about

I am a maker of slow, hand-stitched quilts, pieced from worn cloth. My work is rooted in contemplative practice and in community.

I am currently working on two community quilt projects:

The Prison Quilt Project at Vermont’s Southern State Correctional Facility is a project I am facilitating with the support of BMAC volunteers as part of my restorative reentry work at Interaction. Incarcerated men are learning to quilt and designing their own quilt on the theme of their experience of incarceration. The quilt will be exhibited in our Brattleboro community and hopefully beyond. This project is funded by the Vermont Council for the Arts and by UVM’s Justice Research Center.

The Great Flag of Liberation is a meditation on the meaning of citizenship. The flag will be composed of 195 individual rakusu faces stitched from jeans worn by community members & neighbors. Learn more about the project here.