For over 30 years I have been mostly a photographer, writer, social worker and caretaker. My projects vary from interactive community sculptures to images of Egypt, and collages of mental illness. I try to show beauty in the overlooked and stories in the everyday. In 2024 and 2025, I received two state arts grants to do a project of a lifetime combining my art with my activism. The Street Peace Project includes an exhibition of photographs of street memorials and the Beacon, an interactive sculpture collecting messages of peace from the community. Also, I have created children’s books: Julian’s Dream Friend, The Sheep Cloud, Poochie and the All-Star Dog Show, and Serena the Can-Do Kid. I have received numerous awards for my photography, poetry and other writing. For many years I was managing editor for Green Pages, the newspaper of the Green Party. Also, I have been a freelance journalist and photographer covering issues for local newspapers and wire services. In media, I worked as a video editor, film researcher and handled communications for the regional NAACP. I was director of a non-for- profit organization, organizer for residents in low-income housing and an environmental legal researcher. I worked as a counselor and advocate for refugees, the mentally ill, and the homeless. My work history also includes, secretarial, construction work, cleaning and sheep farming. Most importantly, I care for a lovely family in Troy, New York.

Awards and Achievements

2025

• Lensculture editor’s pick New Visions Photography Awards 2025 Competition Gallery.

• 2nd time Grant recipient of the NYS funded Arts Thrive and Grow from the Arts Center of the Capital Region (ACCR) for the Street Peace Project.

2024

• Grant recipient of the NYS funded Arts Thrive and Grow from (ACCR) for the Street Peace Project

• The Street Peace Project - Exhibitions at The Fish Market Gallery and The Arts Center of the Capital Region. As a part of the project, the Beacon collected more than 1100 messages of peace and                              transformed many people’s perspective. Media coverage included for television: WTEN, WNYT, and WRGB, for Radio: WAMC and WOOC-LP, for Newspaper: The Times Union and The Record.

2023

• Awarded first place for flash fiction “Gamble Mom” from Hudson Valley Writers Guild

2012, 2013, 2018, 2022, 2024

• Photos selected and sold for the juried Fence Show Select of the Arts Center of the Capital Region.

2022  

• Online Group Photography Show - Edward A. Dixon Gallery

2021

• Selected poetry in The Trolley Literary Journal, NYS Writers Institute

• Selected photography in Davis Orton Gallery 7th Annual Group Show by Paula Tognarelli of the Griffin Museum of Photography

2019   

• Poetry award recipient, Hudson Valley Writer’s Guild

2018    

• Photo Exhibition at Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, New York

• Solo Photo Show at Living Outpost Gallery, Manhattan, New York

2016-17

• Award winner with StoriestoArt and chosen as a featured artist. 

• Photography published in the NYU publication Minetta Review.

• Exhibited at the Greg Moon Gallery in Taos, New Mexico.

• Awarded third place for short story “Inviting Mabel to Dinner” by the Hudson Valley Writer's Guild.

1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2003, 2014

• Capital District’s Photo Regional Award Recipient every time submitted. 

2011, 2014, 2015

• Exhibited at the Photography Center of the Capital Region

2005

• Featured Artist for Mohawk-Hudson Artist Regional at the Albany Institute of History and Art

• Featured Artist at the Saratoga County Council for the Arts.

2001

• Fine Art Award by the Saratoga County Council for the Arts 

1997

• Solo exhibition at the Fulton Street Gallery.

Portfolio recommendations:

• Elizabeth Avedon, Julie Grahame, Mary Goodwin and Cay Sophie Rabinowitz.