Education
1999 to Present Maine Media Workshops + College, Santa Fe Workshops, Santa Monica
College, Los Angeles Center of Photography
Continuing education workshops with Brenton Hamilton, Andrea Modica, Debbie Fleming Caffery,
Aline Smithson, Steve Moulton, John Sexton.
1982 Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California
Master of Arts in Clinical Art Therapy.
1978 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California
Bachelor of Arts in Art (emphasis in photography).
Teaching
2010 to 2020 Alliance Community Mental Health Agency, Los Angeles, California Designed and facilitated From Latent to Visible: A Photography and Writing Program for Adults Living with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness. Community Engagement
2020 to Present Gateway Neighborhood, Culver City, California Designed and facilitated an ongoing community-based collaborative image and text 2015 to 2020 Various Psychiatric Programs and Residences, Los Angeles, California Designed and facilitated a collaborative image and text portrait project providing Exhibitions 2015 Dualities: 34th Annual Juried Photography Exhibition, Mills Pond House, St. James, New York Jurors: Michelle and Melanie Craven 2014 Visual Mixtape/New Photography, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, California Dreams, Fantasies and Illusions, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont
20th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts Juror: Aline Smithson The Visual Narrative, MPLS Photo Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Juror: Susan Burnstine 2013 Imagined Realities, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, Jurors: Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison Photo L.A., Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica College Invitational Exhibition 2012 Perceptions: New Work from Ten Southern California Photographers, The Julia Dean Center for Photography
Publications 2014 Lenscratch Family Inheritances I: Arising and Family Inheritances II: Parting
portrait project providing
neighborhood residents with opportunities to reflect on and to
speak about
their experiences living in the
challenging period of the global pandemic
and to engage
collaboratively in creating photographic images to
make visible their experience.
adults living with severe and persistent mental illness with opportunities to
reflect on and
to speak about their experiences and to engage collaboratively in
creating photographic images to make visible their experience.
(This project was interrupted by the onset ofthe pandemic but will resume in 2023.)
Jurors: Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick