What do you do?
I taught drawing, design and sculpture for many years in colleges and universities around Puget Sound and on the San Francisco Peninsula. Currently I enjoy collaborating with college art and dance students to create installation/performances around Bellingham. I love the teaching-learning mentor relationship, with no grading or evaluating involved!
I am a working artist, creating life-sized figures of wire netting, using lights on the sculptures and then drawing the shadows to make multi-dimensional environments. I am just beginning to incorporate video to add movement and time to my installations.
I am also interested in the Waterfront Development. I served as a city juror for the art in the Renovation Project, and now “planting seed ideas” for good design and more artists/art presence in the Waterfront District.
What do you love about this area?
It is crucial for me to live in a university town! This particular college town has not only the progressive values in culture and politics that I need, but its location is exquisite! Set on a bay of the Salish Sea, where the Cascades to the north are pink in the morning sun of winter, and the skies are shot through with the dramatic colors of sunsets over the water, with Mount Baker watching over our shoulders and the Chuckanuts rolling down to the shore – wow! I love being situated an easy distance from both Vancouver and Seattle but so close to wilderness.
I love the size of this city – large enough to regularly meet some interesting new person doing exciting things, yet small enough to have a bit of an impact as one individual.
And I do love the climate!