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Even though I’m a pretty introverted person, I love making meaningful creations with other people. Making and sharing art helps me to grow and connect with others.

I would tell any other artist to stay persistent and continue to bring your ideas to life. People love seeing things that are unique and different so any chance you have to create and bring your mind to life do it because you never know whose watching.

I have been an artist to some degree all my life: drawing the sights around me as a child, exploring different mediums through art classes, sketching desert scenes during my military deployments, and presently making visual art inspired by the onset of a rare disorder affecting my vision.

I am a credentialed art therapist and artist. My love of art is what led me to a career in art therapy. I find it important that as an art therapist, I continue to explore and express myself artistically. I am inspired by nature, currently birds.

That voice in your head that questions ‘what makes you think you can do this, there are so many talented artists in the world?’ Every artist has that. Make art anyway. It’s the only way to quiet it.

Be honest. Always put what you love in what you create. Especially when people tell you that you can’t or shouldn’t!

YAY!! ART PROJECT!  This official “Burning Man” hat (from 2013 & 14) will soon evolve into a convertible hat to help with HEAT VENTILATION …for

I would say to keep working, no matter what, just keep working you improve everyday, you learn with every new piece, and you’re never going to stop growing. It doesn’t seem like it in the scope of it but when you look back you’ll see the difference.