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During the sixties, I tie-dyed my curtains. In the seventies I taught tie-dye and batik at the Danish evening school and in my garage when we lived in San Diego. I continued to dye fabric and take art classes in the midst of a library career and raising a family. After workshops with Nancy Crow in 1995 and Joy Boutrop in 1997, I started making quilts and dyeing cloth using increasingly complex surface design techniques.

In 1999 I was juried into the Southern Highlands Craft Guild and the following year into the Piedmont Craftsmen, Inc. Since 2005 I have been pursuing a graduate degree in fiber art at ETSU. In my studies I am focusing on different surface design techniques while attempting to introduce conceptual elements into my work. These have included formal elements - layering, gesture, the animation of space - and psychological or affective states combined with personal history.