Teaching Experience

I have been working in arts education for over 20 years and have taught classes, workshops, retreats and support circles to kids and adults from ages 3-85. I design the curriculum for all of my classes, workshops and support circles and spend a lot of time gathering resources, researching, playing with the structure and reflecting on how to make the experience most effective for students. I have taught in-person at art centers, museums, community education centers, non-profits and schools and online through my own platforms as well as through partnerships with other arts organizations and artists.

A partial list of classes, workshops, retreats and circles I have led:

  • Make Fabric Meditation Books

  • Make Slow Stitched Wabi Sabi Scrolls

  • Make a Slow Stitched Contemplation Cloth

  • Stitching as Poetry

  • Sober Stitching Circle

  • Highly Sensitive Artist Circle

  • Ensō Meditative Painting

  • Create Earth Body Books

  • Fabric Meditation Book Sangha

  • Stitching Sangha

  • Zen and the Art of Weaving with Nature

  • Wabi Sabi Mixed Media Books

  • Slow Stitched Weavings (co-taught with weaving artist, Kate Kilmurray)

  • By the Light of a Poem: A Winter Solstice Writing Circle

  • Written from the Body: A Somatic Writing Workshop

  • Nature Poetry Writing Circle

  • Zen and the Art of Slow Stitching

  • Nature Printed Fabric Books

  • Explore the Buddhist Eightfold Path and Art Making: A Healing Support Circle

  • Zen Peacemaking as a Path for Deeper Art Making: A Healing Support Circle

  • Explore Mixed Media Collage

  • Make a Sketchbook Out of an Old Book

  • Explore Textile Collage

  • Make Tiny Nature Prints

  • “I Can’t Draw” Drawing Class

  • Printing with the Sun: Make Cyanotypes

  • Printmaking with Nature

  • Printmaking with Food

  • Printmaking with Found Objects

  • Textile Camp for Teens

  • Art Making for Life Transitions

  • Art Making for Stress and Anxiety

  • How to Make an Art Journal

  • Explore Painting with Ink

  • Meditative Drawing

  • Mural Painting with teens

  • Metal Embossed Mandala Quilt Mural with kids and teens

  • Jackson Pollack Inspired Splatter Mural with kids and teens

Places I Have Taught Include:

  • Sacred Makers Soul Retreat, Rockywold Deephaven Camp on Squam Lake, New Hampshire

  • Making Zen: Online Retreat, organized by Kate Ward of Zen Stitching in Canada

  • Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota

  • Milwaukee Art Therapy Collective, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  • University of Wisconsin Community Education, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  • Books in the Woods Art Retreat, Snowfarm, Williamsburg, Massachusetts

  • Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

  • White Bear Center for the Arts, White Bear Lake, Minnesota

  • Minnetonka Community Education, Minnetonka, Minnesota

  • Artistry/ Bloomington Center for the Arts, Bloomington, Minnesota

  • Cottage Grove Community Education, Cottage Grove, Minnesota

  • Saint Paul Community Education, Saint Paul, Minnesota

  • Marine Mills Folk School, Marine on Saint Croix, Minnesota

  • Dharma River: Manitou Center, Winona, Minnesota

  • Quilty Nook Online Community, facilitated by Zak Foster, textile artist

  • The Handmade Book Club, facilitated by Ali of Vintage Page Designs

  • Sketchbook Revival Summit Online

  • Unlock Your Artist Challenge Online