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About Me

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My Interests

drawing, sewing, reading, laughing, dancing, swimming, atv riding

I'd like to meet:

I am a full time artist and teacher, and I am interested in meeting anyone who is interested in the arts. My pieces are fine art quilts, and are composed entirely of pieces of fabric. My work can be seen at -Hearne Fine art in Little Rock www.hearnefineart.com -E and S Gallery in Louisville Kentucky, www.eandsgallery.com -Astah's art gallery in Maplewood New Jersey - Sienna Visions Gallery in Plainfield New Jersey, www.siennavisions.comMy fine art quilts have also been chosen to tour in the exhibition of the works of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey. The tour is now on exhibit at the African American Museum in Los Angeles. They are also on tour in the national exhibit curated by Carolyn Mazloomi titled ,Textural Rhythms .Textural Rhythms will open February 9, 2007 at the King Arts Complex in Columbus, OH, 2007. Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, New York State Museum, Albany, NY, Reginald Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, and the Naples Art Museum, Naples, FL. Several more bookings are under consideration, including the following: Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA; Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ; the Studio Museum of Harlem; and University of Virginia Museum, Charlottesville, VA.

Music:

oldies, hip- hop, jazz, and disco, anything produced by John Dowe

Movies:

Braveheart, The Warriors,The Color Purple, The Jacket, When the Levees Broke, anything by Peter Chatmon

Books:

Sula,anything by Octavia Butler, anything by Susan Johnson