I graduated from Herron School of Art and Design in 2006 with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts majoring in Furniture Design and a second Bachelor’s degree in Art Education. I taught elementary art in the public schools of Indianapolis full-time from 2006-2013. My experience as a juror for a murder trial in 2008 was life changing for me. As a result of this event, I chose painting as my medium. My symbolic realistic paintings remind us that we are related to everything in our world.

I have been showing my work in galleries and museums in the Midwest since 2000. I travelled to China in 2004 on a Reverend Frazier Scholarship to study the country’s art, history and culture. I was commissioned in 2005 to design a bench for permanent display at Herron School of Art and Design where it remains in the Dean’s Conference Room. During my seven years teaching, I created six permanent murals and mosaics on display in Indianapolis Public Schools. In 2017, I was awarded by an academic top thirty graduating senior from Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, Indiana as being his most influential elementary teacher. This was one of the highest honors of my life.