Background:

I grew up in Urbana, a college town, in Illinois.  I was fortunate to have a small town where pretty much everyone went to the same middle school and the same high school.  Champaign-Urbana greatly defined who I am by exposing me to different people and ideas, through the University and through our independent media.  Very few towns are fortunate enough to have an independent newspapers, television stations, and radio.  There were opportunities of independence and free-thinking to those who sought it.  In my case, I had teachers who allowed me to do projects my way on topics of my choice, and I had great support from my family to look deeper into topics that interested me.

Now, as an adult, I have chosen a career in Library Science while still keeping to my new media roots.  I have been involved with bringing social tools to the library and I have written articles concerning how new media has affected scholarship.  I am strongly interested in learning new technologies and discovering ways to use them to help with education.  I have created 2 informative CD-ROMs.  One for the Spurlock World Heritage Museum in Urbana, Illinois which teaches children different cultures by exploring games that come from that culture.  The other is a piece documenting the Capital Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) from Washington, D.C.

I lived in Boca Raton, Florida for three years as the assistant university librarian/coordinator of assessment and planning at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). In early 2009 I moved to Greenville, NC to be in charge of the East Carolina University Joyner Library's website as the Web Services Librarian. The job is very exhilirating and fun. You can follow my progress in the development of the Joyner Library Website at the Technolust and Loathing blog.

Artists Statement:

I strongly believe that information chooses the form that it wishes to be expressed.  Whether it is in traditional art forms or new media art forms, it is the job of the artist of the 21st century to translate the message in the form that makes the most impact.  That is why I chose to work in different media's and ultimately what made me go to school in multimedia.

The focus of my art has varied greatly.  Although the majority of my previous work comes from school assignments, I have started to work on my voice as an artist. 

More About the Artist/Librarian:

You can follow my work and research by one of the following ways:

• My Shutterfly Website and RSS feed for photos of my travels
• My Diigo account for what I am bookmarking
• My PageFlakes page for the feeds that I'm following
• My blog Technolust and Loathing to discuss how to work in a digital world