I create functional art that blurs the boundary between craft and fine arts, nature and artifice. Raised in the Appalachian foothills of Georgia, I spent my childhood on the family farm and in the national forest bordering my backyard, learning textile crafts and drawing and painting techniques from my grandmother. I received a B.A. in cultural anthropology in 2015 from the University of the South, writing an ethnographic thesis on Southern Appalachian textile traditions. I maintained my relationship to the land as an environmental educator and curriculum writer, trail crew worker, and wildland firefighter. In 2021-2022, I lived in Lithuania with my spouse, where I studied weaving on a four-shaft floor loom, traditional flax and nettle fiber processing, and medieval shoemaking.
I am currently an artist-in-residence at the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, where my spouse and I are exhibiting the body of work we have been working on over the duration of the residency, called Law of Salvage.