II’m a social practice artist and arts & health leader with a soft spot for creative troublemaking and a deep belief that the arts can stitch a frayed world back together.

My work lives at the intersection of creativity, community, and wellbeing. As a performer, live composer, visual artist, director, and producer, I design experiences where people create side by side, bridging disciplines, cultures, ages, identities, and lived experiences. I’m especially interested in what happens when art becomes a shared language for connection, reflection, and collective meaning-making.

After years working in New York and Paris, I returned to Oklahoma City and founded SPARK! Creative Lab, a social practice arts organization dedicated to building connection and wellbeing through creative collaboration. Through this work, I partner with Oklahoma Veterans, creating non-clinical, arts-based environments that invite expression, agency, and community care.

My practice is shaped by both collaboration and lived experience, growing up in a home full of creativity and complexity, carrying an ACE score of 10, and learning firsthand how much can be expressed without a single word. These experiences inform my commitment to creating spaces that are grounded, accessible, and human.

Across workshops, performances, and public projects, my work asks what becomes possible when people feel safe enough to be themselves, and when communities are invited not just to witness, but to truly listen.

At the heart of it all is Love. Not the polished kind, but the unruly, grounding, expansive force that brings us back to our humanity and to one another.

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