Work:
MGRMC Home Health and Hospice
- Safford, AZ Jun 2007 - Mar 2013
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medical social worker
Education:
University of Michigan 1989 - 1989
MSW, social work and art therapy
Honor & Awards:
As a mixed media, visual artist has exhibited in numerous galleries, American embassies, Kresge Art Museum and the Cranbrook Art Museum. Gained national artistic fame in 1996 when her Banned Books as Art exhibition was banned itself in Independence, MO. The Banned Books as Art exhibition is permanently archived in the Labadie Collection, Hatcher Library, University of Michigan. In 2009, The Cowboy and Indian Icon Found Art Project was launched in the rural regions of Graham, Cochise and Greenlee counties in Arizona. The conceptual art project is still on going.
In 1982 excerpts from the diary she kept as one of the first women ever to work as a correctional officer in a male federal penitentiary, were published in Ariadne’s Thread. Excerpts from other women’s diaries included Sylvia Plath, Eleanor Coppola and Rita Mae Brown. International media attention from the diary examined improving working conditions for women in criminal justice settings.