Curriculum Vitae

My internationally exhibited creative practice confronts critical humanitarian and environmental dilemmas, from destructive barriers between the self and others, to widespread attacks on science and knowledge, to our accelerating anthropogenic ecological crises. My multi-media practice includes paintings, photographs, books, and installations and I am widely noted for creating the last series of large-scale installations on the Berlin Wall six months before it fell. This work has been featured in American and German newspapers and books on Berlin Wall art, including Verboten: Berliner Mauerkunst.

Nature Speaks: Art and Poetry for the Earth (White Cloud Press), my richly illustrated book, is a recipient of the Silver Nautilus Poetry Book Award and the Eric Hoffer Poetry Book Award. An independent reviewer described Nature Speaks as “fascinating, thought-provoking, and soul-stirring.” My work has been widely reviewed and recognized with numerous grants, awards, and fellowships. I live in California, where I create my work, exhibit widely, teach Zoom art and poetry workshops, and perform multi-media art and literary readings for poetry, art, and ecology groups. Even today, I believe in the possibility of hope, although I often envision my work as "using butterfly wings to beat down mountains."