Mentorship Style: My mentorship style is to get to know each artists needs, interests, and goals in order to provide insightful advice to inspire the resolve of ideas and access to opportunities available to them. Additionally I share projects that may serve as point of inspirations and how to consider your work as it might exist within institutions and be interacted with by a variety of viewers in different contexts.

Bio: I am an artist and curator living in San Antonio, TX. I earned my MFA in Photography and Integrated Media from Ohio University and BFA from Texas State University in Photography. Motivated by my experiences and observations, I explore how identity develops and shifts through family, home, place, and culture. I grew up in the Central Valley of California and now live in Texas with my husband and three children. I love and am nurtured by my family, trees, music, small artworks, expressions of generosity, humor, books, and coffee to name a few. My work as a visual artist is focused primarily on the medium and history of photography.

“My passion for the histories and futures of photography and its colloquial uses are foundational to my aesthetic vision. I begin with methods influenced by biographical and documentary work. I discuss issues significant to identity by revisiting and translating memories. I utilize my perspective as a means of exploring how intimacy can create a space for broader discussion on societal issues. Through my practice I am invested in the subjects of family and home, considering identity and relationship building in the context of the home; confrontations of race within family; generational loss; adoption; the importance of a safe space – i.e. home, pinning down the ambiance of home. I engage the history of photography, hierarchies of the medium, and feminist theory.

In my curatorial projects, my life experience has generated a collaborative, thoughtful, service-minded approach, committed to diversity in many forms and methods. I am drawn to work exploring personal passions and histories, which although they are subjective, can offer shared truths. I champion artists who invest in their craft, demonstrating artistic excellence and material expertise. My curatorial studies focused on methods of art history centered on linguistics with my specific fields of interest including the history of photography, contemporary African Art, contemporary craft, archives as artwork, and various feminist movements and ideologies, through coursework and mentorship from art historians Marion S. Lee, Jaleh Mansoor, Erina Duganne, and Jennie Klein, and artists Laura Larson, Ray Klimek, Jason Reed and Barry Stone.”