My studio is located in the Marshall building at 207 E. Buffalo Street in the heart of Milwaukee's vibrant Historic Third Ward.

The Marshall Building has easy access to bus stops, ample street and structure parking, and an effortless proximity to cafes, restaurants, and retail shopping. It is just one block from the Public Market and Milwaukee's three-mile riverwalk.

Today the Marshall Building is home to many galleries, boutiques, corporate offices, and artist studios like the one I share with my friend and fellow artist, Sally Duback.

I am intrigued by the rhythms of endless growth, bloom, death, and renewal that I observe in nature. I create monotypes on a big etching press using natural materials such as leaves, reeds, and grasses to make marks that intertwine, twist, and layer to reflect nature’s pulse and energy. By loosely arranging armfuls and strands I engage line as metaphor, lines that repeat and weave themselves together like tangles on a forest floor, or movements of a dance.

My longtime involvement with art making has been gratifying as has been teaching drawing and printmaking in area colleges and in North Carolina. Equally gratifying was founding, with Sally Dubak, Artists Working in Education (AWE) in 1999. Since then, AWE has continued to provide free art experiences for thousands of children in schools and parks in Milwaukee.