Writer, artist, and heritage communications professional. Bringing stories to life and life to stories in person, on the page, and on canvas.
My writing and photographs have been published by Fodor's travel guides, the Food Network, Eater.com, Santa Fe Reporter, Seattle Weekly, Seattle Magazine, Matador Network, Rover.com and more. My book, An Odd Piece: The Life of Maria Chabot and her Unlikely Friendship with Georgia O'Keeffe, will be published in 2027. Please sign up for my blog and I'll share updates as the publishing process progresses!
The years I have spent researching and working in archives showed me what treasures they can be. This, in addition to my gradate work in cultural heritage management at Johns Hopkins University and professional experience with the University of South Florida Libraries, inspired me to create Your Life's Archive, a self-paced online course giving people tools to easily create and maintain their own personal archives. Everyone has a story and it's important–essential–to preserve them!
My artwork has been shown across the country, most recently at Forever Florida, the Morean Center for the Arts, and regularly in studio at Artmosphere; all in the mural city of St. Petersburg, FL. Most of my work is figurative, inspired by the incredible talent and vision of my mom, artist Helene Wilder. Sometimes it delves into the abstract of the experiences and images in my mind–mostly SCUBA diving, cats, and the complexities, conundrums, and hypocrisies of this crazy thing we call life.
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