- Public interactive performance in which a narrow band of red linen “tape” was woven on a portable hand-built loom over the course of 10 hours
- Location: outside the Portland State University Library
2021
- Adaptation of Persephone’s descent into the Underworld, as told through the lore of a former industrial iron forge site
- Performed by dancers, speakers, and live musicians on the beach of a human-made lake
- Made with Valley Traction performance collective
2021
- Part of a workshop: Composition as a Shared Method between Collaborative Art and Agriculture
- Used performance scores as means to explore connections between the two fields
- Made with summer apprentices and student farm workers at the Dickinson College Farm
2021
- Film created with attendees of PSU’s AssemblyTV 2021
- Paired a 25 minute audio recording with zoom-grid video footage from each participant’s space
- Together we imagined sheep
- Collaboration with Danielle Moser
2021
- Interactive sculpture originally created to shelter two rejected lambs, where they were bottle-fed multiple times a day to gain strength.
- Collaboration with Danielle Moser
2021
- In-process project
- Exploring the revival of domestic flax-to-linen production in the United States.
- First portion of project deals with one week of labor performed in Oregon’s Willamette Valley
- Made with Shannon Welsh and Dr. Jennifer Kling
2021-ongoing
- Adaptation of Our Town’s etheral and liminal Act 3.
- Two cuts of a silent film that included the text of the Act played within an installation in the storefront windows of the Carlisle Theater in Carlisle, PA.
- Made with Valley Traction Performance Collective with support from the Carlisle Theater
2020
- Notes left behind while repairing a set of dining room chairs
- Applies a common practice for fine antiques (tracking the history of repairs) to utilitarian furniture
- Made with the Elston family
2020
- Livestreamed variety show inspired by 1980’s telethons
- Made with Valley Traction, The Carlisle Tool Library, and community music submissions
2020
- Digital archive for documentation of work done with borrowed tools
- Materials in the archive are sourced individually and communally, exploring the potential of an egalitarian archival process within a nonprofit community organization
- Made with Tool Library members
2020-ongoing
- Semi-functional series of works created to explore local spring water sources during pandemic shutdown.
- Childlike play during isolation at home with a simple resource (water) and materials that were already present in the house
2020
- An experiment in socially-distant performance, BIOSPHERE 3 took place for two days in Boiling Springs, PA
- A pre-recorded audio walking tour led visitors from a nearby park along a 1/2 mile path to a sprawling backyard, where they were then guided through six sculptural “biomes.”
- Made with Valley Traction
2020
- “Wildlife drawings” and archeaological materials collected over the course of 5 hours and 28 minutes at a concrete construction site
- Materials then became research for group movement re-enactments of workers and machinery
2020
- Public, pay-what-you-can series of sewing workshops in the craft space at the Carlisle Tool Library
- Attendees explored visible repair and various styles of garment fixing, construction, editing, and embellishment.
2018-19
- Co-devised performance inspired by Grant Hart’s musical exploration of the epic poem Paradise Lost in his album The Argument
- Task-based, nearly liturgical sequence that unravelled into an evening gathering
- Collaboration with Kent Barrett
2018
- A series of edits, scars, and embellishments made on family heirlooms—objects of both known and unknown origin
2015-ongoing
- A “document” that holds remnants of many projects, layered into a large, soft book that approximates the size of a set of printed architectural draftings
- Each time the piece is shown, a new layer of current studio debris is added
2018-ongoing
- Series of domestic textiles found at local thrift shops
- The objects were damaged with fire, and then embellished with thread, dirt, paint, and broken glass
- Explores damage and repair as a storytelling devices that can expose ambiguous narratives
- Made at Vermont Studio Center
2016-17
- 3-part series of interactive sculptures on Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River waterfront
- Made from chain-link fencing, scavenged plastic bags, and computer cables
- Large, human-scale vessels were inspired by urban waterfowl who adapt to build nests out of human-made garbage
2016
- Craft-based meditation on women’s physical labor in Harrisburg, PA
- Constructed from donated and scavenged work clothing, wool waste from an inustrial fiber mill, kevlar, and a soiled paint dropcloth
- Made with the help of Lydia, John, and Christin at Gurdy Run Woolen Mill in Halifax, PA
2016
Information Fibers
- Computer cables as a textural experiment in woven objects
- Wall hangings and vessels, made of deconstructed digital refuse
- Physical explorations of structure, weight, color, and textile drape
2016
- Installation and collection of sculptures that explored basket weaving techniques, waste, and the process of decay in the high desert of southern California
- Made with support from The Mojave Preserve National Park Artist Residency, The Chemehuevi Reservation, the Colorado River Indian Tribes Museum, Leroy Fisher, Sugie Fisher, Abby Eddy, and Weeji Claw
2016-17