BIO
Education
My practice encompasses music, painting, print making, and video. I've exhibited throughout the United States and Japan (most recently my composition "10" was part of the 10-10-10 installation at the 2021 Kyoto International Photography Festival). I hold an MFA degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) and a bachelors and masters degrees from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. I studied at the National Academy and the Art Students League of NY where I received the Edward McDowell Grant. I am an active composer, studying at the Juilliard Extension since 2014. I attended the European American Musical Alliance (EAMA) residency in the summer of 2016 in Paris and virtually in 2020. My paintings, prints and videos have been exhibited at New York Studio Gallery (including two solo exhibitions). I participated in several film festivals including the Cannes Short Film Festival, the Chicago Underground Film Festival and the Provincetown International Film Festival. My videos have been shown at Jersey City Museum, the Monmouth Museum, Arizona State University Art Museum, and at Mass MoCA. I served as Exhibition Coordinator for the Visual Arts MFA program at VCFA from 2010 through 2012. I am most proud of my community-based work with ahARTS and I am the co-founder/creator of ahARTS' FilmOneFest (the international one-minute film festival) and served as its Creative Director for 10 years.
I live and work in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey with my husband (around the corner from my daughter and her two Moms and sister) and spend a lot of time in Vermont at our second home in South Londonderry.
Juilliard Extension
2004-2006
Vermont College of Fine Arts
2014-2024
2016, 2020
European American Musical Alliance (EAMA)
1992-2000
The Art Students League of New York
1982-1988
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
I've been studying composition, music production, film scoring, orchestration, and ear training. Most recently, I've been taking a course called "Composition Lab" where composer Ray Lustig leads the class through a series of collaborative projects. Everything has come together at Juilliard. I found my voice - or more accurately, voices. Voices that bring the visual and audio arts together into a coherent whole.
I spent the summer of 2016 in Paris, immersed in the pedagogy of the famous French music teacher Nadia Boulanger - musicianship, counterpoint and harmony form the core of the training. I attended EAMA again in 2020 virtually (thanks to the pandemic).
I received my MFA after two mind blowing years at VCFA. Grad school opened my mind to the endless possibilities of what art is and could be. It was here that I first experimented with video, collaboration and community projects. The ASL taught me how to make art. VCFA taught me why I make art.
The ASL taught me how to see. I spent hours drawing and painting from the model. I learned about color, paint, and printmaking. I stretched canvases, mixed paint, ground down litho stones, etched printing plates and made silk screens.
My years at Cooper were foundational - no longer under the wings of my parents and living in NYC, my rigorous engineering studies and the magnetic pull of the art school kept me busy and filled me with questions. What did I want from life? To make a difference as an environmental engineer? To reach people through art? And what about music? It would take walking down many paths and searching for years to find the answers to those questions.