art librarian, art educator, artist, and curator

I am the Art/Reference and Instruction Librarian at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. For the past three years, I also served as Director and Co-Director of the Sea Islands Center Gallery, the art gallery of the Department of Visual Art & Design at USCB. I have a BFA in Painting/Drawing and a BA in Art History from the University of Georgia, a Master’s Degree in Art Education from the University of Georgia, and a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of South Carolina. I have taught art from K12 through college and have worked in a variety of libraries and in art-related jobs.

I am interested in the creative and research processes of artists, as well as teaching students to inquire about art and ideas. I am also interested in our aesthetic experiences with nature and how these experience inform creative work and how nature experiences can be incorporated into pedagogy. I work within a feminist construct and have a background in multicultural art education and theory. All of these areas also inform my librarian practice and philosophies of teaching and practice.