Bio
I have always aspired to be an artist. My father was an Industrial Arts teacher and master carpenter who designed and crafted fine wood furniture. Growing up near the nation's capital, I had the privilege to explore the galleries of some of the finest art museums in the world. I immersed myself in all things creative. As a teenager, I discovered photography and worked with award-winning White House Photojournalist, Sharon Farmer and interned with Art curator, Guy McElroy. I studied fine art at Spelman College under the tutelage of reknown African American printmaker, Lev Mills and Africobra co-founder and art historian, Michael Harris. I was destined to create fine art, but I was sidetracked 20 years by a different but art-related career, marriage and family.
I studied fine art, but majored in broadcast journalism in college and spent most of my professional life on the creative side of television production. I am an award-winning writer/producer who has created commercials, public service announcements, documentaries and music programming for local TV and national cable networks. In addition to video proucer, I am also an artist and art educator. I completed my graduate degree in Art Education at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington DC. I studied under painters Natasha Mokina and Tom Xenakis and printmaker, Dennis O'Neal. As an Art Educator, I taught drawing, painting, photography, video and technology on the high school level As an artist, I exhibited my artwork in galleries throughout the mid-atlantic region and was was an artist-in-residence at Montpelier Arts Center. Currently, I work in higher education as a video producer and adjunct faculty member, producing videos and documentaries as well as teaching technology classes and video workshops. But, when I'm not in the TV studio or classroom, you can find me with my digital camera out in the field or with my paint brush in my art studio.
Artist Statement
My fine art is inspired by African American culture and is influenced by social realism, post impressionism and the Harlem Renaissance. I am interested in exploring important societal issues through my fine art, photography and video, with an emphasis on the themes of education, children, women, family, community and African American history. I hope my artwork and my video projects present a positive and insightful perspective on African American life and culture.
Video Projects/Clients
On-Air Marketing & Promotion (WSB-TV, Atlanta, GA, WKYC-TV, Cleveland, OH, WJLA-TV, Washington, DC, WBAL-TV, Baltimore, MD)
On-Air Marketing & Promotion (Black Entertainment Television)
Confronting Colon Cancer (Prince George's County Health Dept.)
Council in Brief (Montgomery County Council)
EnClave Latin Jazz (BETJaz/Smithsonian Institution)
GRAMMY in the Schools (GRAMMY Foundation)
Profiles at Wolf Trap (BET Jazz)
Neediest Kids (WJLA-TV)
Seven on Your Side (WJLA-TV)
Tribute to Debra Lee (WICT - Women in Cable & TV)
Exhibitions
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Washington, DC
Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
Hand Gallery, Richmond, VA
Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington, DC
Publick Playhouse, Bladensburg, MD
Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD
