Biography

I run Photography, Filmmaking and Visual Art classes throughout the year. I facilitate my students' narrative film work through instruction in: screenwriting, pre-visualization, acting (improvisation, scene study, establishing a directional vision), art direction (no-budget costuming, set dressing & set painting), cinematography (the science of light, conducting light studies, camera usage, camera movement), overall organization (continuity, budgeting, set procedure, ingesting workflow), Expo-board animation, sound recording, Foley & sound design, editing (Premiere), and, of course, abundant use of the Internet Archive.  Fantastical work and interview-based documentaries have been my students' chosen focus thus far.

While directing children (and teaching children to direct) is my longterm emphasis, I also run many traditional art classes -- marker, mixed media, acrylic, collage, 3D -- with a therapeutic emphasis. I have taught many of those art classes inside the carceral system.

I always find my students teaching me and rekindling my own hope. My greatest challenge is to nurture their creativity & their whole person whilst maintaining the fast pace of shooting film.

I grew up in New England and the Deep South. I live in the Hudson Valley with my husband and family. I love books, I love trees & gardening, I love cooking and I love to work with my hands.

Volunteer Work

Justice Arts Coalition - letter writing
NY / NJ Trail Conference - trail maintainer