Artist’s Statement

I believe artists have a gift and responsibility to nurture our capacity for wellbeing.

About

I am an artist, teacher, licensed massage therapist (LMT), and ICF certified trauma-informed somatic coach for the female nervous system. My education, personal practices, and work are informed by creativity, healing, and psychospiritual connection to goddesses.

I was born and raised in New Mexico where nature and story were formative influences. I attended the University of Redlands (CA) where I studied world religions and mythology, meditation, fine and performing arts, psychology, and literature. I graduated with honors from the University of Redlands’ Johnston Program in 2015. While in school, I co-taught a course on Jungian fairy tale interpretation with Dr. Fran Grace and completed a thesis exploring Greek Goddess archetypes in personal psychology. Outside of the classroom, I attended and volunteered for the Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center and participated in The School of Lost Borders’ New Mexico Women’s Fast (later training in that organization’s month-long wilderness retreat facilitation program in 2018). During college, I traveled to Ireland and the UK to study theater and early Christian sites. After college, I studied at the Santa Fe School of Massage, earned my license, and practiced massage therapy.

I continued my education in the fields of Intuitive Presence energy work (Cathy Black, M.A.) and wholistic spiritual disciplines (Sandra Ingerman and Fredy Puma Quispe Singona, 2017-2022). My personal research into mythology, depth psychology, and social systems is informed by the work of Dr. Crasrissa Pinkola Estés, Dr. Maria Gimbutas, Joseph Campbell, Robert Johnson, Raine Eisler, Douglas P. Fry, Max Dashu, and others. As part of my healing process after a series of surgeries for endometriosis, I became an ICF certified trauma-informed somatic coach for the female nervous system through Veronica Rottman (2026).

My artistic endeavors include performing as lead singer for the band Jasper & Grace, studying with artist Julie Claire, and attended the Aegean Center for Fine Arts’ Italy/Greece semester and artist’s residency program (2019, 2020). In addition to private commissions, I have sold my work in studio tours and festivals in New Mexico. I have been a featured artist in the Fuller Lodge Arts Center Gallery in Los Alamos and Art Mozaik Fine Art Gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe. In Greece, I showed with Venetian and Greek artists in “The Sea That Unites” exhibition in Naousa, Paros.

Since 2017, I have designed and lead international workshops focusing on creative participation in goddess mythology, honoring the Feminine in body and psyche, and reciprocal wellbeing of self and Earth. I am most fulfilled by creating spaces that facilitate open heartedness, imagination, creativity, respect, depth, and play.