Some highlights from my time as an artist:

Attending the Rhode Island School of Design & the New York Academy of Art to earn a BFA and MFA.

Getting a job painting murals for a company that did work for retailers, hotels, restaurants and other venues in NYC. It felt like a dream job to show up and find a massive work space filled with artists, art supplies, and of course scaffolding.

Being part of a group art pop up at The Kitchen in NYC.

Opening a gallery/shop in St. John USVI with another artist. Also while there created art, murals, and t-shirt designs for local restaurants and merchants.

Opening a cooperative gallery in the basement of a Ukranian Church on the lower east side with my NYAA classmates.

Having a solo show in a Bridgehampton gallery.

Joining then becoming president of the Loft Artists Association for a year.

Mentoring young artists.

Painting traffic signal boxes and murals around my city.

Living alone (after dark & until dawn) on Weir Farm National Historical Park as artist in residence, and painting a different place on the farm each day for two weeks.

Being asked to paint a mural to lighten & brighten the walkway to the Bennet Cancer Center, painting the mural and talking with so many different people while painting.

Joining with RiseUp for Arts to form Stamford Murals, a public art & youth mentoring non-profit. We fund raised together and with leftover paint from the hospital mural, two students and I painted a mural we designed on East Main Street in our city. We went on to paint more murals together and put on a block party and two live painting mural festivals with free entry and local artists, vendors, food trucks, and non profits.

Having my painting chosen to represent (along with others from across the country) the Park’s Department Artists in Residence Program.

Each time a painting of mine has been sold and then hung in a hospital or medical office. I love when my art goes to people’s homes of course, but I especially love for my work to be seen in a more public way and especially where it can provide distraction or even uplift.