She teaches various textile processes including Shibori, Katazome, Ikat, and papermaking. She received a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited widely in the United States, Canada, Japan, Ukraine, and Lithuania. In December 2005, she produced an art book as a 10-year retrospective of her ongoing art inquiry “Wish Tying.” In fall 2007 she co-curated a textile exhibition, “Fabric of Identity,” that investigated the representation of identities from a number of different perspectives. In 2011, she collaborated with her colleague Cara Jaye on an extension of the wish project, “Lofty Aspiration,” a large-scale paper sculpture made for the 50th Anniversary of the Viking Union at WWU. In 2017 she curated the exhibition, “Coded Threads: Textiles and Technology” at the Western Gallery WWU.