ART

As a child artist in the late '60s, I had some training at the Gallery 7 Collective in Detroit; and then later, also with Charles McGee, in the underground studios at the Detroit Institute of Arts.  In the early mid-70s, as a twelve yr. old street artist, I set up shop outside the D.I.A., selling poems and sketches out front.  One day an uptight, hippie-hating suburbanite stopped on the steps of the D.I.A., and turned to glare nastily back at me, snarling, "Get a job!"

Innocently mystified, I replied with youthful sincerity, "Lady, this is my job."

At any rate, my little gig out front got my work into the D.I.A.  An administrator stopped and bought a couple of my pieces, which were then included in an exhibition of Michigan artists, thus making it possible for this little hippie artist to say that her first show was at a major art museum.

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​Commissions

1986   Cover Artist,  Howling Dog Lit Journal; "Celebration: The Wondrous Spirit of Wimmin"
1980-1982   Project Artist,  "Walk Against Crime" ad campaign; City of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan

Collections

Detroit Institute of Arts,  Detroit, Michigan


                                                     Exhibitions   
                                        *solo shows marked by asterisk

2024     St. Ignace Library & Arts Council  Artists Show - St. Ignace, Michigan
2014    "Bright Spot" (Print Show),  Ocelot Print Shop -  Detroit, Michigan
2013     "Arts Night",  Washington Pavilion -  Sioux Falls, South Dakota
2011     Dakota Discovery Museum  -  Mitchell, South Dakota
2011*   "Open Up",  Black Sheep Coffee Brewery  - Sioux Falls, South Dakota
2010     Postcard Show,  Eastbank Art Gallery - Sioux Falls, South Dakota  
2010     Postcard Show,  Falls Park Horse Barn - Sioux Falls, South Dakota
2010     "Artists Against Torture",  Johannson Charles Gallery - Detroit, Michigan
2009     555 Gallery - Detroit, Michigan
2008     Still Point Zen Buddhist Temple - Detroit, Michigan
2008     "Spirit of Detroit",  Detroit Artists Market - Detroit, Michigan
2007     "Kids Kicking Cancer",  Jewish Community Center - West Bloomfield, Michigan
2006     Artist Invitational,  Washington Pavilion - Sioux Falls, South Dakota
2006     Plein Aire Show,  Falls Park Horse Barn - Sioux Falls, South Dakota
2005     Red Wall Show,  Washington Pavilion - Sioux Falls, South Dakota
2005*    "Living Heritage",  Mundt Library - South Dakota State University, Madison, SD
2004*    "Speaking in Tongues 2",   Black Sheep Coffee Brewery - Sioux Falls, SD
2004*    "Speaking in Tongues",   5500 Cass Art Gallery - Detroit, Michigan
2003*    "An Evening of Poetry and Art",  Falls Park Horse Barn - Sioux Falls, SD
2000      Fashion Design Show (Girlee Collective) Detroit Contemporary Art Gallery - Detroit, Mi
2000*    "Paintings, Weavings",   Gear Gallery - St. Petersburg, Florida
1999*    "Weavings",   Gear Gallery - St. Petersburg, Florida
1998     "Paintings, Weavings",   International Bazaar - Detroit, Michigan
1996     "Clock Show",   Focus Gallery - Detroit, Michigan
1996*    "Poetry & Art" - Heidelberg Project fundraiser,  (Heidelberg Project) - Detroit, Mi
1995     Artists' Collective Group Show,   Galleria Biegas - Detroit, Michigan
1993*   "Prints",  Oriana's Bookcafe - Black Hills, South Dakota
1991     "Paintings, Weavings",   Sioux City Art Center - Sioux City, Iowa
1990     "Paintings, Weavings",   Sioux City Art Center - Sioux City, Iowa
1987     Detroit Black Artists Group Show,   Whitney Building - Detroit, Michigan
1985*    "New Paintings",   Freezer Theatre Gallery - Detroit, Michigan
1983*    "New Paintings and Pastels",   The Old Miami - Detroit, Michigan
1975     Michigan Artists Show,   Detroit Institute of Arts - Detroit Michigan

Visiting Artist Lecturer

1996    Heidelberg Project,    Detroit, Michigan