I am an artist and educator whose work explores memory, movement, and lived experience as active forces in shaping how we see and understand the world. I work across painting, printmaking, and screen printing, developing images through process—where forms are built, revisited, and reworked over time rather than fixed in a single moment.

I was raised on the South Side of Chicago, with deep familial roots in Mississippi. Those experiences continue to shape how I think about image-making, where memory, environment, and cultural inheritance inform both the content and structure of the work. Figures and forms often exist in compressed or transitional spaces, holding tension rather than resolving it.

In both my studio and teaching practice, I approach art as a method of recognition. I am not interested in illustrating memory, but in working through it—allowing it to surface, shift, and take form. This extends into my role as an educator, where I have taught in community settings, academic institutions, and correctional facilities. Across these spaces, my focus remains the same: creating environments where individuals can begin to see themselves differently, using art as a way to access and understand their own experiences.

A central part of my current work is the development of a visual language rooted in lived experience. Emerging through printmaking and screen printing, forms such as The Shift and The Rising Force begin to take shape—representing adaptation, endurance, and transformation as ongoing conditions rather than fixed ideas. This language is still in development, shaped through continued making, teaching, and reflection.

My practice exists in a continual state of growth and learning. Each body of work builds from what came before, not as repetition, but as return—an ongoing process of refinement, adjustment, and deeper understanding.