabled me to facilitate and direct ideas, resources, projects, and events in the past based on deep experiences and rituals.

I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in the medium of glass and textiles. For 20 years, I owned and operated a high-end catering business in Portland, Oregon. As an entrepreneur, I chose to work closely with clients that offered a benefit to our planet. I traveled the world collecting and curating beautiful tabletop ware to create food displays befitting a grand feast. Catering taught me the value of timing and attention to every single detail.

After a long hiatus, I am more than excited to be part of the Portland Winter Light Festival because it has brought me closer again to the mediums I adore, awakening in me a spark that was waiting to be re-lit. The creation of the Crystal Energy Portal culminated many months of luminescence that resurfaced from deep within. Utilizing scraps and discards as well as a mountain of gems and chachkies only deranged collectors understand, I’ve melded them with found relics in glass, crystal, metals, plaster, (even old CD’s) and more. I’ve transformed each piece with vivid and inoculating fervor. With the addition of fluoro paints, rosins, and shimmering glazes, new colors have found their way to my palette with a revival of my altruistic self that perhaps was relocated like a lost treasure - under the sea. It is with these new depths, that I share my intentions by presenting this immersive and transforming experience.