My driving ambition is to create collaborations through sculpture that builds community.

Design Projects have included

n     Solo Sculpture Exhibit at the Laredo Arts Center, Texas August 2010

n     Inspiration at City Vista Public Art Commission,

    a 25 ft. sculpture in Washington DC to be installed February 2010

n     Signage for businesses: Dandelion Nursery School and Nor Cal Surf Shop

n     Structural metalwork for architectural glass installation and hand railing for

     Modern Tea, a Hayes Valley SF CA restaurant

 n     Fabrication of 50 ft. steel trees and branches  

    to be used in the Portland Forestry Museum

n     Custom steel structure enlarged from clay model for skeleton

    for otter den playground in Oakland Zoo construction

n     Steel and cast aluminum sculptures, custom signage and gallery works (ongoing)

n     Boatbuilding apprentice building Aleutian umiaks (sailboats) and baidarkas (kayaks)

 January 2006 - present        San Francisco State University                     

Currently enrolled in Masters of Industrial Arts graduate degree

Graduated January 2001     Western Washington University                               

B.A., The Social Engagement of Art

n     CNC plasma cutting

n     CAD drafting

n     16 lb. furnace

n     MIG, TIG, Oxy-Acetylene welding, and manual plasma cutting

n     Previsualization skills working between Solid Works and Adobe CS