About

I was speaking with a good friend the other day saying that I am almost finished renovating the property I have now lived on for over a year and they asked, “So, where are you going next?”

That question made me stop and think about “LIFE”…my life, my jobs and all the homes, studios and gardens I’ve lived in, designed, built, or renovated; all the art I have created in those spaces, and all the friends who have gathered in them for life events.

I’d like to share some small peeks at 6 of the places including Comptche, CA, Manchester, CA, Tampa, FL, Manchester, VT, Mendocino, CA, Land O Lakes, FL

My Comings and goings in a nutshell:

After finishing my BFA at Alfred University and MFA at Syracuse University my career as an arts administrator led me to Greenwich House Pottery in New York City, as only the third Director in it’s 80 year history which subsequently led to a position at The American Craft Museum, also in New York City, setting up a Department of Education.

A short time after moving from New York to Mendocino, California to be the Director of the Mendocino Art Center I took an opportunity to change my focus from administrator to full time studio artist which I have happily been for the past 30 years. During those years I opened “SBW fine textiles” with two nationally marketed lines of hand dyed women’s silk velvet clothing and a limited edition of hand screened silk bedding. I also received a research grant from Syracuse University to study the pre-Columbian pottery on several of the Grenadine Islands.

In the years that followed I traveled with my sister to China in addition to experiencing an amazing time in Mongolia where the temperature was 40 below zero and we lived in a yurt as guests of a nomad family. The award of an International Artist opportunity took me to Indonesia where I lived and worked in the artist’s compound on the Island of Java with side trips to Bali and Borobudur.

My work has been shown and sold through venues across this country including opportunities to work with founder of Pacific Textile Arts, Lolli Jacobsen and expanding my visions with installations in the wonderful space formerly known as Odd Fellows in Mendocino. At present I am putting the finishing touches on my latest project… restoring a home, landscape and studio in Florida where I can continue
“making art”.

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