When I was quite young, my grandmother taught me how to embroider. My mother taught me to knit, and I learned to crochet with my friends in grade school. By ninth grade I had a small Singer sewing machine and took sewing in high school. Thus began my love of fiber!

My sewing machine came in handy as an undergraduate and later graduate student in theater. Along with acting and directing I kept busy with props and making costumes. I was lucky enough to get to construct costumes for Bartholmew Fair, directed and designed by Tony Kushner at Columbia Players.

I was fortunate to have Julie Feifan Balzer as my teacher in mixed media at the City Quilter, where I developed various techniques to create art quilts and other fiber projects. At that time I also was able to participate in group shows at the Upper East Side location of Carter Burden Center for the Aging. Later I also showed my art quilts in a group show for the Hells Kitchen community.

In 2018, I enrolled at The Art Students League studying both watercolor and acrylic media, for portraits and landscapes. I also took drawing, alcohol inks, and encaustic wax, winding up returning to fiber art and mixed media under Deborah Winiarski.