I grew up in a small Oklahoma town where the public schools offered art, music and science instruction, from the third grade.  I also grew up in a family where my dad fixed things and my mom made all of my clothes.  As a result, I learned skills and was able to apply them to my art endeavors. (In my graduate school class at Mills College, we found this background to be very common among us.)  I studied sociology in college and tried other professions but I kept coming back to art.  I went back to graduate school at Mills College where I earned an MFA in Sculpture.  I have been fortunate to work on projects with architects and landscape architects that offered both creative challenges and opportunities.  Among my Bay Area clients: UC Berkeley, Bank of America, the City of Dublin, CA.  After moving to San Antonio, I continued working in public art, doing projects with the cities of San Antonio and Austin, and with individual clients.  I have been teaching at St. Mary's University for a few years and I continue my personal art practice in my backyard studio.  Most of my pieces are assemblage, mixed media pieces.  I am working now on ceramic pieces or elements, wood constructions or tableaus that involve a combination of mixed media, wood, found objects and ceramic pieces.  I am beginning work on a new body of work, using these materials.  I hope for an opportunity to share them with the public at some point.