Bio
I am a multidisciplinary artist and art historian from New York City. My yoga practice, scholarship on African Diaspora artists, and feminist activism have informed my fiber artwork, prints, paintings, performances, and public art. My paintings, prints, and fiber artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally in England, Germany, Scotland, Japan, Canada, and throughout the United States. I had a solo exhibition at the African American Museum in Dallas, TX in 2006. I was among the first artists-in-residence at Elsewhere Residency in Greensboro, NC who reopened Elsewhere Museum after the pandemic. In 2024 and 2025, my public art project entitled Here and Now Mandalas, was awarded multiple grants: the New Hampshire State Council for the Arts’ Community Arts Grant, and grants from the Putnam Foundation, The NH Charitable Foundation, and the Kingsbury Foundation. The project was also featured on NH Chronicle WMUR TV in February 2025. In 2025, my work is being exhibited in Blue: Water as Metaphor, a 2-person exhibition with Sabra Booth at Palmetto Center for the Arts, Northwest Vista College, Alamo Colleges, San Antonio, TX and Tikkun Olam, Healing the World at the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art.
I earned a BFA in Printmaking from the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis, MO and an MFA in Printmaking from the Slade School of Art, University College London, England. While producing art, I have also been engaged in academia. I earned a PhD in Art History from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 2013, and I have published articles in Nka, Journal of Contemporary African Art with Duke University Press and the International Review of African American Art with Hampton University. I have taught art history and printmaking courses as a visiting professor at Swarthmore College, the University of Pennsylvania, Arcadia University, Drexel University, Ursinus College, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and New England College. For 20 years, I worked as a museum educator at many museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum for African Art in NYC, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I served as Senior Education Specialist for the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia.