Artist Statement

Honors, Awards

2009                The Janine Brink meyer Memorial Prize, “ Head and Toe”, St Louis Artists Guild, St Louis,MO

2007                First Place, Beadwork Division, Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta 2007, Albuquerque, NM, USA for Tabi-Moccasins

2007                Third Place, Beadwork Division, Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta 2007, Albuquerque, NM, USA for the Spiral Force-Japanese Moccasins

2007                Honors Exhibition in IAIA Museum, Santa Fe, NM, USA for the Right Tabi-Moccasin

2005-2007       Merit Award Scholarship, Institute of American Indian Arts, for academic excellence

2006               Honors Exhibition in IAIA Museum Santa Fe, NM, USA for the Spiral Force-Japanese Moccasins

Exhibits, Markets

2009               SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, MO, USA

2009               Exhibition “Head to Toe”, St Louis Artists Guild, St Louis, MO

2008               SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, MO, USA

2008               Solo Exhibition at Jane Sauer Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA

2007               IAIA Students Booth, Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM, USA

2007               Graduation Exhibition 2007, Primitive Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA for Sensu - Beaded Japanese Fan

2007               Exhibition “Facing Reality”, Primitive Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA

2007               Exhibition “The Winter Show 2007”, Primitive Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA

2006              Exhibition, The little Road Flower Gallery, Taos, NM, USA

2006              Exhibition, Fort Collins Museum, Colorado, USA

2006              IAIA Students Booth, Indian Market, Santa Fe, NM, USA

2006              Exhibition “The Winter Show 2006”, Primitive Edge Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA

2002              Exhibition “The poetic spectacle of imaginative power”, Inter Natural Garden Gallery, Tokyo, Japan for Coo - the Space 

2001              Graduation Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan for Sewing the Space

Publication

2009                News wings, Staci Golar. March 2009

2008                Fiber Arts, Hollis Walker. Sept 2008, pp. 56-57

2008                Pasatienpo, Elizabeth Cook-Romero. The New Mexican, Santa Fe, New Mexico, pp.42-44