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 as part of my restorative reentry work at Interaction. The resulting piece, Fractured, Not Broken, will be exhibited at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center from Sept 9 – Nov 1, 2026. It was designed, pieced, and painted by JA, DC, DF, QG, FN, JO and TR, incarcerated participants in a quilting workshop held at Southern State Correctional Facility (SSCF) in Springfield, VT from September 2025 to April 2026.
The Prison Quilt Project’s goal was to provide a space for incarcerated Vermonters to reflect on and share their experience of incarceration, while also tapping into the healing and transformational power of telling their stories through art. As the project developed, it became important to expand the project to include the hands of the community that will welcome these incarcerated individuals home.
Throughout the summer of 2026, the Brattleboro community is invited to contribute stitches to the quilt, turning it into a talking piece for dialogue between community members inside and outside prison walls. For details on where / when to contribute stitches, visit Interaction.
This project is funded by the Vermont Council for the Arts and by UVM’s Justice Research Center.
The Rakusu Flag Project 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.
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