She then attended the University of North Texas, Denton, TX and received her B.F.A in Jazz Guitar Performance in 1999. Much of her early professional career was centered in television in roles as editor, director and graphics designer.
As an interdisciplinary artist she utilizes her years of professional career in television and film and her work as a musician to create her new media works. In her works she is especially interested in creating a visual and musical dialogue to encourage artistic collaboration between herself and the community.
Her light based work is part of the international art collection at UTSW, Clements University Hospital, Dallas, TX and the McKinney Avenue Contemporary Museum in Dallas, TX. Her films have screened at the Dallas International Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, Austin Film Festival, Albuquerque Film Festival and KERA Public television-Frame of Mind. She has exhibited with the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, TX, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Soluna Festival, Dallas Aurora Light & Sound Biennial and Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX. She is a TACA 2019 New Works Fund Grant recipient, a Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Arts Activate Grant 2019 recipient, a former Cedars Union Artist Residency recipient and a Virginia Commission for the Arts, Project Grant New Works recipient. She is a founding member of Texas Vignette, a non-profit organization that promotes the arts by providing support, education and connection to women and women identifying artists in Texas. She received her BFA in jazz guitar performance from the University of North Texas.
