I am a multidisciplinary artist and art therapist based in Minnesota working in photography, mindful drawing, collage, and mixed media. My practice is informed by my work as an art therapist, where I support others in using creativity for reflection, expression, learning, and connection through inclusive, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive approaches. I am particularly interested in creating spaces where people can explore their strengths, express themselves authentically, and discover new perspectives through the creative process.
My work—both personal and in community creative spaces—is rooted in curiosity, experimentation, attention, and allowing meaning to unfold over time. I am interested in how creativity can hold complexity, contradiction, humor, and the parts of ourselves that do not fit neatly into categories. I am drawn to the unexpected ways insight, change, and new perspectives can emerge through creative exploration, and to the ways art often mirrors life: requiring patience, risk-taking, adaptation, and a willingness to not always know the outcome.
There is often a sense of “multiple directions at once” in how I work —different materials, ways of seeing, and ways of making that coexist rather than resolve into a single style. I tend to move across mediums rather than stay in one lane, following curiosity as it shifts and letting process guide what I make next.
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