​The desire to create is in my blood.  Whether with textiles, ceramics, music, drawing, painting, photography or filmmaking, I have always invested my energies in and expressed myself through the creation of art and craft.  Art and the creative process have been a part of my family history since the early 18th century, when my ancestors designed and created jewelry.  When I was very young, I began to work with textiles during family trips, when my cousins and aunts taught me to knit and crochet. In elementary school, family members and schoolteachers taught me to draw and paint.  I asked for piano lessons when I was four, I took up the guitar when I was nine, and I began producing music from my home studio when I was fourteen.  In the second grade, I was introduced to clay.  I was immediately hooked and within several months I started weekly ceramics classes.  Ten years later, I now teach at the studio where I first learned to shape and throw clay, working with kids the same age I was when I started my journey.  When I was nine, photography entered my life during a summer course at UC Berkeley, and several summers later during a class at the California College of the Arts, photography became the focus of my creative expression.  My love for photography led me into the world of film, and storytelling through the use of light and sound has become my current passion.

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