I am a volunteer with Moms Demand Action forGun Sense in America. I am with Juanita, a Springfield Massachusetts survivor of gun violence.
I am a printmaker making monotypes and monoprints.
Monotypes are one-of-a-kind prints made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface and transferring to paper with a press or by hand. Monoprints have a permanent matrix, either relief or drypoint. I create variable editions, work sharing a common object or theme.
I live in Western Massachusetts and am an artist member of Zea Mays Printmaking. I retired from being a librarian in the Springfield City Library. I have exhibited locally, regionally, and out of the Pioneer Valley in group shows with Zea Mays Printmaking. Previously I volunteered with Easthampton City Arts and Easthampton Cultural Council.
I began the pieces in the 1620 portfolio in 2020, 400 years from when the English settled in the land of the Wampanoags. The work was derived from a large embroidery of the Mayflower which my mother had created in the 1940s. As the months passed, the pandemic, the summer of unrest in the streets and political verbiage all came to a head and my work began to examine white supremacy and systemic racism, far from what my mother envisioned.