May 25, 2022, 5 pm Pacific Time
Long Now Member Ignite Talks
Live Streamed - click here for more info
I'm giving a 5-minute Ignite talk (20 slides, 15 seconds each) about The Living Shoreline Project as part of the Long Now Member Ignite Talks. Long Now members are a fascinating bunch so these talks promise to be really interesting.
June 4, 2022, 10 am Pacific Time
Textile Arts Council Sinton Lecture - click here for more info
In person: Koret Auditorium, deYoung Museum, San Francisco
And Virtually on Zoom (pre-registraton info here)
$5 admission; free for TAC members
I'll be giving a hybrid in-person and Zoom talk about my artwork addressing climate change, water and land use issues. I will take you on a photographic journey to the places that inspire my artwork and behind-the-scenes to see how my artwork is made.
September 24 – December 10, 2022
Langson Institute and Museum of California Art
UC Irvine, Irvine, CA.
I'll be showing a commissioned installation artwork about the Santa Ana River Watershed. See museum website for more information.
May 13-15 2022
2022 Bioneers Conference, A Window Through
San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA.
I'll be showing this print of The Living Shoreline Project as part of this Women Eco Artist Dialog group exhibition at the Bioneers Conference. The exhibit theme is the restoration of environmental or social ecosystems. Artworks featured propose actio- oriented solutions that address the question "How do we re-generate the world we would like to live in, a world that works for all other beings as well?"
Saturday April 30, 2022, 1:30 pm
Midpen 50th Anniversary Bayside Family Festival
Amphitheater at Cooley Landing Park, East Palo Alto
Join me at this fun free event where I'm giving a short presentation & walk through of the Living Shoreline Project at Cooley Landing Park in East Palo. From 2017–2022, community members helped me plant and maintain native Juncus marking the former shoreline of San Francisco Bay on the landfill of Cooley Landing. Click here to learn more about the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District’s 50th Anniversary Bayside Family Festival, featuring discovery walks, a Folklorico dance performance, wildlife demonstrations, West African drummers food trucks, exhibitor booths & more.
Thursday April 21, 2022, 11:00 am - 12:20 pm
West Valley Earth Day Symposium
Cilker Hall, West Valley College, Saratoga, CA
I'm giving a presentation "Can Art Inspire Climate Action?" as part of the Earth Day Symposium at West Valley College. Immediately following my talk there is a Repair Cafe Open House with a focus on sustainable fashion and a Make Your Own Compost Table. The public is welcome and this is a free event. Click here for more info and a free parking permit.
Online Exhibition February 12 - May 7, 2022 click here
bG Gallery
Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave, Space A2
Santa Monica, CA 90404
My work is part of this group fiber exhibition curated by Kate Stern. The gallery exhibition took place February 12 - March 14, 2022. Visit gallery website for more information.
February 20, 2022
bG Gallery
Bergamot Station
Santa Monica, CA
Zoom reception with the artists for Fabulous Fiber moderated by curator Kate Stern. Click here to view the recording.
October 2, 2021 - January 9, 2022, hours by appointment
Peninsula Museum of Art
Tanforan Art Hub, Space 204, 1150 El Camino Real
San Bruno, CA 94066
Seven of my artworks were in this physical exhibition featuring mixed media works focused on the overuse of Earth's resources and efforts to restore or change, as expressed through the vision of a variety of artists. See museum website for more information.
November 15, 2021 5-6 pm on Zoom
Click here to view video recording of the talks.
11 artists (including me) talk about their artworks in the Art on the Edge exhibition and how the works relate to the theme of extraction and restoration. Artists who spoke about their work are (in order of sppearance): Eliza Evans, Linda Gass, Tanja Geis, Betsy Jaeger, Margaret LeJeune, Toni Littlejohn, Bonnie Peterson, Pallavi Sharma, Sharon Siskin, Lorna Stevens, and Mary White.