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Artist. Magic Maker.

Craftivist.

As a young girl I was endlessly creative but at some point I got the message that making art was not a viable career for a girl, and I veered off in other directions. I pursued a degree in politics and women’s studies at college, which maybe, not-so-ironically, is the basis for much of my artwork today.

In 2010, I realized I wanted to make creative expression more accessible to young girls. I didn’t want them to be plagued by the same doubts about creativity that I had been. Instead I wanted to encourage them to put art making front and center in their own lives. I founded BraveGirlsArt, (a series of workshops and summer camps for kids and adult women) a venture that was eventually folded into The Creativity Caravan.

My personal artwork has always been biographical, and in recent years it has taken a hard left turn toward the political. I try to use my one small voice to speak my mind about the injustices in the world and to initiate social change, even if only in my immediate community. I don’t shy away from the hard bits.

In the end, I’m just a human being who wants to be seen and heard and loved, like everyone else on the planet. 


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I recognize …

that our house and small businesses are currently located on the unceded homeland of Wabanaki people in a state (Maine) where issues of water and territorial rights and encroachment upon sacred sites are ongoing. I recognize that Wabanaki (Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot) Tribal Nations are distinct, sovereign, legal, and political entities with their own powers of self–governance and self–determination. I acknowledge the long-held trauma of physical and cultural genocide. I respect the Wabanaki People as the original stewards of this land and I admit that we have a responsibility to research, listen, learn, and build relationships while serving as the current stewards of this land. There is still so much work to be done. 

For more information about the Indigenous People’s original place names for Waldo County:

https://penobscotbay.blogspot.com/2014/12/indian-place-names-of-waldo-knox.html

For an archive of critical conversations surrounding truth, healing and change in the Dawnland:

https://www.mainewabanakireach.org/dawnland_signals

For more information on work being done to improve the social and economic conditions of the Native American tribes in Maine:

https://fourdirectionsmaine.org/

https://www.mainewabanakireach.org/

https://www.racialequityandjustice.org/

Plan a visit when you’re in Maine:

https://www.abbemuseum.org/about-the-wabanaki-nations

The Hudson Museum, www.umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum

The Maine State Museum, www.mainestatemuseum.org