I have a gallery in downtown New Bedford named Interwoven. A performance space for the local arts and home base for Dyer Maker Studio. Much of where I make comes from the constant narrative I create during my travels in the world. Inspired by the origins of ingredients, materials and skill, it tells a story that finds its way into the process of how I make. My work with food and fabric reflects the essential connection between people, plants, and pigments from all over the world in relation to the journey of the human narrative. In America, it is a story we all share and we are all “interwoven” because of it.

Whether I am at my gallery, or a park, library, school, local business, farmers market or a mobile food stand – the places that represent “havens” are where I create and people gather. “Shelter” in this case, becomes more than a place of protection, it becomes a space of creativity, for me and the people I interact with – a safe haven if you will by providing safe spaces for the instruction on how to make food and fabric within our environment.

The shelter of creativity draws us in to protect ourselves from the daily stuggles of living in an ever changing world bringing with it a peace of mind through the channels of making.