Welcome
I am an artist, designer, and educator focused on alternative sustainable materials and the complex relationships we have with the products and objects in our environment.
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Rubber Still Life
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Comfortably Guarded
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Domestic Tableau
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Center for Maine Contemporary Art 2023 Biennial
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Sensual Structure
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Waste to Wonder exhibition 2024
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Protection and Ceremony
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Ready and Aware
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Dark Garden 2
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Invasives
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One of the Used Rubber USA retail stores
Recent Art & Design Projects
Meetinghouse Arts Gallery 2025
Tremaine Art Gallery, The Hotchkiss School 2024
Take a Look
This website includes examples of my creative work along with other information and images related to my varied experiences with art, design, and sustainability. Explore the menu at the top of this page to navigate to other pages to learn more.
Information from my CV is integrated and contextualized in the connected topics throughout this website.Full CV
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Found and repurposed materials and objects often initiate the tactile process, suggesting interests and ideas.
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Creating products and environments.
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Been on the faculty at Stanford University, California College of the Arts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Academy of Art University.
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Advising, advocacy, business, education, and activism
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Bags and wallets from reclaimed inner tube rubber. Established in 1984. Groundbreaking, award winning, timeless products.
Designer/Founder
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A wide variety of things over the years, but currently taking the form of a Producer for a PBS film series along with local art and sustainability projects.
USED RUBBER USA Products
Photo of my Used Rubber USA reclaimed inner tube bags included in Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington DC Earthsense exhibition 1991-1994
Other Recent Art & Design Projects
Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) 2023 Biennial
Vestment: Woven from reclaimed bicycle inner tube with brass rivets.
Inner Tube Sampling: Reclaimed bicycle inner tube from CMCA Biennial.
Installation set up.
Virtual Tour of full museum exhibition here.
Shutter Bar: Concept and design of folding shutter bar system on casters. Combined solutions to two distinct needs for this gallery/bar space: blocking exterior light from interior gallery and the requirement of extra shelf space with the ability to highlight the display of various alcohol bottles.
Wrap Around Glass Case: Concept and design of L shaped glass display case. Combined solutions for the need of a safety railing for stairway to the second floor gallery/bar space and the need for additional display space for 3-d items in the collection.
Photography: Unfiltered
Collaborative Projects
Word Salads: Interactive art piece, poem generator, creative thinking device, and tool for self reflection.
The Rubber Impact Project
This collaborative research and communication project utilizes art and design activism to draw attention to transportation rubber issues, including environmental impacts, material responsibility, reuse opportunities, and dichotomies in the allure and danger of materials.
visit www.rubberimpact.org for more information
