/ About Me
I’ve spent my life pursuing the arts: first as an art student, next as a graphic designer, then as a professional working artist. Art was always the constant; the one thing I knew I couldn’t live without. Teaching is where I’ve found my home: where I feel all my talents converge. I’ve been able to combine my love for all art mediums, my knack for creating visual communications, and the sheer joy I find in introducing art to my students into one ideal job: art educator.
After receiving my BFA in Communication Design from Kutztown University in 2007, I worked as a graphic designer and art director for companies such as HGTV and Zippo, Inc., and most recently as the Senior Designer at Franklin & Marshall College. I eventually transitioned from graphic design to my metalsmithing business, which began as a hobby born out of a desire to use my hands after sitting in front of a computer all day. After ten years of traveling the fine craft fair circuit and exhibiting my work in shows such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show, I decided enter graduate school at Millersville University to pursue a spark that had been growing inside of me for some time: art education. My diverse experience with all facets of the arts has allowed me to give my students a unique perspective, one I would not be able to give them had my career within the arts begun otherwise.
I currently teach art at Penn Manor High School in Millersville, PA. When I’m not teaching or creating art, I enjoy spending time with my five-year old daughter, going on hikes, practicing yoga, and reading.