I came to Boston in 2001 to do my part in Changing the World, as per my Oberlin degree, via social work or involvement in public school reform. I got a fun, "temporary" job at the Children's Museum instead. (I stayed for ten years., eventually running the art programs and the Art Studio exhibit, which I helped design.)
I started playing open mics and found myself a comfy spot on the local folk scene, especially at Club Passim. Severe GERD made it harder and harder to sing and speak. I eventually had to stop playing out.
For a while, I busied myself with crafting, creating ingenius products, and utterly failing to market them. It wasn't until I lost my voice and eventually my mind that I picked up The Artist's Way and worked my way through the program. When I was done, I was an artist and showed my work at my first Open Studios in 2006.
I enjoy unlearning harmful habits of mind, teaching, robinhooding priviledged information from academia to people who can use it most, goats, hearing tree frogs, and taking pictures. And fire.
I'm currently Living The Dream(s), making my plans around checking off "somedays." I have no alarm clock, I wear overalls most days, I teach art afterschool, work some for myself, I took studio classes at Mass Art and Harvard Extension last fall, will spend a month living on a goat farm this spring, and will begin a Masters in Art Therapy this fall.
Mission Statement:
"As Brilliant Creator, Wise Teacher, Courageous Student, and
Compassionate Healer,
I give my gifts back to the Universe."
