I've been making lampworked glass beads since 1999. My passion for hot glass started more than ten years ago when I studied glassblowing at the Cleveland Institute of Art and then at Public Glass in San Francisco. I was introduced to lampworking and glass beads by Janice Peacock, with whom I took a class at Public Glass. Well, I was hooked!

Since that humble start almost a decade ago, I have further honed my skills by taking classes witn such great artists as Loren Stump, Vittorio Constantini, and Akihiro Ohkama. Now, when time and opportunity permit, I pass along what i know by teaching as well.

In the past few months, I've begun to incorporate my work into finished jewelry, a direction that intrigues me. I've taken up kumihimo — the Japanese art of hand-braiding — to produce the kinds of handmade cords that I believe complement my work.

Designing and making glass beads and jewelry is not my full-time job, however. I am the Executive Director of Santa Fe Pro Musica. As you might imagine, both keep me very busy!