I am drawn to what is alive
Really alive, The kind of alive like us, with
Strong emotion, desires, a will of its own, and the ability to act on its will.
Some call it free will
I paint that with free will
And I paint the ghost of it.
Drawn particularly to the remains of life, the cast offs of trees and plants, between stages of detritus and dirt, I exalt its life, its contribution to free will.
When it leaves one being and slowly turns into another.
Sometimes, I paint that there.
CV
Education
Middlebury College, B.A. in Studio Art & Environmental Studies, 2018
Exhibitions
Solo
2019
A Second Look: Pinecones and Birch through Portraiture,
John D. Bennett Atrium Gallery, Claremont Opera House, Claremont, NH
Group
2021
The Big Take: Exhibit and Art Auction, Collar Works Gallery, Troy NY
Naturally New England, New Hampshire Center for the Arts at the Livery, Sunapee Harbor NH
2019
Portrait Exhibition, Armory Cafe, Arts at the Armory, Somerville MA
Earth Day 2019: Nourishing Change through the Arts, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury VT
Works behind Glass, River Valley Community College, Claremont NH
2018
SteamFest 2018: The Art of Possibility, an Art and Innovation Festival, Essex Junction VT
Closer: Senior Show, Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT
Deflower Me: Thesis Show, Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT
26th Annual Student Show, Copley Society of Art, Boston Massachusetts
Intercollegiate Regional, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy NY
Body, MGallery, Middlebury VT
Feminism, Science, and Art, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT
2017
The Landscape Reimagined, Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT
The Feminine Ground, Le Chateaux, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT
Body and Earth, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT
Thesis Show, Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT
Paintings and Prints, Axinn Center, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT
Stuck Together: Thesis Show, Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT
Residencies
2018
Middlebury College, Office of Sustainability Integration
Constructed a 13’ metal tree with software integration to raise awareness of campus energy usage.
Publications
2018
“Beth”. The Birch: the Undergraduate Journal of Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY
2016
“Into the Cave”. Blackbird Student Magazine, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT