Geographical displacement sums up much of my life, most recently with a cross-country move to return to the San Francisco Bay Area after spending four years in Boston to attend grad school. I was born on Guam in 1977 and raised in California, Iowa, Nevada, Virginia, Germany, and England. After a year in central Oregon, I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend U.C. Berkeley. Before moving to Boston I worked as a non-profit arts administrator. During my three years as a MFA candidate, I stopped painting, started screenprinting, and became increasingly interested in creating occasionally interactive multi-media installations that include both hand-made elements and digital media. I have an insatiable sweet tooth, can wiggle my ears, and watch too much television. I live in Oakland, California, with my husband, son, and two cats.

EDUCATION
M.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA / Tufts University, Medford, MA (2008)
B.A. (Art Practice & French), University of California at Berkeley (2002)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Post-Graduate/Graduate Teaching Fellow (Art from Ephemera: Mail Art and the Internet), SMFA, Boston, MA (07-09)
Graduate Teaching Assistant (Print & Paper, Painting, and Text & Image Arts Areas), SMFA, Boston, MA (2006-08)
Research/Teaching Assistant, Art Practice Department, University of California at Berkeley (2001-02)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Everything Round Invites a Caress, Willow Community Gallery, LynnArts, Lynn, MA (2010)
Rerun: The Relation Between a Symbol and a Symptom, Harold Arts at Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition (what lies between here and there), Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA

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