Awarded a 2017 Research Grant from The Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, NC I will be researching the cultural, sociological and aesthetic relevance of traditional Japanese boro textiles to contemporary craft, art and design. Topics to explore include: Repair, Visible Mending and Slow Stitching Respect for Materials, Time, Labor and Resources The Decaying Form Elevating the Commonplace or Discarded: the Found Object The Human Touch, Seeing the Hand at

GALLERY DRAWINGS: Drawing on scraps of life Artist Martin Kippenberger made hundreds of drawings on hotel stationery, “Hotel Drawings,” a kind of travel diary. These are sketches on museum ephemera–my own rough mnemonic–from a treasured trip to Berlin in 2017. SHOW: ART ON HOTEL NOTE PAPER 20-21 Visual Arts Centre

I am one of 120+ international artists collaborating on the UDHR Quilt project led by Tal Fitzpatrick and Stephanie Dunlap in Melbourne, Australia. I am illustrating Article 13 using a backdrop of Trump giving a speech on the US Travel Ban. My process will be documented as part of my online residency at @4rt4u. Article 13: FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the

International Fiber Arts VIII, 28 July to 3 Sept 2017 — Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol CA Biennial exhibition, in collaboration with Surface Design Association, for national and international artists doing innovative and traditional fiber art work, contemporary concepts using either traditional or unusual materials. My piece, Rams Horns, was accepted into this exhibition. Jurors: Wendy Lugg, Jason Pollen and Eszter Bornemisza. Link: FIBER ART VIII International Biennial Fiber Arts Exhibition

MODERN LOVE/MODERN SAMPLER was shown at World of Threads Festival, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, Ontario October 2016 “Amusing, moving… a tale of a broken heart”– Kit Lang Art

MEMORY OF A RAM was displayed at FIBER ART VIII: International Biennial Fiber Arts Exhibition in collaboration with Surface Design Association, Sebastopol Center for the Arts in Sebastopol CA July 2017 and I C E L A N D :: blue at Underground Gallery, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael CA Feb 2017

Reimagining seemingly banal street objects into outdoor sculptures using rescued textiles for the Transforming Street Objects from Your Street to Main Street exhibit at Site:Brooklyn in the Gowanus district December 2015.

I am two with nature. –Woody Allen COLLECTION OF NATURAL BRUSHES was shown at Wabi Sabi, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley CA June 2015 and Crop Up, 3rd St Village, San Francisco CA April 2017