I can't draw to save my life. As a lifelong writer, I've always worked in words, not art.

 

But in 2009, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art while on a business trip in NYC (a habit of mine to visit art museums on every business trip). I was mesmerized by the Tiffany mosaic fountain. As a single mom, my life was busy; I tried to sign up for a few mosaic workshops over the next few years, but they would cancel or I'd have a conflict.

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Fast forward to 2022. My mom, a wonderful artist, had passed a few months before. I asked for and received a mosaic starter kit from my boyfriend, and I dove in. Breaking things to create pictures. Making beauty from brokenness. I'm mostly self-taught, but I'm always studying work that I love and attending artist talks or seminars to learn new things.

 

Since then, I've had the honor of participating in exhibitions all around the Metro Detroit area and, this fall, I'll be at ArtPrize, the world's largest art competition, in Grand Rapids. It's all thrilling.

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I love working with glass -- its luminosity and beauty. I love the process of creating. And I'm inspired by beauty and pathos.