My big update is:  I’m now employed full-time at one of Virginia’s top workplaces, The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News.  In January I accepted the position of “Custom Production Technician” (exhibit designer, crafter, and installer) the position allows me to fully utilize all of my skills, talents, and creativity, and fine art education while serving a purpose bigger than myself. 

This was just the project I needed to break me out of my post-graduation funk- It had been months since I created anything much more than an imprint on the couch cushions…

So much has happened since last year, and I’m very proud of how far I’ve come. One of the pieces pictured in last year’s interview won “Best in Show” at the ODU 2022 Student Juried Exhibition; the award granted me a solo show at the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio in Norfolk, VA. I was also awarded a Windgate University Fellowship at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN. The Fellowship provided room, board, and tuition for a summer workshop. I chose to take a mechanical sculpture class. It seems the more technology advances, the more magical simple machines become.