She earned her MFA in Fiber/Textiles and her BA in Fine Art-Drawing at Southern Illinois University, which included residency in Scotland to study painting and in Japan/S. Korea to study natural dyes, textile printing, washi papermaking and anagama wood-fired ceramics. Her work has been exhibited in juried shows locally, nationally and in Nakajo, Japan and is featured on the covers of Translational Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience a textbook series by Tremblay and Burkard. Her work is included in the permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library and the Encaustic Art Institute. She is currently exhibiting paintings at the Encaustic Art Institute Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. She has taught workshop intensives at her Seattle studio and writes a KSL Studio blog to document her creative process.