Address:  162 School House Road, Littlestown, PA 17340

Telephone: (717)- 359-7724

Media(s): Thread, wire, beads, fabric

Background:- Training: B.S. Muhlenberg Collage, 1968; MS, University of Pittsburgh, 1972, BSRN, York College of Pennsylvania, 1981: Assorted art classes at Community college of Allegheny County and York College of Pennsylvania, 1972-1979. Numerous studies through Council of American Embroiderers, The Washington Bead Society, the Polymer clay Guild, the Smithsonian Institution, Cole Lease (Paris), Arrowmont school of Crafts, Embroiderers Guilds of America, Canada, and Great Britain.

Other Exhibit Areas:  Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA, Contemporary Artifacts Gallery, Borea, Ky., Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, Delaplaine Visual Arts Center, Frederick, MD, Gallery 30, Gettysburg, PA, The Second Gallery, Frederick, MD,Yorketowne Pa. Guild of Craftsmen Gallery, York, PA.

Artist’s Comments: I have worked in many related media involving fabric, thread, wire and beads. Most of my work has a stitched construction, either worked into a fabric backing or as a construction technique of its own. Some examples  of the latter include needle lace and needle weaving, as well as peyote, Comanche and loomed bead weaving. Color is a consistent focus of my work, particularly the graduation of shading one color into another. Color transitions are employed both for pure visual pleasure and for the expression of larger themes.
I began with framed embroideries and wall hangings and progressed into a “stitches in air” period of thread constructed objects and jewelry. The fiber jewelry necessitated the addition of beads, both purchased and polymer. The proportion of beadwork to threads increased, eventually progressing to entirely beaded jewelry. The latest shift is toward more seed bead work, moving back into structural non-wearable objects and wall hung pieces.