Biography
Photography was the starting point, and expanded in the mid-1980's to include movement and sound: video, film, and computer coding. Since 1995 I have taught studio and lecture courses in new media, photography, and animation in the Department of Kinetic Imaging in Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts.
Experience of natural forms and spaces inspire her work, which has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at galleries and film festivals, including the Ajijic Festival Internacional de Cine 2000, Ajijic, Mexico; Nashville Independent Film Festival; Worldfest Houston; and the Mill Valley Film Festival. Her animation "Falling Back to Earth: Tomatillo" (2000) won a Director's Citation at the 21st Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival, a Gold Award in Experimental Video and Film Animation at Worldfest Houston, Best Animated Narrative Award at the Brooklyn Film Festival, and the CiNY (Cinewomen New York) Award for Outstanding Filmmaking in Animation. Her latest work, "Between Frames", won an award for Experimental Short and Best Editing and has screened at the BAC 39th International Film and Video Festival, in Brooklyn, NY, and Madcat Women's International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA.
She has presented papers at the Society for Animation Studies annual conferences, and Siggraph. She is the founding faculty sponsor for the Student Siggraph Chapter at VCU.