The work is rarely made alone

01 / 2000 — 2002

The Flowering of a Dream

Loudoun County, Virginia

Three flower mazes made with high school and elementary students across Loudoun County: works you walk through at ground level, but that only reveal their true image from the air.

The series began with an idea for a large maze in the shape of a flower, drawn from the 1996 Umbrella Offering project at Turner Ashby High School. Art teachers carried the proposal into their schools, students became its voice, and the first flower was completed a year later. It proved so popular that the community asked for it twice more, growing into a garden of three blooms.

02 / 2009 — 2012

Put A Lid On It

Quad-State region

Community murals built from thousands of upcycled bottle lids, beginning with a Van Gogh outside the Redbrick Gallery in Martinsburg.

Instead of paint, the murals were assembled from lids collected and donated across the region, one bottle cap at a time. The project grew into mural kits so schools and neighborhood groups could build their own.

03 / c. 2008

Spring Fling

301 N. Queen St., Martinsburg, WV

A 20 x 30 foot artwork across two recessed arches, created as a Main Street Martinsburg community art project.

The mural is now one of the stops on the Berkeley Arts Council public art trail through downtown Martinsburg.

04 / 2013

Energy Beside Itself

Exhibitions Art Gallery, Martinsburg, WV

The thirteenth exhibition in the Energism and Synergism series, curated around the work of eleven American artists.

"This exhibit features work created in a variety of mediums and styles and is a fun and colorful show. One of the aspects of the show that I love most is that it can speak to people with eclectic taste — whether you like realism or surrealism, impressionistic or expressionistic work, there is a variety of work made in techniques from a variety of art movements."