Since the 1990s, I have been a photographic installation artist, curator, teacher, book editor, and gallery director. Culminating this experience, I am currently making my first feature documentary film, Girl Island: The Sandy Stone Story. For the film, I was a Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, participated in Hot Docs Deal Maker and Gotham Project Market, and was awarded grants by Mellon Foundation, Saul Zaentz Foundation, and Mount Holyoke College Alum Association.

As an artist, I exhibited internationally and taught photography, art, and theory for many years. As President of Artemisia Gallery in Chicago and Director of Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, I curated 260 artists in over 40 exhibitions and catalogs, organized artist and filmmaker residencies, and commissioned professional and emerging writers and graphic designers. Artists include Firelei Baez, Ann Hamilton, Arturo Herrera, Chakaia Booker, Polly Apfelbaum, Sonya Clark, Grace Weir, Losang Samten, Sandy Stone, Allora & Calzadilla, Walker & Walker, and Barbara DeGenevieve, along with authors Ann Lauterbach, Tim Griffin, Wolfgang Schirmacher, Namita Gupta Wiggers, William L. Fox, Thomas Zummer, and Mira Schor.

My book The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border (International Library of the Moving Image, I.B. Tauris, 2014) was short-listed for the International Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, sold out, and was reprinted by its new publisher, Bloomsbury, London. It includes a foreword by filmmaker Wim Wenders, five interviews, and fifteen contributors, including Claire Denis, filmmaker Kirsten ‘KJ’ Johnson, actor Alec Descas, musicians The Tindersticks, and philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, whose chapter was translated from French by Anna Moschovakis, an International Booker Prize co-winner.

I was the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at Columbus State University, Georgia, and had artist residencies at Caldera in Oregon and Signal Fire, Utah. I served as an award nominator for art foundations and organizations, including the Joan Mitchell Foundation. My work has received over 90 pieces of publicity in newspapers, magazines, journals, radio, and television, and has been awarded over fifty awards and grants. I have a BA from Mount Holyoke College, BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA from Bard College, and a PhD from European Graduate School, Switzerland. 

Before menopause and moving to Baltimore, I climbed a lot of rock cliffs on two continents and cross-country skied like there was no tomorrow.