“Each one of us is responsible for the whole of humankind. We need to think of each other really as brothers and sisters and to be concerned with each other’s welfare...., we need to do something meaningful, something directed seriously, towards the welfare of humanity as a whole.”    – Dalai Lama

I am interested in the continuing theme of mothers and children, women and girls. Early in the 1980s I painted dark images of domestic life. In the 90’s-2003 color and the desire to hone craft became more important, leading from painting large scale mothers and children to portraits of baseball gloves. Then, I fell in love with clay.  Ceramics became a focus for the next 20 years culminating in The Chibok Project: 276 small ceramic figures representing the stolen schoolgirls from Chibok Nigeria. Since 2023 I have been painting and working in clay simultaneously, focusing on Mother/Child relationships.

My life as an arts educator and activist are intimately tied to being an artist. These are the three aspects of my creative life.