Originally from Los Angeles, I received my BA from Columbia University and MFA from the University of Minnesota. My work has been exhibited at Dreamsong, Franconia Sculpture Park, NXTHVN, Google, SooVAC, Smack Mellon, the New York Public Library, the Allen Hospital, The New Museum, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Memorial Union Gallery at North Dakota State University among others.

I am presently an Artist-in-Residence at Macalester College working with activists, artists, humanities professors, and scientists around the Mississippi River. Check out my writing on Mississippi River Open School for Kinship and Social Exchange.

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Through making, gardening, cooking, bathing, and medicine making I am learning about our diverse, overlooked ancient roots and knowledge systems that provide insight into our modern challenges around sustainability.

Along my travels, I am continually learning among plants, gardeners, farmers, soil scientists, artists and writers to recognize concepts across disciplines. While navigating these relationships I have collected soils and images of communities from Minnesota and West Africa. Playing with printmaking, painting, photography, and soil, I create tension between obfuscating and divulging images of place and people. My depictions are a negotiation between considering others’ desires and my own.

My work would not be possible without the great minds of many people including Tewa author Gregory Cajete, Japanese farmer-philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka, my mother Rosalind Lindquist who opened the first West-African restaurant in Los Angeles, Potawatomi scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer, Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman, ethnobotanist Linda Black Elk, and herbalist Erica Fargione.