I began as a creator at about & years of age, learning how to hand sew Barbie doll clothes with my mother and make Barbie's furniture with my father. These two skills seem to have influenced my path through life ever since.

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I started college in Fine Arts/Textile Design at the University of Wisconsin in 1969. Somewhat of a flower child, my parents weren't happy with my choices at that time, and they advised me that I better find a career that would pay the rent! A struggling atist was not what they had in mind. I remembered dad's early instruction in making Barbie furniture, and his career as a carpenter. With that as a foundation, I transferred into Architecture and the rest is history....35 years later, I retired from the profession.

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Art has always been an important part of my life. I have sewn, quilted, woven, knitted, collaged, turned wood, made furniture, remodeled houses and lived surrounded by art.

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I discovered fused glass in 2015 kind of on a whim while wintering in Coachella Valley. A friend asked me to take a glass jewelry class with her and I thought"Why Not." I had been working in textile art an quilting for over 20 years and I needed to try something new. Little did I know I would become addicted to glass!

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Glass is magic...it surpises me every time I try something new. I can t wait to see what comes of out the kiln the day after a firing. Working in glass is a culmination of art, science, and engineering and this fits perfectly with my training as an architect.

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I have broadened my techniques to include pulling vitrigraph cane to use as accessory glass in many pieces and I have been working with a glass blower to create "roll-ups", the blending of fused glass and glass blowing to create a finished vessel.